Charlottle Edwards playing one of her famous flicks through the mid-wicket area. If you have heard of Charlotte Edwards’ prowess with the bat but haven’t actually seen her in action, you’ll probably think of a woman who can play a perfectly elegant cover drive, back-foot punch, pull shot, and on drive. With more than five and a half thousand runs (5597 runs in 180 matches, to be precise) under her belt in One Day International cricket, I wouldn’t blame you. For don’t we all think that for someone to be consistently successful, they must have a ‘close to perfect’ technique; one that can be easily imitated by stars of the future?! Charlotte Edwards, though, is no Rahul Dravid. She does not get a giant stride in to smother the swing or spin; neither does she allow her top hand to ‘lead’ when she bats. She is an extremely bottom handed batter. The little I have seen of her, she quite obviously loves scoring through mid-wicket and behind square on the off side (strokes where the