The team's best - and quickest - fielders will often be at point and the covers.
"I'm just a lucky guy who's putting a few fielders around everywhere, " said Collingwood.
But the umpire signalled a no-ball because the required number of fielders was not in the circle.
In addition to fielders clustered around the batsman, attacking off-spin usually involved bowling a line wide of off-stump.
White balls discoloured by the grass are difficult for fielders and batsmen to see in certain light conditions.
Sometimes you hit the fielders and sometimes it goes for you and it went for me a little bit.
But Clarke and Haddin, with fielders crowding the bat, survived a number of dicey moments to frustrate the Windies.
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He began in sublime fashion with a defensive push first ball that raced between the cover fielders to the boundary.
He calmly gave himself room and cleared the in-fielders for four balls in succession and New Zealand were in the hunt.
This is like a baseball team that consists entirely of right fielders.
Hayden did really well for a while, with a variety of sweeps and pulls hit strongly enough to render the deep-set fielders obsolete.
It must have been infuriating for him to occasionally see a number of his cuts and drives middled, but hit straight to fielders.
Since you've been trying to bowl old wealthy out, you've hit me in three places, as well as half killed several other fielders!'
They, in turn, communicate to the fielders just inside the rope.
And on the few occasions he did get decent bat to ball he was mostly unable to pierce the ring of fielders saving the singles.
With Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara tending to post fielders in his scoring areas on the leg-side, he showed some remarkably inventive hitting through the off-side.
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He kept his spikes high whenever he slid into a base, a posture that opened opposing fielders to injury, and one of his biographers, Charles C.
But there is also the visibility factor to consider - white balls can be notoriously difficult for fielders and batsmen to see in certain light conditions.
Abdur Rauf managed to survive the hat-trick ball, swinging wildly over the ring of close fielders, but he was soon bowled by Doug Bollinger for five.
Powerplay 2 and Powerplay 3 are five-over spells in which only three fielders may be outside the fielding circle, but there are no requirements about close catchers.
Walker, capped three times by England and one of the finest fielders to play for Glamorgan, is a former chief executive of the Cricket Board of Wales.
With only two fielders outside of the inner circle, the batsman can smash the bowlers past the fielders for those boundaries and sixes in front of the wicket.
Its infamous Bay 13 is home to various intoxicated shenanigans ranging from the amusing to the offensive, and to the world's most intense verbal baiting of opposition fielders.
Each name falls into one of three categories: Cool (Pop Rockette or Meat Mitts), puns or word play (Metro-Gnome or Deal Breaker) or left-fielders (Buzz Kill or The Poser).
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Yuvraj had a reprieve courtesy not of the fielders but umpire Nigel Llong, who somehow failed to detect a thick edge into Prior's gloves when the left-hander cut Panesar.
But although there were now only the mandatory four fielders inside the circle, dot balls built pressure and O'Brien finally went big again, only to hole out at long-off.
But after the 20-minute break he hit his first ball for three down to third man and saluted the crowd before the Australian fielders went to shake his hand.
Denly, after narrowly evading the chasing fielders in the deep with a mistimed drive when on five, calmly compiled an assured 50 before he was lbw missing a pull shot.
Lincolnshire beat Cambridgeshire with the very last ball of the match at Woodhall Spa, while opener Martyn Dobson was twice dropped by Dorset fielders on his way to an invaluable 85.
The home side changed gear as if batting in the middle of a one-day international and England let them, opting to try and restrict runs rather than putting fielders in catching positions.
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