Episode 16 - Back Foot Drive - 29.05.2020

Hi friends,

Hope we are doing practice of previous episode tips and getting benefitted, with our past blogs, we have discussed about back foot batting skills , Back foot defense,

After doing practice of foot movement toward back side and towards off stump and learnt that how to defense a short pitch ball or short of length ball.

After doing a vigorous practice of this skill, we can do a good score with these kind of balls by punching into gap and that is called back foot drive,

We have to very accurate and focused while playing this shot, otherwise catch out will be the biggest risk.

So the basic requirement to play this shot are as under

“Watching the ball till the last moment, Body balancing must be intact, Back lift and bat flow should be quick, direction of bat flow should be in gap, and our best try to generate that much of power by which ball to be crossed to the fielder or to be out of his reach,”

Adding a video link for beginners to start practicing this shot. Hope it will help you out to understand the actual drill,

                            https://youtu.be/gXBPkSjQjs8

In our next episode, we will discuss about square cut shot which is most safe and most scoring shot after drive.