Impact How to keep the ball down and find the gaps : 'Smell the ball!' used to be an oft-repeated instruction to batsmen in the nets in the olden days. What the coach meant by this was that to keep the ball down along the turf the moment of impact between bat and ball had to be ...

How wide apart will you keep your feet when you settle down in your stance? This depends on the comfort of the batsman and his style of play. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, was well known for his 'feet wide apart' stance. He was of the opinion that by keeping his feet apart he did not have to ...

Gap between the feet How wide apart will you keep your feet when you settle down in your stance? This depends on the comfort of the batsman and his style of play. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, was well known for his 'feet wide apart' stance. He was of the opinion that by keeping his feet apart he ...

In this session we will discuss the various types of batting grips and hand positions that cricketers have employed to be successful. There is hardly any cricketer worth his salt who has not experimented with different batting grips and hand positions since the day he first picked up a bat. The grip depends mostly on one's ...

Back lift : The prime requirement for a well executed stroke is the back-lift. This is the backward lifting of the bat in preparation for the stroke to be played. It is thus vital to know when, where and how to take the back-lift. You must have often heard a commentator saying that a batsman ...