EXCERPTSQ: Batsmen sometimes stand outside the crease in England to cut the swing … does it work? If you are outside the crease, you should take a middle-stump guard, instead of leg-stump. If I have to bat for a day, day and a half or even two days, I am prepared to do that. The moment I started doing that with my hip alignment, things started ironing out nicely.” What, according to you, is the ideal thing to do? I would say, for the first 12 years of my career, I couldn’t sleep properly on the eve of the game.

Source: Indian Express August 11, 2021 18:09 UTC