That would be the best solution for this....No. They were all poor in this regard - it was always very high on the list, but we never found a way to make it work well. We prototyped an "Evasive Action" button for one, (which was context sensitive depending on where the ball was coming: if at the head then duck, if at the body turn to avoid it, kick the ball away from stumps etc) but it didn't make it into the game.
The timing for batting is when you do a movement with the right stick, so timing couldn't stay as it is if the proposal is something involving not moving the right stick.
. one prob i can see with it is , i can easily push it as late cut instead of pulling it back correctly.
It's more of a dead bat block, certainly a different shot to the one you get pushing up.
And unless you start using the face buttons, which are very hard to press while using the sticks, there's no other buttons remaining to do a simple button press, without making major reassignments for a low priority function.
Try it in the nets, works well.
The next edition won't add more buttons to the controller though. There's very little room to make adjustments in the assignments without making radical changes to a broadly good batting system. Additive things like making the triggers effective when using the advance/special shot buttons - to allow for slog sweeps, advancing shots along the ground, etc. would be the main area I would want to see change.
I had a bit more luck when I tried it. But just shows that it needs some tweaks to where those shots go. It's still quite different to the forward push that pushing up on the stick achieves.
