Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

[PumpyChowdown]

...weren't the first, most fundamental things that were taught to any kid learning to bat:

i) Play with a straight bat
ii) Keep your bat and pad together when playing forward
iii) Move your front foot to meet the ball

If that's the case, then why are 50% plus of Aussie wickets cross-bat flashes with little to no footwork and at least 30cm between bat and pad?

And Siddle goes in EXACTLY the way I'm describing.

Granted, the Poms are swinging the ball (which as an aside we seem unable to do), but that's no excuse. If anyone was fortunate enough to watch Kallis yesterday you would have seen the PERFECT technique. High elbow, bat and pad together, long strides to meet the ball. Result? 161.

WTF is Justin Langer teaching our batsmen?

 

[Donners]

Who cares about technique? That's for boring old Test matches. T20 is where the money is, and all you have to do is close your eyes and swing.

Welcome to the modern era of cricket...

 

[Bradesmaen]

Its the guys who make the runs that get looked at.. no matter how they get them. You don't get runs, you don't go anywhere.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Who cares about technique? That's for boring old Test matches. T20 is where the money is, and all you have to do is close your eyes and swing.

Welcome to the modern era of cricket...

The selectors don't. It's a scandal that Hughes AND Smith were chosen before Khawaja.

 

[Rhino1966]

The selectors don't. It's a scandal that Hughes AND Smith were chosen before Khawaja.[/quote]


There it is we can discuss the merits of Hughes & Smith all day but the real issue is why they were chosen ahead of Khawaja??? Hilditch is culpable here

 

[Ross Prunster]

Can't take it away from Langer - gutsy as, great record, fierce determination, but even his greatest fan could see technique wise he wasn't fantastic. Got lots of runs through french cuts, inside edge squirts, edges through slips.
As a motivator, reckon he'd be great, as a technical minded batting coach, not one of the first choices I wouldn't have thought.