The Ishant Sharma performance thread

[varun]

no yaar, whenever these guys start doing good in tests...we throw them in ODI and spoil it for them..he should work on his test bowling, just the way we hoped for munaf..this guy has chance to build on this opportunity I mean, one day we see him in a domestic game, throw him the ball in a big game..he looks lethal

Agreed. By the way Cricketics, Here's an article that gator wrote more than a year back on the domestics in which he mentioned Ishant. http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showthread.php?t=5845

[Cricketics]

nice article.. i remember reading that few monthz ago when i was browsing archivez..

[gator]

As Rajeev mentioned, he should be kept out of odis for atleast another year.... with the amount of matches being played, it is a nice idea to rotate these 5 fast bowlers... Zak, Pathan, RP, Sree and Ishant...

[kabira]

gator, what happened to your lambi race ka ghoda i.e VRV...

[msb1991]

I am still a fan of giving Ishant a season or two more to develop physically. Throwing a 19 year old into the hectic international schedule is not good.

[panesarv]

Ponting bamboozled by Ishant Sharma [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4UEW3luWzY]YouTube - Ponting bamboozled by Ishant Sharma[/ame]

[pajaniradje]

best one of sharma bowling , i have saw, thanks

[dial_100]

In fact each one of these bowlers, like ZK, Pathan should be kept out of ODIs for entire year. In my view, now its RP turn to stay out of ODIs for entire 2008 and concentrate on bowling. Next year could be Srisanth. Ishant should n't play ODIs... baby will be tired... Salla kuchha khata pita hai ki nahi yeh.. Kya lukka dhikhta hai yaar...Man he is going to give us some exciting spells in the future...

[The Outsider]

Please, don't play quality test fast bowlers in ODIs. Leave them for Agarkar.

[msb1991]

I think ODIs are not suited for more than one of RP Singh or Ishant Sharma or Sreesanth who are both agressive bowlers rather than tight bowlers. People like Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar and Harbhajan Singh should make up three or four bowlers in the attack with only one 'fast' bowler needed.

[gs]

High Praise for Ishant on Crapinfo http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ausvind/content/story/332278.html

One hour that shook Ponting Sambit Bal at the WACA January 19, 2008 Irrespective of what has gone in this series and what lies ahead, Ishant Sharma's mesmeric spell to Ricky Ponting will remain one of the highlights of the series, and will be remembered for years to come. Cricket lovers still talk about the working-over Andrew Flintoff gave Ponting at Edgbaston but that lasted only one over. Here at the WACA, the torment continued for an hour. Harbhajan Singh has had his number for some time now but rarely has Ponting been shown up as so vulnerable for such a long period of time since he established himself as Australia's best batsman. That Sharma is 19 and playing his sixth Test only added to the drama and romance. Sharma had a close lbw against Ponting turned down last evening and, given the ball in the fifth over of the innings, he made it talk. In his first over, an edge from Michael Hussey fell just short of second slip, and in the next over, which was nearly as sensational as Flintoff's, he could have had Ponting twice. One ball jagged in and had Ponting fending; another, that perfect ball which is every right-arm bowler's dream, came in with arm and left Ponting as he shaped to defend, missing the edge by a whisker. And then one came in to trap Ponting in front; it was a decision the umpire wouldn't have been roasted for had he given it to the bowler, but only a doubt about the height will have saved Ponting. Many would have been excused for thinking that the moment had passed, for an exceptional over such as that would be hard to reproduce, certainly by a bowler of his experience. But Sharma charged on, hurrying Ponting, cutting him in half with a ball that rose and cut off the seam and got him to mistime repeatedly. With every over, Ponting seemed to have weathered the storm for undoubtedly the young man couldn't carry on for ever. Indeed, RP Singh was seen approaching the bowling end after Sharma had bowled seven overs, but a last-minute change of mind - prompted by Virender Sehwag, his Delhi captain - kept Sharma in the fray and the reward came off the very next ball. It was almost the same ball that got Ponting in the first innings. It pitched around the off stump and rose and left Ponting, who could only edge it to Rahul Dravid at first slip. It was one of those moments where you just had to suspend your national loyalties and rejoice in the triumph of a spirited and skilful youngster over one of the titans of his age. Justice would have got a bad name had he been denied. Sharma made it to Australia only because of injuries to Sreesanth and Munaf Patel, and played in Sydney because Zaheer Khan went home. But in his short international career so far, he has got better by every Test. Against Pakistan in Bangalore, he shook off a couple of indifferent early spells to claim five wickets in the first innings, and in Sydney, he bowled far better than his returns - no wicket for 146 - suggested. Certainly, he had Andrew Symonds caught behind, only to be denied by Steve Bucknor who failed to hear a thumping edge. Sharma's ability to get the ball to rise and bowl long spells - last year he bowled 15 successive overs in searing heat in Vijaywada against Andhra Pradesh to earn Delhi a draw they desperately needed - was well known. But in this Test, he showed another facet: getting the ball to hold its line, and even move it a shade away. From the angle he comes in and with the bounce he can generate, that's a deadly ball when he can get the line right. It's no coincidence that all his three wickets in this Test came with that ball. When they look up the scorecard years later, Ishant Sharma will be found to have only one entry in the wickets column in the second innings. But scorecards don't often tell the story. It was a day when Ishant Sharma shook up Ricky Ponting and set up a famous win.

[msb1991]

Ishant had an intangible impact on the match. That working over of Ponting was a work of art.

[chirag]

Ishant is the future, fantastic bowler!!!

[Dhondy]

Where the fack did he learn to bowl like that? Must say I didn't see it coming!

[living]

Ek aur karega? :giggle:

[Sachinism]

Well done Ishant im sure ponting will be having nightmares for the next few days

[Gambit]

Without doubt, the finest spell of fast bowling from an Indian bowler to a top class bat I have seen in a while. Ishant was sensational. How was he getting the ball to lift so much? Where he did learn the nuances of wrist positions? Ponting was clueless and was looking like a real tailender. And the second or third over he bowled to Ponting was almost as good as the one Flintoff bowled to him in the Edgbaston test. Sensational stuff from Ishant. Simply put, it was Punter Pwnage from Ishant. :two_thumbs_up:

[Don]

Absolutely sensational bowling by the kid, I've seen batsman setup time after time by the guile of Kumble and Harbhajan but never have is seen them setup by our seamers. Its usually always prodigous swing or seam thats accounts for indian seamers special wickets. But this kid just kept at it, Ricky Ponting looked like twiddy fiddler as ball after ball missed his bat and found his body (abdomen, pads, chest). And he finally got him with an absoulte beauty. As Slater put it Ricky Ponting got an working over. Thrilling absoutley thrliing. Havent been this excited by a bowler since well...a certain Irfan Pathan cleaned up Adam Gilchrist with a reverseswinging yorker.

[Ram]

Ishant Rocks !

[maggot_brain]

There's one thing he definitely needs to work on. His hairstyle. Short or long that's fine. A mullet? Not ok.