Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
The point is more about shot-selection than technique. If someone has a huge swing whenever they play an attacking shot, they're clearly going to have to do a hell of a lot more reining-in than someone who tends to check their shots more. And obviously, reining in is only do-able to a certain extent in most batsmen - Michael Slater, for instance, was never going to come remotely close to being Sunil Gavaskar, though Slater's method worked reasonably well for him.
Simple fact: the harder you go, the more you're going to nick rather than be able to pull-out of.
Simple fact: the harder you go, the more you're going to nick rather than be able to pull-out of.