Due to the ridiculously crappy wickets, it seems that I no longer can flick a ball off my pads because everything just stays down low the time I go in to bat.  Just 4 years ago, anything on my pads was accumulated runs to my name, usually dispatched for 4!!  Can't even remember the last time I got one single run from a flick off the pads.  I got to be more on the lookout for balls staying low and trapping me lbw.  Man, I'd give anything to migrate off to bouncier pitches so I can bat the way I use to.

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

my initial trigger movement has been banished....

during the winter season i decided on the shuffel, thats the start outside leg and move into position, a lil like chanderpaul. feels comfortable and lets you get into a good position on a ball that is not swinging...first game of the season was hellish i was bowled around my legs . now i dont have any trigger movements i wait for the ball to come to me. but if its spin bowling i like to get to the pitch as best i can.....

trigger movements are good for aggressive batsman, unlike me who likes to take it easy and pick my balls....

Originally posted by mazzybabe.uk this may change next season but last season the rule was some one can't be out lbw if they are on the front foot so my intial trigger movement is to go forward

 I never saw this?!

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.

My movement is stand there and just move back lift from 2nd slip to 1st to get ready, works for me and was selected for state a few years back none of this fancy stuff, cricket is simple when you think about it, its a ball coming at you and you hit it.

It worked for jason gillespie he didn't even look like a cricketer.