All About Twirlymen : Spinners in India now

[Old guy]

actually with fast bowlers in form pressure will be less ashwin will get wickets in next match im sure also ojha is very consistent on his bad days he does not gives any runs so no worries lol

[Chandan]

Rahul Sharma has played 2 matches this season. How many wickets has he taken? Can't see his name in the entire list, means it is less than 7. http://goo.gl/Ypjyh Nadeem has taken 24 wickets in 3 matches!

[MCcricket]

I saw Murugan bowl and was impressed to , he really gives it all and turns the ball long way, can bowl a googly too, Rahul has bowled well for Punjab and has taken wickets,time for Ashwin to learn from Swannas he still has to bowl more consistently and have a simple plan and tweak the ball,all Indian batters should follow the Aus/SA series and see how they bat in OZ.

[The Outsider]

I saw Murugan bowl and was impressed to ' date=' he really gives it all and turns the ball long way, can bowl a googly too, Rahul has bowled well for Punjab and has taken wickets,time for Ashwin to learn from Swannas he still has to bowl more consistently and have a simple plan and tweak the ball,[b']all Indian batters should follow the Aus/SA series and see how they bat in OZ.

The same Indian batsmen have plundered runs in Australia before the last tour - Sehwag, Dravid, Laxman, Tendulkar. It's not a question of learning how to bat there, but with the fact that three of them were past it and the fourth one kept playing one stupid shot after another.

[rkt.india]

Rahul Sharma has played 2 matches this season. How many wickets has he taken? Can't see his name in the entire list, means it is less than 7. http://goo.gl/Ypjyh Nadeem has taken 24 wickets in 3 matches!

Nadeem has bowled on turning tracks in Jamshedpur and in Assam. Sharma has bowled in Mohali which does not help spinners.

[Trichromatic]

Ashwin contributes, but not as bowler With just one scalp in his last 76.2 overs, R Ashwin is struggling to impose himself as India's leading spinner

R Aswhin batted beautifully for his 68. So beautifully, in fact, that - and you and I may not agree with it - former Test players doing commentary were put in the mind of VVS Laxman and Mark Waugh. More than beautiful, they were crucial runs, taking India to what looked like a good total on a track with turn and bounce. Ashwin has been doing this for a while: providing India with quick-yet-unhurried lower-order runs, batting not like a tailender but a proper batsman. In Australia, he was India's most consistent batsman. But that's not what Ashwin is in the side for. He is there to take wickets, which he did so well against West Indies and New Zealand that he became the fastest Indian to 50 Test scalps. Against Australia and England, though, wickets haven't been coming that easy. At stumps on day two of the second Test, Ashwin's last 76.2 overs had brought him just one wicket, that of the switch-hitting Graeme Swann in Ahmedabad. Take out the series against West Indies and New Zealand, two of the poorer sides against spin, and Ashwin's bowling average rises to 62.30 with a wicket every 20 overs. These numbers overstate the story a little. Firstly, by taking out West Indies and New Zealand, you take away half of his Tests. Also, his Tests against Australia were played in Australia where finger spinners draw minimal assistance. Yet these numbers can't be ignored. If two of his first three series were a little too easy, and one of them too hard, this one against England was going to be Ashwin's first big test. At least three of the England batsmen - Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell - were not expected to throw their wickets away. England were expected to make Ashwin work hard. Having bowled 92 overs for just four wickets is a clear sign of that hard work. Ashwin has been working hard, but it hasn't yet shown in the wickets column. He is a proud cricketer - competitive and combative - and this will not sit well with him. If he is not defensive about it, he should be the first one to realise he hasn't been patient enough. And this pitch has even had the turn and the bounce that India have been yearning. During Ashwin's lean spell in this series, there haven't been periods where he has tried to work batsmen out. Monty Panesar did that. He may have bowled quick, but he kept bowling full to draw the batsmen forward, and then pulled one back a little to create gap between bat and the pitch of the ball. Ashwin himself benefitted through that full length when he got Cook on the drive in the first Test.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-england-2012/content/current/story/592812.html

[Trichromatic]

One more 5 wicket haul for Ojha while Ashwin continues to struggle for wickets.

[Trichromatic]

After England series last year, [table=head]Player Mat Inns Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 5 10 PP Ojha 7 13 391.5 99 992 47 6/47 9/165 21.10 2.53 50.0 5 0 R Ashwin 10 18 535.2 85 1628 54 6/31 12/85 30.14 3.04 59.4 5 1 UT Yadav 9 16 247.3 27 1040 32 5/93 7/103 32.50 4.20 46.4 1 0 Z Khan 8 13 264.5 51 775 21 4/77 7/130 36.90 2.92 75.6 0 0 VR Aaron 1 2 32.0 4 129 3 3/106 3/129 43.00 4.03 64.0 0 0 P Kumar 1 1 40.0 13 98 2 2/98 2/98 49.00 2.45 120.0 0 0 SK Raina 4 5 52.0 5 149 3 2/58 2/58 49.66 2.86 104.0 0 0 R Vinay Kumar 1 1 13.0 0 73 1 1/73 1/73 73.00 5.61 78.0 0 0 I Sharma 9 14 302.4 53 1044 12 2/43 2/91 87.00 3.44 151.3 0 0 S Sreesanth 2 2 65.0 6 281 3 3/123 3/123 93.66 4.32 130.0 0 0 A Mishra 2 2 81.0 5 320 3 3/150 3/150 106.66 3.95 162.0 0 0 V Sehwag 13 10 80.2 4 251 1 1/20 1/20 251.00 3.12 482.0 0 0[/table] Our best bowler by miles.