McKenzie insists late-order batsmen to come up with proper batting approach

|| CF Correspondent ||

Neil McKenzie, batting consultant of Bangladesh cricket team urged down-order players to come up with proper run-scoring batting approach to bring more successes to the team’s tally while playing in away conditions.

The experienced coach, currently in South Africa like his compatriot head coach Russell Domingo, is fully aware that the most important thing for the Bangladesh batting unit is to need to make an adjustment with the pitches of the overseas conditions.

He thought that they should take the same approach considering the wicket might not be skidding in Sri Lanka like the way it is happening in Bangladesh.

Drawing the example of the legendary players like Virat Kohli (India), Kane Williamson (New Zealand) and AB De Villiers (South Africa), the coach said they slowly move to play the ball.

“In regard to playing late obviously if you see the best players in the world like Kane Williamson or AB De Villiers, Virat Kohli you just see how late they play the bowl. Everything happened under the eyes, you know that’s the key to the game, playing the bowl nice and late and then just being in a consistent position,” Neil McKenzie said.

“I think the biggest sort of technical fault fewer Bangladesh batsmen have is that cause of the wicket they skid on almost pushed that front foot out too early and ended up hitting the bowl quite far and front of you just to make pace on the lower skidder wickets position. So playing late is definitely a technical thing, technical advancement can definitely work into a mental advantage and vice versa,” McKenzie told ahead of the Sri Lanka tour.

“If you’re doing something technically wrong, sort of going forward to short bowls that play in your mind about the extra bounce that you do get or can play. So, I think it's definitely a mental technical component to be successful away from home.”

“When you’re playing late you are on top of the bowl. You’re not pushing your hands out even if you do if the bowl doesn’t behave and do something else with your bat angle as it is, your bat angle is more diagonal as a post to sort of vertical, so sometimes the ball doesn’t carry to the slips it’s normally going down, so, obviously you don’t nick of as much you’ve got chance of not nicking off. I think when you’re driving you hitting it onto your eyes if it does swing you are in a better position to place the bowl and control the bowl,” he added.

Considering Sri Lanka’s tour in September, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is expected to keep the majority of Bangladesh’s top-level cricketers engaged from September to November prior to their domestic cricket league.