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Mohsin Khan - Is he the left arm pacer that India are searching for?


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9 hours ago, express bowling said:

 

All of them great posters and I hope @Mosher bro posts a bit more. His posts are usually very logical, with great love for fast bowling and a good dose of humour.

 

A combination not easy to find.

Not watching much cricket. These late night matches and the trundlers on display are not helping bro haha. Though Arshdeep has been pretty good. Pissed with the way Umran has been discarded. Same with Tyagi he is nowhere to be seen. Mohsin is another player that should be groomed. Need to back and develop these young fast bowlers.

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Now, let’s go beyond the simpler stats and look at the features of his bowling. Mohsin’s fairly tall and bowls with a tall, straight arm, giving him a high release point, He hits the deck hard and gets a lot of bounce from the pitch.

 

Not only is Mohsin economical, but the number of dot balls he bowls creates pressure and increases his chances of getting wickets. He had the highest dot ball percentage in the league with a whopping 54%.

 

And that brings us to how dangerous a bowler Mohsin is. He had the eighth-highest strike rate in the IPL this year at 14.1, with just over 7% of his balls getting the batter out. He also ended the season with the best bowling average in the league, conceding just 14 runs for every wicket taken. The following scatter plot puts into perspective just how good a season he had compared to other bowlers in the IPL in 2022.

 

 

https://theanalyst.com/eu/2022/06/the-numbers-behind-mohsin-khans-breakout-season/

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The most noticeable feature of Mohsin’s bowling is the lengths he bowls at. No bowler in the IPL in 2022 bowled a higher percentage of balls back of a length or shorter than Mohsin’s 55.1%. With his bounce, most of his deliveries reach a length that is uncomfortable for batters to hit boundaries off, with his balls often ending up speared in towards batters’ ribs. His balls are often too short to slog, but also too full to pull or hook. It prompts many batters to step out of their crease to face his back-of-a-length deliveries.

 

Similarly, he doesn’t bowl many easier-to-slog half-volleys or length deliveries. Only 3% (the 11th-lowest in the league) of his balls are half-volleys, and only 40.9% of his balls are length balls (the 14th-lowest in the league). The chart below gives us a detailed look at what lengths he bowls at relative to other bowlers in IPL 2022.

 

Next, let’s look at his line. First off, as you’d expect, Mohsin tends to bowl with the seam pointing to the off-side, getting his balls to seam away from the right-hander. Judging from the eye test, the magnitude of movement he gets from seam is notable, making him dangerous with the new ball and difficult to score boundaries off throughout the innings.

 

But one interesting thing about the line he bowls is that he has a much bigger leg-stump emphasis than you’d expect for a left-arm seamer. 18.2% of his balls are delivered on a leg-stump line, the third-highest in the league, while 26.8% of his balls go down the leg side of the batter, the fifth-highest rate in the league. Conversely, a relatively low proportion of his deliveries are bowled at the off-stump or outside off, as the chart below shows.

 

https://theanalyst.com/eu/2022/06/the-numbers-behind-mohsin-khans-breakout-season/

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On 8/5/2022 at 2:17 AM, express bowling said:

 

 

Very true !!

 

Cricket has been dominated by Teams which had lots of tall hit-the-deck quick or sharp bowlers in their their teams.

 

The WI dominated from 1976 to 1995 and Australia from 1995 to 2010. And SA was the best team regarding winning away test series for a long time. 

 

We have tried some such pacers from time to time ... Srinath, Ankola and Wassan in the 1990s and Munaf, RP, VRV and Ishant in the mid to late 2000s. 

 

But we have not really searched long and hard for such pacers except the 1989 to 1995 period. 

 

Now we have among youngsters 

 

Tyagi

Prasidh

Mohsin

Sen

Hangargekar

Khaleel

Avesh 

 

All of whom fit this mould.

 

Plus we have an express pacer in Umran.

 

Surely we should be able to develop 3 World class pacers from this lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have not seen Hangargekar and Mohsin. IMO Tyagi is only other guy who has potential to be good.  Others would be average at their best. I don't know if any of them will ever be world class like Bumrah.

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it is understood that the selectors were far more impressed with Mohsin.
The Uttar Pradesh left-armer has taken 13 wickets from 8 matches at an astounding economy rate of 5.93 compared to Umran's 8.93 in 13 games.

 

However, Mohsin's dodgy hamstring made the decision easier for Chetan Sharma's committee,

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.rediff.com/amp/cricket/report/sa-t20s-why-umran-was-favoured-over-lsgs-mohsin/20220522.htm

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2 hours ago, tweaker said:

it is understood that the selectors were far more impressed with Mohsin.
The Uttar Pradesh left-armer has taken 13 wickets from 8 matches at an astounding economy rate of 5.93 compared to Umran's 8.93 in 13 games.

 

However, Mohsin's dodgy hamstring made the decision easier for Chetan Sharma's committee,

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.rediff.com/amp/cricket/report/sa-t20s-why-umran-was-favoured-over-lsgs-mohsin/20220522.htm

It's ab old article from June 

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hence they should not only concentrate on one but on pool..Mohsin,Umran,Tyagi,Sen etc..injuries will keep happening..but if we have good pool of these penetrative bowlers..you will still be a very competitive side..as whoever replacing the other will be no less penetrative..

team wont hav eto change it strategy in case of injury..

like they hav eto change strategy currently in case of injury to Bumrah\Pandya

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