I was meaning to ask this aswell as it happened to Matt Prior...the commentators were not too sure how the umpire could give it out and the only reason they came up with was that he was being viewed as a left hander for the LBW as he was playing a reverse sweep.Armadillo said:My question is this:
If a right handed batsman plays a reverse sweep and the ball pitches outside the leg stump and it strikes the batsman in line with the stumps, should the batsman be viewed as a left hander and therefore be considered for lbw?
They can never be gotten out, because both sides are legsidebenchmark00 said:What would happen if there was a batsman who was totally front on, in the fashion of French cricket. How does one decipher between a left and right handed batsman in that case?
The rules against changing hands and stance, I'm sure of it, I just couldn't be bothered looking them up for the correct wording.Armadillo said:That's true. Another loophole is that if a batsman starts with a left handed stance then quickly switches to his normal right handed stance, he can pad away any balls pitching outside the right handers off stump, right?