The Inside View: Issue 3

After a long delay, The Inside View is back! The Inside View looks at Indian Cricket at all angles and looks at it in an unbiased manner. Today's article looks at new kid on the block Aavishkar Salvi and what his prospects are for the future.

Following up from my article on Sourav Ganguly and his captaincy, I received a lot of positive feedback about this column, and about Sourav Ganguly's captaincy in general. Just to conclude, the whole cricketing community now feels Ganguly's worth as a captain.

His desire and ruthless aggression is what drives such a young team to success, and ofcourse the unity he brings into Indian Cricket, which many other captains have failed to do, due to regional bias for the players in their prospective region.

With that all said, Mumbai has had a very fine history of bringing great players into International Cricket. From Sunny Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and the great Sachin Tendulkar. But now a new kid on the block, young fast bowler Aavishkar Salvi is about to embark on a journey, which hopefully will last him for a long time.

Blessed with great accuracy and good pace, Salvi's main strengths are line and length. With a smooth McGrath'esque run up and bowling action, Salvi is able to extract bounce and seam movement along with is nagging accuracy.

After taking 50 wickets in the Ranji Trophy at an average of 18 a piece, Salvi was thrust into the limelight, and was picked for the India 'A' tour to the West Indies. During the tour, he dismissed many fine young West Indian batsman, and was one of the bowlers of the tournament.

The kid was primed for the big time. After a decent debut ODI series in Dhaka against hosts Bangladesh and traditional cricket super powers South Africa, Salvi had proved that he has what it takes to succeed at this level. It is just a fact of gathering all that great talent, into consistency like a certain Mr Glenn McGrath.

Salvi's pure and genuine talent spells great news for Indian Cricket and it's fans, as that much needed fast bowler could well be on it's way to the Indian team.
After such success, the man remains modest and acknowledges the hard work and effort he put in with several bowling coaches such as Frank Tyson.

Salvi is just one of the riches in India's youth talent pool, in which talent is extremely abundant. Along with new policies being implemented by coach John Wright, and more and more youth taking up the game and having a professional awareness, the future looks even brighter for Indian Cricket, and Aavishkar Salvi who I think will hopefully knock many International batsman over and win many matches for India over the coming years.

Your feedback is appreciated, and to all cricket fan's and Indian fan's, email me at sangrah.bhatia@cricketweb.net to send your thoughts, views and opinions.

Until Next Time,

Take Care,

Sangrah Bhatia


Posted by Sangrah