Black Caps vs Windies Series
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Top Left hand batsmen. min 5000 runs.
28 players.
only 4 of them were actually left handed.
Border, Sobers, Jayasuriya, Lawry.The rest are right handers batting cack handed. If it was baseball - there would be some serious study having gone into this and coaches teaching people to bat with a strong top hand.
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@rapido said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
Top Left hand batsmen. min 5000 runs.
28 players.
only 5 of them were actually left handed.
Border, Sobers, Jayasuriya, Lawry.The rest are right handers batting cack handed. If it was baseball - there would be some serious study having gone into this and coaches teaching people to bat with a strong bottom hand.
I remember reading that Sir Paddles batted left handed but swung a golf club right handed !
Have any of you guys heard of him? He was one of our more decent right handed bowlers back in the day.
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@rapido said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
66 right hand batsmen meet the same criteria of 5000 runs.
But of them I think only 1, Michael Clarke, was left handed.
Your knowledge is staggering. Hats off to you sir
I'm a left hander and I bat left handed although I'm probably not quite test class, I couldn't imagine batting right handed. It would feel way too weird.
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Quite a lot of left-right combos is probably just instinctive, I think.
I do almost all sports things right handed (and footed), but I write left handed, shoot a rifle left handed, and a handful of other things. None coached and all pretty much just how I naturally picked things up.
Michael Parkinson wrote an amusing story about his father - a mad keen cricketer - who manufactured a team of left handed batsmen because he thought no bowler liked bowling to them.
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
Quite a lot of left-right combos is probably just instinctive, I think.
I do almost all sports things right handed (and footed), but I write left handed, shoot a rifle left handed, and a handful of other things. None coached and all pretty much just how I naturally picked things up.
Michael Parkinson wrote an amusing story about his father - a mad keen cricketer - who manufactured a team of left handed batsmen because he thought no bowler liked bowling to them.
My last foray in cricket was indoor and the odd game of 20/20 and I see his point. I hated left handers even though I am one!
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@rapido How do you know these stats?
Paddles' golf swing is pretty weird - I wondered if maybe Walter had left handed clubs, but apparently not - he batted and bowled right-handed.
Backyard sports would have been quite interesting on the Hadlees' lawn.
"You have a bat, Mum".
"Alright, but if you bounce me again Richard it will be the fucking jam spoon for you!"
(See Dick run).
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@chris-b Bob Charles obviously plays golf left handed, does everything right handed bar sports that require 2 hands (cricket, golf)
Always remember a coaching thing I went to, he has always felt someones dominant hand should be the top one on a bat/club.
My father plays golf or cricket left handed, but writes and does everything else right handed too.
I'm a total righty, unco cnut with my left.
edit - a lot of good cricketers are good golfers, Brian Lara was reputedly the same low handicap (4 or 5) right or left handed, but preferred to play golf right handed otherwise it messed with his cricket stroke.
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
@rapido How do you know these stats?
Just by judging what hand they throw or bowl with. Not their golf or handwriting .........
If i don't know, e.g. those before my time - I click on their name hyperlink in the list. Their bowling style is noted in their profiles - even the occasional/never bowlers like an Andrew Strauss.
I didn't check the 66 RH batters, just did it by eyeing the names in the list - therefore I said "I think only one of them".
I did check the LH batters who I didn't know. e.,g. Bill Lawry
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
Quite a lot of left-right combos is probably just instinctive, I think.
There is no rhyme or reason for it. In a cricket context, Paddles and Snedden were the same (bowl right, bat left) and Boult is the opposite. Santner and Anderson are true cricketing lefties, and Santner plays golf left-handed (2 handicap). Boult plays right-handed.
Same in rugby, McCaw is one of the chosen few while Carter only writes left-handed.
I do almost all sports things right handed (and footed), but I write left handed, shoot a rifle left handed, and a handful of other things. None coached and all pretty much just how I naturally picked things up.
I would classify myself as 99% leftie but I shoot right-handed and I can't use left-handed scissors. We always had some in the house as my mother and a sister are also left-handed. I was never made to change in sports and there were advantages in some sports like tennis.
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@bovidae said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
I would classify myself as 99% leftie but I shoot right-handed and I can't use left-handed scissors. We always had some in the house as my mother and a sister are also left-handed. I was never made to change in sports and there were advantages in some sports like tennis.
Some bastard gave me a "left hander's coffee mug" with three holes drilled to the left of the handle, so if a right hander uses it it leaks hot coffee in their lap. I drink coffee right handed and have some awkward burn scars to explain!
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@mimic said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
I guess I must be one of the very few who regard Vaas as bloody class. When Boult first burst into the scene, I always wanted him to be half the man Vaas was.
I don't think anyone is saying Vaas wasn't bloody good in his day but he's certainly never mentioned as an all time great. Not in the Wasim/Davidson bracket that's for sure ( neither is Boult but Vaas, like TB, would be a contender for an all time Sri Lankan 11 )
Obviously I never saw Davidson play but Wasim was half of the best fast bowling duo I've ever seen.
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@cyclops said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
@rapido said in Black Caps vs Windies Test Series:
66 right hand batsmen meet the same criteria of 5000 runs.
But of them I think only 1, Michael Clarke, was left handed.
Tendulkar was a lefty too.
No, he bowled right arm. Either medium pace or wrist spin.
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