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Posted Wednesday 18th December 2013 at 1.28pm
Triggers
A nice piece from Sanjay Manjrekar on trigger movements in cricket. I don't have a trigger movement, preferring to concentrate on keeping my head still. I'm not sure his claim that a backward trigger movement is a weakness is fair; more likely it's a weakness against certain bowlers or in certain conditions, and a strength in other situations. Like the recent resurgence in off spin, there's probably a cyclical element. After the invention of helmets, it became possible to have a pronounced forward trigger movement; bowlers adapted by pitching slightly back of a length; batters adapted by moving their trigger movements back again; and bowlers are now adapting by returning to a fuller length.
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