7 Batsmen with Weirdest batting stance in Cricket

7 Batsmen with Weirdest batting stance in Cricket: Cricket has been a sport that has always valued tradition and ethics more than experimentation and out of the way thinking. A great degree of superficial sacredness is said to come in the way of natural and revolutionary style of play. But be that as it may, it hasn’t stopped the cricketers to have faith in their native styles and continue to stick with it. The stance of a batsman (your position and body balance prior to the delivery) has been a much talked about affair. While the coaching manual recommends the feet be about a shoulder span apart, lots of batsmen have toyed with different options to suit their game.

Almost each expert has his theory, but there isn’t a single and widely acceptable stance which could be deemed better than others. Every batsman has his comfort zone and his stance is a reflection of that.

Let us today look at the 7 Batsmen with Weirdest batting stance in Cricket:

1. Shivnarine Chanderpaul:

Talk about the unorthodox batsmen and it’s impossible to not mention Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the former West Indian captain and middle order batsman. One of the greatest West Indies batsman of all time, perhaps behind only Brian Lara and Viv Richards, he was the lynchpin of their batting order for a long time. What made him unorthodox was his unique stance wherein he would stand with his shoulders squared and facing the square leg umpire. The stance has often been described as ugly or “crabby” like the crabs found on beaches, by commentators all over the world. Cricket experts argue that such a wide stance would leave him impervious to the late movement of the ball but the southpaw has proved with making more than 10000 Test runs that grit and determination are greater assets than flair and grace.

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