Umesh yadav-pretty impressive.

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He bowled 80% short deliveries today. If you need to take wickets' date=' you must bowl fuller like he did at Perth. Persistence is the key. Today, he bowled like [u']Sreesanth.

When did sreesanth go for 7 an over in tests in a day?.You can't bowl fuller when the pitch is doing nothing and nothing is happening in the air.You need to persist on good length but he was mostly shorter than that today,Also if he bowls short it has to be like a fast bowler bowl bouncers then yorker not back of length balls which are waist height .

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yes that is what they need to do. They are not gonna get many wickets bowling short against Aussies. Bowl them where you can take their wickets fuller outside off stump and set the field according to that.

Most teams have got ponting off short ball recently but they used it sparingly and the height of the ball was at throat not at waist level.

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He bowled like Isshannt + Sree on a bad day.

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When .:offtopic:

[Cricket Tragic]

It's true. :dontknow: The guy has tailunt but he bowled some real rubbish today.

[Pagalpanti]

Had an off-day. Hopefully turns up in better frame of mind tomorrow.

[Magneto]

With all these bowling nautanki going around, Sreesanth is gonna become a certainty for the NZ series. Hope he takes the opportunity and turns his career around.

[Cricketics]

One thing I noticed about his bowling. He tries too much. I mean, the way he ball those block holes and yorkers which hits the toe of the batsman's bat, you can clearly see the guy is trying to do too much with the ball. It's a good strategy for odi cricket, but in test, you have to bowl those good lengths and other lines. You can get a beauty of a yorker ball, but a good bat like Punter will easily negotiate the Yorker. I hope he learns from all of these.

[vvvslaxman]

One thing I noticed about his bowling. He tries too much. I mean, the way he ball those block holes and yorkers which hits the toe of the batsman's bat, you can clearly see the guy is trying to do too much with the ball. It's a good strategy for odi cricket, but in test, you have to bowl those good lengths and other lines. You can get a beauty of a yorker ball, but a good bat like Punter will easily negotiate the Yorker. I hope he learns from all of these.

he wants to run through a side with yorkers. He needs to add a bit more variation more importantly accuracy to get those Sohaib Akhtar's occasional blistering spells.

[Cricketics]

he wants to run through a side with yorkers. He needs to add a bit more variation more importantly accuracy to get those Sohaib Akhtar's occasional blistering spells.

But you can't be trying that every ball. I think he tries to wokr on that delivery too much. You would see bowlers like Pollock, Mcgrath sticking to a plan. Bowling same line and Length. I mean it's a common sense thing. You don't want to look predictable with same yorkers. Though if you bowling the same good length or shoulder height, you would just irritate the batsman and would eventually get him out.

[asterix]

Dissappointed by his bowling..Still early days for him in his career, but I cannot belives our bowlers are not able to execute any sort of plans. I think the Coaching department has gone bankrupt..

[VRV Singh]

One thing I noticed about his bowling. He tries too much. I mean, the way he ball those block holes and yorkers which hits the toe of the batsman's bat, you can clearly see the guy is trying to do too much with the ball. It's a good strategy for odi cricket, but in test, you have to bowl those good lengths and other lines. You can get a beauty of a yorker ball, but a good bat like Punter will easily negotiate the Yorker. I hope he learns from all of these.

+1 The good bowlers are patient. He does not need to look at replicating anything extraordinary, just look at how the Australians are bowling. I don't think it would be hard for him to be more consistent. Most of the time when he strays on to the pads or gets hit down the ground, he is trying the yorker or something different. It's about mindset I think.

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But you can't be trying that every ball. I think he tries to wokr on that delivery too much. You would see bowlers like Pollock, Mcgrath sticking to a plan. Bowling same line and Length. I mean it's a common sense thing. You don't want to look predictable with same yorkers. Though if you bowling the same good length or shoulder height, you would just irritate the batsman and would eventually get him out.

He is a fast bowler for gods sake,Let him be that he should be used as a strike bowler .He will learn line and length eventually .

