Speeds and Performances of Pacers and Spinners

[express bowling]

144 k sharply rising and well directed bouncer from Shami had the batsman jump up and the ball almost lobbed up to gully.

[tweaker]

Umesh 140 k

[tweaker]

Catch fall short of Rahul in the slips.He should be careful with his fingers,he may miss rest of the series 

[Mosher]

147k from Umesh. 

[express bowling]

Why are there so few fielders in catching positions when the quicks are bowling ?     We have 622 runs on board and the opposition is 84 for 4  !!

 

Umesh was bowling to Dickwella... there was only one slip standing at 2nd slip and there was no gully.... a slash went for a 4 through gully at a catchable height.

[Mosher]

Good spell from Umesh on a pitch which has nothing for the fast bowlers. 

[express bowling]

40 minutes ago, Mosher said:

Good spell from Umesh on a pitch which has nothing for the fast bowlers. 

Indeed, an excellent spell by Umesh !   

 

He pitched most deliveries around the off-stump good length area and made the batters play.  He got small seam movements both ways and some outswing on occasions.

Edited August 5, 2017 by express bowling

[express bowling]

Shami picks Dickwella with his first ball of the day.... bowled.

[Mosher]

2nd wicket for Shami. Full and straight.

[express bowling]

Shami bowls Herath with an attempted yorker which dips in a bit.  

 

Beaten for pace.

 

2nd wicket of the over.

Edited August 5, 2017 by express bowling

[express bowling]

Shami hits the batsman on the chest with a 144 k bouncer.

 

Follows it with a 143 k straight ball directed at the off-stump.

 

Good bowling.

Edited August 5, 2017 by express bowling

[express bowling]

The biggest difference between Shami and Umesh is that....

 

Shami mixes up lengths, slips in the bouncers and rising balls, keeps the batsmen guessing  and tries to set up batsmen.  Looks dangerous most of the times he bowls.

 

Umesh is a bit reluctant to mix up lengths.  When he bowls fuller, he just does so and when he bowls short, he just goes on doing that.  ( When he mixes up lengths, like the Dharamsala test against Australia, he becomes unplayable )

Edited August 5, 2017 by express bowling

[Mosher]

Umesh gets Tharanga with a beauty. Pitched up delivery swinging in late into the left hander.

[express bowling]

1 hour ago, MultiB48 said:

thats because of his lack of accuracy and ppl chastising him ,but it was mainly due to his poor control of line ,his length has now become a bit too predictable ,he need to surprise  the batsman a bit more without overdoing it.he needs to read the batsman and bowl it when the batsman is not expecting it.

The over in which which Umesh got Tharanga.... the 4th ball was a shortish rising ball, the 5th ball moved away from length and the 6th ball moved in from length.

 

This is the perfect set-up.... keeping the batsman guessing regarding both length as well as the direction of movement..... results in a wicket.

 

Umesh needs to do this more often to get his wicket-count up.

Edited August 5, 2017 by express bowling

[RAZPOR]

Pandya down on pace today.

[RAZPOR]

Pandya 136 135 126 140 138 this over,he looks a bit stiff i think though.

[express bowling]

Pandya has bowled a lot of slower balls today ( perhaps because the pitch has become really slow )  and got a wicket from one.

[vishalvirsingh]

pandya bowled a seriously good cutter offspin Slow ball after bowling 136K ..

Kohli should trust hardik more..he seems a good intelligent wicket taking bowler who knows how to bowl bouncers.

 

 

[express bowling]

This pitch has no help for the seamers  ( and has become slower and slower with time )  but both our quicks have bowled well in this test.  They have mostly bowled in the right areas and tried to target the off-stump, hit the deck hard and  got some seam movement and bounce on occasions.  

 

We have seen some jaffas from them and Shami has used the bouncer intelligently.

 

This is good to see, especially because bowling on unhelpful pitches was an issue for our pacers even 14 months back.

Edited August 6, 2017 by express bowling

[kubrickian]

Hardik was not bowled enough. He seems to have a plan when he is bowling and thinking of setting up the batsman up and has taken a wicket whenever he is brought on to bowl. Good signs of him as a test bowler but needs to be backed more by Kohli.