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Speeds and Performances of Pacers and Spinners


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The Lords test we won in 2014, by bouncing out England, seems to have brought about a change in philosophy of team India. Pacers have tried to improve their bouncers and used them more frequently too. Shami was bowling much better bouncers in the recently concluded West Indian series even on flattish tracks. Aaron and Ishant already had good bouncers and are using them more freely. Even Umesh is using them better although he is not upto the mark yet. We are using quick bowlers in tandem now. Even Dhoni played Shami and Umesh together. If the quick bowlers can bowl accurately like yesterday and use pace and bounce too then we can have a good pace attack with the the quicks plus the talented Bhuvi swinging the ball. There seems to be a stress on pace + bounce + accuracy for the first time. I expect Bharat Arun to do a good job.

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Varun is severely injury prone. Few months and he picks up some or other injury unfortunately. To have him in playing 11 is a risk given that he collapses mid way during the spell. Luckily we had 365 to defend yesterday. Imagine defending average scores with one specialist bowler less. So far: 9 innings - 11 wickets, economy 6.61 Below par short ODI career so far for a specialist bowler. Doesn't takes enough wicket and also leaks lot of runs. Does any other specialist pace bowler has higher economy rate than Varun ? Jade Dernbach or Umesh Yadav ? Certainly strike bowlers take more than 11 wickets in 9 innings. Neither he is being a wicket taker nor is he managing to keep the runs per over at an acceptable rate. Hope he shows tremendous improvement in performances as well as being injured less frequently.

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