Short ball - beyond the subcontinent

[JourneyMan]

There's no doubt that subcontinental teams need lots of improvement when it comes to playing the short ball, but the current Ashes series shows that it's not merely a subcontinental issue and that a decent short ball in general is a difficult delivery to handle for many batsmen in this era. England seemed to struggle a lot with the short deliveries, a lot of their wickets were lost due to mistimed pull shots. It's not purely a subcontinental issue, I think it goes beyond that. Regardless, India will need to grow comfortable with short deliveries if they want to be competitive away from home, and bowlers will also need to practice short bowling if they want to have an impact abroad.

[ThePhenomenal1]

Trott faces a few and has depression. I credit our guys for at least trying and it seems that generally we are much better than say some years ago, at least in LOIs

[vvvslaxman]

Guys like Raina , Gauti have created that image. Pull, hook shots of Kohli, Pujara, Rahane are no inferior to the slightly taller English batsmen. or NZ batsmen. Your base game is developed based on the surfaces you grow on. Tasmanians grow up on bouncier pitches their backfoot game on the leg side is good. We incorrectly put conditions in SA/England/OZ in the same basket. Truth is SA and OZ have bouncier pitches than in England. English pitches may be bouncier than subcontinent pitches (not all of them though). But OZ/SA pitches are bouncier than their pitches. That is why England stood exposed against accurate bouncers.

[Trichromatic]

No batsman is comfortable with short balls at 90-95 mph.