A 17-year-old teaches http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s Michael Clarke a thing or two about batting
Struggling Australian batsman Michael Clarke suffered another embarrassing moment when a 17-year-old kid named Daniel Brew suggested that the Aussie needed to change his batting approach in order to get out of his slumped batting
form.
According to reports, the incident happened when Clarke was addressing a pre-game press conference at Hobart. A few minutes into the conference, the young teenager from Geelong, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Victoria-c859 gathered the courage to interrupt the Aussie
stand-in skipper and ask him what he was going to do about his batting form. "I've noticed something Michael, you're pushing at the ball too much. What are you going to do about that?” the boy inquired.
Clarke responded with a smile and asked the teenager what he thought he should do about it. The boy, who seemed to have enough knowledge about cricket, advised http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 not to try too hard to reach the ball. Brew said, “Not reach
for it so much, play in front of your nose and under your eyes and not be reaching for it too much. That's how you're going to get out.”
Clarke then responded by thanking the youngster and acknowledging that he would try to do what the boy told him. “Okay I'll try that today in the nets. Thank you," Clarke said.
Though Clarke had a smile on his face and took the whole incident lightly, if today in the second ODI against England at Hobart the stand-in skipper gets out batting the same way he does, he might face the wrath of the critics
for not listening to the young Brew.
Looking at his sluggish batting form, perhaps he should try doing what the 17-year-old told him and may be his luck with the bat will turn around. If Clarke pulls off an impressive innings, the boy might hit the headlines in almost
every newspaper/ news channel in Australia and who knows he might even be considered for the job of Aussie batting coach.
Clarke has been struggling with his batting form throughout the much-hyped Ashes series, where the 29-year-old Aussie could only score 193 runs in total.
Clarke suffered an embarrassing moment on Sunday when he was mocked by the crowd in the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) during the first ODI of the seven-match series for playing a slow innings. However, Clarke defended his slow
batting and refused to worry about the crowd. “What's important for me as the captain of this team right now is to do whatever it takes to help Australia win every game of cricket we play. When I first walked out to bat, the ball was reverse-swinging a little
bit. It wasn't the easiest of conditions to walk out and just smack it,” Clarke explained.
The batsman clarified that since Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 was doing all the hitting at the time, there was no need for him to do the same. He said, “Watto [Shane Watson] was playing an amazing knock and my role was to get up the other end
and try not to lose wickets, try to build a partnership. If people want to see fours, sixes and wickets taken every ball, that's not international cricket. My role will be the same it has been over the 180 one-dayers I've played, to play the best type of cricket
I can for the team, try to help win the game.” Clarke scored 36 off 57 balls at a slow pace that caused the crowd to jeer at the batsman.
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