Mesky99 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Don't think hand domination as any relation to reflexes, kohli is a puncher, even while defending he punches, front foot dominated player who lacks the game to play late hence plays the first line of the ball, Sachin came back after his injury and became a touch player with his backlift a lot lower. Ganguly lost his reflexes back in 2004 but game back in 2006 and had a dream run for 2 years. DarkProfile and Vijy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkProfile Posted April 27, 2022 Author Share Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) I suggest that Kohli becomes a left-handed batsman. That way his naturally-dominant hand, i.e. the right hand, would become his top hand and may infuse a new life to his batting. I was looking for some literature on the topic and came across an insightful article that may help us to look at batting from new eyes. Do read it, it's written beautifully! https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1042741/on-the-other-hand Quote Hussey is naturally right-handed. He writes right-handed, plays tennis right-handed, brushes his teeth right-handed, picks up a spoon right-handed, and throws and bowls with his right arm. When he first picked up a cricket bat, he picked it up right-handed. But on that fateful sunny morning he decided to try batting left-handed, like Border, and ended up sticking with it for the rest of his life. In so doing, Hussey may well have inadvertently bequeathed himself a natural technical advantage, for if there is one thing that the two main schools of batsmanship that exist in Australia - the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) school and the native autodidactic school headed by Sir Donald Bradman and Greg Chappell - agree on, it is this: a grip with a firm top hand and loose bottom hand is optimal for good batsmanship. Logically it is easier for a batsman who holds the bat with his naturally stronger hand as the top hand (and his naturally weaker hand as the bottom hand) to grip it with a firm top hand and a loose bottom hand. When Hussey switched to batting left-handed, his naturally stronger right hand became his top hand. That wasn't what motivated his change - he did it "purely" because he "wanted to be like Allan Border" - and even when he became a world-class batsman, Hussey was generally not conscious of "the dominance of one hand over another", except when batting at the death of a one-day or T20 game. It was then, he told the Cricket Monthly, that he took the firm top-hand, loose bottom-hand grip to its logical apotheosis: "At the end of a one-day game or a T20 game, when you're looking to basically hit sixes every ball… I made a conscious effort to really loosen the grip of my bottom hand. So I'd basically just rest the bottom hand [on the bat] on one finger - my index finger - because I was finding that when I was looking to slog, even though my bottom left hand was my less [naturally] dominant hand, it was gripping the bat too hard and taking control of the bat too quickly and affecting my swing. I wasn't hitting through the line of the ball as well as I would have liked."Greg Chappell, Cricket Australia's first full-time national talent manager, has a clear vision for how Australia can continue to nurture its distinctive style of cricket - aggressive, attacking and winning. A firm-top-hand-loose-bottom-hand grip - a trait that Bradman himself believed to be "of supreme importance when playing a forward defensive shot" - is part of that vision. "It is", says Chappell in a recent interview with the Cricket Monthly, "essential for good batsmanship". Firstly, he explains, such a grip enables a batsman to obtain the optimal bat swing - a pendular motion that maximises his chances of hitting the ball in the middle of the sweet spot. A batsman with that grip "initiates" the movement of his bat with his top hand and relegates his bottom hand to "a secondary role in the initiation [process]" as "the fulcrum". This naturally encourages him to pick up his bat so that, in his backswing, it is pointing between first slip and gully. His bat will then naturally and automatically drop back down onto the line of the ball when he is executing a straight-bat shot. The bat will "be on line [with the ball] from the top of the backswing all the way through the intended shot". Secondly, a firm-top-hand-loose bottom-hand grip helps a batsman to stay balanced, with his weight on the balls of his feet like a champion boxer ready to throw (or ride) a punch, able to "move forward or back" into the optimal position to play the ball and synchronise the movements of his entire body. Edited April 27, 2022 by DarkProfile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pollack Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Sachin is not a bottom handed batsman if I am not wrong. His dominant hand is left hand. DarkProfile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkProfile Posted April 27, 2022 Author Share Posted April 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Pollack said: Sachin is not a bottom handed batsman if I am not wrong. His dominant hand is left hand. Ambidextrous. https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/sachin-tendulkar-explains-what-it-s-like-being-ambidextrous-in-instagram-video-101646380561990.html Vijy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 2 hours ago, DarkProfile said: Ambidextrous. https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/sachin-tendulkar-explains-what-it-s-like-being-ambidextrous-in-instagram-video-101646380561990.html SRT's stance shifted slightly in diff parts of his 25+ yr career (incl. domestics) DarkProfile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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