Ishant to lead Delhi in upcoming Ranji season

[sarcastic]

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/97268/ishant-sharma-to-lead-delhi-in-upcoming-ranji-season

Ishant Sharma receives a lot of flak here on ICF despite being most experience workhorse for team India for nearly a decade. Granted he regressed as a bowler in India off late, but he has improved a lot in overseas conditions. Let us hope that Ishant gets his due and makes a comeback to team India after an inspired performance in this Ranji season. 

[Laaloo]

Please Mahi say the words!!!!  

[Rasgulla]

If sachin can be a captain why not ishant sharma lol? I ll say he will end up with better captaincy record than sachin. 

[Forever Indian]

Who will jump from 24th floor for him then?

[maniac]

The guy has pretty good acumen...yeah he may fail to execute  his plans always but good news is he has "plans" and hope he has wonderful

team mates to execute the plans for him.

 

Capt.Ishu

 

[SK_IH]

good grief 

[sandeep]

The guy hasn't really demonstrated Cricket "intellect" in his long career.  Will give him credit for being a workhorse though.   Who knows, maybe its not the worst thing for Delhi.

 

But I think they have too much politics and chaos in the Delhi backroom.  That's why Gambhir blew up recently.  And everybody's accused the DDCA of all kinds of corruption on and off the field for years.   So he may just be the puppet captain for the haraamis behind the scenes.  

[OpeningBatsman]

[The Realist]

Is this an early April fool's joke?

He can't bowl two balls in the same spot yet will somehow impart technical & tactical knowledge to his teammates 

[Texan]

5 hours ago, sandeep said:

The guy hasn't really demonstrated Cricket "intellect" in his long career.  Will give him credit for being a workhorse though.   Who knows, maybe its not the worst thing for Delhi.

 

But I think they have too much politics and chaos in the Delhi backroom.  That's why Gambhir blew up recently.  And everybody's accused the DDCA of all kinds of corruption on and off the field for years.   So he may just be the puppet captain for the haraamis behind the scenes.  

This workhorse thing is overrated. He became a "workhorse" by bowling conservatively in matches, defensive outside off stump lines, not looking to attack batsmen, not looking to give short pitched treatment to batsmen, etc. His strategy is to stay fit, play more matches and more IPLs. 

 

The one time he did push himself was in the Lords Test, when he gave England batsmen the short pitched treatment. He promptly got injured because putting maximum effort took a toll on his body and sat out few matches after that. When he came back, he no longer tried the same strategy. 

 

Contrast that with a bowler like Shami, who always gives 110% every time he comes in to bowl. Despite getting injured frequently, missing IPLs, etc. Shami never shows any signs of giving anything less when called in to bowl. You need bowlers like that. When they are playing, they are giving you their best effort and not just putting in half-hearted effort in a bid to play more matches. If you expand the horizon a bit to look at international bowlers, Australians tend to have many such Shami like bowlers. Harris, Cummins, Pattinson - they all gave their best and more every time they played international cricket. 

[Texan]

3 hours ago, The Realist said:

Is this an early April fool's joke?

He can't bowl two balls in the same spot yet will somehow impart technical & tactical knowledge to his teammates 

At one time, he considered himself as the bowling spearhead for India. 

[Texan]

6 hours ago, sarcastic said:

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/97268/ishant-sharma-to-lead-delhi-in-upcoming-ranji-season

Ishant Sharma receives a lot of flak here on ICF despite being most experience workhorse for team India for nearly a decade. Granted he regressed as a bowler in India off late, but he has improved a lot in overseas conditions. Let us hope that Ishant gets his due and makes a comeback to team India after an inspired performance in this Ranji season. 

I take it that this post is in the same spirit as your username on this forum.

[Khota]

He is still a good bowler. He can definitely be part of the rotation.He was clutch in the T20 game.

[wanted_desi]

Players like him are needed at domestic level. Good luck to him. 

[Trichromatic]

13 hours ago, sarcastic said:

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/97268/ishant-sharma-to-lead-delhi-in-upcoming-ranji-season

Ishant Sharma receives a lot of flak here on ICF despite being most experience workhorse for team India for nearly a decade. Granted he regressed as a bowler in India off late, but he has improved a lot in overseas conditions. Let us hope that Ishant gets his due and makes a comeback to team India after an inspired performance in this Ranji season. 

He was bowling better from 2014-2016. 20 matches, 63 wickets at avg of 30 with 4 5-fers. Won us test matches in England and Sri Lanka. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

When u have guy like gambhir , a brilliant captain......well what to Say 

Delhi has so much of talent....and DDCA is full of jerks