The Surfer

Wrong shots get right results

"I'm going to bet that Shane Watson hadn't learnt how to get down on one knee and scoop-heave a yorker-length ball over the fine leg boundary for a six in that young cricketer's technical bible, Don Bradman's The Art of Cricket," says Aakash Chopra

"I'm going to bet that Shane Watson hadn't learnt how to get down on one knee and scoop-heave a yorker-length ball over the fine leg boundary for a six in that young cricketer's technical bible, Don Bradman's The Art of Cricket," says Aakash Chopra in The Hindustan Times who feels that the increasingly unorthodox shots in one-day cricket are going to become the norm.

George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo