Links courses tend to favour fine ball strikers, as well as those who have learned to manufacture the kind of shots conducive to uneven, fiery surfaces.
But they must first break a third-wicket partnership currently worth 81, and defy a pitch that continues to favour bat over ball.
Wanderers' tactics centred on the dribbling skills of individual players, while the Engineers favoured passing the ball, a style then known as the "Combination Game" and considered innovative, of which they were leading exponents.
Are antagonists simply favouring fur-ball cuteness over bovine plodding?
Moreover, Pulis has regularly favoured the long-ball game and while this isn't always pretty, it can be effective.
Smith, for example, has always favoured an industrious, ball-winning midfield unit containing only one 'flair' player, but the years of relentless trophy-gathering - he left at the end of his only barren season - would blind the majority of fans to his preference for frustrating opponents as the most effective way of subduing and, ultimately, beating them.
Factor in changes of weather and light (dusty pitches allow the ball to spin; green pitches make the ball skid; hard, dry pitches, which favour the fast ball, can literally make life dangerous for the batsman) and cricket's aficionados will insist their sport has no equal.Maybe so, but the market thinks otherwise.
Haplessness has been a hallmark of Arsenal goalkeepers for a while now but on this occasion fortune favoured Martínez as the ball rebounded off his back and clear rather than into the net.
Since reverse swing favours the older ball, it will usually start to move around the 40-over mark.
Hardly a random run of the ball all day favoured Selby.
