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Switch hit

Kevin Pietersen holds the pose after playing a superb switch hit

While the reverse sweep was a terrific shot and helped to negate the threat of spinners while scoring a number of runs, it was incredibly hard to get any elevation on the shot and thus evolved in the modern game.

A switch hit involves changing the grip on the bat from a right hander’s grip to a left hander’s grip or vice versa, and thus, changing the stance as well.

England’s Kevin Pietersen pioneered the shot, and it has been used to deadly effect by David Warner in the recent past.

When the shot started getting popular, there was plenty of clamour about it giving an unfair advantage to the batsman, but the ICC ruled it as a legitimate shot in 2012.