It’s time to focus on how you position yourself as a batter before facing the delivery. Moving on from the late cut, today’s post focuses on the challenging sweep shot. Let’s push ourselves and move towards becoming a better cricketer with the legendary sweep shot.

We are sure you had fun learning to play the late cut in the last blog post. Remember, as a batter, it is important that you stay consistent and repeat practising strokes. It’s time for the classic sweep shot, which is a challenging shot to execute.

If you’re an aspiring cricketer and want to become great at the sweep shot, it’s important that you learn to master your batting position and stance before the ball is released. In this case, the goal is to shift weight equally on both the feet and have a balanced stance. Generally, the sweep shot is the perfect choice for spin bowling. Now, for the technique, place your back foot knee on the ground, take a stride forward using your front foot and remember to move across the off stump.

Once you have pre-meditated the sweep shot, before the ball arrives, the idea must be to smother the spin. This means to play the ball along the ground by killing the spin of the delivery. As the ball arrives, take a stride forward by planting your right knee on the ground. Lift your bat above your shoulder and play the shot along the ground rather than from a horizontal position. Keep in mind that after the contact with the ball, the face of the bat should be pointing towards the ground.

However, for the slog sweep, when the ball arrives, instead of lifting the bat above your shoulder, practise a horizontal motion. The goal is to open the face of the bat and direct the ball towards the mid-wicket region. Practise hard as the sweep shot can be played in different ways. Also remember to completely extend your arms for the best follow through.

As for the next blog, we learn to master the flick shot.