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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: uknsaunders on March 23, 2016, 11:02:50 PM
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Knew it:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12202245/Cricketers-have-been-holding-their-bats-wrong-say-scientists.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12202245/Cricketers-have-been-holding-their-bats-wrong-say-scientists.html)
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One of our youth coaches posted a link to this last night on our cricket club page and I'm glad to report...
Yes I am, left handed but bat and play golf right handed so too hand is the dominant one. I've always argued this was the best way of doing it so your power is from the top hand whilst bottom hand adds control/stability.
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I've been saying this for years as it seemed so logical to me, that said its because I am LH but then bat RH (thanks dad! Only way he knew).
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I'm right handed, bat right handed but play golf left handed. I'm **** at golf which doesn't necessarily support this theory and batting left-handed feels unnatural although I dare say I could time a few
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Hussey - Throws/bowls right, bats left
Clarke - Throws/bowls left, bats right
Hayden - Throws Right, Bats left
Langer - Throws Right, Bats left
Gilchrist - Plays tennis right handed and I think he throws right handed, bats left handed.
Stokes - Throws/bowls Right, Bats left
Finch (not the greatest example) - Throws left, bats right
Warner - Throws/Bowls Right, Bats left
Sangakarra - Throws/bowls right, bats left
The list could go on forever, but those are a few that come straight to my mind.
Makes sense that you should have your dominant hand on top though, rather than have the dominant hand on bottom and risk it taking over and hitting in the air
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I'm right handed, bat right handed but play golf left handed. I'm **** at golf which doesn't necessarily support this theory and batting left-handed feels unnatural although I dare say I could time a few
Is that because you've engrained the movement patterns for batting RH. What made you learn golf LH?
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Samit Patel - Bowls left arm. Throws and bats right handed. Enjoys teas
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From a purely technical point of view this makes sense, I'm a merry billy bottom hander and could see that if I'd learnt the other way round I'd have more of a pure technique. Don't think I'd hit it nearly so far though!
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I'm a right handed LH batsman too
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I'm throw/bowl right, bat left, golf right. I grew up in Canada and played ice hockey and baseball as a kid. In these sports it's the opposite to cricket. Most right handed ice hockey players play left handed as you want the dominant hand at the top of the stick for control, single handed play etc. Likewise in baseball the bottom hand is there predominantly for power so you see more lefties than righties. It's also beneficial to bat left against right handed throwers as you're pulling the ball with it's natural arc. For cricket I think a strong top hand helps with straight bat and extended shots like the cut when you're a young player.
As for golf I think it's less important because the hands work as a single unit and the feet don't move. Most right handers have stronger left legs as that's the brace when you kick a ball. (This isn't the same as having more coordination on the left leg).
I think we're seeing more cack-handed batsmen nowadays because coaches aren't encouraging right handers to bat right handed etc. My left handed son bats right handed, bowls left-handed, plays tennis right handed, and can throw underarm with either. He's just been encouraged to try whatever feels natural.
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Me and @Vulcan Cricket were discussing this the other day. Funny how it's now in the press haha
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Me and @Vulcan Cricket were discussing this the other day. Funny how it's now in the press haha
It's because we are all in the matrix.........
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Samit Patel - Bowls left arm. Throws and bats right handed. Enjoys teas
I am therefore the 'white Patel'
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I do absolutely everything with my right hand and right handed, I can do jack sh*t with my left!!
My 3yr son will get taught the wrong (right?) way round though, heres hoping for a future star!!
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I've often thought that this made a lot of sense. Good to see it in the press! I think we need a CBF "back to front" net where everyone goes in and bats not their standard way... That could be a lot of fun...
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Bat right, bowl/everything in lift with my left. Glad to see I'm doing it right, to an extent....
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I've often thought that this made a lot of sense. Good to see it in the press! I think we need a CBF "back to front" net where everyone goes in and bats not their standard way... That could be a lot of fun...
Does a dodgy switch hit count as "back to front"?
If so I attempt to play maybe 1 in every 15 balls like that in the nets... ;)
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Does this give an excuse to go out and buy a load of left handed bats?
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Does this give an excuse to go out and buy a load of left handed bats?
I actually had a left handed Kookaburra once.
When I say left handed, the only shots that I middled were reverse sweeps and switch hits. Maybe it was a sign...
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I am very weird like that I bat right hand throw with right arm, I play racket sports with left. I can only eat with left hand with spoon and guess what I can bowl with both right and left (orthodox off spin with left and leg spin with right) :D B)
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One of our players (right handed) was taught to bat by his older left handed brother. He taught him to bat left handed and that is all he has known. He regularly hits 50's and doesn't seem to be at any disadvantage.
However, My dad is left handed, bowled and threw left handed but batted right handed. He was a rubbish batsman though.
Having recently been diagnosed with arthritis in my left knee I was considering batting left handed. After reading this I may give it a serious go. Will need new pads and gloves though. That's a shame.
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I taught myself to bat left handed as a teenager as a handicap with my mates, was OK but no where near as good as batting normally.
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I taught myself to bat left handed as a teenager as a handicap with my mates, was OK but no where near as good as batting normally.
Think you need to be taught right from the outset, none of us knew how to hold a bat once and we shown how to by a coach looking a text book. If you get told to pick it up anyway round, that's all your going to know and will feel natural
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Is that because you've engrained the movement patterns for batting RH. What made you learn golf LH?
Had I not played hockey at school it would probably bat left-handed but seeing as you can't buy a left-handed hockey stick I had to learn to play right handed. Started playing cricket after I played hockey so that's where I think it has come from
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Mike Hussey switched to LH as a kid to replicate his hero, Allan Border...
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I am very weird like that I bat right hand throw with right arm, I play racket sports with left. I can only eat with left hand with spoon and guess what I can bowl with both right and left (orthodox off spin with left and leg spin with right) :D B)
That definitely doesn't sound in any way weird to me. It sounds almost entirely normal...
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I bowl left handed
Bat right handed
Throw with the right
Write with my left
Bit screwed up really. I draw a slightly different distinction :-
My left is more flexible and agile
My right is stronger but less flexible
I have tried batting left handed and my top hand movements become very rigid and I end up with no power from my bottom hand. To sum up, I don't think it's just about strength or dominance, as much to do with how both hands work together.
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I bat right handed, bowl and throw left handed.
Does your foot dominance come into it? I'm Left Handed/Right Footed
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Right - ebay visited. Cheap left hand kit bought. Time to hit the nets and try this out.
Interestingly, I noticed 15 years ago when playing squash that my low back hand shot (which is a lot like a left handed front foot drive) was about the most powerful weapon I could unleash on a squash court (fnar, fnar). It set me thinking then that perhaps batting left handed would be a much better approach for me.
Of course, I might just be as crap left handed as I am right handed...
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Bat left handed dominant hand
Bowl right hand
Throw right hand
Write with right hand
Golf left handed
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Right - ebay visited. Cheap left hand kit bought. Time to hit the nets and try this out.
Interestingly, I noticed 15 years ago when playing squash that my low back hand shot (which is a lot like a left handed front foot drive) was about the most powerful weapon I could unleash on a squash court (fnar, fnar). It set me thinking then that perhaps batting left handed would be a much better approach for me.
Of course, I might just be as crap left handed as I am right handed...
When I play tennis my right handed cover drive is my best shot!!
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i bat right handed normally but sometimes in nets we have the left hand challenge where all the bowlers bowl spin and the batsman has to survive as long as possible.
i cant sweep for sh*t batting normally but im extremely proficient at it the wrong way round
i do everything RH/RF normally