Hughes' hotch-potch game works

Debutant Phillip Hughes improved on his first-innings duck to top score for Australia in the second. But his technique has come under a lot of flak, especially from his opponents South Africa. Peter Roebuck believes his game is an unusual hotch-potch of eye and instinct. He writes in the Sydney Morning Herald:

On flatter pitches he scores most of his runs with flicks off his pads, cuts and drives through extra-cover. It sounds orthodox but he relies much more on hands and less on footwork and shoulders than most batsmen. But, then, he is not the only idiosyncratic left-hander running around. His opening partner shuffles around like a politician under the spotlight while Shivnarine Chanderpaul hardly bothers with the coaching manual. Hughes's game works. In all forms of the game, he scores a heck of a lot of runs.