3. Lance Klusener: The original finisher of limited-overs cricket, Lance ‘Zulu’ Klusener too had an unusual batting stance. His ‘baseball-like’ batting position did earn him lot of ...

In cricket, the first and foremost batting rule that comes at the top of the coaching manual is the batting stance. A solid batting stance can take a batsman a long way in developing his technique.

The art of batting has no set way of being carried out. No two batters’ techniques are the same, and this uniqueness has provided us with a wide variety of elegant stroke makers over time.

Batsmen who bat the “wrong way” by adopting a reversed stance which means dominantly right-handed people batting left-handed ... what generations of cricket coaching manuals have advocated.

Indeed, "professional batsmen are seven times more likely to use a reversed stance ... like batting, allowing an unobstructed view of the ball. "The 'conventional' way of holding a cricket bat ...