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This you will need to do time and again, not in one-day cricket but certainly in the longer variety of the game as well. How you handle quick and short balls tells a lot about a batsman and is watched with a keen interest by fellow cricketers. It’s a good idea sometimes to decide in your mind, what you are will do when a short, quick ball is bowled at you. Are you going to take the bowler on by playing the hook or pull or just leave it? If you decide to leave it its a good idea to duck, go underneath a bouncer that is pitched in line off the stump. Anything around the off stump swaying away is a better idea. Remember one thing to do all this you have to watch the ball at all time even when ducking. Batsmen, who have had a nasty injury of a short ball, later tend to freeze when a bouncer is bowled at them. Their confidence runs low. Only way one can overcome that is to go out there in the middle and keep facing those quick short balls to get over your fear. Correcting your technique of handling the bouncers is only half the battle won.
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