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[thedon]

I'm having abit of trouble correcting my set up. I tend to somewhat plant my front foot. After much trial and error, I opened up my stance by having my left foot slightly back from my right, still both pointing towards point. I also have begun to stand up taller with my weight over my slightly bent left leg. My right leg is straight.
 
My problem now is im find it difficult to drive anything on off or thereabouts. Help appreciated

[GarrettJ]

You seem to have set yourself up back to front.

For a human being to stand in a right handed batting stance and to move to their left they have to use their right foot. Try it, you step off your right foot to go to the left ie to. Go forward.

An extreme example of this is to stand on one leg then try to go forward. With your right leg it is easy and on your left leg it is impossible!!!

This is why a forward press to me makes absolutely no sense. You are setting yourself up for an lbw or not fully getting forward to the pitch.

You can try a neutral position with evenly weighted feet or you should and I encourage it to everyone I help with their batting go back and across

If you go back and across it means you have weight on the ball of your back foot and you must have your head forward in your stance. You are now in a position to spring forward off your back foot without the need to transfer the weight as I showed in the example above.

Most people will rightly say that now you can't go back because the reverse of the theory will be applied. This is partly correct.

If you want to go back try this ....

Get in the back and across position now dip your front shoulder and it should transfer some of the weight back to the front foot and make it simple to go back and across

Even without this back foot stance position If you dont dip your shoulder when you go back you will start leaning back and chances are you will get very cramped up.

Another few benefits of back and across is that:

You are slightly open so Backfoot shots are easier as you can simply step behind your bat

You can push your hips back at the same time and then Push them through your front foot shots to hit some big big lofted shots

You are in a nice position to on drive, leg glance

You won't play at balls way outside to off stump which you reach at and are liable to snick off at

As your front foot will only barely get outside off stump you can leave the ball a lot easier and more confidently

Finally you are in a nice position to off drive without the error of turning your front shoulder too far round to cover. When you do this you are playing with a very very open blade hence the reason why cover drives are said to be risky

One big thing though is if you get the back and across movement wrong you can get into a world of trouble and the benefits of doing it and all off a sudden you create balance and alignment issues!!!!

Most top international batsmen move per delivery so it is a sound technique when done correctly

[thedon]

Cheers mate. really appreciate your advice. will give it a go in nets