The importance of an expert curator

[zeer]

In this day and age of technology everything is relate to technology somehow, same is happening in cricket specially the modern day cricket where you analyze each and everything, same is with the art of reading the pitch, the potential of the pitch with surroundings and given conditions will give you an extra edge if only you have an expert curator or someone who has the knowledge to judge and read the exact potential in pitch with conditions that how many runs this pitch will offer you, that will help your team plans for bowling on the pitch and at the same time help in the batting plan as well, Suppose if the expert curator who reads the pitch will inform you with 90% accuracy that will give you the exact idea that how many runs you can score on this pitch and then how and where to bowl on this pitch, If the pitch has potential of scoring over 400 runs this mean the batsmen will have their defined roles that at what strike rate they should plan their innings and that which bowlers to target for how many runs, same will apply when you are bowling on the same pitch, that if you somehow restrict the other team below the potential score the pitch is offering will satisfy your bowling performance be it 380 runs on a pitch which has potential of scoring 400+ runs.

I think teams should make it mandatory to have an expert curator or someone who has the knowledge to read the pitch as part of the team management.

I think there is plenty to write on this but i won't make it boring for the readers.

 

[MenInG]

If the batsmen dont have the technique, no amount of curators will help!

 

[ManFan]

If the batsmen dont have the technique, no amount of curators will help!

Maybe their techniques are poor because of the pitches. You know. Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon.

 

[zeer]

Maybe their techniques are poor because of the pitches. You know. Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon.

You got it right.

 

[zeer]

If the batsmen dont have the technique, no amount of curators will help!

Then such batsmen don't deserve to play international cricket.

 

[AssassinatedDevil]

I think teams should make it mandatory to have an expert curator or someone who has the knowledge to read the pitch as part of the team management.

I agree. I'm unsure as to how much exposure and examining time the captains are given to the pitches before the toss but the more you know about the pitch the better for the team i suppose. An expert curator that himself has taken part in making pitches in the past could be extremely useful to teams.

 

[R3verse Swing]

Wickets do not score runs, batsmen do.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Wickets do not score runs, batsmen do.

You’re right

However, look at this way, if the Captain and Coach gets insight from expert about the pitch and how its gonna behave, then they could prepare and/or alter their game plan. Same goes for a batsmen, if they know pitch is gonna slow down/or turn later in the innings, they could create game plan and bat accordingly, rather than blindly slogging and end up bowled out for below par total. You’d be surprised to know that lot of other sports have specialist for various roles. In baseball, every club have seperate management and experts for Pitching (bowling), hitting (batting), and catching (wicket keeping).

Experts provide valueable data that helps to prepare game plan, but ultimately its 11 men on field that needs to perform or else all these datas and expert are of no use.

 

[zeer]

Wickets do not score runs, batsmen do.

Looking at Pakistani batsmen getting out in a jiffy and playing unnecessarily aggressive either at the start of the game or playing too slow in the middle overs or for that instance playing without knowing that how many runs they should score to be comfortable defending it, that is where it will be a lot helpful for our batsmen specially because there are some serious flaws in our batsmen, they hardly score 300 runs whereas it is now a days everyday routine for some teams with good batsmen, this is where it can helpful for you if you know that this pitch is going to be helpful for batting and you can score exactly the (N) amount of runs on the given pitch and similarly if they have given a difficult pitch to bat on then they will have to change their game plan of batting according to the given conditions/pitch (Sometimes you will have to play a patience innings and save the main batting to explode at end overs) that's where is is helpful for batting and same for bowlers as well, if they know the pitch is going to be bowlers graveyard then they will mentally prepare for it and will bowl even confidently on that pitch knowing that this ain't gonna help them so they can plan their own bowling plan, Here the match and situation awareness comes in to play, there are times when you have to attack on bowlers in order to sabotage their game plan or strategy to effect on the game, there are plenty of things that can be explain that why having curator or pitch expert is important now a days in modern cricket.

 

[zeer]

You’re right

However, look at this way, if the Captain and Coach gets insight from expert about the pitch and how its gonna behave, then they could prepare and/or alter their game plan. Same goes for a batsmen, if they know pitch is gonna slow down/or turn later in the innings, they could create game plan and bat accordingly, rather than blindly slogging and end up bowled out for below par total. You’d be surprised to know that lot of other sports have specialist for various roles. In baseball, every club have seperate management and experts for Pitching (bowling), hitting (batting), and catching (wicket keeping).

Experts provide valueable data that helps to prepare game plan, but ultimately its 11 men on field that needs to perform or else all these datas and expert are of no use.

Exactly! You will see teams are gonna have curators or pitch experts in their management in near future, and Pakistan should also move with the modern world of modern cricket, We have to take some big strides to catch up with top teams in modern day cricket.

 

[zeer]

I agree. I'm unsure as to how much exposure and examining time the captains are given to the pitches before the toss but the more you know about the pitch the better for the team i suppose. An expert curator that himself has taken part in making pitches in the past could be extremely useful to teams.

Exactly!
That is what i meant here, There is plenty to offer here, The one piece of puzzle can solve the whole game for you.

 

[zeer]

I am not sure about the coaches whether they have done a course for reading the pitch or not but, I would want the coaches to have an expertise on pitch reading as well, it will definitely an added advantage in their CV.