I have no problem with this Pietersen switch hitting fiasco. What a storm in a tea cup that is.
It's only going to really work on the postage stamp English grounds anyway. Let's just see a few pitches with a bit of life in them, and as Dan Vettori says, give the bowlers a bit more leeway, and there is no problem.
Maybe it will bring about the demise of the dibbly dobbly one day cricket bowler anyway and force teams to select real bowlers. Let's see someone switch hit Brett Lee over cover (or is that mid-wicket). Love to see them try, and I'd love to see their face as they try to avoid the beam ball coming their way next up, as the switch hands, switch feet and duck all within 0.02 of a second!
In all seriousness though, "innovation" is all very well when you're batting on flat, dead run machine wickets with more armour than a medieval knight. A small element of the self preservation factor needs to come back to batting. Bouncers should be allowed in ODIs.Tracks need more life. I'm a bit sick of the attitude that cricket has to have three thousands of runs scored every day to be interesting. Even in ODIs and that other crap that went on in India, the game is more interesting when some wickets are falling, or at least threatening to fall. surely...
Let Pietersen innovate and let the bowlers fight back, it should be that simple. If Scott Styris can't bowl well enough not to contain the opposition batsman when they're batting with their wrong hands, don't let him bowl.
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Alot of cricketers like to switch hit, but usually in the showers.
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When will we see the Switch hit reverse sweep?? That could really fox the bowlers and really get confusing! I have no problem with the shot and simply don't understand the complaints and moanings about it; it's a massive risk to the player and the bowler should be able to see it coming. I doubt most players could muster the strength to play the shot, just trying it is hard and un-natural!
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