Indian cricket tail of wasted talent, potential

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As Career Gathers Pace Avesh looks to Add some to his Bowling There has been a dearth of quality fast bowlers in India. Since a long time Indian cricket has remained dependent on spin bowling. This is one of the main reasons of India’s poor overseas record in matches played away from home. There have been few names like Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan, […] Written by: amey oke2014/12/08 6:23 AM Avesh Khan Avesh Khan There has been a dearth of quality fast bowlers in India. Since a long time Indian cricket has remained dependent on spin bowling. This is one of the main reasons of India’s poor overseas record in matches played away from home. There have been few names like Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and the most recent- Varun Aaron, who have shown that Indian cricket also has tremendous potential when it comes to fast bowling. But when we look at other teams like Australia, South Africa and West Indies, it becomes quite clear that the good remarks about Indian fast bowlers are nothing but a fallacy. But there is this young lad from Madhya Pradesh who is making some name for his furious fast bowling. Avesh Khan, a resident of Indore, Madhya Pradesh is all set to take off into a wider and much competitive cricketing environment. Avesh has been doing some talk with the ball for past one year now. Initially, he came into limelight when he took 9 wickets in under 19’s Cooch Behar trophy against Chhattisgarh last year. His efforts were fruitful as immediately he got a call from National Cricket Academy for a under 19’s camp. Astonished by the tremendous pace he generates, the selectors picked him in India under 19’s team for Asia cup in UAE. Avesh bowled some great spells and hit the mark of 140 KMPH. A good performance in Asia cup meant that he was a natural selection in India under 19’s squad for world cup. He was leading India’s pace attack and delivered in most of the matches he played. Avesh started to play cricket at the age of 10 on the streets of Indore. Avesh’s journey in past 7 years from a novice cricketer to a leader of India under 19’s pace attack is quite redoubtable. Often we see that young players have their particular idol in Indian cricket team. Interestingly, no player from Indian team or from any other team is idolatrous for Avesh, He believes in his own style. By his fantastic performance in past one year, he has become a source of inspiration for lots of young players coming from Madhya Pradesh. . At very young age, Avesh was selected in Indore colts’ team. He earned a maiden call up from Madhya Pradesh under 19’s team due to his top quality performance with Indore colts’ team. The built up of Avesh’s career has taken place under the watchful eyes of Mr. Amay Khurasiya- a former Indian player. In fact Amay Khurasia was the last player from Madhya Pradesh who has played for India. Last time he played for India was way back in 2001. Avesh hasn’t looked back since then and the graph of his career is going upwards. After a successful outing in Cooch Behar trophy during last season, Avesh returned to play in this tournament in this season. This time with more experience, more expectations and with a pride of having represented India in under 19’s world cup. Within no time he showed his class by claiming 21 wickets from 4 matches in Cooch Behar trophy. This performance caught attention of Madhya Pradesh selectors who decided to fast track him into Madhya Pradesh Ranji trophy team. Apparently, the chairman of Madhya Pradesh selection committee, Mr.Narendra Hirwani, also played for India under 19’s back in 1986 when the tournament was organized for first time. At 17, Avesh is all set to make his Ranji trophy debut for Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh has got a good tradition of fast bowlers. T.P.Sudhindra was the highest wicket taker in 2010 season while Ishwar Pandey repeated the same in 2013 season. With these player around, Avesh will be getting a nice company to groom himself and improve his bowling further. Avesh hadn’t even thought about playing in Ranji Trophy so soon. He was aiming for a spot in India under 19’s team again for 2016 under 19’s world cup in Bangladesh. However, this will be a test of Avesh’s temperament and patience along with his bowling skills. Often we have seen a fast bowler dropping his pace after reaching highest level of cricket. Avesh will have to face these challenges to make it to senior Indian team. Avesh, a student of commerce, is very down to earth and he believes in hard work for achieving success. Instead of thinking too much he likes to be focused every time he goes out to play. Avesh comes from a middle class family and hence there is more importance of his success. Avesh has got great physique, he is 6.2 Ft tall which is one of the main factor of his success. He gets a good bounce due to his height. Initially, he faced some criticism about his bowling. He was not accurate, which is quite understandable as he was bowling with express pace. During those days Amay Khurasiya and Sanjay Jagdale provided a great support for him. He worked hard in Indore’s cricket academy for 3 consecutive years. The key feature of Avesh’s bowling is his ability to bowl long spells at a stretch. Being a main bowler, captain always used to turn to him whenever the wicket was essential. Avesh is enjoying this arduous task of fast bowling. At this young age of 17, he is constantly bowling with tremendous pace. It will be interesting to see if this lanky fast bowler can repeat his success in his first Ranji Trophy season. It is for sure that in coming years we can expect to see him bowling even quicker and competing with the likes of Varun Aaron and Ishant Sharma to become the fastest bowler India has ever produced.

