5 bowler theory in Sc.

[CG]

Most often when teams play 3 spinners one is underbowled or wasted.Better to stick to 7-4 on these tracks particularly with young & inexperienced batting and 2 offspiners is not on.

[jusarrived]

5 bowler is good when one of them is an AR and your WK can bat in top6 ..apart from this our batting is so inexperienced to put additional pressure on them is plain stupid ...single biggest reason we lost today

[vvvslaxman]

Entire top order looks weak . Vijay is also not there. They dug their own grave by playing Rohit at 3. Rahul dude is not convincing. Kohl I is not fully back in form . One of the weakest Indian batting line up despite having big names.

[rkt.india]

we dont even yet know who are our settled top 5, and want to play 5 bowlers. Rahul a complete rookie, Rohit an eternal rookie, now you want to win matches depending on 3 batsmen and all 3 wont score every time. You at least 3-4 out of your 6 batsmen to score big runs in every innings to have any chance of a win.

[vvvslaxman]

We have quantity no quality. We can throw around so many names from domestic. Nobody looks world class .

[hhhhdmt]

As a neutral fan, i am amazed as to how many chances Rohit gets. I know domestic players who haven't played a lot or any international cricket are often over hyped, but surely if you gave many domestic players as many chances as him, they would be more successful?

[Number]

If 5th bowler is Bhajji then the formula will never work.

[Lannister]

As long as you keep on selecting the likes of Nohit, Dartbhajan, Pishat no plan is going to work.

[kosingh]

u never 3 spinners. anywhere. ever. Not when none of the 3 spinners is an all rounder.

[Marut]

5 bowler strategy is ok, but only if you have five bowlers and a decent batting unit. We have two and a half bowlers and three batsmen in the side now - rest are imposters. :)

[rkt.india]

5 bowler strategy is ok' date=' but only if you have five bowlers and a decent batting unit. We have two and a half bowlers and three batsmen in the side now - rest are imposters. :)[/quote'] Thing is if you have 4 good bowlers, you dont need 5 bowlers at all. 5 bowlers strategy has never worked in history of cricket, one of them must be an alrounder who can bat in top 7.

[sensible-indian]

Thing is if you have 4 good bowlers' date=' you dont need 5 bowlers at all. 5 bowlers strategy has never worked in history of cricket, one of them must be an alrounder who can bat in top 7.[/quote'] Who told you this? Even Lehman was lamenting about 5th bowler in the last test. And that is AUSTRALIAN lineup we are talking about. 5th bowler is to give your main bowler breathers. http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/908041.html

[sensible-indian]

The problem is we don't have 5 bowlers. We have 2 bowlers and a lot of pretenders.

[BeautifulGame]

Who told you this? Even Lehman was lamenting about 5th bowler in the last test. And that is AUSTRALIAN lineup we are talking about. 5th bowler is to give your main bowler breathers. http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/908041.html

Lehman was lamenting missing the 5th bowler who is All rounder .Not a pure bowler . That's what rtk was hinting about

[sensible-indian]

Lehman was lamenting missing the 5th bowler who is All rounder .Not a pure bowler . That's what rtk was hinting about

They have ARs so they speak about them. But they also want that 5th bowler to give rest to their main bowlers. If your regular batsmen are reliable part timers, no need for 5 bowlers. But none of our batsmen is which causes a problem. In SC conditions, we may not need 5 bowlers (if we go with 3 spinners) but the strategy isn't wrong.

[CG]

Playing 5 bowlers is a luxury we cannot afford particularly in SC where we can win. Particularly when bhajji is playing as an all-rounder

[biglebowski]

without any decent bowling all-rounder , this 5 bowler theory won't work for us

[biglebowski]

Who told you this? Even Lehman was lamenting about 5th bowler in the last test. And that is AUSTRALIAN lineup we are talking about. 5th bowler is to give your main bowler breathers. http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/908041.html

5th bowler he meant is a batting or bowling AR and not just a bowler

[rkt.india]

Who told you this? Even Lehman was lamenting about 5th bowler in the last test. And that is AUSTRALIAN lineup we are talking about. 5th bowler is to give your main bowler breathers. http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/908041.html

but they wont play a specialist 5th bowler but a batsman who can bowl, a batting alrounder whose job is to give breather to main bowlers.

[tweaker]

We have to look at this pace attack of Ishant,Umesh & Aaron.Why cant we have 1 bowler who can held 1 end.He will just bowl line & length & apply pressure by bowling maidens.