Pieterson given all clear for reverse sweep
Jun 18th, 2008 | By chetannarula | Category: Cricket
Kevin Pietersen will be allowed to carry on playing his extraordinary ‘reverse slog-sweep’ after MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), cricket’s rule-makers, announced they would not be outlawing the ’switch-hit’.
“MCC believes that the ’switch-hit’ stroke is exciting for the game of cricket,” said a statement issued by MCC following a meeting at it’s Lord’s headquarters in London on Tuesday. “Indeed, the stroke conforms to the Laws of Cricket and will not be legislated against.”
Pietersen, who effectively became a left rather than right-handed batsman when using the shot to twice hit New Zealand medium-pacer Scott Styris for six during an unbeaten century in England’s opening One-Day International win at the Riverside on Sunday, welcomed the ruling.
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