CG Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 Inability to get ball to shape away from right-hander. His main problem is he does not even have the inswinger now.If he had a effective inswinger then even if the ball hold its line it could be hard to play .
Utalk Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 Nothing wrong with him. Just unlucky. Needs support.
Rightarmfast Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 I totally agree that Sharma has no brains. He doesnt know how to set up batsmen. He cant read the batsmen. he just goes on doing the same stuff all the time.
CG Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 I totally agree that Sharma has no brains. He doesnt know how to set up batsmen. He cant read the batsmen. he just goes on doing the same stuff all the time. If he had no brains how did he take all those wickets and has two mos performances and one in india on flat decks where he used reverse swing,seam,slower balls.He is still young and needs guidance and needs to work on his seam positon.
achilles Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 He bowls good balls but still doesn't pick wickets. Luck is not favouring him.
Vijay.Sharma Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 Just waiting for Dravid_The_Wall to come in and say "I told you so!" On a serious note, as I've been observing for quite awhile, Ishant does not know how to pick wickets. And the only solution to learn the art of picking wickets is by picking them in situations and conditions where there is no pressure (for some people pressure works but clearly for Ishant it is not working). It means Ishant needs to spend 2-3 seasons playing FC and learning his own abilities and about his own bowling. He showed promise when he was picked but just did not know how to translate it into performance. I don't think he is seriously talented enough to be called an under achiever either. He is an average bowler but can learn to become better than average by learning to pick wickets in FC. He just does not have the skills to be a great. For his own good he should go back to FC
adi B Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 without swing if he bowls fuller he is getting driven. nah m8, in the oz condition, he has to pitch it up, the ball will do something of the air or off the pitch
adi B Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 Sharma has no brains, its been apparent for ages. He has not improved since his debut 4 years ago, does not know how to outthink batsmen or set them up. Just runs in like a headless chicken bowling a boundary ball every over. In limited overs cricket he is even worse and gets smacked around with ease. The stats don't lie - he is a mediocre bowler. eggjactly spoke my mind out
Cricket Tragic Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 Ishant Sharma is now a bowler who bowls one good spell in every series.
CG Posted January 13, 2012 Author Posted January 13, 2012 What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Ishant Sharma? I'm guessing it would be an image of a tall, young fast bowler coming off a long run-up ball after ball, giving his all for the team. It is this quality that impressed me on India's wretched tour of England, where Ishant ran in with great zest and bowled long spells the whole day, with intensity - all in a losing cause. When others around him were falling like ninepins, Ishant carried on gamely, day after day, showing the same passion for bowling in the last 20 minutes of the day as he did in the first 20. Such bowlers, who are ready to do the hard yards for the team, are a boon to a captain. But there are bowlers of another kind that a captain would much prefer: bowlers who take wickets. This is where Ishant has proved a disappointment so far; for all his talent and commitment he just does not take enough wickets. When I looked at Ishant's bowling record, it took me by surprise. Until recently I hadn't bothered to look at his numbers, for there was so much to like about Ishant on the field that it did not matter what was on paper. Ishant has played 43 Tests at an average of 36.8. That's right, the bowler India keep looking at as a bright young prospect, expected to take over the leadership role from Zaheer Khan, has already played 43 Tests. Forty-three Tests makes you a seasoned Test player - a player for the present, not one for the future. It's time Indian cricket started looking at Ishant that way, expecting results from him today instead of tomorrow. Let's now move to the other eye-catching number in his bowling record - the average. Bowling averages somehow never get as much media- and mind-space as batting averages do. When it comes to gauging the success of a player, it's simpler for fans to understand batting averages. To give you a very rough estimate of Ishant's bowling average in batting parlance: an average of 36 runs per wickets is about equal to averaging just under 35 per innings for a batsman. Would India be tolerant of a batsman who averaged around 35 after 43 Tests? Ishant's strike rate of 64.8 is also below par. This means he needs to bowl nearly 11 overs to get one wicket. Granted, India are not spoilt for choice when it comes to seam bowlers, but that Ishant has generally been an automatic pick in the playing XI and his bowling returns are never a talking point suggests we have all been slightly swayed by his demeanour on the field. It is always "unlucky" Ishant, a bowler who deserves more wickets for his lion-hearted performance in the field. "Unlucky Ishant Sharma" has become his brandname in Indian cricket today. But there is no such thing as an unlucky batsman or an unlucky bowler. Over a short span, yes, but if someone is an "unlucky" bowler over a long period of time, he is simply not bowling