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Can we consider Ishant Sharma is out of picture now?


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Ishant Sharma is a great bowler. One of the best India has. Tonking him for six is not easy. His hair gets in the way of the batsmen's eyes as it stands out like a lion. He can make any batsmen shake with his thunderbolts. Defintly deserves to be in the team of India. You guys need a bowler as pacy as him.

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Ishant Sharma like Irfan Pathan is another case who did no understand his limitations. After a great Australian tour, he was expected to blow away batting line ups like Andy Roberts instead of allowing him to gradually evolve at his own pace, as a result he ended up complicating his bowling.

 

This is a classic case of how social pressure can mess things, after 2009 T20 World Cup when Ishant lost his pace, media went full throttle on his decline in pace, this brought anxiety in him and you could see it in his bowling action he did not look relaxed at all, his head position was not still at the time of releasing the ball unlike it was perfect in Australia 2008 tour. He has gained back good pace now but has lost the ability to get the ball to cut back into right handers.

 

I can say the same for Irfan Pathan, he was bowling in 115-120 kph range in 2006, but he could bowl huge inswingers to right hand batsmen even in Asian conditions. He made changes in his natural action for adding an outswinger to right hand batsman in his artillery and trying to bowl quick, as a result he did gain pace (135+ kph) but totally lost the ability to swing the ball.

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4 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

His height and the bounce that he generates means that we can't really completely write him off even now. When other bowlers get carted, he can be somewhat more successful on flatter decks .

Forgetting Faulkner ? He basically destroyed his bowling which is good for us because he is never a good Loi bowler anyway. Ishant only makes sense on a green pitch which is way too one dimensional. We should discard this guy even there were no takers for him at IPL.

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3 hours ago, Shaz1 said:

Ishant Sharma is a great bowler. One of the best India has. Tonking him for six is not easy. His hair gets in the way of the batsmen's eyes as it stands out like a lion. He can make any batsmen shake with his thunderbolts. Defintly deserves to be in the team of India. You guys need a bowler as pacy as him.

He bowls 145 in tests Aamir trundles at 125. #juststatingfacts

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Ishant is more suited to test matches especially outside subcontinent. Let's not write him off, before making any judgement let's see how he performs in the upcoming tours. To be fair all our seamers need to prove themselves outside subcontinent. India hasn't won a series in SA,AUS,ENG or NZ for a long time

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