Swing bowlers please

[vvvslaxman]

India's success over the last decade was due to swing bowlers apart from spinners. It is alright to have lanky "hit the deck" bowlers for surfaces that have a bit of bounce and pace. Otherwise for flat surfaces you need bowlers who are capable of swinging and reversing the ball. Even though our overall bowling standard is below par you can make it work with right selections. India has to go back to grooming bowlers who are in the mould of Zak. RP, Irfan, Praveen are some of the swing options we have. How can selectors not think through these things. What we have here is completely opposite set of bowlers. No pace, no swing, no seam .. these guys have literally beg for wickets on flat pitches like this.

[asterix]

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[Lord]

^ u r expecting common sense from Srikkanth.thats too much to ask

[kabira]

wtf @ OP. You missed Sreesanth.

[Andy]

OP has missed Nehra too :cantstop:

[kabira]

^My friend Nehra is retired from Test cricket.

[Andy]

Oh Yes.

[Lord]

^Nehra isnt available for tests

[vvvslaxman]

wtf @ OP. You missed Sreesanth.

Zak and Sree are regulars . Should have clubbed him with Zak. Point is India has to identify swing bowlers .

[Andy]

Yes we are lacking Swing Bowlers. Initially i thought Tyagi is a swing bowler only to be proven wrong in Next few matches he played.

[Sooda]

The swing bowlers are injured/unfit/not in form thats the prob Its not like the ball would swing much in SL anyway would it?Apart from briefly when its new and when it is wet and Ishant did well then Sree and Zaheer can reverse it I guess, Sree at his best is very good but he is so inconsistent, that leaves Zaheer as the only guy who can stick to a line and length on a flat track when things arent going the bowlers way. And theyre both out with injury. Maybe Praveen can as he is accurate, but we dont know what he's like in test cricket. Certainly Pathan can't, hell get smashed here. RPS seems to has lost his mojo too.

[Lord]

other names i can think of are Unadkat,Kulkarni,R.Bose,Sidharth Trivedi

[Andy]

other names i can think of are Unadkat' date='Kulkarni,[b']R.Bose,Sidharth Trivedi

Please! That guy is a Joke.

[kabira]

Dhaval Kulkarni can swing both ways.

[Lord]

Please! That guy is a Joke.

ya.i was just listing swing bowlers in dom. cricket

[Andy]

ya.i was just listing swing bowlers in dom. cricket

Actually he is good when there is a lot of Carry in the Wicket but in general his deliveries fail to reach the Keeper. So Edges wont carry.

[King Tendulkar]

OP has missed Nehra too :cantstop:

Nehra has retired from tests with his average of 42 to concentate on bowling 4 overs a day and chasing the $$$$. Thankfully does not want to do the hard yards for his country in tests.

[saneindian]

Earlier we hd those swing bowlers bowling at 84-85 mph(Irfan, RPS, Sreesanth, Balaji etc) , now a days the young swing bowlers (Kulkarni, Trivedi, etc) struggle to hit 79-80 mph. At that speed, unless you have got absolute control (like Asif) over your line and length, a bowler will do well only under very helpful bowling conditions.

[Laaloo]

Nehra has retired from tests with his average of 42 to concentate on bowling 4 overs a day and chasing the $$$$. Thankfully does not want to do the hard yards for his country in tests.

Harbhajan would be wise to do the same :winky: P.S Nehra knows what's best for him. The guy came back after he was injured for 3 ****ing years. How the **** do you know he's chasing the money?

[Dravid]

Dhaval Kulkarni can swing both ways.

swinging it both ways at the speed of a spinner is useless :hahaha: