pes for Miss Southern Miss, the winner of the Surfer Girl Stakes at Santa Anita last Monday. She will run in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.As for Unusual Heat, Ba

Sky Sports IPL Zone is full of experts, giving advice on power hitting, bowling yorkers, and how to face left-arm swing.Former England coach Andy Flower looked at why Englands Sam Billings - who scored a neat 54 from 34 balls on his debut for Delhi Daredevils - looks to play a top-spin cover drive.New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor, meanwhile, gave us a masterclass on how to accelerate towards the back-end of a limited-overs innings, plus he also had a go at power hitting following advice from coach Julian Wood.Mahela Jayawardene, Chris Jordan, Ravi Bopara and Ryan ten Doeschate are among other cricketers to have supplied tricks of the trade, so make sure you stick with Sky Sports throughout the IPL for even more...Billings top-spin cover driveAfter England one-day star Billings impressed on his IPL bow, Flower took to the Zone to examine the batsmans innovative cover drive. Flower suggested reasons for why the Kent man plays the shot in such a way, explaining how its low trajectory minimises his chance of getting out, and how his racquetball experience might help him at the crease. Click here to watch the video.Power hittingPower-hitting coach Wood joined Taylor and Mark Ramprakash to explain the best way to go about smashing the ball out of the park. Wood spoke about leading with your hip rather than your head to gain more power and analysed both the classical and modern ways of launching the ball over the boundary rope. Wood also measured Taylors hand-speed and the speed of the ball off the bat - a baseball bat! Click here to watch the video. Mark Ramprakash and Power Hitting coach Julian Wood analyse Power Hitting in the IPL. Taylors batting tipsTaylor is now armed with a few more hitting tips but is a pretty decent striker anyway - his 15 ODI centuries shows you that! How, though, does he look to speed up his scoring rate towards the end of an innings? Taylor explained why opening up both sides of the wicket is key and why he looks to collapse his back leg to give himself more freedom to swing the bat. The New Zealander also discussed his pre-game routines and why facing loads of balls in the nets is not for him. Click here to watch the video.McCullums methodTaylor was also in the studio to talk up the big-hitting ability of his former New Zealand skipper, Brendon McCullum, who has formed a successful opening partnership with Gujarat Lions team-mate Dwayne Smith. Taylor spoke of the keys to his IPL success, including taking guard outside of leg stump, giving himself room to access the boundaries square of the wicket, on either the off-side or swinging to leg. He also mentions McCullums training methods, which sees him often tee off from ball one, backing himself not to be bowled despite showing his stumps. Click here to watch the video. Mark Ramprakash discusses the partnership of Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum in the Zone. Death-bowling demoThe batsmen are set and swinging, the game is in the balance and youre coming on to bowl as the game reaches its climax. How do you make sure youre ready to get your yorker right in the blockhole? Jordan - fresh from doing just that in the World T20 and before he was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore - demonstrated some of the practice routines he uses to perfect his yorker. The England seamer discussed the need to be able to adjust at the last second and still hit your mark while Owais Shah provides the batsmans perspective. Click here to watch the video.Batting the Buttler wayJos Buttler is enjoying his first IPL campaign and Jayawardene, a man who knows a thing or two when it comes to batting and has worked with the keeper-batsman with England, explains how the Mumbai Indians star goes about his business. The Sri Lankan explains how Buttler uses his wide range of innovative ramp and lap shots to manoeuvre the field before launching into the bigger shots. Click here to watch the video.How does Dhoni do it?MS Dhoni has long been considered one of the very best when it comes to clearing the ropes but just how does he do it? Ten Doeschate looked at how the India captain gives himself a solid base and clears his front leg, allowing him to generate the power he does as he swings through the line of the ball - almost like a golf swing. The Essex captain also discussed the aura of Dhoni and how that can affect bowlers when they see him at the other end of the wicket. Click here to watch the video. Ryan ten Doeschate analyses MS Dhonis batting and likens his swing to a golf swing. Playing spin under pressureBopara and Ten Doeschate give their advice on how to play spin in T20 cricket when the ball is turning square. Bopara warned against planting your front foot and instead going back and trying to drag the bowlers length that bit fuller as well as discussing the importance of rotating the strike. Meanwhile, Ten Doeschate explained the advantages of using your feet and putting the pressure back on the bowler. Click here to watch the video.Facing left-arm swingTen Doeschate and Bopara were back in The Zone to advise on how to deal with left-arm swing bowling. Ten Doeschate talked about opening up your stance and keeping your front foot out of the way. Bopara, on the other hand, argued the case for moving inside the ball and hitting over the legside and using the pace of the ball. Click here to watch the video. Ravi Bopara and Ryan ten Doeschate are in the Zone to discuss left-arm swing. Slower ballsWith the likes of Mustafizur Rahman (Sunrisers Hyderabad) and Dwayne Bravo (Gujarat Lions) bamboozling batsmen with their pace-off deliveries, ex-England seamer Dominic Cork assessed how the pair bowl such dangerous slower balls and the tactics and variations they adopt. Ten Doeschate, meanwhile, revealed how he looks to score from such deliveries by generating pace off the bat with a healthy backswing and setting himself without premeditating a shot. Click here to watch the video.Also See:IPL videosIPL tableHow to watch the IPL@SkyCricket on TwitterCheap Glenn Hubbard Jersey . He says so-called TRT is only one problem and he wants to go even further than the ban. "Its about time," St-Pierre told reporters at a promotional event in Montreal on Friday. "I think its a good thing. Cheap Dennis Eckersley Jersey . