Great job by our front line bowlers

[Dinx - the Jinx]

most of the wickets will be belters like the one in rajkot -so going in with 2 spinners makes no sense especially with our part timers who can do a good job.unless its a real spinner friendly wicket we should stick with 3 seamers.

Dude... get your thouht right. Belters require spinners and not pacemen. How many ever paces you have. they will be taken to the cleaners as there is going to be no movement and ball will come on to the bat nicely.As KP said, you touch it, its a four, if you hit it a little hard, it will go for a six. You saw England playing 4 seamers and suffer. In these pitches, its the spinners who will be able to fox the batsmen and get them out.They msy go fr runs butwill get the wickts like Samit Patel showed. Pacers will continue to suffer. ZKis a different bowler. Munaf and RP dint suffer cos England were uner pressue and we had a truck load of runsas cushion, so they were not put under pressure. You have to wait and see when we bowl first and how

[cowboysfan]

Dude... get your thouht right. Belters require spinners and not pacemen. How many ever paces you have. they will be taken to the cleaners as there is going to be no movement and ball will come on to the bat nicely.As KP said, you touch it, its a four, if you hit it a little hard, it will go for a six. You saw England playing 4 seamers and suffer. In these pitches, its the spinners who will be able to fox the batsmen and get them out.They msy go fr runs butwill get the wickts like Samit Patel showed. Pacers will continue to suffer. ZKis a different bowler. Munaf and RP dint suffer cos England were uner pressue and we had a truck load of runsas cushion, so they were not put under pressure. You have to wait and see when we bowl first and how DUDE-can you tell me if india has gone into a ODI in the last 12 months without 3 seamers?. the answer is NO.a big NO and we have played in bang,pak and sri lanka during that time.its not something we do and thats for a good reason.we trust our part time spinners to bowl 10 overs reasonably well.

[Fontaine]

Once again our front line bowlers did a great job. Khan was good in trying to mix in the slower balls and Munaf was once again bowling wicket to wicket, keeping that great line outside off and not allowing any of the batsmen any space at all to play their strokes. The difference when RP was bowling compared to these two at the same time was like night and day. Even though RP was bowling at almost the same speed his deliveries were lame, weak little attempts that barely bounced. Is he healthy? He's bowling like he has no strength in his shoulders what so ever?

[King Tendulkar]

they did ok. but spinners won us the game today so this bump is ill timed and not appropiate

[Fontaine]

Once again our front line bowlers did a magnificient job today. What was truely amazing was that our fast bowlers mostly bowled in the power play overs where the batsmen are meant to score at will and when England were powering on for 10 an over they came back into the attack and dismantled the English batting. So far in the ODI series our three fast bolwers have picked up 15 wickets all together at an average of the low 20s. While the much overhyped English bowlers are miles behind them and getting clobbered out of the park. Fantastic effort by Zaheer today and he made plenty of batsmen look foolish at the crease. Munaf as well has been a revelation since his return to the side from the Sri Lanka tour. He's got this uncanny line on the offstump that cramps up the batsmen and it's really great to see him bowl like this on Indian conditions.

[cochise]

I hope he produces a few more spells like he did in Mohali during the upcoming tests against England. Superb bowling!

[sm332]

Munaf seems to be back concentrating on cricket and putting pressure on the front runners this is very good to see. I would like to see RPS get back into some kind of groove. He is a very important bowler for us in swinging conditions. I sense that Sreesanth is a lost cause which is really unfortunate cos he had talent of a high caliber albeit allied with virtually no wisdom. It will be interesting to see if Balaji's improvement results in anything meaningful. Also looking forward to seeing Sangwan develop ..... things are looking quite nice for Indian pace over the next 2-3 yrs

[fineleg]

sms332, Thats what I had written elsewhere too. Imagine if we can send the squad of ZK, IS, RPS, MP and SS to New Zealand tour and raring to go...woohoo...but for that RPS needs to find form, and someone needs to knock sense into Sreesanth with a cricket bat!

[Laaloo]

Found the video of RP singh against Aus in odis in India [ame=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35ukf_rp-singhs-match-winning-over-4th-od_sport]Dailymotion - RP Singh's match winning over - 4th ODI - India vs Aus, a video from cricfever. india, australia, cricfever, cricket, rpsingh@@AMEPARAM@@value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k3ueD5GsWN8IF9mhPh@@AMEPARAM@@http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k3ueD5GsWN8IF9mhPh[/ame] 1st ball- 143.1 2nd ball- 143.4 3rd ball- 145.5 4th ball- 144.2 5th ball- bowled symonds- 144.5 6th ball- 142.4 WTF happened to this guy?

[Laaloo]

Why is RP singh bowling 126.0 kph pie chuckers? :(

[fineleg]

Why is RP singh bowling 126.0 kph pie chuckers? :(

Hope RP Singh does not go the Irfan slow-medium Pathan route!

[Shane]

Its the speed gun !!! :giggle: