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RHB Leading eye Right

26 (38.8%)

RHB Leading eye left

30 (44.8%)

LHB Leading eye Right

6 (9%)

LHB Leading eye left

5 (7.5%)

Total Members Voted: 66

[Canners]

got yourself a bet......

its a win win for me

[Bez013]

Buzz - I think if you want to prove anything then you may need to start examining strong scoring areas for people with RHB/Right Eye Dominant or LHB/Left Eye Dominant as opposed to people who are RHB/Left Eye Dominant or LHB/Right Eye Dominant.

I am RHB/Left Eye Dominant I do bat in the top 5 and I averaged over 30 in T20 and nearly 40 in 40/50 over cricket last summer.  I much prefer if bowlers aim for the stumps which would be under my dominant eye and I struggle if they bowl outside off which would be under my weaker eye unless I were to shuffle rght across. 

I reckon I score 90% of my runs in an arc between Extra Cover and Fine Leg and I can't really play the cut shot right handed....

[Buzz]

Except I score my runs in the same area and I am RHB and right eye dominant.

The numbers suggest my theory is disproved (I still don't agree, but I am stubborn). I am going to have to come up with a new theory. But it has been an interesting survey, even if it is a little small.

Thanks for all your help - actually I have learned a lot from this... so please keep voting in the survey and adding your comments

[Opener]

I may be wrong but should this dominant eye theory not tell you which lines would be easier to pick for you as opposed to which areas do you hit the ball? You could hit the ball coming in to off stump through the covers as well as the ball going across you.

[Buzz]

Yes I can play the cut, pretty well, no Robin Smith though...humm, maybe my theory isn't a disaster afterall.

The theory is really more that having your outside eye as your leading eye makes it easier to keep your eyes level - actually there is a bit more to it than that, but it doesn't appear to hold true.

Might be interesting to push the scoring areas comments though.

[Talisman]

Further to the eye theory, I take all the restart ball at Rugby and always take the high ball over my left shoulder whilst turning my right side into the oncoming players, would this subscribe to your theory as I'm right handed so the left hand takes the majority of the catch. I think it may be that I carry with the left in open play and hand off with the right?

[FattusCattus]

Yes I can play the cut, pretty well,

Oh you can play the cut shot alright!

Need to get you on a boggy Chertsey greentop to cut off your scoring options!

[tim2000s]

Oh you can play the cut shot alright!

Need to get you on a boggy Chertsey greentop to cut off your scoring options!

My cut shot is pretty terrible but I can drive from mid-wicket/mid-on to cover point, and enjoy pulling. If cutting, tend to do it late and fine as that way I manage to get bat on it.  I'm rhre.

[FattusCattus]

Buzz hangs on the back foot, waiting to slap away dribbly medium-pacers and slow left-armers.

Mind you, he has the groundsman in his pocket!

[tim2000s]

Buzz hangs on the back foot, waiting to slap away dribbly medium-pacers and slow left-armers.

Mind you, he has the groundsman in his pocket!

So he likes inswinging yorkers then?

[FattusCattus]

Don't know - we could only manage long-hops at him! He quite likes those!

[pacman75cricket]

Don't underestimate the groundsman 

[tim2000s]

Don't know - we could only manage long-hops at him! He quite likes those!

Don't we all?

[Bez013]

I may be wrong but should this dominant eye theory not tell you which lines would be easier to pick for you as opposed to which areas do you hit the ball? You could hit the ball coming in to off stump through the covers as well as the ball going across you.

The line theory is a good point, different players will play the same delivery in different areas, but to prove that we are going to need some hawkeye/pitchmap backed stats!  If I was in London I would suggest spending hours in the indoor school at Lords with the Hawkeye system if they still have it....obviously in the name of research.

[Buzz]

Humm I feel slightly abused here!! I have a groundsman who I almost certainly owe a lot of beer to. In the Nets I sit on the back foot, especially when they are bouncy, in the middle I tend to sit on the front foot a whole lot more.

I am re-thinking the theory and will explain where it came from once I have thought of a new plan!!