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Don Bradman's batting technique has been the subject of curiosity and analysis from students of cricket since the time he first came to prominence as a batsman in Australia during the 1920s. He dominated world cricket during a 20-year career, combining an unorthodox, self-developed batting technique with great levels of concentration.
The sweet spot is a place where a combination of factors results in a maximum response for a given amount of effort. In tennis, squash, racquetball, baseball, cricket or golf a given swing will result in a more powerful hit if the ball strikes the racket, bat or club on the latter's sweet spot.
Glenn Maxwell's robust 43 off 19 balls helped Australia thump Pakistan by 29 runs in a rain-shortened first Twenty20 on Thursday. Maxwell powered Australia to 93-4 and Pakistan reached only 64-9 ...
In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter regardless of whether batting is their particular area of expertise.
Bradman himself wrote four books: Don Bradman's Book: The Story of My Cricketing Life with Hints on Batting, Bowling and Fielding (1930), My Cricketing Life (1938), Farewell to Cricket (1950) and The Art of Cricket (1958). [23] The story of the Bodyline series was retold in a 1984 television mini-series, with Gary Sweet portraying Bradman. [302]
Bodyline is a tactic devised for and primarily used in the Ashes series between England and Australia in 1932–33.The tactic involved bowling at the leg stump or just outside it, but pitching the ball short so that, on bouncing, it reared up threateningly at the body of a batsman standing in an orthodox batting position.
Slog is an unorthodox cricket shot [1] where the batsman attempts to hit the ball as far as possible with the aim to hit a six or at the least a four. It is an extremely dangerous shot to play since the ball is almost certainly going to be in the air for a long period of time and great technique and power is required from the batsman to actually clear the field.
Krishnamachari Srikkanth of India is considered one of the pioneers of pinch hitting when he played similar form of cricket more than ten years before Greatbatch when the term was not coined. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After the success of Sri Lanka in the 1996 World cup, more players like Shahid Afridi of Pakistan , Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa and Adam ...