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Originally Posted by Rachael  For pity's sake... Symonds can't even play a grown up swivel pull (or even get convincingly onto the back foot to pick the ball off the stumps)... and despite Symonds being a front foot player... he's not even able to get close to Vaughan on the cover drive - he manages by going hard at the ball and opening his shoulders... but he ain't got the footwork, balance or ability to make anything like as much use as Vaughan of the pace on the ball. |
How important is it that a batsman has a classical, Vaughan-like technique? Symonds may open his shoulders a lot, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have just as much raw natural ability as Vaughan does, and it doesn't mean he's a "manufactured" batsman- not if that's his natural style. If he was naturally an unorthodox batsman who learned to play the swivel-pull and cover-drive the way Hammond did, would that make him a manufactured batsman, and would this then be acceptable? Because if so, then it would seem that all that's really important to you is how the batsman looks, rather than how well he does- a bit like betting all your money on the horse with the shiniest coat.