Cricket 22: The Best Batting Style

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Cricket 22is new and more elaborate than ever before. The game from Red Ant studios in Australia took the game's development too seriously. It was probably the first time a cricket game hired a professional cricket to mimic batting and bowling styles to be used in a game. Australian cricketing superstar Glenn Maxwell was roped to motion capture batting and bowling styles for the game.

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Players can choose from a range of 6 batting styles in Cricket 22, and since cricket is a number game, they are all named… well, by numbers. The batting styles 1 to 4 have been brought over from the previous games and aren't quite different from each other in ways, maybe barring a few animation updates in the current version.

The Style 1 has a very compact and old-school technique to the drives and cuts, more like a homage to the great Don Bradman himself. It's not to be forgotten that the franchise initially started with his name. The batsman bends down to the pitch of the ball, playing close to the body with minimal gap between bat and pads.

Style 2 gets into modern-day cricketing leagues with a bit of a flair. The old school cover drive is now more of a front foot swat with a large gap between the bat and leg. It is more of the times when opening batters took aggressive routes relying on their bottom hand strength more than their feet movement.

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Style 3 goes back to the gentleness of a proper middle-order batsman. The drives are well-timed pushes and nudges. The arm doesn't extend out fully, but the timing relies entirely on transferring body weight from leg to hand. One can compare the stance to the great Sachin Tendulkar, who used a heavy bat and