How to become an IPL Crorepati as a viewer: Rilee Rossouw's new ball struggles
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If there’s one way to make fast cash this #IPL2023, it’d most likely be to bet on Rilee Rossouw being dismissed against the new ball.
Keep reading and let us learn why.
Since his international comeback, Rossouw has been dismissed 5 times in the powerplay, and all 5 instances have come against left-arm pacers, as seen below.
Along with a pattern of the mode of dismissals, there’s also a general pattern: if you dismiss an opener early on during the powerplay and Rossouw is the next one to bat, 99.9% of the time he personifies a saying often used by commentators for bowlers, “one brings two.”
A bonus way to potentially make fast cash with the general pattern.
And this hasn’t only been limited to his T20I comeback, since 2020, its regularly been seen in his T20 stints, including his iconic run for Somerset in the T20 Blast last summer, the SA20 and in the PSL.
Leading to the IPL auction, Rossouw’s numbers in the powerplay were statistically worse in both T20s and T20Is in terms of both average and dismissals; he has the lowest average in that phase complemented with the most dismissals.
So why is that?
It is a very simple and obvious answer: he has been completely unable to judge and anticipate how the ball will swing when pitched up and when on the shorter side, unsure of how it will seam, reflected in his attempted bat contact and bat contact in each of his dismissals below.
As seen, irrespective of whether its swinging into his pads, late swing away from his body or just seaming off the surface, Rossouw is unable to well anticipate and preempt his shot at all, either getting the bottom end of his bat, top edge or misses everything as seen in #4.
All of the bowlers in these Exhibits are fine operators of the new ball: Topley, Arshdeep and Shaheen respectively.
DC will have to especially be wary of Arshdeep if Rossouw will be in their plans for matches against PBKS, for in 3 innings, he has dismissed him thrice off 5 deliveries and is yet to score a single run against him!
While playing against the new ball is something Rossouw very much needs to work on, this isn’t something DC have to worry about exactly most of the time, as he has primarily batted at #4.
He has batted at #3 a fair bit, particularly since his comeback in SA colors, but this is something DC should completely avoid doing and have him fixed at #4.
Given the quality of the probable top 3 of Warner-Shaw-Marsh, Rossouw against the new ball will be the least of DC’s worries 90% of the time, but for the remaining 10%, as the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry and plan ahead.
However, in spite of this, it goes without saying that there is a reason why Rossouw is a part of his first IPL season in 8 years, a reason off which you could also possibly make fast cash off as well if DC play him at #4 and he is not at all exposed to the new ball, which I explore in this article.
How to become an IPL Crorepati as a viewer: Rilee Rossouw's new ball struggles
How to become an IPL Crorepati as a viewer: Rilee Rossouw's new ball struggles
How to become an IPL Crorepati as a viewer: Rilee Rossouw's new ball struggles
If there’s one way to make fast cash this #IPL2023, it’d most likely be to bet on Rilee Rossouw being dismissed against the new ball.
Keep reading and let us learn why.
Since his international comeback, Rossouw has been dismissed 5 times in the powerplay, and all 5 instances have come against left-arm pacers, as seen below.
Along with a pattern of the mode of dismissals, there’s also a general pattern: if you dismiss an opener early on during the powerplay and Rossouw is the next one to bat, 99.9% of the time he personifies a saying often used by commentators for bowlers, “one brings two.”
A bonus way to potentially make fast cash with the general pattern.
And this hasn’t only been limited to his T20I comeback, since 2020, its regularly been seen in his T20 stints, including his iconic run for Somerset in the T20 Blast last summer, the SA20 and in the PSL.
Leading to the IPL auction, Rossouw’s numbers in the powerplay were statistically worse in both T20s and T20Is in terms of both average and dismissals; he has the lowest average in that phase complemented with the most dismissals.
So why is that?
It is a very simple and obvious answer: he has been completely unable to judge and anticipate how the ball will swing when pitched up and when on the shorter side, unsure of how it will seam, reflected in his attempted bat contact and bat contact in each of his dismissals below.
As seen, irrespective of whether its swinging into his pads, late swing away from his body or just seaming off the surface, Rossouw is unable to well anticipate and preempt his shot at all, either getting the bottom end of his bat, top edge or misses everything as seen in #4.
All of the bowlers in these Exhibits are fine operators of the new ball: Topley, Arshdeep and Shaheen respectively.
DC will have to especially be wary of Arshdeep if Rossouw will be in their plans for matches against PBKS, for in 3 innings, he has dismissed him thrice off 5 deliveries and is yet to score a single run against him!
While playing against the new ball is something Rossouw very much needs to work on, this isn’t something DC have to worry about exactly most of the time, as he has primarily batted at #4.
He has batted at #3 a fair bit, particularly since his comeback in SA colors, but this is something DC should completely avoid doing and have him fixed at #4.
Given the quality of the probable top 3 of Warner-Shaw-Marsh, Rossouw against the new ball will be the least of DC’s worries 90% of the time, but for the remaining 10%, as the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry and plan ahead.
However, in spite of this, it goes without saying that there is a reason why Rossouw is a part of his first IPL season in 8 years, a reason off which you could also possibly make fast cash off as well if DC play him at #4 and he is not at all exposed to the new ball, which I explore in this article.