@voiceofreason

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dude I hope you never coach nobody child to bat eh. Because yuh will tell them play the short ball on the front foot and they’ll get hurt or worse and that parent will be shattered

@voiceofreason

Dunno about no effort ball but i know the basics is the basics....play forward to a good length delivery an back to short of a length.....evidently some of our batsmen can only do one or the other for eg Chase seems to play everything off the backfoot ....an looks bemused when he gets cleaned up by a full length delivery!!

@CCW

Fair enough assessment but forget about how he played the ball, the fact is that kind of deviation and appreciable bounce from the pitch is not normal.

@Jumpstart

You seem to be too much concerNed about how the batsman played rather than how the pitch misbehaved. Don't worry we go deal with allyuh come ARG.

@voiceofreason

Err yeah. Because yuh can’t blame the pitch every time yuh get lash. Louis, ironically is the only man who was playing forward and outside his crease to a short ball. Like of everybody who batted on that pitch

@voiceofreason

Fair enough assessment but forget about how he played the ball, the fact is that kind of deviation and appreciable bounce from the pitch is not normal.

dawg it was a greentop….what do you think greentops promote….exaggerated turn, swing? NZ does prep greentop wickets every international season since they started fielding tall fast bowlers like o rouke and jaimeson. If you have a green top, you will inevitably have lateral movement off the seam. De man play forward outside his crease to a delivery every batsman plays back and across to

@Jumpstart

To be fair Louis played the ball with terrible technique..weight was on the front foot, squared up and asking to be hit. However Ambrose said in an interview that he had serious concerns about the pitch from before play even started and that ball rose sharply just short of a length.

Even if Louis haad gone on his back foot he would have quite likely been hit. Short of the length deliveries usually end up at the batsman 's waist or chest region on a very fast pitch. That ball should not have ended up hitting the batsman helmet from that length.

I have to agree with VOR on this one ....

@Trex

I agree. Emrit said the pitch was inconsistent from the start. It’s really absurd though that they only cancelled the game on the fourth day when leeward were only 97 runs ahead with three wickets remaining and that too after the ball that hit the guy was handled so poorly

and yes he may have been hit. He was batting a foot outside his crease. Again, you don’t do that playing short pitched bowling. Back and across. Basic stuff

@Jumpstart

I know Cricket Forum is a dunce but thankfully most of the video was Emrit speaking.

If you listened to it Emrit did insinuate that if a faster bowler was on show the match probably would’ve been called off on day one!!!

Thank God Alzari Joseph wasn’t there!!!

@Trex

@Trex

Louis was playing outside of the crease to negate the movement that Seales was getting.

@voiceofreason

That was a dumb move by Louis.

On a unpredictable track with that kind of bounce the batsman needs to give himself more time by playing mostly on the backfoot unless the ball is well pitched up.

Why shorten his own response time by batting down the pitch?

@voiceofreason

Ignore the agenda driven clowns. If you offered Seales a $1M to repeat the behaviour of that ball off that length on a properly prepared batting pitch he could not do it once in 500 tries