I was batting at number four and i was facing a bowler who was extremely tall and was getting a large amount of bounce off the pitch. I came in with my team on 11-2 and we and my partner were both new batsmen. I hit 15 runs then a bouncer got me and i knicked it through oth the keeper. We won the game in the end but i wished that with 80 runs to win i could have been there all the way. When i got out we needed another 35. I was never comfertable with the short one and the oppositon new that. How would i deal with this type of bowling? Mind you I was taking hits to the chest, thighs and helmet. I never wear a thigh guard as it restricts me.

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If you are not good at playing the hook or pull shot there is no point even bothering with the bouncers just drop your hands and let the ball go through to the keeper because there is no chance getting bowled by a bouncer.

Or practice facing bouncers play the hook and pull shots, because if you learn to play those shots well it is a good way to dominate the bowlers, the best batsman around can all play the pull and hook shots well, Lara, Tendulkar and Ponting. Players like Steve Waugh did not play the pull or hooks well so they just left them alone.

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What should I do if the ball is aimed around my waist and jus above and directed to my body?

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I personally have liked the ball around my waist because i usually just run the ball down to fineleg but if it is outside off i leave it or play a cut shot but each batsman find different shots harder and easier you just have to play the shots that you are comfortable with.

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What I try to do is get on my toes and work it on the leg-side, get on top of the ball as much as you can and play it down, it helps me, hopefully it will help you.

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I am a tall player so I like to play pull shot and play bouncers because bouncers are easy to me due to my height but if you are not tall and not good with your pull shot the best thing is to leave the ball.

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ok, get outside the line of the ball. odds are it'll bounce over your wicket

then try to hook or pull, (with low power turning your wrists over the ball, high power just wack it one).
if you're outside the line, the ball can't hit you. and so you'll avoid injury.

or like this http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archi...y-the-bouncer/

this from wikipedia
"batsman may play a bouncer in either a defensive or an attacking way. If the batsman plays it defensively he aims primarily to avoid getting out, and secondarily to avoid being hit by the ball. For a head-high bouncer, these goals are achieved most easily by ducking under the ball. If the ball is at chest height, the batsman's best defence is to move on to his back foot, raise his bat vertically to chest height, and attempt to block the ball and direct it downwards to the pitch so as to avoid presenting a catch to a fielder. Sometimes the batsman will need to jump into the air to gain the necessary height to defend with the bat. This is particularly true for shorter batsmen. Given these approaches, the bowler can hope to both intimidate the batsman somewhat, and possibly have the ball deflect off the bat at an awkward angle and produce a catch for a nearby fielder.

Conversely, the bouncer can be a very productive ball for the batsman, if he plays it in an attacking manner. The shot that is used to attack the bouncer is the hook shot. To play the hook shot the batsman moves his back foot backwards and towards the off side as the ball is being delivered. As the ball approaches, the batsman swivels from facing the off side to facing the leg side, while holding the bat horizontally. The batsman's aim is to hit the ball at high speed towards, into or over the leg side boundary. However, despite their run-scoring potential, hook shots frequently lead to wickets falling, particularly through balls hitting the top edge of the bat and being caught by leg side fielders. However, if the bouncer is misdirected by the bowler, and reaches the batsman on the off side of his wicket, the cut, uppercut or late cut can be played, either with the intention of guiding the ball along the ground, through a gap in the field setting, or over the infield for four or six."

Try joining a midweek softball or baseball team to get used to playing horizontal bat shots.

Even if it is only social like.

You deal with it in exactly the same way as you deal with any other delivery.

Firstly though, I'd suggest you try learning by watching. Watch someone who's good at playing the bouncer or short ball and see how they deal with it. Then replicate this in the nets with some tennis ball throw downs and practice, with practice you'll become more instinctive.

The first thing you need to do is read the line of the ball, and if it's going wide of the stumps you can happily leave it alone. If it isn't going wide (or you think it may not be or may be swinginging/seaming in) then you need to get your head in line with the ball and watch it very closely right out of the bowlers hand and watch where it pitches.

Then you need to read the length of the ball, because this will tell you how to play it. If it's back of a good length or simply on a short length bowled by a 6 foot + bowler you can be pretty sure that on most pitches it's going over the stumps. That basically means you don't have to play it, so watch it off the pitch and simply drop your hands and sway inside the line and watch it go by - don't take your eyes off it until it passes. Picking up the line and length of the ball early will also tell you whether to play it off the front foot or back foot and this will help you get into position early, you can then decide whether to leave, cut, pull. glance or hook the ball.

If you seem to find yourself constantly having to 'fend balls off' from hitting you it means you're simply not in the correct position to play the ball early enough and it's 'on to you' before you're ready, this is mostly a result of getting beaten by the pace of the ball. Because the ball has arrived before you're ready, you've not had the chance to get in position for it and this is a direct result of not picking up the line and length of the ball early enough.

If this is a weak area of your game then I strongly advise you go away and practice it until it becomes instinctive. When you've mastered it there's always that darned club bowler who bowls just that yard quicker than everyone else Learn to get into position early enough, watch that ball from hand to bat and play/defend/survive those really quick opening bowlers and you'll be hitting the slower 'medium pacers' for 4's and 6's

Practicing with a helmet including face guard is common sense as well.

If your practicing with a friend see if you can find a concrete pitch with out any coverings to extenuate the bounce, also if you are prepared to sacrifice an extremely old cricket ball take the cork center out of it and throw the casing and junk away.
The cork centers bounce well and at good pace off of concrete, and can make even a slow medium bowler/training partner appear to be bowling serious pace and bounce.