I could never play a cut shot at all, until one day I had a crack at one against a super quick bowler and it carried for four with ease. Then I realised something about the cut shot, if you throw the bat at it hard enough, no slips/point fieldsman is likely to be good enough to stop it. It goes high and it goes hard. Of course if you middle one, which isn't too regular a thing for me, it looks fantastic. If you swing and miss, who cares, it's nowhere near the stumps anyway. It soon became my favourite shot.