Different strokes
It's fascinating to watch the techniques of different batsmen. Let me concentrate on the unorthodox ones- Sehwag, Gayle or a Smith.
Noticed how Smith plays his shots on the on side? Those sharp, short, violent jabs?
Unlike a more conventional way of bringing the face of the bat down on the ball and ,using the wrist to turn the face of the bat just on contact to flick it or on drive, Smith uses his arms more. He brings his bat down from say gully region, to meet the ball, like a straight drive played to midwicket, bat face straight.
Fleming, the Kiwi skipper, has a similar way of playing the strokes to midwicket albeit his back-lift is higher and follow throughs more. Used to get lbw or inside edge and start lookin ugly. instead of getting the bat straight down as he does for his special on drive (stands tall, elegant , great sight to watch),and then use his wrists to turn the ball towards midwicket,he would bring that bat from almost point and as a result at times runs into problems.
Shall follow up on this later
Noticed how Smith plays his shots on the on side? Those sharp, short, violent jabs?
Unlike a more conventional way of bringing the face of the bat down on the ball and ,using the wrist to turn the face of the bat just on contact to flick it or on drive, Smith uses his arms more. He brings his bat down from say gully region, to meet the ball, like a straight drive played to midwicket, bat face straight.
Fleming, the Kiwi skipper, has a similar way of playing the strokes to midwicket albeit his back-lift is higher and follow throughs more. Used to get lbw or inside edge and start lookin ugly. instead of getting the bat straight down as he does for his special on drive (stands tall, elegant , great sight to watch),and then use his wrists to turn the ball towards midwicket,he would bring that bat from almost point and as a result at times runs into problems.
Shall follow up on this later
posted by Sriram Veera at 7:13 AM
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