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Javed Khan Sachin Tendulkar has spotted a rookie pace bowling talent and has helped him secure an IPL contract with Mumbai Indians. Fast bowler Javed Khan, who was a 'nets' bowler for Team India before the fourth and final Test against Australia in New Delhi recently, impressed Tendulkar with his speed, according to a report in "Hindustan Times" newspaper on Sunday. Javed has not played any age-group tournament before and could play a match in the sixth edition of the IPL (IPL 6). The 20-year-old hails from Gajraula village in Uttar Pradesh. After his impressive spell in Team India 'nets' at Feroz Shah Kotla, Tendulkar helped the boy to come for Mumbai Indians' trials. Mumbai franchise captain Ricky Ponting and coach John Wright too were impressed with the boy, who according to Wright bowled at around 140 kmph. Javed signed a Rs 10 lakh (pay for domestic players without first-class cricket experience) contract with Mumbai. "I bowled with the leather (cricket) ball for the first time when I was about 18, around the time I'd come to Delhi to play cricket. Before that I used to play only with a tennis ball at my home," Javed was quoted as saying in the newspaper report. It was reported that during 'nets' Javed had Suresh Raina hopping with his bouncers and also hit the batsman on the body. In Delhi, he had injured an Under-25 batsman by hitting him on the head with a bouncer. IPL 6 could produce a fairytale story for this youngster. ThatsCricket Read more about: ipl 6, sachin tendulkar, mumbai indians, javed khan Story first

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Md Amir Khan News-ArchiveWebFast and furious UP migrant beats poverty,plays true to his name Fast and furious UP migrant beats poverty,plays true to his name Mohammad Amir Khan is a bowling talent with a boxer’s temperament CommentsEmailPrint Written by Devendra Pandey | Mumbai | Published on:August 16, 2012 1:05 am Mohammad Amir Khan has a pretty appropriate name. Stop at the first two names,Mohammad Amir,and you get who he is: a nippy,talented,left-arm seamer — just like his Pakistani namesake,but minus the taint that the other man now carries. Take the last two names — Amir Khan — and you get an idea of the Mumbai lad’s skills with the cricket ball: he loves to knock out opponents with a good smack to the face,rather like his namesake,currently Britain’s finest boxer. With a name like that,and a reputation for crushing helmets and fracturing egos,it’s difficult not to create a buzz. Young Amir has made Mumbai’s willow-centric nurseries sit up and take notice by making it to the 15-member city squad for the Buchi Babu tournament — without having played a single age-group match yet. The pre-season tournament,at which top national teams play their first XIs with an eye on the Ranji Trophy,starts this weekend. Amir,the boy from Uttar Pradesh,has somehow beaten the revered system of juniors rising through the ranks. Like most migrants who come to Mumbai,life for Amir has been full of back-breaking struggle. “One day,if things go my way,I hope to give back to my family all that they have sacrificed,†he said. Born in a farming household well below the poverty line,Amir left home at the age of 15 to pursue his cricketing dream. And the first roadblock appeared as soon as he arrived in Mumbai. One of the ground rules of Mumbai Cricket Association is that all cricketers from outside Mumbai must ply their trade in local leagues before they become eligible for selection to an age-group team of the state. So Amir went about offering his cricketing talent to any club that wanted him,on the many maidans of the city. “I used to earn just enough to eat one meal a day,†said Amir,who now lives in a unauthorised chawl perched on Kurla’s crowded hills. “But with time,I earned a reputation. I knocked over plenty of batsmen,injuring most of them. Seeing them hurt despite the protective gear gave me confidence. They found it very hard to score off my bowling,because most of the time they were just trying to avoid being hit,†he said. The ability to extract awkward bounce earned Amir his first permanent contract — with the posh Cricket Club of India. When selectors at the elite CCI watched him drop batsmen with each of his deliveries in the first over of the trials,they knew they had to have him. Against DY Patil,another elite club,he took eight wickets in a Purshottam Shield game,and is now permanently on their roster. “So much has happened so fast. On some days I used to walk 10 kilometres to reach the ground because I had no money for a bus ticket,†Amir said. “There were days when I went without eating anything at all,and every day I had to come down Kurla hill just to have a bath.†Those were unimaginably difficult days,and Amir was on the verge of giving up and returning to Faizabad,where …continued »