enough wicket-taking balls. And that is the simple truth about Ishant - he has just not bowled enough potential wicket-taking balls, and it reflects in his record. An average of 36 runs per wickets is equal to averaging just under 35 per innings for a batsman. Would India be tolerant of a batsman who averaged around 35 after 43 Tests? Following a good series in the West Indies, where he picked up 22 wickets, his dry run resumed in England. After Ishant had another fruitless day in the field in the recent home series against West Indies, I asked Courtney Walsh, a fellow panelist on a TV show, for his take on Ishant. Walsh also bowled the same genre of seam as Ishant does, and he made an observation about what prevented Ishant from being a more potent wicket-taking bowler: the head falling away at the time of delivery, and the uncertain position of the wrist behind the ball when he lets it go were his two main deficiencies, Walsh said. Of course, this is not the first time these aspects of Ishant's bowling have been pointed out, but it is sad to see that these two critical issues have remained largely unaddressed. All fast bowlers will tell you that the head falling away sideways at the time of delivery kills much of the speed, especially when the ball is pitched up. It's an important reason why Ishant is never quick when he pitches the ball up, and why the yorker is not a real weapon for him. This, along with his wrist action - where the two fingers on the seam tend to slide away rather than remain behind the seam when the ball is released - greatly diminishes the movement he would otherwise get in the air and off the pitch, and the zip. When he tries to get the ball into that full-length area, it just does not respond. It reacts better when it's pitched shorter, which is why he feels compelled to bowl that length. But when the ball is short you don't find the edges, the leg-befores and the bowleds, as often. And that is what makes Ishant an "unlucky" bowler in Indian cricket. Former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar is a cricket commentator and presenter on TV. His Twitter feed is here RSS Feeds: Sanjay Manjrekar Exactly.
bulbul Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Now his Avg succesfully went past 37 :two_thumbs_up:
CG Posted January 13, 2012 Author Posted January 13, 2012 Now his Avg succesfully went past 37 :two_thumbs_up: Everybody except bowling coach knows what ishant problem is.
saneindian Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 He has now joined the league of extra ordinary bowlers with a bowling avg of 37 +, likes of Sreesanth, Lord Aggy, Prasad, Prabhakar, Madan Lal etc.
Pak_Fan_4_Eva Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 The only way is up :P Never been a fan of him. Always found him mediocre to the last degree.
Number Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 omg another bowler who looked promising earlier is going as a failure ..:(( I guess we don't have a successful bowler in our destiny as Indian fans .. :((
f.b.m Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 People hype him up for his age but his fielding is terrible for a 23 year old.. And also some commentators seem to think that he's good at bowling to left-handers lololol..
youngindia Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 It takes years to be sucessful test players especially for batsmen. Bowlers can relatively barge in quciker but it must not be forgotten they need time to figure it out as well. for indian pace bowlers, it has not been easy. zaheer started a new career in 2007 after almost six years of debut.srinath was also considered a unlucky bowler and it was in 1996 after five years , he bowled some penertating spells vs SA afetr starting in england. so i am willing to give more time. kapil was different, he took a record 80 + wickets in his second season but his longevity was not good as he started declining in the second phase. you are not going to get the best fast bowling expertise in india.hell i found it difficult to find one coach for advice on bowling! there will be barriers.
Karan114 Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 He has now joined the league of extra ordinary bowlers with a bowling avg of 37 +' date=' likes of Sreesanth, Lord Aggy, Prasad, Prabhakar, Madan Lal etc.[/quote'] I thought the series in WI would mark a turnaround after his awful bowling in South Africa...iirc his average was down to around 31-32 by the end of that series. But he's just become more rubbish since and his average will soon reach 40 unless he is dropped :((
Old guy Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 It takes years to be sucessful test players especially for batsmen. Bowlers can relatively barge in quciker but it must not be forgotten they need time to figure it out as well. for indian pace bowlers, it has not been easy. zaheer started a new career in 2007 after almost six years of debut.srinath was also considered a unlucky bowler and it was in 1996 after five years , he bowled some penertating spells vs SA afetr starting in england. so i am willing to give more time. kapil was different, he took a record 80 + wickets in his second season but his longevity was not good as he started declining in the second phase. you are not going to get the best fast bowling expertise in india.hell i found it difficult to find one coach for advice on bowling! there will be barriers. with our coaches and system honestly we dont deserve to be a top side.. its just that so many people love cricket that we have been decent for long time well i will drop ishant for now lets try new guys cant be worse lol of they are u can always go back and by then probably shant owuld ve improved
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