Batting (cricket) square cut. The difference between the cut and the square drive is the height of the ball at contact: the cut is played to a ball bouncing waist high or above with the batsman standing tall, whereas the square drive is played to a wide ball of shin height with the batsman bending his knees and crouching low to make contact. A pull is a cross-batted shot played to a ball bouncing around waist height by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc in front of the body, "pulling" it around to the leg side towards mid-wicket or square leg.
Soviets Square (Rostov-on-Don) Soviets Square (Rostov-on-Don) Soviets Square or Sovetov Square () is a city square of Rostov-on-Don, situated in Kirovskiy District at the intersection of Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, Voroshilovsky Avenue, Sokolova Avenue and Sotsialisticheskaya Street. The area which afterwards was called the "New Bazaar", was first designated by a city plan of 1845; at that time there were ""cold buildings"" situated. After the end of the Crimean War, in Rostov-on-Don the construction of the square began. By 1860, its square was built with a perimeter of one-story houses. Along the Great and Middle Avenues there were trading rows. In 1891-1908, in the