Why India would have lost!
It is about Ashes 2005 - Australia versus England. A test match lost by just 2 runs! Haven't seen such a test match in a long long time where there has been so many ups and downs. Perhaps, the Kolkotta 2001 was the last one to fit the bill.
Had this been India in place of England, it would have lost it on the third day itself. Australia is like a ten headed Ravan. You kill one, another one raise it's head. So what if they had lost their eight wickets, with more than 100 runs to go. Their tailenders play better than our frontliners. Hat's off to Lee, Warney and Kasprowich.
But credit completely goes to English fast bowlers. Australia is finding it tough because they have never faced such lethal a bowling attack in their lifetime. The reason India wouldn't have won in such a situation, while England did, is the difference in fast bowling. India wouldn't have gone beyond Gillespie, while the same batsman was dismissed twice in no time by England!
Why ?
Yorkers and Bouncers.
Indian bowlers do not have the ability to bowl yorkers. Pathan never bowled one; Zaheer at the beginning of his career, which was his peak too, used to bowl some peach of the yorkers(still vividly remember those Steve Waugh, and Andrew Nell dismissals at Nairobi), but now he bowls only low fulltosses. Nehra usually bowls one yorker per match!
Unfortunately, Indians never bowl genuine bouncers either. They do bowl some balls which bounce comfortably above the batsman's head, but that is, perhaps, to bowl a dot ball. Or so it appears.
This is not the bouncing all about. A bouncer, as a delivery must be used to intimidate a batsman, especially tailenders. This can be done only when the bowler targets the head of the batsman. Indians haven't learned to do this, and that's the reason why, historically, India always found it hard to get rid of tailenders. Tailenders dread bouncers, and can't play yorkers.
Gillespie was out to two such toe crushing yorkers in both the innings, Kasprowich was out to a bouncer which sealed the match, while Shane Warne was hit wicket due to the mortal fear of bouncers. That is what the fast bowling is all about.
India couldn't mop up the tail against Srilanka even after reducing them to 95 for 6. Even West Indies managed to reach within eight runs of the victory. That's precisely because of the incompetent Indian fast bowling. Add this to our dismal batting for past one year, it's high chance that we might lose the finals tomorrow.
Had this been India in place of England, it would have lost it on the third day itself. Australia is like a ten headed Ravan. You kill one, another one raise it's head. So what if they had lost their eight wickets, with more than 100 runs to go. Their tailenders play better than our frontliners. Hat's off to Lee, Warney and Kasprowich.
But credit completely goes to English fast bowlers. Australia is finding it tough because they have never faced such lethal a bowling attack in their lifetime. The reason India wouldn't have won in such a situation, while England did, is the difference in fast bowling. India wouldn't have gone beyond Gillespie, while the same batsman was dismissed twice in no time by England!
Why ?
Yorkers and Bouncers.
Indian bowlers do not have the ability to bowl yorkers. Pathan never bowled one; Zaheer at the beginning of his career, which was his peak too, used to bowl some peach of the yorkers(still vividly remember those Steve Waugh, and Andrew Nell dismissals at Nairobi), but now he bowls only low fulltosses. Nehra usually bowls one yorker per match!
Unfortunately, Indians never bowl genuine bouncers either. They do bowl some balls which bounce comfortably above the batsman's head, but that is, perhaps, to bowl a dot ball. Or so it appears.
This is not the bouncing all about. A bouncer, as a delivery must be used to intimidate a batsman, especially tailenders. This can be done only when the bowler targets the head of the batsman. Indians haven't learned to do this, and that's the reason why, historically, India always found it hard to get rid of tailenders. Tailenders dread bouncers, and can't play yorkers.
Gillespie was out to two such toe crushing yorkers in both the innings, Kasprowich was out to a bouncer which sealed the match, while Shane Warne was hit wicket due to the mortal fear of bouncers. That is what the fast bowling is all about.
India couldn't mop up the tail against Srilanka even after reducing them to 95 for 6. Even West Indies managed to reach within eight runs of the victory. That's precisely because of the incompetent Indian fast bowling. Add this to our dismal batting for past one year, it's high chance that we might lose the finals tomorrow.
posted by Unknown at 1:22 PM
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