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Pawan Suyal Suyal strikes take Delhi home Last updated: 04 December, 2010 New Delhi, Dec 4, PTI: Pawan Suyal picked up his maiden ten-wicket haul in first-class cricket as Delhi registered their first outright win of the season, beating Assam by seven wickets in the Ranji Trophy Super League (Group A) match at the Roshanara ground on Saturday. Delhi now have 13 points from five matches and are second behind Mumbai, who have already qualified for the quarterfinals with 20 points. After being bundled out for 239 runs in the first innings, Assam could only manage 291 in their second essay due to some fine seam bowling by Suyal (6/71, match haul of 10/161) and Sumit Narwal (3/79). Barring Dheeraj Jadhav, who scored 122 (251 balls, 15x4) and the diminutive Gokul Sharma (59, 77 balls, 10x4), none of the other batsmen showed stomach for fight. Needing 59 runs for victory, Delhi achieved the target losing three wickets, thus missing a chance to get bonus points. Credit should go to Suyal for his workmanlike effort as he used the second new ball quite effectively, which resulted in Assam losing seven wickets for the addition of only 22 runs. From 269 for three, the Amol Muzumdar-led side were bowled out for 291. Delhi should blame themselves for not managing a bonus point as Shikhar Dhawan went for an impossible cut shot and was bowled. Once they had lost the first wicket, the bonus point was out of the window, and Delhi settled for a seven-wicket win. Brief scores: Group A: In Delhi: Delhi: 472 all out in 127.4 overs and 61/3 in 15.3 overs (Unmukt Chand 37 n.o.; Ranjitkumar Mali 2-16) bt Assam: 239 all out in 74 overs and 291 all out in 97 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 122, Sridharan Sriram 59, Gokul Sharma 56; Sumit Narwal 3-79, Pawan Suyal 6-71). Delhi 5 pts, Assam 0. In Chennai: Tamil Nadu: 132/4 in 41 overs (Abhinav Mukund 41, S Badrinath 33 n.o.; Ashoke Dinda 3-33) drew Bengal. Tamil Nadu 1 pt, Bengal 1. In Rajkot: Railways: 415 all out in 136.1 overs and 107/6 in 47 overs (Faiz Fazal 43 n.o.; Sandip Manian 2-14) drew Saurashtra: 338 all out in 157.1 overs (Sagar Jogiyani 113, Sitanshu Kotak 50, Jaydev Shah 38, Pratik Mehta 35; Anureet Singh 2-67, Jai Prakash Yadav 6-94, Nileshkumar Chauhan 2-42). Railways 3 pts, Saurashtra 1. Group B: In Bhubaneswar: Punjab: 550/7 decl in 166 overs drew Orissa: 264 all out in 111.2 overs (Natraj Behera 32, Biplab Samantray 33, Subhrajit Sahoo 47, Alok Chandra Sahoo 28, Basanth Mohanty 28 n.o.; Manpreet Singh Gony 4-83, Sarabjit Ladda 4-63) and 177/3 in 58 overs (Paresh Patel 27, Natraj Behera 81, Niranjan Behera 50 n.o.; Karan Goel 2-41). Punjab 3 pts, Orissa 1. Go to Top

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Why have these guys not been picked up n groomed like any other country would, Indian selectors n BCCI are the culprits n so is NCA and Administration, Kamran Khan , M Sayysd, A Choudhury, Monu Singh, will we ever learn to identify bowlers with potential n groom nurturethem for higher honours n become a force or just be retrograde n never ever find and develop a good bowling attack as we do have the raw material butlack will n initiative How on earth 125 to 130 trundlers put us on a world map as far as bowling attack n win us games, history has shown us one MJohnson is worth 3 Longing and the value of a good Bowler is priceless

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Option was Madeep Singh, not Sandeep singh

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Its corrupted with nepotism. Just take Tamil Nadu for example. I have heard from my Tamil friends that only Brahmins have represented India from Tamil Nadu with 3% of their population. How on earth is this acceptable?

