The batting evolution

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Kevin Pietersen's switch-hit has become a symbol of modern batting but new shots have always come into the game - and usually caused outrage

The idea of the shovel shot is believed to have developed almost 100 years ago when an Australia Test wicketkeeper named Sammy Carter used the stroke to hoick balls over his left shoulder.


The scoop that shook the world: Misbah-ul-Haq with the shot that sealed the inaugural World Twenty20.

The reverse-sweep re-emerged in the 1980s, and post-Gatting got some form of rehabilitation among the more innovative one-day sides of the 1990s, who saw it as a means of unsettling leg-heavy fields.

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/364459.html
 
The article also says:

Key was following in a line of modern shovellers such as Moin Khan, Doug Marillier, and Mohammad Ashraful, who used it to such good effect against Australia in 2005, but the idea is believed to have developed almost 100 years earlier when an Australia Test wicketkeeper named Sammy Carter used the stroke to hoick balls over his left shoulder.

So Misbah and Afridi started playing them in 2007 but Ashraful started playing them first against Aussies and English in 2005
 
This discussion doesn't make any sense. The article suggests Misbah ul-Haq created the IPL not the shot.
 
Misbah created IPL? :p

Ashraful is the king of scoop shots, end of discussion :D
 
Actually Afridi was the first one to play the scoop / flick in 2004.

Unless you wanna assume Afridi saw Ashraful practicing it, and then copied it before Ashraful even did it in an international match :p
 
zMario said:
Actually Afridi was the first one to play the scoop / flick in 2004.

Unless you wanna assume Afridi saw Ashraful practicing it, and then copied it before Ashraful even did it in an international match :p
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I've seen it in County OD games long before 2004.
 
khalek said:
Misbah created IPL?
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Read the article. The ball which gave India victory in South Africa is well known. In subsequent events, a country that had previously shunned Twenty20 became absolutely drunk on it. So the suggestion is that it was Misbah ul-Haq's shot selection that unwittingly led to a vast series of events.

In terms of that shot and various people inventing it...

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/image/191859.html
And I remember his improvisation was talked about when he was called up to the ODI team in 2002.

Dougie Marilliers was around years before then as well, though the shot that bears his name is more like a reverse cut kinda thing. I'm also pretty sure this is a paddle by Vettori, who loves to annoy keepers.
http://content-www.cricinfo.com/newzealand/content/image/181171.html

And like Sureshot said, you can find other examples depending on what competitions you are watching and for how long you have watched them. Effectively, that's all we can really do, look back to our own experience. To be honest, I blame commentators. So often, it is as if they have not tried to learn about who they are watching. It's like they're only wired up to regale stories from their own time, rather than to be able to explain the game as it exists now.

If it's new to the commentator, then you the viewer can reasonably assume it must be new. Unfortunately, it may also be that the commentator has been lazy and not done any research. It's a problem because it might only be a few seconds of television that propagates a mistaken understanding. It's not a good habit to get into.
 
lolz stop this arguing who started first i think it was in county game i saw once
 
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