Test cricket is back on the Indian team's radar but where are India's bowlers?

[achilles]

Sreesanth just has to come back. Whatever personal problems that Kris & Dhoni have with him should be kept away. He is a proven performer and he needs to come back. Heck, if you can send sifarishi players to A & B tours, why not PROVEN PERFORMERS? This committee has taken India's bowling back a few years.

[HowardRoark]

Sreesanth just has to come back. Whatever personal problems that Kris & Dhoni have with him should be kept away. He is a proven performer and he needs to come back. Heck, if you can send sifarishi players to A & B tours, why not PROVEN PERFORMERS? This committee has taken India's bowling back a few years.

That's a strong assumption - not surprising at all as it comes from the perennial whining AAA jury of ICF (Ac*, An*, As*) who always seem to know more than what everybody else here knows.

[Andy]

Sreesanth just has to come back. Whatever personal problems that Kris & Dhoni have with him should be kept away. He is a proven performer and he needs to come back. Heck, if you can send sifarishi players to A & B tours, why not PROVEN PERFORMERS? This committee has taken India's bowling back a few years.

Completely Agree. Dont give much to the opinion of some little obnoxious weed of ICF.

[Fontaine]

What did Dale Steyn and Morne morkel do when ball was not reversing in Kolkatta , Indians scored over 600 runs, if ball does nothing no bowler can do anything. RP singh and Irfan pathan have still bigger upside than jokers who are in team like Tyagi, kulkarni and Jaskaran singh. When Sachin scored 175 against Aussies Bollinger, hilfenhaus every body went of 70 or more runs in their ten overs, pitch was flat, so bowlers couldn't do a thing. Like yesterday If pitch has some life even in subcontinent our bowlers can be effective.

One test match doesn't define a bowler, especially on a road like track. There are good bowlers who still hit the deck hard (steyn), can generate extra bounce (morkel) even when the ball isnt' doing anything. RP Singh/IKP can't do that. It's not a criticism of them because they don't have the height and stamina/strength that other guys have. It's just reality. That's why Ishant Sharma is probably the most important young bowler we have. The rest like RP/Ifran/Praveen are all swing bowlers and you can't have a bowling attack full of just swing bowlers, especially when there's no swing. You have to have variety and options in your bowling and Sharma at his best was generating very good pace/bounce as well as getting the ball to dart into the batsmen. No other current Indian bowler even has that potential.

[achilles]

Completely Agree. Dont give much to the opinion of some little obnoxious weed of ICF.

I never do. :--D

[putrevus]

One test match doesn't define a bowler, especially on a road like track. There are good bowlers who still hit the deck hard (steyn), can generate extra bounce (morkel) even when the ball isnt' doing anything. RP Singh/IKP can't do that. It's not a criticism of them because they don't have the height and stamina/strength that other guys have. It's just reality. That's why Ishant Sharma is probably the most important young bowler we have. The rest like RP/Ifran/Praveen are all swing bowlers and you can't have a bowling attack full of just swing bowlers, especially when there's no swing. You have to have variety and options in your bowling and Sharma at his best was generating very good pace/bounce as well as getting the ball to dart into the batsmen. No other current Indian bowler even has that potential.

Vass never had pace but still he was very successful , RP Singh has talent which very few left arm medium pacers have that is bring the ball back to right handers and take the ball away from round the wicket.but I feel he is too lazy to put in the hard work and gain that extra muscle and strength to add few Kms on his speed. Irfan is still in denial that he is no good anymore that is hard to fix, it is pity because instead on the useless i*diot Jadeja IKP would be great no7 in odis and better fit for Indian test team instead of Yuvraj as he lends that balance of an allrounder which Indian Team dearly misses. Ishant is one bowler which India cannot afford to lose, he has everything which a fast bowler needs dont know he has the drive or succeed.

[yoda]

Well we suck in bowling. Always have. Bedi, Prasanna, Chandra, Venkat, Kapil, Srinath, Zaheer, Kumble, Harbhajan - only great ones we have ever produced in 60 years. I mean WTF. Last of these guys debuted 10 years ago.