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Yes frustrating as we defeat ourselves, we despite having all the resources n size of population cannot boast of a world class team n that is not due to bowling or cupboard being bare but the failure in cricket administration, Australia would have groomed Suyal, Avesh n they might be similarly talented as the pacers they picked as rookies n now are world beaters like, Staarc, erratic MJ, Cummings, and others SL had the foresight to pick n groom a raw Making a n we had a similar bowler in Kamran Kahn n he is wasted, Suyal is as good as Zaheer when he made debut, thnx due to coach n Ganguly then, as Mumbai did not let him play for them even then,

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even if mitchell johnson and starc are found in India. they will eventually become spoilt bowlers. 1) Indian pitches are unsuitable for fast bowling. Bowlers of every western country train hard in bouncy conditions, thus giving them the necessary encouragement to bowl fast. Indian conditions convert fast bowlers into trundlers. 2) Indian players as a result avoid FC cricket. So everything they learn about the longer version is in the test format. They are never prepared enuf for the test format before a series begins. 3) Indian players are easily satisfied by IPL salaries. They dont have the necessary hunger to win a test series. The budding culture of winning overseas culture in the last decade has been nipped by too much short-form cricket. If Aaron, Umesh, Shami, Ishant and Bhuvi leave IPL for good and play only intl cricket and FC in English county, then they will easily become a great pace bowling bunch for India in the next 2-3 years. But they wont.

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Did MS Dhoni really have to rest? There is an odd man out in the seven players rested for the Zimbabwe series. All seven players - Suresh Raina hopes to - bar one plays in all three formats. MS Dhoni gave up Tests late last year to concentrate on the shorter formats and is going through a spell where he is trying to rediscover his batting. India's next limited-overs assignment is not before October. After the series loss in Bangladesh, with the Test players resting, this would have been a good chance for one of the seniors who won't be busy in the next few months to shepherd a young team and get a soft relaunch for his No. 4 batting. Dhoni was due to get all the rest he wanted after July. Unless there is a pressing niggle or injury that Dhoni is fighting and the board is not communicating, it does not make sense for a one-day specialist to be rested. No proper wicketkeeper? Now that Dhoni is being rested, there was a chance for the selectors to show how they plan for his retirement from all formats. The response: not a single specialist wicketkeeper in the squad. Wriddhiman Saha, who had a bumper IPL in 2014 and is the Test wicketkeeper, Naman Ojha and Sanju Samson have all been left out. Ojha was selected in the A squad but the senior squad has three wicketkeeper-batsmen: Robin Uthappa, 29 years old, Kedar Jadhav, 30, and Ambati Rayudu, 29. Uthappa was the lone first-choice wicketkeeper of his IPL side this year but, being a top-order batsman, he will struggle to find a place in India's jam-packed full-strength top order. This is a strong message to the other three wicketkeeper-batsmen: the selectors don't believe they are quite there yet. Where are the next young batsmen? The ages of Uthappa, Jadhav and Rayudu are a worrying sign. The main purpose of a second-string side is to see who can take the place of first-choice players in the future. You expect most of the second-string players to be young. The youngest of the seven batsmen in this squad is Manish Pandey, who will turn 26 this September. The problem is, the younger batsmen are not scoring as many runs in the domestic circuit as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane were when they were 22 years old and getting chances to play international cricket only in second-string sides. No fast bowlers in ODIs? Dhoni's stinging criticism of out-and-out fast bowlers during the Bangladesh ODIs might have led some to believe there was dissension and a clash of philosophies with Test captain Virat Kohli, but there was another explanation of what Dhoni said: use pace in Tests all you want, but you can't afford to have erratic pace in ODIs. The announcement of the squads on Monday reflected that: the ODI team to Zimbabwe has only strictly medium-pacers among bowlers who come off a long run, and the A squad for the four-day matches has two of the quickest bowlers in India, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron. Where does Ravindra Jadeja go from here? Ravindra Jadeja has long been a trusted warhorse for Dhoni, and not without reason, but he seems to have lost that fizz in his bowling ever since he has come back from his shoulder injury. He is essentially a specialist spinner who can bat, a breed whose value - in the absence of an allrounder - has increased in India since the ODI rules changed to eliminate the batsman who could bowl as a No. 7 and since India felt the need of playing five bowlers in Tests. Now with his bowling not quite there, it is reasonable that he be dropped, but what is surprising is that he has not even been given a chance in the A squads. Is this a message that the Test captain Virat Kohli is looking beyond Jadeja as a Test spinner? Sidharth Monga is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo © ESPN Sports Media Ltd.

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even if mitchell johnson and starc are found in India. they will eventually become spoilt bowlers. 1) Indian pitches are unsuitable for fast bowling. Bowlers of every western country train hard in bouncy conditions, thus giving them the necessary encouragement to bowl fast. Indian conditions convert fast bowlers into trundlers. 2) Indian players as a result avoid FC cricket. So everything they learn about the longer version is in the test format. They are never prepared enuf for the test format before a series begins. 3) Indian players are easily satisfied by IPL salaries. They dont have the necessary hunger to win a test series. The budding culture of winning overseas culture in the last decade has been nipped by too much short-form cricket. If Aaron, Umesh, Shami, Ishant and Bhuvi leave IPL for good and play only intl cricket and FC in English county, then they will easily become a great pace bowling bunch for India in the next 2-3 years. But they wont.

