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    Light sabre batting

    By Will 9 months ago, Comments

    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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