10 Best players of late-cut in world cricket right now

Late cut is one of the toughest shots to master.

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While the shots like the straight drive, the cover drive and the on-drive are often compared to the works of art when played perfectly, the late cut shot, in particular, exhibits the pristine shrewdness of a batter when played correctly.

Normally, it is a cricket shot that is often played to fetch gaps for rotating strike or to yield a boundary especially when fielders are inside the ring. While the shot can be mainly mastered and used regularly in the white-ball format, but to execute it perfectly, a batter must possess a strong supple wrist.

Players like Mahela Jayawardene and Gautam Gambhir were the immaculate masters of this touch play stroke and over the years, most batters have now developed the skill. All in all, the shot is a dear requirement in today’s white ball game and to cherish it, here’s our list of 10 best batters who are the current sublime players of the late-cut shot.

10. Shikhar Dhawan

Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan. (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)

For Shikhar Dhawan, the entire area from covers till the third man region is all a vital locus whether against seam or spin. Because of facing a wide range of right-arm quicks, both the late cut and the normal cut towards the point region are both on the merit shots for Shikhar Dhawan which he immaculately nails with ease. Regardless of facing a heavy cladding of fielders, Dhawan still looks to obtain gaps and keeps his run tally ticking.

Again while facing any kind of spin, the late cut precisely becomes his boundary fetching shot, whereby using his meaty bat face, he knocks them with simplicity. To further play with and disrupt any bowler’s length, the southpaw also has a handsome uppercut shot to additionally capitalize on any patchy bowling.

All in all, just like all the prolific top-order batters, even Dhawan broadly upholds a cluster of late cut options to keep his batting moving in right motion.

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