The secret towards square cutting the ball

[karolkarol]

A great shot to play against medium bowling off the front foot. I scored my first ton against the Netherlands in a P40 and must have scored 40 in square cuts alone. It is without doubt the most satisfying shot to play in the game, especially when it flies past a point fielder before he breaks the dive out.

 

[ellgieff]

A great shot to play against medium bowling off the front foot. I scored my first ton against the Netherlands in a P40 and must have scored 40 in square cuts alone. It is without doubt the most satisfying shot to play in the game, especially when it flies past a point fielder before he breaks the dive out.

For me, it was probably the most satisfying shot to play in the meat - and I'm very sad that I've had to retire the shot in the game (after patch #2) because I cannot keep it on the ground

 

[barmyarmy]

I've been out lbw playing this totally misjudging where the ball is pitching once or twice. Not been caught yet playing it...

 

[grkrama]

the most important thing is to pick the offside deliveries, practice watching a few go by then you will be able to pick the ones to cut.

 

[Moosc]

I seem to play the cut with impunity despite the games predilection for anything hit to fly through the air. The 'superman' fielder seldom get close, unlike when I'm driving!

Neil W

 

[Ch0rus]

I find the cut to third man far safer to play... Stand outside leg and U can play that to even the fuller balls heading straight for the base of middle... U need some confidence though, so u dont edge em... Its one of my go to shots whenever thirdman region is empty, works both in career and online... Its pretty safe if u dont edge it

 

[Bahger]

For me, it was probably the most satisfying shot to play in the meat - and I'm very sad that I've had to retire the shot in the game (after patch #2) because I cannot keep it on the ground

In fairness, how many square cuts do you see IRL that are kept on the ground, at least most of the way to the boundary? A successful square cut will hit the turf well inside deep cover but will carry to the boundary pretty quickly along the ground.

 

[Lionden]

Did I miss the secret part?

 

[ellgieff]

In fairness, how many square cuts do you see IRL that are kept on the ground, at least most of the way to the boundary? A successful square cut will hit the turf well inside deep cover but will carry to the boundary pretty quickly along the ground.

When I was playing, the square cut was one of the safer shots I played. Aside from being able to keep it down, I also had a fair bit of control as far as direction - and crushing it past point (usually too close to have time to deal with a well hit cut) was the tremendously satisfying part I talked about before.

 

[T.J.Hooker]

It's certainly possible to square cut a pace bowler and hit the ground well inside the ring. Some players tend to rely more on smashing it, though.

Against spin if you can't cut down then you can't really use the shot.

Actually the back foot shots are a bit disappointing in DBC against spin. In real life one of the great joys of playing spin is pulling them over the midwicket fence when they drop short. It's just not there in DBC. There isn't enough bounce and carry.

This is a video I've posted a bunch of times where I'm batting vs leg spin in the first CA net release.

There's more pace, bounce and spin (bit too much bounce, in fact) and I had a wicked time batting, and felt it was really pretty convincing. Was looking forward to playing spin most of all, in fact. It felt like I had a proper batting decision to make : the cut and pull are on but you have to get into position quickly and play for turn.

The bowling machine drops everything in the video short so I'm playing mainly cuts with a few pulls thrown in. Sadly they changed it so it's literally not possible to bat like this any more, no matter where the ai bowls.

 

[Scrogs]

Front foot square cut? I thought the whole point of playing a cross bat shot is to play it as late as possible....therefore it should be a backfoot shot.

 

[Biggs]

I'll let Brendon McCullum know he's been doing it wrong all these years...

 

[Deleted member 9102]

Some of the stuff people say on here makes me wonder whether all of their cricket knowledge comes from Cricket 07.

 

[IceAgeComing]

My first wicket in what I believe was pre-Patch 1 DBC was an attempted cut shot played against an awful short wide ball from a spinner; and it went to the keeper. As did the other three that I tried before I realised that there was an issue...

I'm sure that it was then impossible to play the cut against a spinner; I never managed it!

 

[MasterBlaster76]

I thought the square cut is played as so: ball wide outside off stump and short of a good length? Biff it to the boundary ha ha.