Kraigg Brathwaite : Paint !

Kraigg Brathwaite is among the more solid batsmen in West Indies' line-up:
patient outside off stump, willing to wait for balls in his strong areas, and can bat long periods.

But his technique isn't without its faults. 

Bhuvi Kumar exposed two of them with a full ball angling into the stumps and straightening just a touch. The ball was certainly full enough to play on the front foot. Brathwaite did not make any kind of stride towards the ball and remained camped in his crease.

To add to his problems, Brathwaite plays with open shoulders, and is nearly chest-on
to the bowler at times. This leaves him at risk of playing across the line even when he is notionally trying to present the full face of the bat. He certainly attempted to do this against Bhuvi.
But instead of starting roughly over off stump, or even from the direction of first slip, and finishing pointing down the V, Brathwaite's bat came down from third slip and finished pointing wide of mid-on.
A bit of movement and the ball missed his outside edge and would have the stumps.
End result: out lbw.

The lack of footwork compounded the skewed alignment.
Had Brathwaite been closer to the pitch of the ball, he would have been at less risk of missing it, or even edging it, even if he had played slightly across the line.

www.espncricinfo.com/west-indies-v-india...t/story/1045803.html

Why our Batting COACH cannot see this issue and eliminate it  ???

why we gotta see it exposed by a cricket journo ???  >

in response to Karthik article

the wicb nous yuh see is muck..sticky, strangling muck that messes up the flow that produces good results.

what do we see here..Skameron and Whinds set up the rip off of all the money that the bureaucratic office now monopolizes leaving nutten fuh anybody else and deh expect the organization to flow swell..that all others working for pittances will swallow that sh!t and work for pride so that all goes well ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

is dat what we seeing here ::confused:: ::confused::

sweet ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

dillinger I borrowed this to place here ! 

doing wat..going back to Devon. I wud pk ANYBODY AT ALL before i did dat.

and if Gayle returns it shud be to the middle not open.  we still need an opener.  try Lewis.  wats to lose if we do ::confused::

Funny thing is Paint is our only recognised opener !

and these Flaws are well known by the opposition 

man I will not stress myself looking fuh players. 

kill the wicb dats what.  kill it dead and start fresh..now! before it too late > > > >

I say go with the U19 players !!

Hopefully Flaws not as glaring and pounced upon.

Like Paint's and India seamers  :-[

Hopefully our Batting Coach supplies some assistance to correct

those 2 glaring flaws exploited by India.