An excellent article. I'm not a cricket player (I did try it once), but I think there's a lot here that a baseball or softball hitter could benefit from. You h

An excellent article. I'm not a cricket player (I did try it once), but I think there's a lot here that a baseball or softball hitter could benefit from. You hear about "red dot sliders" in baseball: a slider that's spinning in such a way that the seams appear to form a red dot. A good hitter can see that and predict where the ball's going. I've also heard (not sure about this) that a lot of baseball players have better than 20/20 vision, enhanced by Lasik, just so they can see the ball better. One thing that I don't see here was a recent issue with Shohei Ohtani of the Angels, where they suspected he was "tipping" his pitches. A pitcher always tries as hard as he can to make every pitch look exactly the same when it comes out of his hand. If he does even the slightest movement differently for an off-speed pitch versus a fastball, the other team will notice it and start hitting him. Otherwise, the batters have to do what Chappell does and pick it up from the ball.