[rkt.india]

Dissappointed by his bowling..Still early days for him in his career' date=' but I cannot belives our bowlers are not able to execute any sort of plans. I think the Coaching department has gone bankrupt..[/quote'] He bowled well today after lunch, the way I would want him to bowl with new ball as well. I can see where he is going wrong and coach must see it as well. Firstly, he has rarely bowled well with first new ball in his short test career and the reason that I see behind this is he gets too excited and tries to ball 145K from ball One which leads to be erratic. He needs to learn the art that you must settle into a rhythm, a good line and length for firs 5-10 and then steadily increase the pace. This way he can bowl at pace while he is already bowling in good areas. It will give him leeway. The other issue I saw is that he is not bowling enough outswingers to right handers which we saw from him against West Indies. His stock ball must be outswingers to right handers which is the hardest delivery to face for any right hand batsman and then in between can mix them up with inswingers.

[Old guy]

He bowled well today after lunch, the way I would want him to bowl with new ball as well. I can see where he is going wrong and coach must see it as well. Firstly, he has rarely bowled well with first new ball in his short test career and the reason that I see behind this is he gets too excited and tries to ball 145K from ball One which leads to be erratic. He needs to learn the art that you must settle into a rhythm, a good line and length for firs 5-10 and then steadily increase the pace. This way he can bowl at pace while he is already bowling in good areas. It will give him leeway. The other issue I saw is that he is not bowling enough outswingers to right handers which we saw from him against West Indies. His stock ball must be outswingers to right handers which is the hardest delivery to face for any right hand batsman and then in between can mix them up with inswingers.

agree but if he can develop both inswingers and out swingers he will be so dangerous i think he did well today..wasnt there edge of ponting? and he also bowled clarke wht did ishant do today ?

[rkt.india]

agree but if he can develop both inswingers and out swingers he will be so dangerous i think he did well today..wasnt there edge of ponting? and he also bowled clarke wht did ishant do today ?

He already has both, but my point is he should bowl outswingers more than inswingers. Ooutswingers should be stock balls while inswing a surprise ball like James Anderson bowls who maiunly bowls outswingers, but suddenly can surprise the batsmen with inswinger as well and yadav is certainly quicker than Anderson and he will be more effective then. Just sheer pace is not good enough, especially short balls. He can bowl brute of a short ball occasionally like today to Clark which hit his gloves and went in the gap of gully with no fielder there.

[saneindian]

Chance for Umesh now to pick some tail end wickets. Has bowled much better today.

[Old guy]

He already has both' date=' but my point is he should bowl outswingers more than inswingers. Ooutswingers should be stock balls while inswing a surprise ball like James Anderson bowls who maiunly bowls outswingers, but suddenly can surprise the batsmen with inswinger as well and yadav is certainly quicker than Anderson and he will be more effective then. Just sheer pace is not good enough, especially short balls. He can bowl brute of a short ball occasionally like today to Clark which hit his gloves and went in the gap of gully with no fielder there.[/quote'] i think we all are forgetting some thing that this is his first big series... i remeb anderson losing the plot when he first developed in swinger :winky: but thing is he did so well in some spells that we expect him to always bowl well ...but no new bowler is like that imo.. consistency learning how to set up people u learn these things with experience ask any australian too htey will say he is very talented but needs some experience only person we can blame in bowling is ishant..after 40 odd matches he still is clueless those are 45 international test matches! u cant ddefend him by saying he is 23 and i think right now he is struggling a bit with swing what i meant was bowling in swing on will remeb wht harris said when im in full rhythm then only i can land in swingers properly... i think yadav would be more like harris then steyn in future.

[Old guy]

Chance for Umesh now to pick some tail end wickets. Has bowled much better today.

i remeb dale steyn interview..he said on some days rhythm is off release isnt proper.. body does not feel right on those days i try to just bowl within myself at start as rhythm builts up i crank it up at end.. problem with young bowler is (even moren morkel!) when rhytm is off they lost the plot completely now he bowled much better today no way his best spell but still not really losing it he is def the find of this series hope he develops into a good bowler like harris(ofc fitter harris ) :P

[rkt.india]

i think we all are forgetting some thing that this is his first big series... i remeb anderson losing the plot when he first developed in swinger :winky: but thing is he did so well in some spells that we expect him to always bowl well ...but no new bowler is like that imo.. consistency learning how to set up people u learn these things with experience ask any australian too htey will say he is very talented but needs some experience only person we can blame in bowling is ishant..after 40 odd matches he still is clueless those are 45 international test matches! u cant ddefend him by saying he is 23 and i think right now he is struggling a bit with swing what i meant was bowling in swing on will remeb wht harris said when im in full rhythm then only i can land in swingers properly... i think yadav would be more like harris then steyn in future.

But He will have to learn and improve quickly, cannot have another Ishant.