Wicket taking spinners

[vvvslaxman]

If India needs to have a chance in 2011 cup we must identify wicket takers not darters and pie chuckers. You have to genuinely create chances. India's 1983 world cup, 1985 benson hedges wins were on the back of wicket taking bowlers. Steve smith, Hauritz may not be the greatest spinners to be playing currently. They are never afraid to toss the ball up to buy wickets even in the shortest format. So is Swann, Randiv, Ajmal. We had 4 darters in our line up. It is atrocious to watch Yusuf pathan keeps darting on the pads of left handers and Jadeja darting on the middle stump.Yuvraj is another darter. Bhajji himself is a darter. Windies and Australia didn't take chance against him consciously. But SL did no such favors. In a 50 over game only way you break the momentum or prevent late order assault is by constantly picking wickets. This zero penetration bowling is going to put even more pressure on our batters. Every time they walk out to the middle they would be required to put up a total like 400 yet feel unsafe. Time to try out other spinners as well. I wouldn't mind giving another look at Powar.

[gaurav92]

Ajmal darts them in too.He is a sort of bowler who gets wickets off his quicker ball doosra which the batsmen are unable to pick from the hand.Also to mention that he is a death bowler for Pak in the absence of Gul .So he gets lucky when batsmen try to slog every ball. Well i agree worth you that we need to pick wickets rather than trying to be conservative.As they say, Wicket is the best way to put the brakes on the scoring rate.I somehow feel that under MSD's captaincy, our bowlers look to lower down the scoring rate rather than taking wickets, even if he has a slip, our bowlers dart them into the pads.Even if one ball is perished to the boundary, the next ball will be the darter, whereas other spin bowlers do not get discouraged and toss it once again.We are said to have a good spin option, but if you really look into it, you will find that we are one of the most expensive spin attacks in the world (in terms of economy rate). We need quality spinners who look to give the ball some air and try to deceive the batsmen.

[hari504504]

Ashwin,Ojha,Mishra are the only ones we have...

[Sid]

Ajmal darts them in too.He is a sort of bowler who gets wickets off his quicker ball doosra which the batsmen are unable to pick from the hand.Also to mention that he is a death bowler for Pak in the absence of Gul .So he gets lucky when batsmen try to slog every ball. Well i agree worth you that we need to pick wickets rather than trying to be conservative.As they say, Wicket is the best way to put the brakes on the scoring rate.I somehow feel that under MSD's captaincy, our bowlers look to lower down the scoring rate rather than taking wickets, even if he has a slip, our bowlers dart them into the pads.Even if one ball is perished to the boundary, the next ball will be the darter, whereas other spin bowlers do not get discouraged and toss it once again.We are said to have a good spin option, but if you really look into it, you will find that we are one of the most expensive spin attacks in the world (in terms of economy rate). We need quality spinners who look to give the ball some air and try to deceive the batsmen.

completely agree with you here and i think the reason for it is that when we were scoring 350 and 380s we tried to choke batsmen out rather than getting them by attacking but again we must not forget this might have happen becoz of our ordinary bowlers who have no idea how to take wickets

[f2000560]

Ashwin' date='Ojha,Mishra are the only ones we have...[/quote'] ashwin positive is he can bat a bit.. negative is two off spinners in a side with bhajji already there is one too many.

[mastana]

Bhajji is a wicket taker? I thought his job is to contain? Salla can't even contain wicket kya ghanta lega. :wall:

[kabira]

Amit Mishra is one for sure. He needs captains backing. He can get you wickets with right field setting. I still like Sreesanth, he is your wicket taker.

[maheshw]

Its not just the spinners. Our entire bowling attack is sh*t right now.

[Zelig]

Ashwin and Mishra. I'd like to see Mishra work extra hard on his fielding. B!tch cudn't catch a fly during the IPL:mad:

[achilles]

Spinners- Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha. Pacers- Sreesanth, PK.

[TheWall]

Ashwin and Mishra. I'd like to see Mishra work extra hard on his fielding. B!tch cudn't catch a fly during the IPL:mad:

bcoz mishraji doesn't believe in violence :hysterical:

[Lord]

Mishra is best option,next is powar(if we r only looking at bowling for wickets).Ojha,Asjwin r also good options

[saneindian]

If you are looking for guile, fliht, loop and drift in a spinner, no one better than Powar (esp in ODIs) Is as bad a fielder as any other spinner/bowler but at least isn't afraid to keep tossing the ball up and keep attacking the batsmen.There will be days when he will get hit, but then there will be days when he will pick heaps of wickets and win us games. If only the rolly polly could cut down the flab by even 20-25%!!

[diegovegaz]

Ashwin' date='Ojha,Mishra are the only ones we have...[/quote'] spot on :two_thumbs_up:

[f2000560]

Ashwin and Mishra. I'd like to see Mishra work extra hard on his fielding. B!tch cudn't catch a fly during the IPL:mad:

do you have any odea how difficult it is to catch a fly ?

[Gunner_Mania]

do you have any odea how difficult it is to catch a fly ?

:hysterical:

[Pak_Fan_4_Eva]

Chawla looks the best bet right now. He just needs a bit of tweaking with his flight and placement. A session with the English spin bowling adviser would do him a world of good:winky:

[Zelig]

do you have any odea how difficult it is to catch a fly ?

It's not that difficult at the Motera stadium:wink:

[Ashrafool]

you guys need an off breaker like me:two_thumbs_up:

[imran666]

none can match RAVINDER JADEJA ..if i was the indian captain i would give him first and last 5 over :winky: