Fielding is one of two most important F’s in the cricket. Fielding positions can mainly classify as the offside and leg side of the field. Among the 11 players of the team, position of wicket keeper and bowler remains almost same so the rest 9 fielders can be placed anywhere on the field. There are many basic fielding positions however these fielding positions not fixed and fielder can be placed in different positions as well.
There are mainly two ways to identify fielding position of a fielder:
- Specific angle from the batsman
For example, leg, cover, mid-wicket etc.
- Specific distance from the batsman
For example, silly, short, deep, long, forward, backward, square etc.
The image shows the location of most of the named fielding positions for a right-handed batsman. For the right-handed batsman while bating, area to his left is called as leg side or on side and area to his right side is called as off side. For the left-handed batsman, the leg and off sides are reversed and fielding positions are a mirror image of those shown.
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