A lot of the best players of spin like to advance down the wicket but at the same time, Garfield Sobers, himself a very good player of spin, was known to pose the question; "why give the bowler another way to get you out?" The thing both he and the advancers had in common however, was that they looked to hit spin down the ground. If you're good at that, then you're not simply waiting for the spin bowler to make a mistake, you can fight him on his own turf.
Along a similar line, something Hayden did very well in his incredible tour of India was to combine the slog sweep with the lofted drive. In themselves they can be very risky concepts to focus on and the slog sweep isn't always a classy shot, but the combination can prove much more powerful that its components. It allows the batsman to manoeuvre the field and create areas to hit safely. When played well, the fielding captain is either one step behind, conceding a lot of boundaries or allowing easy singles.
