MattW seriously, I have been following this forum quite a while and whats up with this insulting the helicopter or MSD. After all he is an honourable cricketer too who has achieved much that no one in the cricketing world has.
He didn't grow up playing cricket since his childhood like all other players in international level and his style may not be textbook cricket but style doesn't win you matches Matt, runs does. If a scoop gets you runs you play it, if a helicopter does, then you do it.
There are more men who got out trying to play the scoop than Dhoni or Sachin doing a helicopter. Infact, neither of them got out even once trying so.
It doesn't even qualify as a slog. Its not even premeditated. Its a shot played to an almost yorker length ball knowing exactly where it is heading and where you want to place it. Its simply unorthodox because in olden days there was NO NEED to play it, it was test cricket mostly which gave rise to orthodox shots. Do you see anyone playing a scoop or a helicopter in test cricket? NO!
Any other shot that has been invented in the recent days for the sole purpose of scoring quicker under shorter formats are thereby un-orthodox. They are part of cricket.
If it wasn't, we wouldn't see people playing it in a international cricket match.