India's Pacers Need To Step Up Their Game

[Lord]

Like spinners are winning us matches after matches overseas. Lets pick players who can be effective in these conditions. Pick side based on condition. Look, our captain has a defensive mindset. Only he can take two bowlers out of the attack straight away after taking 2 wickets in 2 consecutive overs and bowl them just 2 overs and bring 2 non-wicket taking spinners, one of them is averaging 190 in this series, in tandem which showed how defensive he is. Instead of trying to pick more wickets by keeping attacking field against 2 new batsmen, he brings spinners to stop contain. How are you going to win a match by this strategy. Our pacers are no Brett Lee or Glenn McGrath, but still pacers are the only ones who have been taking wickets in this series, might be expensive, but if you want to win, you need wickets. Try to get them out at 250 in 40 overs, rather than thinking we can stretch it to 50 overs and can stop them at 260, no, it will never happen in these conditions with new rules and 2 new balls. Ball never gets too old to be difficult to score off and good for spinners or to get reverse swing for pacers. You need to put pressure on a new batsman whenever, he comes in. We saw the same thing in SA. Miller comes in a new batsman, but Dhoni cannot put a slip because he does not think he needs to take wickets and two consecutive genuine edges gone begging for 4 through slips beating him for pace and what Miller ends up in the end 60 odd in 36 balls who could easily have been out on 5 if he had a slip. This is such a negative mindset. Negative mindset brings negative results and we are seeing them. Bowlers are as good as our captain's faith in you. A captain is as good as his bowlers. Both statements are proportionally right. If you do not take wickets, whoever the bowler is will be thrashed to all parts of the ground in end overs by set batsmen. Why should I blame pacers when they are not given overs at the right time, they are taken off at the wrong time and are not used to pick up wickets but to bowl in batting PPs and slog overs to be slaughtered like lambs by set batsmen.

so your solution is to replace spinners who are economical but don't take wickets with pacers who do neither?:hmmm: