The Art of Batting
4. Square Cut
'A shot I really like.   As long as you have enough width outside off-stump, you can hit the square cut quite hard, sometimes in the air as well as on the ground.'

'It is an important shot in Test cricket because pace bowlders usually bowl short of a length and you need the cut to score runs.  Against spinners I sometimes play it off the stumps on a slow pitch.'

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