Eric Simons is the new bowling coach - NDTV

[Malcolm Merlyn]

:wall:

[King Tendulkar]

Not another saffie. Get these racist twats away from India.

[MUMBAISKIPPER]

India's current coach-Gary Kirsten-a south african IPL 2 played in SA SA agreed to play 2 tests against India in India this year when BCCI requested them Now bowling coach-Eric Simmons-another south african SA-INDIA honeymoon is not getting over

[Ram]

Good move, its certain to ease the pressure on Kirsten and hopefully, solve some of our urgent fast bowling woes.

[saneindian]

Think BCCI doesn't want to go for any high profile names. Probably Kirsten too was more comfortable with Simmons than with Donald. Lets hope for some good days for our bowlers now.

[Andy]

We need a coach who encouracges our Young bowlers to bowl fast!! Not sum1 who says 'Dont try to bowl fast , concentrate only on Line-length'!! Lets see how this recruitment turns up!!

[DomainK]

A plumber.

So he can repair the way our bowlers leak?

[THX_1138]

well i hope that this protean bug that we have caught only strengthens us here on... kirsten has worked out like a charm, so there is every reason to hope for good results from simons.

[sivanand82]

Keeping fingers crossed Eric seems to be a good choice,but the issue is that he has less expericence of being a bowling coach.He was a high profile head coach with SA and guess it would have been a difficult decision for Gary to give recommend him(mind you Gary played under him).All said we want a bowling coach who is willing to go the extra mile to teach the art of death bowling(especially yorkers) to bowlers and keep hawk eye on their training methods as well.So Exciting days are around the corner.

[ESPN]

Eric may become India's bowling coach Eric may become India's bowling coach It is learnt that Eric Simons will be asked to take up the India's bowling coach job on a trial basis. Although the Cricket Board has not made a formal announcement about his appointment yet, but Simons will be asked to take up the assignment. Simons, a former cricketer who played 23 One-dayers and was also South Africa's coach from 2002 to 2004, may be asked to join the squad in Bangladesh before the first Test gets underway in Chittagong from January 17. Another former South African paceman Allan Donald was also in the fray for the job but Simons appears to be the favourite now. Coach Gary Kirsten, it is learnt, is keen to have Simons on board after former India paceman Venkatesh Prasad was sacked from the post in October just before the home series against Australia. When contacted, BCCI's Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty said no decision has been taken yet. "We are looking for a bowling coach but we have not finalised a name yet", he said. A top source said the BCCI first wants to trial Simons in the ongoing series against Bangladesh to give the team sufficient time to have a comfort level with him. Hailing from South Africa's Western Province, all-rounder Simons made his international debut at the age of 32 and took just 33 wickets and scored 217 runs in 23 One-dayers.

[achilles]

He better be good. If India doesn't have a consistent 155ks bowler in the next 2 yrs, I would sack this and hire TA Sekar. Donno why do we have to go outside India and lick people up, when we have experienced people like TA Sekar, who has trained the best and fastest bowlers on the planet

[PotterManiac]

I wouldnt go for 155 and all....atleast a 145 maybe?

[achilles]

145 is peanuts. Look at people across the border. They seem to have a bloody factory of fast bowlers, while 140 is the fastest our bowlers (only Sree atm, actually) bowl at the int. level :((

[PotterManiac]

Ah! Accept the fact! None of our bowlers consistently bowl 140's..and thats why I wanted somone who bowls atleast 145ks and then if needed can touch the 150s too,,

[bsriharsha]

145 is peanuts. Look at people across the border. They seem to have a bloody factory of fast bowlers' date=' while 140 is the fastest our bowlers (only Sree atm, actually) bowl at the int. level :(([/quote'] pace isn't everything I'd rather have a bowler with brains than a brainless **** like Shoiab Akthar who's currently busy with lipsocution :hehe:

[Karan114]

145 is peanuts. Look at people across the border. They seem to have a bloody factory of fast bowlers' date=' while 140 is the fastest our bowlers (only Sree atm, actually) bowl at the int. level :(([/quote'] So friggin what? How many Tests does this "factory of fast bowlers" win? You are sounding like a poyzzzz fan here dude. Last decade we won 40 Tests and lost 27. They won 30 and lost 31. This is with Wasim, Waqar, Lipo Warty boy, Druggie, all playing. We are a superior cricket team to poyzzzz, why would any Indian fan care about their "phaasht bowlers" except when Veeru is sending them to the fence even "phaaashter"?

[cowboysfan]

So friggin what? How many Tests does this "factory of fast bowlers" win? You are sounding like a poyzzzz fan here dude. Last decade we won 40 Tests and lost 27. They won 30 and lost 31. This is with Wasim, Waqar, Lipo Warty boy, Druggie, all playing. We are a superior cricket team to poyzzzz, why would any Indian fan care about their "phaasht bowlers" except when Veeru is sending them to the fence even "phaaashter"?

preach it brother

[achilles]

These days gentle pace is rubbish. What we bowl is gentle pace. Zak bowls one 140k howler and everyone is like Oh, that was fast. Getting happy = End of the road. Why can't we work a bit more harder with the bowlers so that their pace goes up and accuracy stays intact? The point here is that from a population of 1 billion, we can't find 1 bowler who can give them some stick. It was interesting to see names like Akhtar crop up here as fast bowling failures. But there are bowlers like Brett Lee and Jerome Taylor, who at screaming pace, have maintained their accuracy and are a threat to the opposition whenever they bowl. Why can't we mention them as example? We need to get out of our "140 daalta hai, theek hai; aur kitna teez dalega yeh; career bachana hai toh 128 daal" mindset, which is ridiculous. We can get a waaaaaaaaay faster bowler than Brett Lee, but the thing is we DON'T want to.

[Lord]

These days gentle pace is rubbish. What we bowl is gentle pace. Zak bowls one 140k howler and everyone is like Oh, that was fast. Getting happy = End of the road. Why can't we work a bit more harder with the bowlers so that their pace goes up and accuracy stays intact? The point here is that from a population of 1 billion, we can't find 1 bowler who can give them some stick. It was interesting to see names like Akhtar crop up here as fast bowling failures. But there are bowlers like Brett Lee and Jerome Taylor, who at screaming pace, have maintained their accuracy and are a threat to the opposition whenever they bowl. Why can't we mention them as example? We need to get out of our "140 daalta hai, theek hai; aur kitna teez dalega yeh; career bachana hai toh 128 daal" mindset, which is ridiculous. We can get a waaaaaaaaay faster bowler than Brett Lee, but the thing is we DON'T want to.

No we cat our bodies r not fit as Aussies,n we dont have stamina n athleticism,its like why thier fiellders r always better than us

[achilles]

Nope. We've had people like Munaf who started off bowling at the pace of 145. I still remember his debut match when his toe-crusher got Liam Plunkett limping and out. Rahul Dravid (the then captain) said, "Its great to have a toe-crusher in the side". But then, to lengthen their careers, players reduced their pace and an express pacer is still a dream for us. Its the zidh, the fire in the belly that potential pacers and current ones lack. If you persevere, nothing is impossible. Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest example of the same