Former Australia cricketer Ian Chappell wants a ban on the switch hit and called it unfair. He praised Glenn Maxwell for playing it flawlessly but feels that the shot is not fair to the bowler.

Maxwell has been exceptionally well for Australia in the first two ODIs. With a score of 19-ball 45 and 29-ball 63*, he helped his side to reach a target beyond India's reach with late flourishes. He has mastered the reverse sweeps and switch-hit which was also seen during the first two matches.

In a conversation with Wide World of Sports, Chappell said the shot should be banned for good. “

The Australian batting has been exceptional. They’ve made it look pretty easy ... particularly Smith and Maxwell, some of the shots he plays are hard to believe. [Switch-hitting] is very skillful, some of its amazingly skillful - but it’s not fair,” he said.

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“How can one side of the game, i.e. the bowlers, have to tell the umpire how they’re going to bowl. And yet the batsman, he lines up as a right-hander - I’m the fielding captain, I place the field for the right-hander - and before the ball’s been delivered, the batsman becomes a left-hander.

“If he’s good enough to do it by excellent footwork or whatever other means he can devise, I don’t have a problem with it. But when it’s blatantly unfair, it annoys the hell out of me,” he added.

Chappell dislikes the shot so much that he wants a complete ban on it.

“It’s very simple. Maxwell hit a couple of [switch-hit] shots and Warner did [Sunday] night. All you’ve got to say is that if the batsman changes the order of his hands or his feet [as the bowler runs in], then it’s an illegal shot,” he said.