Is India's bowling really that bad?

[Karan114]

In last 2 - 3 years' date=' India has played majority of its games in India and their spinners do well on day 3 - 4 slow pitches. Most of the times you will see India batsmen posting mammoth total and other team just crumbling under pressure. Like Lanka they are giants at home but off-shore I am not sure if there's much to talk about.[/quote'] Yeah, winning on a fast seaming Durban pitch is exactly like winning in Asia, isn't it? Anyway, keep deluding yourself - that's the only way you and your compatriots can live.

[Sir_Afridi]

bad is too lenient...dire is the right word to define Indian fast bowling

[satyam1729]

bad is too lenient...dire is the right word to define Indian fast bowling

Is better than Pakistan's fast bowling by a decent margin. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;groupby=team;opposition=1;opposition=2;opposition=25;opposition=3;opposition=4;opposition=5;opposition=6;opposition=7;opposition=8;orderby=bowling_average;spanmin1=15+Mar+2007;spanval1=span;template=results;type=bowling

[Ramzz]

As soon as we get rid of flat tracks in our domestic cricket, the better our bowlers will become. Their confidence would be up...and it would benefit the batsmen too...techniques will be developed as per sporting wickets.

[Gold 10]

I thing it is not bad but need hard work to make it better and better.

[ravishingravi]

Actually they are very effective as a bowling team. They might not be the greatest individually

[vaibhav_delhi]

prolly only if we pick phast bowlers like ishant, yadav, aaron, capable of clocking 153kph, we will be worthy of being called a bowling powerhouse.:D

[Vijay.Sharma]

Harbhajan is a worry. He seems to have a string of bad matches' date=' gets criticised and when everyone calls for him to be dropped he comes up with a rare match winning performance. We need Harbhajan to produce the goods more often.[/quote']Actually it is this perception which is unfair. I think Bhajji has been excellent in spite of the fact that he hasn't been among the wicket takers (so obviously his avg and sr will be high...no need to produce stats). He comes up with 1 match winning performance in almost every series and although may not grab wickets he ensures he builds enough pressure for others to take advantage of in the non-match winning performances. In NZ he had a 5for, in Aus he had Pawning in his pocket - the greatest Aussie bat since Don was rendered almost impotent in that tour, in SA he had a match winning 4for. I think Bhajji's 2001 exploit shouldn't be the base to set our expectations of him. That was a once in half-a-century performance which even Jumbo and Kapsy, our greatest bowlers ever, haven't had. Maybe if we set our expectations realistically then we can appreciate Bhajji's worth in this team. I won't be surprised if Bhajji doesn't play a series and India, even at home, find it very difficult to win.

[Vijay.Sharma]

I like the way how people underestimate our bowling and we keep winning the matches to make them shut up u dont need speed to win the matches u need wickets.

Yeah! :two_thumbs_up:

[Rana]

Munaf Patel reminds me a lot of Asif (not character wise). He has excelent control over his line and length, one of the best in the buisness now.

[Vijay.Sharma]

In last 2 - 3 years, India has played majority of its games in India and their spinners do well on day 3 - 4 slow pitches. Most of the times you will see India batsmen posting mammoth total and other team just crumbling under pressure. Like Lanka they are giants at home but off-shore I am not sure if there's much to talk about. Overall their bowling is not that bad, especially in limited over cricket it's pretty good, but in Test....

Ya mere maula...ur rehman ar rahim is behkhi Ruh ki Nijat kara de!

[Cricket Tragic]

Munaf Patel reminds me a lot of Asif (not character wise). He has excelent control over his line and length' date=' one of the best in the buisness now.[/quote'] LOL, no. Asif was a brilliant test bowler. Munaf has been pretty useless in tests. Having said that, I have little regard for a serial cheat like Asif. Scumbag.