Left handers are best
According to an article in The Times today, left-handers perform better:
"Research by Sky Sport’s scorer and statistician Benedict Bermange reveals that left-handed batsmen have not only been steadily on the rise – more than 30 percent of all Test cricketers now bat left-handed – but they are increasingly outperforming right-handers. The last decade in which left-handed batsmen averaged less than right-handers was the 1950s, since when left-handers have been ahead by 5.3 runs per innings (1960s), 2.9 (1970s), 4.0 (1980s), 5.2 (1990s) and 7.9 (2000s)."
I think it's a little late to turn around and bat left-handed now. But for parents with young kids it's not too late....
2 comments:
Does the article suggest that left handers are advantaged by the game (like in tennis on the serve) or that bowlers develop tactics for right handers first? (sorry, I don't read the Murdoch press, apart from the Sun obviously!)
It was more the first. But do left handers really get an advantage in tennis on the serve? You'll have to explain that one to me....they can swing their serve wide to the right handers back-hand but then so can right handers to them so I didn't think they were advantaged....
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