Let it go: the art of the leave in cricket

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Sometimes a batter’s best bet is to do nothing. It is risky but, when it works, it can rile and unsettle bowlers

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ear that? Pitter patter of footsteps.revolves around the tussle between bat and ball. But in order to make runs, batting in the longest format is as much about survival and occupation: of actively choosing not to hit the ball.

Coaching manuals are rife with information about how to play the proper forward defensive as well as other more attacking strokes. It’s much harder to find literature, coaching or otherwise, about the art of shouldering arms.coaching manual published in 1994, Geoffrey Boycott describes how the leave can be used to manipulate the bowler to bowl where the batter wants, to grind them down in the battle of wills. “Wait. Have patience.

Sometimes it plays into a narrative. Dan Lawrence, Dominic Sibley, Keaton Jennings have all got out shouldering arms early in their England careers. Dismissals accompanied by talk of “scrambled brains” and of them being unsure of their process at the highest level. Gower thinks this is unfair. “It is an error of judgment in exactly the same way as playing at a ball that is a foot wide of off stump is. No better, but certainly not worse.

I’d developed a late leave whereby I would trust my young reflexes to be able to get my hands and bat out of the way at the last, the bat still hovering horizontally. I’d blink up at the bowler, not turning to see the end of the ball’s journey, confident that it had passed by harmlessly, taking an admittedly lo-fi pleasure in it. If the bowler combusted then all the better.The first time I was called a certain four-letter expletive I was at the crease.

This feeling of being imposed upon by the passive act of leaving the ball has been taken to the next level in the past few years by Smith and Labuschagne. Pointing the bat down the wicket towards the bowler like a jouster and bellowing “no run!’ as the ball passes into the keeper’s gloves. With Labuschagne’s matador-esque shenanigans it feels like the non-stroke is entering new territory, that the leave is being weaponised.

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