Initial trigger movement

I bat on leg and then just as the bowler enters his delivery stride take a small forward press onto middle and a waist high back-lift. Made all the difference spanked a 50 last year in a semi-final with two straight sixes.. never hit a straight six in my life- harder to play the leg glance but the drives are much easier and I can still hook- I can live with that.

Instead of the intial movement of moving your back foot back, I move my front foot forward. It looks a bit like ricky ponting and it works quite well for playing drives.Try it

Thanks mazzybabe, I'll try it next time I have a chance:)

Originally posted by crick i didn't think he had one recently? i dont remember seeing one against england! what was it?

During the 03' World Cup. That one seems to be working for me.

I'm not much use at balls coming in at my pads so I stand out side legstump and then move back and across to middle and off. I don't get out lbw anymore but I do have troubles trying to hit widish ball on the off side towards the end of an innings. Do you think moving my stance from out side leg to middle and off will help for end of innings crisis?

i didn't think he had one recently? i dont remember seeing one against england! what was it?

my trigger movements are all wrong at the moment i really havent given them much thought untill saturday when a friend told me that i move my back foot to the leg side. i was bowled on leg stump on saturday and it makes sense as my trigger movements are wrong. i need to sort it out but it seems so hard as they just come naturally and you dont always realise what you are doing.

as i live in england and pitches here arent the best for bounce i stay still but plant my weight and my foot slightly forward, as then if i see a short ball i am still in a gd position to play it but most of them are full so my balance and feet are in a gd place.

You can't be out LBW if you are playing on the front foot? What kind of a rule is that one?

where was that a rule?

My initial trigger movement has just changed to the forward press. The reason for this is that currently wickets in England are quite low so front foot is essential.

initial trigger movements were introduced for people who shuffle at the crease or who have trouble playing back foot deliveries. Some people just do it because they feel more comfortable getting on their toes before the bowler comes in. personally i just stand still like matty hayden. But nowadays i see most people who use the trigger movement fall across the line of the ball and get LBW alot. the trigger movement makes some players heads fall outside the line of the ball. thats my critism of it all. but hay, at the end of the day its what you feel comfortable doing.

i prefer to stay still when facing a bowler. However as you say sometimes you can come across nippy bowlers and in these circrumstances i have brian lara type knees bent then into a half jump. I wasnt trying to emulate lara this is just the movement that came to me once in the nets and ever since i've been using it.

I tried the Inzi sub continent style shuffle across to the off stump and i also tried the back across movement that a lot of professional cricketers use. However i didn't like either of them as i found it harder to judge the line of the ball compared to batting dead still. Also the back across can have you in trouble on english pitches with variable bounce as if one keeps low you might be trapped lbw.

It was a faulty speed ball... As you know, not all SpeedBalls are accurate.

This time I got it measured properly.


Edited by RightHandBat

If you have a strong upper built (chest, shoulder areas) then you should be able to bowl above 110kph. My stock delivery reads at 125kph but if I try to bowl faster, I get it around the 138kph mark.