Moeen Ali showed that even the oldest dog can learn new tricks as he tried to introduce a new ‘Forehand Switch’ into the cricket vocabulary.
Midway through his thrilling cameo of 41 from just 23 balls in Kimberley the 35-year-old, and oldest member of the England team, tried a one handed shot that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the Rod Laver Arena.
With the left arm wrist spin of Tabraiz Shamsi turning the ball into his pads, the reverse sweep or switch hit was a good option to hit with the spin. But Moeen went one further and simply tried to hit the ball as if he had a racquet and it was a right handed topspin forehand.
