Neck and crop

Great delivery to Carty by Methuselah!

Respeck!

In reply to imusic

Poor technique though, Big gap between pad/pad to a leggie. If you can't read him chip down the track with bat close to pad. Reading him then bat in front of but close to pad

In reply to Brerzerk

He beat him in the air and off the pitch.

Sometimes you tip your hat to the bowler.

Easy to bat after the fact

In reply to Brerzerk

Was a peach of a googly but you are right Carty should be using his feet.

In reply to imusic

In reply to voiceofreason

Harder to be beaten through the air doing that

In reply to voiceofreason

He could have employed the sweep. Every batter should have that shot in his armory

Lara famously used the sweep when he couldn't read Murali in Sri Lanka and dominated

Sometime ago, I saw a clip of Sir Gary standing behind the nets watching BCL. He shouted to him, Watch the ball.
The same was said to my Antiguan brother and me by Sir Everton Decourcey Weekes about facing bowlers.
He watched the rotation of the ball while it was in the air; not only would he know the turn, but he could also get to the pitch of the delivery or get on the back foot.
This was told to me in 1975.

I once saw a fielding team applaud a stroke Sir Everton played on a rain-affected wicket, Denis Atkinson, who was one of Barbados' local greats, that man could move the ball, he was bowling with an Umbrella field, imagining doing the split to a delivery, your left leg pointing down the field and your right backward, the ball beating the two fielders in legslip, who could only stand and appaud.
This is the type of batsmanship I saw as a youngster.

In reply to InHindsight

Yeah. Ramdin had the sweep shot in his armory and get cussed for it

Allyuh armchair expert batters is something else

In reply to openning

With your wealth of experience and exposure, man, you should be coaching!