Ind vs Eng: ‘England’s own Virender Sehwag’ – Former coach makes bold statement. Cricket news
Former England cricketer and coach David Lloyd compared Ben Docket to former Indian attacker opener Virender Sehwag.Lloyd wrote in his column for the Daily Mail: “Ben Docket has come a long way as he has put a drink on Jimmy Anderson on the Ashes Tour.”“He is now England’s answer for Virendra Sehwag and is opening batting in your world.“It is not surprising to know that he was a good hockey player in school because it is like a hockey shot.”
James Not, a batting coach of Docket from his school days at Stove School, has revealed why South Pahi is so good with reverse sweep.Not told the Times, “I saw better technical abilities at that age, but he hit the ball very hard and had already started reverse-sweeping, which he had taken from hockey.”“We worked on conservative sweeping and laps, and through their time in the stove, the school acquired a merlin spin-balling machine. In a match, against Briton College from Australia, Ben 100 to 150 went through reverse-soles completely.
“Certainly, I did not want to snatch his attacker nature. And although he was a great hunger for the run, he was not selfish.“He wanted to open the batting because school cricket was not going to a challenge if he was coming to number 4. It was the best thing to happen to him.“I felt that he would be a long career in short forms of the game and was not sure that he would succeed at the test level, but Ben Stokes and ‘Awak’ arrived at the right time for him.”Docket knocked out 149 to help the hosts chase the hosts on the last day of the Leeds Test.
