[MENTION=138980]TalentSpotterPk[/MENTION] Carefully compared his current technique to his previous one. He's opened his stance and doesn't plant the front foot anymore making him less of an LBW candidate but consequently it's resulted in a number of problems.
Firstly, the feet aren't equally aligned anymore meaning the stance isn't a balanced one, though they're pointing in the same direction, the front foot is behind the other which then steps forward slightly to align somewhat equally to the backfoot but there's no consistency, sometimes he oversteps, sometimes he under-steps, other times it moves while the ball is being delivered and in some cases it doesn't move at all which leaves him crease bound. There is no transfer of weight forward into the front leg thus no power in his shots because he has no base to launch from. The front leg is static and all the power is being generated from the bat swing.
This was implemented as an alternative to his previous frontfoot trigger movement and it is quite obvious he does not feel comfortable with it. Artificial triggers can ruin a player's batsmanship completely if they're not thought out carefully and it is imperative the batsman feels comfortable with it.
The opened, crease-bound stance makes it difficult to play front foot drives with a straight bat which is why we've seen him swiping at every ball. There is simply no alignment. His body is pointing somewhere else and the bat elsewhere. With the weight not being transferred forward, he has to wait for the ball to arrive(whereas previously he could meet the ball on the bounce). This makes him a prime candidate for being yorked.
He still takes middle guard which means the head is still outside off and he feels comfortable judging the off-stump from there. But he now has difficulty judging where his legs are because of the inconsistent trigger movement which results in the head falling forward so he's reaching for balls which his body isn't fully aligned to play thus completely relying on hand-eye.
His previous trigger movement was simple and a natural one, with his frontfoot pre-planted and weight transferred forward, anything pitched up he was already in place to drive forward and if pitched short he'd push off the front leg to move backwards into the crease and pull.
He took middle guard and his frontfoot trigger movement aligned the front leg with the offstump. It didn't make him as much of an LBW candidate as the coaches might have thought. He was extremely comfortable against over the wicket right handed bowlers off his legs and felt at ease(perfectly aligned) driving any ball outside off down the ground or in the covers. The only possibility of him becoming a LBW candidate was to lefties bowling over the wicket bringing the ball back in.
To counter that, simply take leg guard so the frontfoot trigger would align his frontfoot with middle stump therefore leaving one and a half stump to protect.
If the bowler is swinging it miles, open the stance slightly(while keeping the feet aligned and trigger movement the same), off drive becomes your on-drive and cover-drive your off-drive and the on-drive becomes a drive towards cow corner. This is an in-game adjustment and not necessary if the batsman feels comfortable playing off his legs.
Another technical adjustment he might've had to make over time was to get a more upright stance but that's another discussion and it would depend on whether he felt comfortable.