I am sorry these are excuses if any from the richest sports body BCCI, Pakistan, SL, WI have similar or worse tracks, yes one malaise is over bowling fast men in domestic cricket which can be checked easily by simple regulations, and NCA body can look at them , why do we have Umesh, Varun who can touch 153, so we do have R Shukla, Suyal, Sran, Avesh, And 4 others who can bowl in 138 to 148 range which is quick

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As far as bowlers, the affairs of selection n management, identification have been non existent n poor, even Srinath was benched for a long time n wasted, this goes back forever, the only bright period was during Ganguly captaincy. Dhoni as a captain has been a shame in identifying n grooming ,this selection committee n before Srekant has been very very poor, More, Vengsarkar, and others have been better

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Didn't know gavaskar was a Brahmin

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Utter Bull ****. Since 1990-91, about 90 players have played for the Tamil Nadu Ranji team, out of which 18 have gone on to play for India in Tests or ODIs. Robin Singh, Aashish Kapoor, Vivek Razdan, Hemang Badani, T. Kumaran and L.Balaji are not Brahmins. Also if you haven't noticed some of the best cricketers are Brahmins 1] Sachin Tendulkar 2] Rahul Dravid 3] V.V.S Laxman 4] Sourabh Ganguly 5] Sunil Gavaskar 6] Ravi Shastri 7] Anil Kumble 8] Suresh Raina 9] Rohit Sharma 10] Dilip Vengsarkar Brahmins are just more talented it seems B->

rubbish. Balaji, badani, razdan are Brahmins.

[Shivaji bhonsle]

99% Brahmins with few exceptions. I am saying 99% because I don't whether Robin Singh and Bharath Reddy are Brahmins. But apart from them everyone are Brahmins. Ariya Vasudevan Abhinav Mukund Bharath Reddy C. R. Rangachari Dinesh Karthik Hemang Badani Krishnamachari Srikkanth Lakshmipathy Balaji Laxman Sivaramakrishnan M. J. Gopalan Murali Kartik Murali Vijay Ravichandran Ashwin Robin Singh Sadagoppan Ramesh Sridharan Sriram Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Subramaniam Badrinath T. A. Sekhar T. E. Srinivasan Thiru Kumaran V. B. Chandrasekhar Woorkeri Raman The TNCA head, chief,etc everyone are Brahmins. For the selection they look to touch the person(i he has white cross around his body) to identify if he is Brahmin. What a f*** selection policy.

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Copied from a website.. http://www.answers.com/mobile/Q/Is_all_international_cricket_players_from_tamilnadu_brahmin

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sab ke sab superstars hai

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send all the brahmins to pak:hitler:

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Published On: Sat, Jul 4th, 2015 Cricket / Sports | By Shambhu Mishra Sir Andy Roberts advises Umesh Yadav to Bowl fast with Control West Indies’ legendary fast bowler Sir Andy Roberts has advised Indian fast bowler Umesh Yadav to bowl fast with better control rather than thinking about line and length. “Look at Australia, Mitchell Johnson was nowhere in the last five years, but he went back, worked hard, strengthened his body and used his pace. Johnson wasn’t about line and length, he was all about pace and that’s what got Australia back to the forefront. Pace!” said Sir Roberts. Sir Roberts also criticised India’s ODI and T20 skipper MS Dhoni’s comment over Umesh’s errors in line and length while concentrating only on pace. Dhoni made his comment after seeing Umesh Yadav conceded 33 runs in four overs against Bangladesh. “Yadav is India’s genuine fast bowler and I don’t like this idea of you telling your fast bowlers you must bowl line and length, you don’t sacrifice pace for length and control, all one needs to do is work hard in the nets to better his control”, The Caribbean legend said. Indian selectors though seem to be in sync with MS Dhoni; as was evident when Umesh Yadav was admonished to the India A squad after the Bangladesh series. Asked about Umesh’s demotion, the man known for his deadpan expressions as a player broke into a smile, “Well that’s selectors for you.” A self-confessed Umesh Yadav fan the Antiguan went on to add, “He (Yadav) has the pace and not too many fast bowlers have pace. You don’t just make fast bowlers. You have to be born with it.” Andy Roberts would know; former Pakistan captain Imran Khan once described a ball bowled to him by Roberts as the fastest and most terrifying he had ever faced. About the Author Shambhu Mishra -