OK time to give my favourite rant about English cricket and the way it is taught to children.
I am a total leftie but although I bowl left arm I bat right handed. I also play golf right handed and when I played field hockey I held the stick right handed. I noticed that all the cack handed hockey players were in fact strongly right handed for all other tasks and most left handed golfers the same.
When at the crease in cricket my left arm will provide the main power for all the conventional classic cover drives, the right hand is really only a guide. But the most important thing is that my leading left eye is facing the bowler unrestricted by my nose if I was right eyed.
My conclusion is that the so called right hander batsman should be renamed as a left hander and all children should be taught to bat opposite handed to what they bowl, bit like David Gower
In particular, some of the greatest batsmen of the modern era including Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, David Gower, Adam Gilchrist, Alistair Cook, Michael Hussey, Kumar Sangakkara, and Matthew Hayden all bat left handed yet are actually right-hand dominant
I see this article has appeared recently to back up what I have been preaching for years but it does not mention the leading eye
To find out which of your eyes is dominant, "Fire" your finger at an object with both eyes open. Hold your finger in position and close one eye, open it again and close the other and see which one is actually looking at the object.
If we start teaching the kids properly we may start winning again!
Cricket players more successful when batting the 'wrong' way: Current T20 World Cup batsmen like Chris Gayle and David Warner use the opposite stance -- ScienceDaily
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Cricket batsmen who bat the 'wrong' way have a stunning advantage according to new research. Batsmen who adopt a reversed stance (right-handed people who bat left-handed...