I m a right hand Extremely aggresive right hand batsmen with a yuvi-meet-stuart broad mindset.i open for my team in batting,bowl right arm fast and some time keep as well when i am tired and dont wanna have a ball. my stance is a bit like pieterson, i like to just press on my toes a bit while bending a bit just like pieterson does when he is about to slog. but i do this as often as possible,kinda give good feeling,feel like grounded there. then i plant my frontfoot across just like ponting,difference is that ponting gets too much acroos(too much offside), while i get my frontfoot slightly across and more forward. I use a higher backlift,similar to Yuvraj singh,so i am very good at hooking and cutting, often i hook from the front foot.though i am really good at hooking and recently using it more oftenly than i should have,(i am trying to pull even good length balls). Earlier i just used to play leg side. i was such a dominant player of leg side,othere teams instruct their bowlers to stay away from my stump and bowl wide of off stump. thats why i was getting out trying to hook short balls bowled wide of off stump. Thus i decided to develop my offside game and added some new shots. It took me a year to get perfect in offside game. now i can undercut,uppercut, cover drive and use back foot punch to a good effect when bowlers decided to bowl wide of off stump. though after seeing the video of how sachin is able to hook bowls wide of off stump to fine leg and suqare leg in slow motion i am now destroying bowlers at will. i will tell u that how he does that. first hit the bowler for a boundry through onside, well for me then their captain instruct to bowl wide of off stump with a 6-3 offside field, now all i do is just when bowler is about to bowl i walk across my stumps (i walk toward off side as well as towards the inside of crease to give me more time). then bang,hit him over square leg or mid wicket for 6.
As a bowler i m a really natural. when i started i was a big fan of Zaheer Khan, so i used o immitate his action, but i allways felt i was bowling slower than i should, i was feeling as if i am not giving my hundred percent. during that period i got shouldar spasm, so i could only bat not bowl. so i started wicket keeping for my team and hell yeah i was great at that.i mean in whole school only i was able to keep up the stumps to a fast bowler.so for bout 6 months i played like a wicket keeper batsmen,and i has a lot successful, hit my first century,a 115* in a 20 over game(that was nightmare for bowlers,opposition scored 221 in 20 overs and then we chased with 9 wickets and 4 overs to spare,i got 114* and my partener scored 96). yeah that was some game. i avged 39 in that season(I only play T20,as i am a very bad test player,i will tell you bout that later). so then this way 6 months passed, then it was last june when our team was struggling to defend a 149 in 20 overs,as opposotion scored 89/1 in 10 overs. my captain asked me hows my shoulder,i said its ok but i havent bowled in last few months,he said we are loosing anyway. so i left keeping and started to bowl off spin. first two balls gone for 3 and 6.My captain said come-on bowl fast. so that day i changed my bowling action, i started to bowl with a shoiab akhtar action. i clocked near 138 (fastest i ever bowled in my life). i got the batsmen out lbw with a toe crusher, next ball was a inswinging yorker,i bowled it as fast as i can,reward stumps flying. i got my best figures of life in that match, 7/12 in 3 overs. I was over the moon that day. since then i am bowling with a Shoib akhtar action but i had to do a lot of exercise to keep up with such an exhaution, coz with akhtar's acion u can bowl serious pace but it drain energy very quickly.
now we come to why i am not a very good test player yet. reason,Temperment. I allways play in T20 mode. only now i had learn that you had to loosen your grip off back hand a biot while defending a ball of else there would be a chance for a thicker outside edge of a simple catch to sillypoint. maybe now i can play test a litle beter, ealier i used to defend with hard hands and generally got thick outside edges. iam practising this nowadays. by the way did i tell ya that i do not respect spinner while batting and in my book if you score less that 15 runs of a spinner then it is a sin. i go down the track as often as possible, if keeper is no standing up the i would even step down the track to fast bowlers 2 or 3 times in the over. my follow through in this shot is similar to yuvraj. sometimes i go through with the shot and sometimes i just check in the middle by locking my wrist to give a cocking effect, this gives serios power in the shot even without a followthrough, now you all know how to hit 6 without a follow through, just cock and uncock your wrist at the right time. Ponting,Yuvraj, Pieterson, and a lot of big hitters use this technique, you just have to see the videos closely in slow motion. this is their little secret, they might not know but they use it. it comes to players naturally, it cannot be taught very easily. not to the likings of rahul dravid.he wud struggle even to clear infield with taht technique.
. Averaged 26 with the ball at 4.9, with a best of 6/40.
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