Originally Posted by Nova21:
“Interesting piece.. I didn't know Bailey batted with closed stance. I would have thought lbw to right arm is much more likely, got to be so much more nimble on his feet to get the front foot out of the way.”
he wrote some other gem articles on technical batting.
His best one probably on kohli from few years ago.
Nice to see Cricinfo using him more to write stuff, quite sad only the Indian viewers get to see his Cricket zone stuff he does with Star Sports, they call it something else but is basically the same thing Sky do.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/581741.html
Quote:
“Kohli's bat-swing, however, is not quite how the coaching manuals say it ought to be. He has a relatively short backlift, and an even shorter follow-through. But he generates phenomenal bat speed by flicking his wrists at the point of contact, which in turn generates immense power. The flip side of such a bat-swing is that he is a bottom-hand-dominated player. Once again, though, by delaying his strokes, he has found a way to be equally fluent through the off side.”
Quote:
“ I was a little sceptical about his short front-foot stride. To make matters more complicated, that short stride was going far too across. While the short and across front-foot stride allowed him to whip balls pitched on middle through the on side, it also made him slightly susceptible to full-pitched swinging deliveries, or when the ball deviated appreciably off the pitch.”
Quote:
“ I was a little sceptical about his short front-foot stride. To make matters more complicated, that short stride was going far too across. While the short and across front-foot stride allowed him to whip balls pitched on middle through the on side, it also made him slightly susceptible to full-pitched swinging deliveries, or when the ball deviated appreciably off the pitch.”
Not that many commentators/pundits really talk much about batting techniques I suspect a lot of is hard too see and the other is that it is very hard to explain it.
Aakash chopra probably the only one that I have seen that makes talking about it or writing about it look so easy.
Nasser Hussain/Atherton are ok at it but they don't really explain what is good or bad about the technique, they generally only show what is very bad about it or very good about it.
For example Amla late trigger movement in the Cape Town test match.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/838033.html
interesting even at feb 2015 he picked up amla struggles a year later.
Quote:
“Since Amla launches the bat in through gully, it needs to travel a greater distance, which means he needs to do one of two things to ensure that he isn't late on the ball: one, initiate the downswing a little earlier, or two, bring the bat through quicker than other batsmen do.”
in recent times he been doing option 1 starting his trigger movement earlier so he gets to the ball at the right time.
but doing option 1 means his timing could go off the boil which funny enough it did amla looked awful in india and in Durban.
Even in the flat ODI/T20 pitches Amla timing was off the pace.