[Sooda]

They defo should have sent Ishant and Sree to Eng. Harsha's point was send them there to rediscover rhymth. And that is a good point I guess they have been working at the cricket academy to iron out flaws, but they could have done that in match conditions against competitive opposition. He's also quite right in pointing out that Jaskaran, Ganapathy and Bipul Sharma will never play cricket for India. So why send them on an A tour. The fact that it is England is almost secondary, so it being different conditions I dont think is a big deal. Theyd get to play relatively serious cricket, and not nets in the NCA Similarly RPS and Munaf should have at least gone to Zimbabwe.

[cowboysfan]

where is the itinerary?it doesnt look like we are playing a warmup game(again)

[ludhianvi]

Its not where are the bowlers but where are the bowler friendly pitches. Indian pacers have done well on English and South African pitches in the recent past. Its when there is no swing movement that the Indian pacers struggle.

[Cricket_Guru]

you people under rate your bowlers, i will put them 3rd in current list of bowlers from top 8 teams, after australia, and south africa.

[Guest Shivani]

Test cricket is back on the team's radar, but there aren't too many partners for Zaheer Khan More... Where are India's bowlers? Test cricket is back on the team's radar, but there aren't too many partners for Zaheer Khan Harsha Bhogle June 25, 2010 The Asia Cup, a tournament that had to be rather clumsily slotted in, and which has lost the principle it was founded on, is finally over. Sadly this time it was just another four-nation tournament. To be fair, it is on a hiding to nothing, for if two other teams had been accommodated it would have made the tournament longer and produced too many one-sided matches. Maybe the original idea needs to be reviewed in a post Twenty20 scenario. It now sets the stage for India to play their first Test for five months and for the return of those who defined batting as we knew it in the pre-Twenty20 era. India has always tended to be a batting country, and given the current bowling strength, the batsmen have to play the dominant role more than they usually do. But they cannot do it on their own, just as strikers cannot win a football match by themselves. At some point the bowling will have to show it has more teeth than it is displaying. In the last seven Test matches India played, the fast bowling was carried by Zaheer Khan, but he had fairly significant support from Ishant Sharma and, for a couple of games, from Sreesanth. Now neither of those two seems to be on the selectors' radar, because if they were, they would have been getting valuable overs under their belt for India A in England rather than having to give sundry statements to the media. With RP Singh, Munaf Patel and Irfan Pathan in various stages of disfavour, India will have to find a partner for Zaheer, and it would seem a drawing of lots would be as accurate a method as any, especially given that the only spark so far has been provided by young Jaidev Unadkat on that A tour. In fact, the selection for that A tour worried me a bit, because I fear that side is full of people who are unlikely to play for India. The objectives of an A tour are really two-fold: to check out someone like an Unadkat, who you believe has promise, but more crucially to let your fringe players play themselves back into contention. It is like playing a couple of games for a 2nd XI once in a while to get time in the middle and rediscover rhythm. It would have been fantastic for India if an Ishant or an RP Singh or even a Sreesanth had picked up wickets in England and had enough overs under their belt to fly out to Sri Lanka. Given that India play 11 Test matches between now and the World Cup, I am hoping that the selectors know something we don't. They certainly have better options when it comes to spinners, with Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha, but in South Africa you might well want to play only one of those. Remember, too, that India don't have an allrounder at this level (actually at any level now!) and so must either play five batsmen and five bowlers or make do with four bowlers, which is what I suspect they will do. The batting, though, retains its settled look, which, given that the average age of the middle order is 37, should start worrying a few people now. The batsmen have powered India and over the last seven games have been in astonishing form, amassing 19 centuries from 52 innings. Only No. 6 is up for grabs now and there are three contenders for it. Apart from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (who should have made his Test debut against South Africa had it not been for another of those maddening pre-match football games), Cheteshwar Pujara has made a pretty strong case for himself. There is much to look forward to and it will be a good test of the romantics who often speak of their yearning for Test cricket. They have 11 games before the biggest 50-over tournament and the glitziest 20-over carnival begin.

why is this guy so much ignored ? :girl_mad: And 11 tests :yay: :aha:

[cowboysfan]

i am afraid to ask but do we have the reviews available for this series?.watching the windies game right now and its painfully obvious why we need referrals.taufell just reversed his decision.

[Laaloo]

i am afraid to ask but do we have the reviews available for this series?.watching the windies game right now and its painfully obvious why we need referrals.taufell just reversed his decision.

Our senior brigade will never agree to this especially after what happened in 2008.