Your Cricket How to bat against leg-side pace...

[Norbert]

Hi all, I'm relatively new to these boards, and am starting a college club in the US. Currently, I'm opening the batting order, but I tend to have my run rate slashed when facing pacemen who hold a leg-stump line. Tips? Suggestions? When they the pitch the ball long, I just sweep, but constant leg glances don't get many runs with three slips...:help

 

[offdriven4]

a bit risking,but come across the stumps and whip the ball away through the onside

 

[angryangy]

You know, I never really worked out this part of EA's Cricket series. You could always get a few runs off leg glances, but then somehow they'd catch one.

If you're brave, try advancing down the pitch, turn the leg stump balls into leg stump full tosses that can be clobbered where ever you like. If you get hit by a few of them, you'll also be able to make a big song and dance about body-line bowling. Probably a futile effort, but it could be fun.

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Wht if a bowler bowls around the wicket towars our legs??

 

[Gunner786]

just go out and hit across the line
make sure you catch it on the full

leg side bowling is the easiest to hit apparently

 

[offdriven4]

it is,you'll have more problems with the ball on or around offstump

 

[cricphan]

Hi all, I'm relatively new to these boards, and am starting a college club in the US. Currently, I'm opening the batting order, but I tend to have my run rate slashed when facing pacemen who hold a leg-stump line. Tips? Suggestions? When they the pitch the ball long, I just sweep, but constant leg glances don't get many runs with three slips...:help

i wish somebody wuld give ne tht line .
You have wait for tha ball and just flick it . you shuld csore enuf runs . Shastri made a career out of leg-side play .

 

[sd92]

I find leg side bowling easy, im a kak hander, so i just get used to it!

 

[Animator!]

This is the best thing I could find in a rush;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/skills/5221346.stm

 

[sd92]

Pretty good that!

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Full, legside, I flick it. I play that shot well cause it is all bottom hand.
Short, legside, just pull it with a horizontal bat. Again, quite easy as it is a bottom handed shot.
Problem is, get into the habit of these sorts of shots, and then offstup deliveries get tricky. Best would be to on-drive wherever possible and only pull if the ball is short, but on-driving is incredibly difficult...

 

[Monty57]

Defend and wait till the bad ball

 

[Will_NA]

that is the bad ball if you know how to play it. get your legs out of the way, flick it without making it airborne and keep your eyes on the ball

 

[Simbazz]

Defend and wait till the bad ball

And a constant leg stump line is a good ball?? Last time i heard, a good line would be just outside or on Offstump....:

As our resident of the stealing world said (Zorax) a good bottom handed flick wide of the keeper AND leg slips if they have them in place, ive been on the pitch at number three, at the 3rd over with 2 leg slips now that told me i wasnt going to be cover driving much

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

You could go towards the off-side and scoop it fine. Though this is not the best option as it involves much risk.