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Old 23-03-2007, 06:55 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Prince EWS View Post
Whether it's correct terminology or not, it's what I interpreted the OP to mean - and I was correct, evidently.

And it's not about taking risks per say - it's more to do with the risk element involved in each shot played. The "talented" ones don't consciously take more risks - their shots are just more inheriantly risky due to less-than-perfect techniques for them.

As far as the point of the thread goes...
Talent = range of strokeplay that a batsman posesses
Technique = risk involved in playing the shots at a batsman's disposal

Which really isn't correct, but is quite obviously what irfan meant.
Well - it was obvious to some, not to me.

Range of strokeplay, I maintain, would have been a better phrase for irfan.
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