debut: 11/14/02
19,856 runs
In reply to natty_forever
Once you play a shot like that in the air you have made an error. Wait for the next ball if anything and play for
your hundred which is what all batters bat for in the first place. A single would do.
That's how we we taught as youth playing the game. Shot selection at 99 does not have to be expansive. Its a
sucker's dismissal.
The first tent of batting as a batter is know how to get off the mark. Usually with a single too.
When you watch cricket you can see the best batters know this.
You get out on 99 by being defeated by the bowler, bowled or lbw or caught from wonderful deliveries.
But then again I learned the game in a different era where certain things were stressed.
The late great Atlas Headley would be very angry if one of his charges,especially one he coached
get out this way. ' So you don't like to bat ,son' would always be his comment for outs like this and
other questionable shot execution.
Mass George liked making 100s and was dismissed only once in the 90s during his Test career of
10 tons from some 22 matches.
Boys growing up with the intent to play and have wonderful careers at the highest level,should inculcate
certain qualities of sound thinking in their game.
That is a certified lack in Today's West Indies players.One uses a bat and ball but you play with your brain.
