Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard

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Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard BOBILLI VIJAY KUMAR| TIMES NEWS NETWORK RSS Feeds| SMS CRI to 8888 for latest updates POTCHEFSTROOM, Dec 8: For the last 20 days or so, as the Indian team meandered from one collapse to another, there was only one common refrain: the players need time to adjust and adapt to the extra pace and bounce. On a bright and sunny afternoon, Sourav Ganguly all but literally walked off the airplane and scored a near-brilliant 83. There was no problem with pace, bounce or anything else; it looked like he had been batting here all his life. True, the pitch has been more benign than malignant; true, the bowling attack has been a lot friendlier than Makhaya Ntini and Andre Nel as well. But he still had to go and take advantage of the conditions which the others anyway had failed to do on Thursday. He did. So how did he manage it? Ganguly explained the secret of his success to his mates just after the day?s session on Greg Chappell?s invitation. ?Back home in India, I take a leg-stump guard. Here, I decided to take a middle-stump guard,? he is believed to have told at the informal session. Ganguly had clearly come well-prepared. ?It was a smart move,? Chappell later revealed. ?It showed that he had applied his mind and come up with the right method to overcome the conditions,? he added. He was nice enough to explain the advantage of adopting this approach to TOI too. ?Back home in India, you try and get to the side of the ball so that you have room to play your strokes on the off-side. Here, you need to get right behind the ball, get on top of it to play through the off,? he said. There was another very significant thing that Ganguly did which was different from what the other Indian batsmen have been doing: he didn?t commit himself to the backfoot too early. Rather, he kept trying to play off his front foot as much as possible. ?That was very important too. It allowed him to take his decision just that much time later. By leaning forward, he was able to judge the length of the ball accurately, which also allowed him to leave the right balls. That?s why he could also play his shots without too much of a problem,? Chappell explained. Of course, Ganguly has also worked a lot on his fitness and his game while he has been away. He has always been mentally very strong anyway. The horrid last few months may well have made him that much more stronger.

[DesiChap]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard Brilliant :wtg:

[Mandrake]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard Good to see Dada put his time away to work on his game and fitness....getting the axe is not that bad if it allows you to return better...Zaheer is another example......

[King]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard Don't you guys think the media is writing way too much based after a single inning. Yes the knock deserves to be lauded but to claim his guard, attitude, pretty much everything including which sock he puts on first is being given a hype? I think the media should hold off for a while for the good of Ganguly and themselves. The same scribes after a couple of failures will give Ganguly a hard time for having changed his natural game by changing guard and for going on the front foot on bouncy pitches in South Africa.

[jf1gp_1]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard wonder why no one asked Pathan about his 110+ score and more importantly he is yet to get out is this game. Ganguly as expected followed up his 80 with a 3 ball duck and will keep singing he has done well in past. This 80 gives him a license to not score for another 6 innings without being dropped.

[gator]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard he is making it like a big deal... heck even i knew, to counter pitches with more bounce and movement, u got to take middle stump guard to play closer to the body.. i am pretty sure, the rest of the batsmen knew it too...

[maatugaara]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard middle stump guard....umm....now i see why chappel was showing that finger.. :hic:

[gator]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard lol maatu....

[DesiChap]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

[Rahul]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard question is, which middle stump was being referred to ?? :chin: :chin: take it easy, R

[gator]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard lol @ rahul

[Guest dada_rocks]

Re: Secret To Ganguly's Comeback Knock: A Middle-Stump Guard Have u guys noticed the sudden surge in comic value of rahul's post :lmao: