wfdu_ben91
International 12th Man
Agree to disagree then. I know that he did have to encounter swing bowling for the majority of his career post 2000/01, merely because I watched him bat. You can believe whatever you want, but you couldn't possibly prove that he didn't.I could go over it again, but I won't do, because I unlike some am a considerate person who doesn't want to bore everyone to death with posting of the type they're utterly sick of.
Suffice to say that in none of those examples, except possibly the lattermost, did Hayden successfully combat the swinging ball.
Yeah, do you reckon it's easier to counteract swing bowling when the ball is swinging slightly or a mile? By standing outside your crease, you have get a little bit've swing, but by standing on your crease gives the ball a better chance for the ball to move more then what it would if you were standing outside of your crease and hence is even more difficult to face.Unless you're advocating standing halfway down the pitch it still has time to swing easily enough to cause batsmen problems if the bowler is one who aims his deliveries rather than acts on a metronome.
Standing outside your crease also forces the bowlers to change up their length, so unless they bowl half volley length then you're in no real danger of getting out LBW because of how far the ball still has to travel.
Pretty hard to know when you turn off your VM's and take digs at me in other threads, tbh.As Richard rightly pointed out, unless you're half-way down the track, the ball is still going to have time to swing. The ball only needs to swing a couple of inches to successfully take the edge.
As for your dig at me, I was genuinely asking a question, not trying to have a go. You're far too defensive for your own good.