Can play well vs express pace but struggling big time vs trundlers. Help needed.

[Thivagar]

We are talking about club cricket express pace(125 to 135) . I have a serious issue with my batting and hoping to hear from some of you. I practice with my club team in nets, some of the guys have played higher competitive cricket, so often they bring players who are still playing competitive cricket. I'm talking about ex u-15 Canada, u-17 Canada, u-19 Canada, playing in the highest division in Canada and so on. These guys bowl very fast, 120km/h to 135km/h and I can bat well vs them. I also practice with my University team, we got lots of trundlers who bowl at 100 to 115 km/h range and I can't time the shots at all. If the ball is pitched on the off stump or away from the off stump, I can manage to do okay. But, anything at my legs, especially leg stump, I can't pick the length or line and ends up looking very bad. I might get into the the team as a spinner but these guys can't play express pace, I can but I can't bat vs trunderlers so batting below 6th would put my team in danger. So I need help.

 

[Bullet Drive]

Maybe play the ball later. Stay in shape.

 

[Thivagar]

Maybe play the ball later. Stay in shape.

That is the problem, I usually end up playing it too late or too early. When I face express bowlers, I feel like everything is flowing through smoothly but when I play trundlers, I feel like I'm trying hard and nothing seems to come off smooth.

 

[Canistani Hero]

If you can read the length early, come down the track..bat a few inches outside the crease

 

[Anchorman]

I stand about two steps off the crease if the bowler is a trundler.

 

[Suleiman]

The leg stump problem you're having used to happen to me too, but this was against express pace bowlers. I would either get bowled around my legs or the ball would thud into the thigh pad, and this was because I was going across to flick the ball down leg side. What I did was, to pretty much limit my scoring shots to straight bat shots in the V for the first 10 overs or so. So for instance if the ball did come at my legs, I would play it into the on side with a straight bat. Trundlers however are a different story, I bat outside the crease and treat them like spinners #NoRemorse

But, I am getting the feeling that you are trying to go too hard against the trundlers seeing them as freebies. This overeagerness to put their harmless deliveries out of the park may be causing you to play too early.