rkt.india Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 After India's opening match against Pakistan, MS Dhoni had said that bowling sides were resorting to short of a length in the World Cup and challenging batsmen to play big strokes. At their full training session in the afternoon at Junction Oval in St Kilda in suburban Melbourne, two days before their second World Cup group game against South Africa, his team worked that plan into the routine: the India quick bowlers tried mostly back of a length or full length in the nets, and their batsmen tried to attack them as often as they could. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who has had ankle issues on this tour and did not play against Pakistan, did not bowl in the nets, and was confined to catching practice and sending down a few from a standing position to Mohit Sharma. Stuart Binny and Umesh Yadav began proceedings and had extended bowling stints on the centre pitch. They started against Shikhar Dhawan, who was given plenty of back-of-a-length deliveries, which he repeatedly punched through the off side. Umesh bowled some quite full ones, too. It was Ravindra Jadeja's turn to bat next and he, too, had a decent hit while Dhawan headed to the side nets to face shortish throwdowns from the sidearm device. Jadeja joined him there after some time. Ambati Rayudu kept wicket against Binny and Umesh, with coach Duncan Fletcher and Dhoni keeping a watch from close quarters. Virat Kohli then came to bat as the fast bowlers switched to the other end, and were joined by Mohit. Kohli solidly drove and lofted pitched-up deliveries on the off side. Ajinkya Rahane went after shortish deliveries outside off, as he punched and upper-cut them. Both batsmen and bowlers need to get more comfortable with the short of a length stuff, as Dhoni has flagged it as the favoured option in the tournament in these conditions against attacking batting. "If you have a partnership going, if you have wickets in hand, and if somebody starts to middle the deliveries, it becomes quite hard to contain the batsmen because of the pace of the wicket and also with that extra fielder inside. A lot of times you feel, okay, where to really bowl so we can contain the batsmen," Dhoni had said. "Most of the teams are just bowling back of the length and asking the batsmen to clear the boundaries, and irrespective of how good a batsman you are, that's one strategy that almost all the teams have deployed, and it is working. "In some games you'll see somebody really middling the shots, and if it goes outside the boundary, then they'll have to fall back to their other plan of bowling yorkers." Dhoni himself batted against the fuller lengths expected at the death and powered deliveries in the air, on one occasion almost lofting one straight into the giant scoreboard around wide long-off. He was similarly aggressive against the spinners as well and stepped out regularly to them. Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma had some fielding and catching practice first before having a hit. Raina had to run to touch one of three-four plastic markers placed around him, turn around, sprint to field a ball and aim at one of two sets of stumps. While Axar Patel and Jadeja had a bowl, R Ashwin was not seen sending down his offspin, although he did play a game of football along with the others at the start of training and belted a few with the bat late in the session. Team director Ravi Shastri and Kohli had a chat at the edge of the boundary after the conclusion of training with Raina and manager Arshad Ayub sitting nearby. http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/835429.html Now this is the kind of practice I do not like for bowlers. Good for batsmen, but they will bowl same rubbish in matches too what they bowl in the nets for these batsmen to practice. They are never going to develop consistency bowling like this.
NareshK Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Why are they leaking India's bowling plans to the press ? Wont SA batsmen prepare for this line of attack ?
rkt.india Posted February 21, 2015 Author Posted February 21, 2015 Why are they leaking India's bowling plans to the press ? Wont SA batsmen prepare for this line of attack ? This is batting plan, not bowling. Batsmen were practicing hitting back of length deliveries.
Sachin=GOD Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Why are they leaking India's bowling plans to the press ? Wont SA batsmen prepare for this line of attack ? India have a bowling plan :woot:
Cricket_Hacker Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 India have a bowling plan :woot: hope its not bowling short from around the wicket
Shivaji bhonsle Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Bhuvi is still not bowling in the nets? What a waste..
rkt.india Posted February 21, 2015 Author Posted February 21, 2015 People dont even read and start commenting.
Lord Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Its better than bowling full on these pitches.If they can get consistency it will be good. For NZ,you need fuller length
G_B_ Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 its good for the batsman as rkt says. not sure for the bowlers. Bhuvi is not playing so he is being used as a net bowler or sorts?
Marut Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 The above was only one of the drills done by the bowlers. Don't think this is the only kind of practice our bowlers get.
rkt.india Posted February 21, 2015 Author Posted February 21, 2015 The above was only one of the drills done by the bowlers. Don't think this is the only kind of practice our bowlers get. This was more a drill for batsmen, not bowlers.
NareshK Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 This is batting plan' date=' not bowling. Batsmen were practicing hitting back of length deliveries.[/quote'] Bowlers were also practicing bowling back of length and their intention is to do the same in the game as well.
Lord Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 This was more a drill for batsmen' date=' not bowlers.[/quote'] If that was the case they would have got net bowlers and coaches etc to bowl not our regular bowlers
rkt.india Posted February 21, 2015 Author Posted February 21, 2015 Bowlers were also practicing bowling back of length and their intention is to do the same in the game as well. that is defensive approach straightaway. Also, forcing bowlers to bowl against their natural style. Now BK is just a defensive bowler due to all these strategies employed by Dhoni. How is Shami going at that height is going to be successful bowling that length?
Stuge Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 hope its not bowling short from around the wicket maa bhen gho jaygee
peterparker Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 good, Indian batsmen need such practice. I have a feeling that this time, indian team will choke africa, whatever talks about sustained momentum are said.
Gollum Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Pray we lose to them, can't peak so early, we need to lose at least lose 1 match in the group stages, get that customary bad game out of the way before the knockouts begin.
sensible-indian Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 So Bhuvi isn't going to play. Is Ashwin also sitting out?
peterparker Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Pray we lose to them' date=' can't peak so early, we need to lose at least lose 1 match in the group stages, get that customary bad game out of the way before the knockouts begin.[/quote'] League matches are important, what if, indian meets rsa in semi and the match ends in a TIE? or that match gets washed out due to rain? head 2 head counts
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