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    Light sabre batting

    By Will 6 months ago Leave a comment on this post

    Enough of monkeys and racism and all that nonsense. Let’s talk light sabres.

    Me and a colleague were remonstrating our dislike of Graeme Smith’s batsmanship today. At best, he is agricultural; at worst, his strokeplay is downright ugly. This isn’t to discredit him - he’s unstoppable on his day, as he was today against West Indies - but he’s a getter of runs, not a glider.

    Anyway, wafflings put to one side, it got me thinking about those photos you see of him carving past point…and a static photo isolates the ugliness and turns his bat (and others like him) into a light sabre. Look, here’s Shaun Marsh:

    WHOOSH:

    And here’s Wasim Jaffer. WHOOMF:

    Wasim Jaffer

    Any others you’ve spotted?

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    2 Responses to “Light sabre batting”

  • Marcus wrote:
    January 21st, 2008 at 5.51 am

    Actually, comparing Shaun Marsh to Graeme Smith is like comparing a thouroughbred to an ass. :) Marsh is, in fact, one of the most graceful batsmen on the Australian domestic circuit.

  • Pagoda32 wrote:
    January 25th, 2008 at 1.06 pm

    Anyone else I have noticed? MYSELF!!!

    Deadly on the legside, looks like a champ, maybe even on the drive, straight, off and legside…but deary me, short outside offstump, ugh…I look ugly.

    The shots should resemble a cut, but more often than not it’s a flatbat-in-front-of-square-drive-on-the-up-punch-off-the-back-foot kinda stroke… Was called a monkey more than once in the past, yet it was for the right reasons, niot because of my skin colour!

    Paggy

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