Navdeep Saini bowling with genuine pace now ( Fastest of 152.9 kph )

[fineleg]

Cricket forum - yes

domestic prospects discussed - yes

All for the above two. Discussed is different, hyped is different.

This is a potential 'prospect for India'  (rather for India-A first) -yes. That's all.

No worries, keep updating the thread. Looking forward to it.

Edited January 1, 2018 by fineleg

[Rightarmfast]

/\ Enlighten us the difference between speaking the truth and hyping :) Obviously, guys bowling at 145k’s is an everyday affair for you, or for the country you come from..

[express bowling]

Saini takes a 5-wicket haul in the Ranji final

 

Missed his morning spell though

 

Anyone seen it  ?

[express bowling]

Hotstar video of his 5-wicket haul

 

 

http://www.hotstar.com/sports/cricket/series/sainis-valuable-5for-vs-vidarbha/2001607037

[CG]

Thing which is noticeably with Saini is the nip he gets off the pitch it's rare you need good wrist action likes of Steyn,Ryan Harris.You can notice even on slow pitch he hurried batsman.

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, CG said:

Thing which is noticeably with Saini is the nip he gets off the pitch it's rare you need good wrist action likes of Steyn,Ryan Harris.You can notice even on slow pitch he hurried batsman.

He imparts good back spin.

[express bowling]

Excerpt from an article --

 

 

"At the higher level, you need to bowl with patience. Only patience can take you forward. It's my strength. Like on a pitch like we saw today, the plan was to bowl wicket to wicket and aim for lbws and bowled."

 

Saini's natural area of operation is on the fuller side of a good length. He felt bowling with the tennis ball in his formative years helped him become good at it. "When you play with the tennis ball, you get hit a lot," he said. "To escape from that you have to bowl yorkers at the stumps. Constantly doing that has helped me develop those muscles that come into play while bowling yorkers. When you bowl with a leather ball the full length ball skids a lot more, it kicks off the surface like in the dismissals today.

 

"My arm-speed is very fast. So I can't build up my body structure a lot bigger than now, because if I do that my arm-speed will come down. As I am training, my speed develops. The more you bowl, the better your bowling muscles develop."

 

http://www.espn.in/cricket/story/_/id/21816714/making-navdeep-saini

[Deleted_User_1]

Kohli/Shastri, get this guy on the plane to England, nahin to katke gaar denge madaarchauds!

[express bowling]

Saini should be in the playing 11 in test matches in England.

[Kohlifan]

3 hours ago, dandaroy said:

Kohli/Shastri, get this guy on the plane to England, nahin to katke gaar denge madaarchauds!

Kohli ko dilli wali bhasha me sahi samjhaya hai bhai 

 

[Pollack]

On 01/01/2018 at 12:07 PM, express bowling said:

Hotstar video of his 5-wicket haul

 

 

http://www.hotstar.com/sports/cricket/series/sainis-valuable-5for-vs-vidarbha/2001607037

Another positive, Rishabh Pant's catch. But for some he is not good enough keeper to replace Dhoni????????.

 

[King Tendulkar]

10 hours ago, express bowling said:

Saini should be in the playing 11 in test matches in England.

That’s a big call that 

 

bk shami and bumrah . Who you dropping ? 

 

Maybe squad possibly but not team . 

[sarcastic]

11 hours ago, express bowling said:

Saini should be in the playing 11 in test matches in England.

Not a should. There are many senior players ahead of him in the pecking order. I won't play him even ahead of Ishant Sharma. 

[Pollack]

4 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

That’s a big call that 

 

bk shami and bumrah . Who you dropping ? 

 

Maybe squad possibly but not team . 

Bumrah maybe. Bk, Shami and Saini .Since it's England, hit the deck bowler Bumrah may not be necessary.

[King Tendulkar]

6 hours ago, Pollack said:

Bumrah maybe. Bk, Shami and Saini .Since it's England, hit the deck bowler Bumrah may not be necessary.

Bumrah is quality . Has to play 

[express bowling]

9 hours ago, sarcastic said:

Not a should. There are many senior players ahead of him in the pecking order. I won't play him even ahead of Ishant Sharma. 

 

There should not be any  pecking order in international cricket.

 

You pick those players who you think will win you the current match and help you build a good team for the future.

[express bowling]

10 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

That’s a big call that 

 

bk shami and bumrah . Who you dropping ? 

 

Maybe squad possibly but not team . 

 

 

My playing 11 for first test against England 

 

1. Vijay

2. Rahul

3. Pujara

4. Kohli

5. Rahane

6. Ashwin

7. Saha

8. Bhuvi

9. Shami

10. Saini

11. Bumrah

 

India have looked like a different test team abroad when we have fielded 4 specialist fast bowlers in the 3rd test in SA.  If the track is flatter, this formula will be even more helpful.  Bhuvi's improvement with the bat will help us even more with this composition.

 

 

Edited February 10, 2018 by express bowling

[Pollack]

37 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Bumrah is quality . Has to play 

Even if he wasn't, the point being skiddy swing/seam bowlers are more useful in England.

N.B: That, however, in no way means Hit the deck bowlers are useless in England like, say, Finger spinners are in Australia.

[rkt.india]

19 minutes ago, Pollack said:

Even if he wasn't, the point being skiddy swing/seam bowlers are more useful in England.

N.B: That, however, in no way means Hit the deck bowlers are useless in England like, say, Finger spinners are in Australia.

you need a combination of both. One-dimensional attack isn't good anywhere. Hit the deck bowlers are useful once the ball gets older and to bring variety to push the batsmen back and England do have some hard surfaces as well like the Rosebowl, Old Trafford and Chester Lee Street Durham. 

Edited February 10, 2018 by rkt.india

[express bowling]

4 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

you need a combination of both. One-dimensional attack isn't good anywhere. Hit the deck bowlers are useful once the ball gets older and to bring variety to push the batsmen back and England do have some hard surfaces as well like the Rosebowl, Old Trafford and Chester Lee Street Durham. 

 

Yes.   Our pace attack must have sufficient variety to take care of different conditions that may present themselves over the course of 5 days.   Like the Lords test in 2014, when the pitch was a green mamba for the first 2 days but became hard and flattish during the last 2 days and needed hit-the-deck bowling to take wickets.