Batting Left-Handed

Left-Handed Cricket Batting Tips

Left-handed batsmen have been among the most productive and stylish batsmen in the history of cricket, and the number of left-handed batsmen has increased in recent decades. Peter Roebuck, an English cricket commentator, notes that while only 23 percent of runs scored in Test cricket in the 1980s were scored by left-handers, that number reached 37 percent by 2008. Left-handed batsmen have to cope with rough areas on the pitch and difficult bowling angles. Those angles, however, also create scoring opportunities for the left-hander.

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