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 KP's switch-hit innovative, but I won't try: Ponting
20th Jun 2008 23:01 IST
Agencies
Kevin Pietersen's innovative switch-hit has found yet another admirer in Ricky Ponting but the Australian skipper has no plans of trying it himself or encourage his teammates to experiment with it as he is "uncertain" about the shot's legality.
Pietersen's switch-hit invited as much admiration as criticism and Ponting felt, although innovative, the shot adds more pressure on the bowlers.
"I'm not sure how they're really going to govern that. It's obviously a great skill, if he's hitting a couple of sixes doing it. Once again, it's just something that will be inside the bowler's mind all the time," Ponting was quoted as saying in the 'Sydney Morning Herald'.
"The bowler running in won't know which way he's going to hit it. It just puts more pressure on the bowler, and as a batter in One-day cricket that's what you're trying to do," he added.
Ponting said although his batsmen are quite capable of striking such switch-hits but they would rather stick to tradition then try such an improvisation.
"It's probably something historically that we haven't been that good at, improvising that much as a batting group," he said.
"We've managed with our own skill to be able to hit different areas. But there's no reason why any of our players can't do that. A few of us muck around with doing it in the nets, and Symo (Andrew Symonds) sort of uses the back of the bat when he plays his. We are probably more deflectors when we reverse sweep rather than six hitters." |
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