The Cricket
There’s no doubt that the Ashes has (for me) lifted cricket out of the dull-as-dishwater category, but it’s still hard to understand. This was written of one of Vaughan’s shots:
One early attacking shot off the leg-spinner was a classic of its type - a shot played late off the back foot, going with the spin and hit just in front of square on the off-side.
Someone please, tell me what that means?
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Here’s my interpretation, it may well be wrong:
The leg spinner is the bowler, he bowled a slow ball with loads of anti-clockwise spin, when the ball hits the ground it spins sharply to the left.
The batsman was going backwards and had his weight on his back foot, his balance meant he was hitting the ball later than he could have been. He knew there was spin and was allowing for it.
Square is the area in front of the white line (popping crease) that the batsman stands behind. The off side is the side of the field facing away from the direction of the batsmen’s legs. So if his legs were facing right he hit the ball just left of the area
of pitch directly in front of the imaginary trench running the width of the white line away from the wicket.