Former Australia captain Ian Chappell has suggested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to ban ‘switch hitting’. He has said that this shot is ‘completely unfair’ to the bowler and the team that is fielding.
In the current ODI series between India and Australia, Glenn Maxwell and David Warner used switch hits several times. In this, the right-handed batsman holds the bat in the left hand as soon as the bowler leaves the ball. Australian batsmen do it quite easily.
Chappell told ‘Wide World of Sports’,’ Maxwell and Warner took many such shots in the second match, if a batsman changes his hand or foot before the ball is hit, it should be an illegal shot. “Chappell said If the batsman informs in advance then this shot is fine, otherwise it is unfair.
He said, “The bowler has to tell the umpire what kind of ball he will bowl, but if the batsman is right handed then the captain looks like a field and then suddenly he plays with the left hand then it is wrong,”
He said that he does not understand why bowlers do not complain about it. He said that cricket administrators should stop this.
