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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: arsenal123 on December 09, 2014, 03:26:52 PM
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Adding to the previous post about playing off spin.
I'm right handed, about 6'2" and have troubles with left arm over bowlers.
When batting right handed I stand (my back foot) on about middle and off as I play very straight to seam and pick up line/length pretty quickly (Saffa pro suggested it and it's helped unbelievably). I have a very open stance (body directed between midwicket and mid-on) to get myself into the ball.
I find the angle seems to screw me over a bit. Any suggestions on anything I can work on over the winter to sort the problem?
I've been plumb to inswingers, I've feathered away swingers and just generally struggled. Thankfully you don't face too many good ones per season! :D
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I've found opening my stance and standing on leg helps to a degree, with my trigger I end up on middle/middle and leg, and cover off stump with my bat.
I then try and block anything full or on a good length and leave anything missing the stumps.
Unless its a real hit-me ball I tend not to play it unless I have to, left arm over should be banned! :(
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Take leg or leg and middle, open up your stance slightly and play the ball as late as possible. Try to hit between mid off and mid wicket, make bowler come to you, don't go fishing outside off stump.
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When I play a good left arm bowler who angles it away from me ( right hand batsman) I tend to stop being a batsman and just become one of those guys at training deliberately hitting behind himself to give slip practice. If you find an answer that works, please tell me.
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Left armers main weapons are getting you to fish outside off or bringing the ball back into you for the LBW.
More often than not in league cricket you will be able to tell very early which of these balls they are bowling.
I dont set up very different to left arm over (maybe open up ever so slightly) i just make sure that i am only playing at balls i know are going to hit the stumps. most league bowlers will get frustrated if you leave leave leave time and again. make them bowl to you
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You've just got to be slightly more selective in picking shots. With the angle driving is a risk so only be aggressive when its dead full. I almost play them as an hooping RH away swinger, playing the ball late and trying hard to hit the ball back from where if comes.
Difficulty comes when you try hitting through mid wicket or squarer as it brings leading edges and Lbw into force, so this should be cut out early doors unless you pick up a short length and can get the cross batted beauties out.
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If your getting out LBW a lot to inswingers, it might be because your head is falling too far to the offside as the ball comes down. This may be emphasised more with you being very open stanced. As a RH bat you've got to make a real concerted effort to keep your front shoulder and head moving towards the bowler. If your head starts moving towards the offstump your balance (and often footwork) will follow. Its then very hard to play a ball that moves back in as you're forced to play on a different line to the line of you eye level. You often find from here you are playing around front pads and allsorts
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My advice to playing left arm over bowlers is to rotate your position at the crease rather than to move more to the leg side and then line yourself up to the bowler as if they are a right arm bowler.
Rich's point above is also relevant you want your head to stay in line with the ball, if you are falling over then you will end up looking like a right handed Ali Cook when you bat...!