Switch hit is well within the rules, says Hussey

Australian middle-order batsman David Hussey said on Thursday that his team would target a clean sweep of the T20 series against India with a win in the second match at the MCG on Friday.

Australia had won the first T20 by 30 runs at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney on Wednesday.

“It's pretty important to make it 2-0. We have played good cricket and got a few cobwebs out of the way. We want to keep the momentum going and play a perfect game in front of 90,000 fans at the MCG. There's no better feeling than to do it at the MCG, the home of Australian cricket. There's no better atmosphere throughout the world,” said Hussey, who made a vital 42 and took two wickets with his off-spin on Wednesday.

Though a big score eluded him, David Warner provided wholesome entertainment during his knock in the first T20, and also produced one astonishing switch hit off offie R Ashwin. Hussey said Warner has been practicing that shot in the nets.

"It was phenomenal. He's been practicing it in the nets. David is a fantastic talent, imagine, to hit it 100M batting right-handed!

“In the nets he does it all the time. Once he frustrated me and I bowled a beamer at him. I tried to hit him on the head and it didn't go down well. There was a bit of a falling between us for a few moments after that," he said.

Hussey said the shot was well within the boundaries of cricketing laws. “You can play that shot. In baseball, people hit both sides of the plates. There's no reason you can't do it in cricket. Dave is a pioneer and a few other younger kids coming through can follow such skills.

"I think it's innovative. Dave is a very classy player and can hit right or left hand. It's an invention of Twenty20 cricket and there's no reason why it can't be played in Test arena. The run-rate is increasing to 4-5 in an over now and with switch-hit being employed, you could see bigger scores in a day in Tests,” he added.