What is your natural response to a flighted delivery?

Question

What is your natural response to a flighted delivery?

Answer 1

my natural response is to flight the bat at the bowlers face.,

Answer 2

Many others have already given great answers, but I shall add my two cents (for what it's worth!).

While you should always watch any delivery from a bowler carefully (be it from fast bowler or a spin bowler), as it can sometimes be difficult to determine what they're going to do, you should never take your eyes off a spin bowler as they can be particularly sneaky.

A skilfully flighted delivery, that is given enough air, will make it really difficult for the batsman to read, especially when it goes up near your eye-line during it’s trajectory, before landing only for it to (sometimes) spin sharply when it hits the ground. So, the best thing to do when dealing with a delivery of this magnitude is to try and move your feet into the line (or pitch) of the ball and eliminate and impede some of the flight (and spin). You can do this in variety of ways, you can dab it away with your pad and/or bat (but be careful you don’t turn yourself into an LBW candidate!), you can block with a more defensive move and try and “push” the ball away enabling you to pick up a single (or two). You can leave it, but this can be dangerous as if it's spinning it may hit the stumps or you could get stumped if you're caught outside your crease. Or you could of course try and use the flight (and spin) to your advantage and give the ball a good old hit thus not allowing the bowler to get established at the crease and become settled into any kind of rhythm. But all of this depends on what the pitch is doing so it's always best to evaluate every possibility before you try anything.

Personally, my natural response is to block or pad away the ball and try and pick up a few singles here and there. I hate spinners and hate having to deal with them. That's probably why I prefer to open the innings facing the new ball rather than be a lower/middle-order hitter who faces an older ball that's in perfect conditions for the spinners.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Let it pass.

Answer 5

My Response personally?

Use my feet to get to the pitch of the ball, then try and whack the ball through the line to the boundary. As a batsmen i dont like the bowler to settle, so any time they bowl a flighted delivery i like to use my feet and hit either hard on the ground or over the top. If the team is in a bad way, or the bowler is bowling really well then, i will probably block with my bat and pad together, obviously i would make sure that i took a huge stride (thus eliminating LBW)

Hope i helped

Answer 6

truthfully i dont even think about it, as soon as i see that the spinner has given the ball some flight, i charge, i come down the wicket and try to get it on the full and hit it straight (unless its a fair way outside off stump, then cover is my choice, a little dangerous but you always have to back yourself). if i cant get to it on the full i make sure i get my body behind the ball and try to smother the spin either with my bat or pad (its unlikely you'll get given LBW if you are that far down the wicket)

Answer 7

I agree with Kookee's answer.

Coming down the tack to hit it over the boundary!!!

Obviously the situation of the team needs to be considered.

If wickets are in hand then, aggressively coming down the track would be the best option.

If the team is in bad condition then a defensive shot would be ideal or just a small push for a single would be the way.

Answer 8

i dont charge unless i am 100% sure its a full flighted delivery. Once i got stumped because of a flighted delivery and i never charged one since. I would normally wait for it and flick it on the legside or cut it. I rarely charge.