There has been a bit of a funky change which came about over a number of years,” Bailey told Channel Nine on Sunday.
“It started off with me just wanting to get into a really strong position where I could hit as many sixes as I could. It snuck into my one-day cricket and it got to the point where I trusted it so much, I thought I’d have a crack at it in red ball cricket where the ball swings and seams a bit more.”
It just works,” he said.I just seem to hit the ball much cleaner. I still nick the ball and kick the ball every now and then, but at the moment I’m scoring more runs before I make that mistake.”I don’t like looking at it if I’m being honest,” he said.I know it’s not pretty. I much prefer to stand there like David Warner and look so composed.
It stops my front foot from locking off and pushing too far across my body, which sounds a bit counter intuitive.
But it looks really bad when the bowler is at the top of his mark, but I think once the bowler is about to release the ball, I think it must be in a bit of a better position“I don’t think you could find a coach in the world who could come up with that,” he said.
The onus is on me. It was borne out of frustration getting out the same way in four-day cricket repeatedly.
It’s the form of cricket I love most and it’s the most challenging. It’s my career and I’ll live and die by the sword. I want to bat the way I want to bat. I didn’t get much support from any coaches when I first started doing it.”
