Help with batting

I'm a specialist batsman at playing spin (any kind),I've just started practising playing the leg cut,or cutter shot and I have improved alot since I first tried the shot but one shot I have trouble with is the hook shot,sometimes I time it well and hit it for 4 or 6 but other times I hit it 15 metres in the air and get caught can you help me with this,its the only shot I have trouble with everything else is a gem oh and I forgot to mention its tough playing a yorker I aslo need help with that inswingers espeically.

Edited by ANIL KUMBLE

You know that shot that Martyn's an expert on,the one where you say a leg spinner bowled it then you wait for it to bounce and then like kind of slice it,not a good explanation it's a lovely shot actually.

AK, try and keep the ball on the ground, or hit it as hard as you can (like me) and it'll always go for six or four. I guess the Hook Shot also comes naturally, I didn't need to practise it, I just got in the nets and timed them perfectly and thats the same with the pull shot.

well I'm the opposite my best cricket's when I block and block and wait for bad balls

once im sttled i find that i like to drive everything, which isn't a bad thing as my drive is effective. i love playing spinners as it is such a challenge but i would like to learn some more attacking strokes to them

I just came up with an amazing shot in prctise.
The ball was short and was going over my head, I put my bat up and hit it over wk. Is there a name for this shot??

A straight drive maybe?,Mark Boucher plays it very well 

Edited by ANIL KUMBLE

Pull shot is my favourite good with the drive's.But I thought I heard the commentators saying it was a straight drive when Mark Boucher hit it over the keeper,and Ashraful hit one for 6,I think rohan's right it could be a upper cutter

wait for it more or hit it harder

Oh dips you could simply not play the flick. there is no rule saying you have to play every shot its better to just play the shots you know best

Originally posted by mazzybabe.uk yeah its an uppercut or as the guys at my cricket team call it a poofter shot

You meen I'm a POOFTER? Hope not for your sake

I never seem to hit the ball to the off side. Is this bad for me? Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?

 I have trouble going to the offside too, but my mates bowling is so incosistent (in other words rubbish!) that it doesn't matter if I only hit to the legside.

 Anyway I would also like to overcome this, any tips?

 
 Anyway thanks for the advice, sometimes the bowler puts in a very short bouncer, the next bowl a beamer ten foot over your head!

Edited by -JP-