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. http://www.cheapathleticsjerseys.com/?tag=cheap-walt-weiss-jersey . 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We witnessed that when Zack Kassian hit Edmontons Sam Gagner in the face after a missed check.This is the story of two retirements, one coming at the end of a rich, deeply satisfying career, the other not so much.Unusual Heat, 26, has been pensioned, ending a 19-year stallion career that never ceased to amaze. Year after year, the Unusual Heats would come rolling down the line, winning races large and small in such numbers as to impress even the most casual students of the game.Do not look for the name of Unusual Heat to be whispered in the mists of Kentuckys breeding lore, however. Although he was bred in the bluegrass, Unusual Heat did his stallion deeds in California, and Californias bloodstock history is viewed more with curious condescension than respect, despite the accomplishments of Hall of Famers and champions like Swaps, Tiznow, Native Diver, Tiznow, Ancient Title, Best Pal, and Bertrando.Scores of Unusual Heats have run riot through the regional stakes races offered by a generous California program. But more than that, his best horses were very good wherever they ran. Acclamation was the Eclipse Award champion older male of 2011. The Usual Q. T. was a Grade 1 winner who almost took a Breeders Cup Mile. Tucked Away, Lethal Heat, Unusual Suspect, Burns, Gervinho, Bettys Bambino, Golden Doc A, Pretty Unusual, Lennyfromalibu -- none of them needed the shelter of a California-bred stakes race to bring home a major prize.Unusual Heat is a son of Nureyev who was first trained in Ireland by Dermot Weld and then migrated to California, where he joined the Richard Mandella stable. Barry Abrams claimed him as a 6-year-old for $80,000 for a partnership that included the trainer, his brother David Abrams, and breeder Madeline Auerbach. Not long after that, Unusual Heat was retired with a bowed tendon.I claimed him hoping to get a few races out of him and then to be a stallion, Barry Abrams said. I didnt know much about it then, but I did know that Nureyev was a great stallion.Unusual Heats first foals hit the ground in 1999.The biggest thing he gave them was longevity, Abrams said. Theyd win first time out as 2-year-olds and still be around four, five, six years later. And the more they ran, the better they got. They may have been running as a $20,000 maiden as a 3-year-old, then as a 4-year-old, theyd be an allowance or a stakes horse.Abrams was right. A scan of Unusual Heats progeny reveals hard knockers like Tropical Heat (86 starts), Steamy Story (78 starts), Raise the Heat (74 starts), and at least 30 others with 40 or more starts.Exaggerator, a 3-year-old son of Curlin, made 15 starts. He also earned $3.5 million, which makes him a very efficientt moneymaking machine, and by some measures, that is the point of the exercise.ddddddddddddNow he has been retired, happy and healthy, to WinStar Farm in Kentucky to begin a stallion career next year before hes even a fully matured Thoroughbred.Racing fans are rightfully miffed at yet another example of the breeding tail wagging the racing dog. Exaggerators quality as a Thoroughbred athlete was borne out by victories in the 2016 Santa Anita Derby, Preakness, and Haskell Invitational and a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby. His record was an odd mix of rousing scores on rainy afternoons combined with somnolent wanderings through important engagements in the Belmont, Travers, and, finally, the Pennsylvania Derby.The horse owed us nothing, said trainer Keith Desormeaux, who also owned a minority interest in Exaggerator. But for him to get beat in his last two races was disappointing. I wanted him to go out on a higher note.WinStar bought into Exaggerator before the Kentucky Derby and was along for the Preakness and Haskell rides, but the farms real payoff always figured to be after retirement.My judgment in this matter is secondary to the business of promoting and putting a stallion out there, Desormeaux said. It was a marketing thing, jumping on the Curlin bandwagon. Hes as hot as they come, and theres not many sons of Curlin out there yet.No one should begrudge an ownership group for taking money out of the business after putting money in. Still, the retirement of a reportedly sound classic winner before his fourth birthday goes contrary to racings uphill battle to nurture its stars. Exaggerators fans spent most of their time praying for rain and yet longing for the day when he would unleash a grand moment on a dry track.A horse like that doesnt leave the barn without some degree of sadness, Desormeaux said. The good ones are hard to come by.So, the pages are turned, again. There will be no Exaggerator in the Breeders Cup Classic for the Desormeaux stable, but it has high hopes for Miss Southern Miss, the winner of the Surfer Girl Stakes at Santa Anita last Monday. She will run in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.As for Unusual Heat, Barry Abrams predicts the old boy will be one of the best broodmare sires around, and he might be onto something. On the same afternoon as the Surfer Girl, Big Score, out of the Unusual Heat mare Not Unusual, won the Zuma Beach Stakes to set himself up for the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf. ' ' '