Making your mark - how many ways?
You wouldn't have thought there could be that many ways of making your mark in the crease after taking guard.
Usually we do it by scratching a mark with a stud or the edge of the bat and then usually banging a small hole with the bottom of the face of the bat. There is also the West Indian way of banging a hole into the ground using a bail (one day surely somebody is going to break the spigot off the barrel of the bail - hope it happens on television in a big match!).
But on Saturday I saw a technique I'd never seen before (in zillions of years experience) - the batsman used the edge of his bat laid at right angles to the crease as a ruler and scored a line with a bail. What a good idea!
I wonder whether there are any other methods out there.
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We play an inter-departmental competition within the university on an artificial wicket. Since you obviously can't go putting stud marks on such a surface, players have been known to come out to bat armed with chalk in order to mark their guard! That's flair.
We do the same thing in Hong Kong on the artificial wickets, keeping chalk by the wicket. Oddly enough it doesn't stop plenty of people 'marking out' their guard with their bat or boot as well though! Must be by instinct, a cricketing reflex reaction. An annoying reaction that wears a hole through the astro...
I played on a pitch somewhere this season where the groundsman had marked the guard for the batsmen by painting short lines on the inside of the front foot line, level with the 3 stumps. I can't see any reason why that shouldn't be done more often, it's not far enough down the wicket to offer the bowler anything to aim at.
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