Former Australian captain Ian Chappell has called for the shot to be banned<\/a>, arguing it's not fair for the bowler who has set the field expecting a right-handed batsman, only for Maxwell to become a left-hander at the last second.<\/p>\n "It is very skilful, some of it's amazingly skilful \u2013 but it's not fair," Chappell said.<\/p>\n Chappell has the backing of Australia's leading Test match wicket-taker, Shane Warne.<\/p>\n As a bowler, we have to nominate what hand we're bowling with and what side of the wicket we're bowling with," Warne said on Fox Cricket<\/a>.<\/p>\n "I'm not sure I like it. It's worth a discussion, worth a debate to work out what's the right thing."<\/p>\n Former Australian umpire Simon Taufel, who stood in 74 Test matches until his retirement in 2012, said it would be hard to outlaw the shot.<\/p>\n "The game of cricket is not a science, it's an art. We're not perfect," Taufel said, per the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n "When we say that we want to ban that type of shot how does the umpire officiate that? It's impossible.<\/p>\n "The umpire has an enormous number of decisions – front foot, back foot, protected area, seeing where a ball is hit – it's impossible to have an official then watch for the changing of the grip or stance. It's an impossible ask for a standing umpire to make that determination<\/p>\n "We can't make a law that we can't apply."<\/p>\n Maxwell has defended the use of the shot, arguing that there's nothing to prevent him playing it.<\/p>\n "It's within the laws of the game," Maxwell said.<\/p>\n "I think batting has evolved in such a way that it's just got better and better over the years which is why we're seeing these massive scores getting chased down and scores are going up.<\/p>\n "I suppose it's up to the bowlers to try and combat that, and the skills of bowlers are being tested every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cricket's former top umpire has spoken out in favour of the controversial switch-hit, used with such success by Australia's Glenn Maxwell in Canberra on Wednesday. […]<\/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\/4933"}],"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=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n