{"id":4796,"date":"2020-12-03T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:09:52","slug":"glenn-maxwell-defends-switch-hit-asks-bowlers-to-evolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4796","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Maxwell defends \u2018switch-hit\u2019, asks bowlers to evolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Glenn-Maxwell.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Melbourne:\u00a0Glenn Maxwell defended the switch-hit after the audacious stroke once again drew criticism from pundits, the Australian all-rounder saying the onus was on bowlers to evolve and counter batsmen in the shorter formats of the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Right-handed Maxwell switches stance in a flash to transform into a left-hander with the bowler well into the delivery stride, making field setting impossible against the shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Maverick England batsman Kevin Pietersen was a regular proponent of the shot, which involves a combination of skill and risk and was deemed legal in 2008 by the MCC, which acts as the custodian of cricket\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Maxwell smashed 59 from 38 balls at the Manuka Oval in Canberra during Australia\u2019s 13-run loss in the third and final ODI against India on Wednesday and his innings included a massive switch-hit against spinner Kuldeep Yadav.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOT OF THE SERIES \u203c\ufe0f <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f64c.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is this the best reverse sweep you&#039;ve ever seen \u2049\ufe0f <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f525.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Toyota_Aus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Toyota_Aus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zvGDc3LbjK\">pic.twitter.com\/zvGDc3LbjK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox Cricket (@FoxCricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxCricket\/status\/1334278675647238146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cIt\u2019s within the laws of the game,\u201d Maxwell told reporters. \u201cI suppose it\u2019s up to the bowlers to try and combat that, and the skills of bowlers are being tested every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cThey\u2019re having to come up with different change-ups and different ways to stop batters, and with the way they shut down one side of the ground and what-not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cI suppose the way that batting is evolving, I think bowling has got to evolve to the same stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Former Australian captain and commentator Ian Chappell feels batsmen take unfair advantage of field placements by switching stance at the last moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cIt is very skillful, some of it\u2019s amazingly skillful &#8211; but it\u2019s not fair,\u201d Chappell told Wide World of Sports. \u201cI\u2019d love the administrators who made those laws to explain to me how that\u2019s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/maxwell-impressed-by-haris-raufs-bowling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glenn Maxwell impressed by Haris Rauf\u2019s bowling<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Melbourne:\u00a0Glenn Maxwell defended the switch-hit after the audacious stroke once again drew criticism from pundits, the Australian all-rounder saying the onus was on bowlers to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4796\" title=\"Glenn Maxwell defends \u2018switch-hit\u2019, asks bowlers to evolve\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}