Do you think that the left handed batsmen have an unfair edge over right handed batsmen ?

Question

Most bowlers struggle with their line and length against left handed batsmen

Answer 1

I will not say that they have any unfair advantage but yes they do have a little bit advantage because most right handed bowlers actually struggle against left handed batsman. It's a fact. Ask all great bowlers and they will tell you that it's difficult to bowl to a left handed batsman.
It isn't unfair edge but a natural advantage.
Nothing is easy. Left handed batsmen still have to work hard to get those runs. But yes, most bowlers prefer bowling to right handed batsmen.

Answer 2

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Two psychologists at Durham University, Charles Wood and John Aggleton, think that the advantage is more likely tactical than neurological. They claim that with a large enough sample of world-class tennis results from several years the leftie effect vanishes. However, when Wood and Aggleton analysed cricket yearbooks, they found that a higher proportion of professional cricketers bowled with their left hand - about 20% leading to their theory that the advantage is tactical. Left-handed bowlers have the benefit of unfamiliarity and they can bowl at a different angle and move the ball in the opposite direction to their right-handed counterparts.

Tactical advantages of left-handers are also well established in tennis and squash. Martina Navratilova once pointed out that many players have pet shots such as hitting the ball across court to their opponent's weaker backhand. If they play this shot against a left-hander then it will go to the lefties stronger forehand. A left-hander also has an awkward serve that swings away from the backhand of the right-hander.

However, the main advantage for left-handers in fast sports would seem to be practical. Lefties are perfectly used to playing right-handers but for right-handers, a left-handed opponent is a very tricky exception. It could also be that right-handers are put at a psychological disadvantage simply by knowing their opponent will be left-handed and expecting them to have this advantage.
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Answer 3

No. Bowlers should spend more time practicing bowling to left-handed batsmen. After all, left-arm bowlers are capable with their line and length against right-handed batsmen. All the right-arm bowlers have to do when bowling to left-hand batsmen is do some video analysis watching not the screen but the mirror reflection of the screen and mimic that.

EDIT: Peter H, you may think it's pretty hard to bat left handed but being a left-hander myself I find it pretty hard to bat right handed, so that's not the solution (to a non-existent problem) either.

Answer 4

Left handed batsman plus right handed batsman combination has unfair edge over bowlers. If both rotate strike regularly, this is hard time for bowlers adjusting their line and length and for fielders also adjusting their positions. This has become game of professionals. So bowlers are quick in adjusting line and length whether this is left handed batsman or right handed batsman. This is in similar whether left handed bowlers have an unfair edge over right handed bowlers. Stroke playing style differs. What do you think?

Can you give best answer to this?

Answer 5

it's because most batsmen are right handed and bowlers are therefore most used to bowling against right handed but i don't think that one batsmen has got any benefit only because he is left handed

Answer 6

Lefties are the best batsmen like for India today, 3 out of their 4 lefties scored a century.........

Answer 7

maybe you should ask the likes of-
Ricky Ponting
Don Bradman (if he were alive)
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulka
Kevin Peterson
Greg Chappell
Steve Waugh
Desmond Haynes
just some examples of right handers which are some of the best in the world and and arguably best ever,so id say no its an individual thing

Answer 8

Most bowlers struggle with their line and length against left handed batsman.

Answer 9

Are you some sort of dill mate? Have you ever actually tried batting left handed? It's pretty damn hard, so if they want to do it, more power to them. And anyway, what are you going to do? Outlaw left handers?

Answer 10

I think 'natural' is preferrable to saying 'unfair'!