Five wickets a game though and he was bowling a ridiculous amount of overs. I actually saw the series and thought he was absolute quality considering he was acting as the main attacking bowler, the only containing bowler and the only stock bowler..
Not only to encourage fast bowlers but also give those who are genuinely working hard to bowl quick and hv the talent to swing and reverse, along with bounce a batsman out, a chance to get decent exposure
.... Is this where we want to go and sit on 'pace isn't everything' mantra 
.... Let's put Eng behind pls, we hv to get back to the #1 spot
Kumar suffered because the rest of the attack he was bowling with was so bad tbat England could mostly afford to just leave him alone. I wouldn't call him majestic but he was definitely quality.
Such a bad post. The obsession with pace is what's led India to select dire bowlers like Sreesanth in the first place.Not only to encourage fast bowlers but also give those who are genuinely working hard to bowl quick and hv the talent to swing and reverse, along with bounce a batsman out, a chance to get decent exposure
If you are going to pick a trundler just because he can swing the ball when its new then that's not sending right signals .... What's next? Pick likes of ganguly and amaranth to open our attack? Or get guys like mark elham (hope I got the spelling right?) because they can do well in English type of conditions
What many fans don't even realize that when a team has to open with a guy who is mostly good with the new ball, cannot reverse or bounce a batsman out, resorts to containing in a test match where you have to look for wkts and even when bowling in his prime the bowler has to make an effort to bowl at 135 kmph then it is disgraceful test cricket
No trundlers in tests please
You mean the guy who won us tests against quality teams like SA and SL
A correction: 2 fluke performances
.... Same can be said wrt the likes of PK. To much hype for an avg perfo in Eng .... I would rather appreciate a good display of pace, swing and reverse 
Set A please.A correction: 2 fluke performances
2 sets of bowlers below:
A: Ishant, yadav, Aaron
B: PK, VK and Mithun
I know whom I ll line up to bat against
To make it interesting, I would also throw a challenge to PK and VK to bowl a bouncer at 140+ kmph, give me some chin music, and ofc reverse
Ofc, unless you are implying that bowling quick, bouncers and reversing are tools to look good
No, they're only tools to get wickets if they actually help in the process of getting wickets. Otherwise they're not. The bowler who gets the wickets quicker and cheaper should be preferred, no matter what he looks like doing it.Ofc, unless you are implying that bowling quick, bouncers and reversing are tools to look good
If so, I learned something new
This. Aaron looks distinctly average, not sure why the hype around him. Yadav looks much more suited to test cricket. Aaron does have age on his side though - he can improve provided he puts in effort.
Yeah, Yadav has pace, has performed well in FC cricket and looks the goods.
Shaun Pollock didn't bowl 140+, but he was quite effective, PK is a pretty decent bowler, don't care if he has less pace as long as he is taking wickets, he can swing it both ways with a lot of accuracy and can bowl long spells.As you can see, I don't rate PK much in tests, so someone like Aaron who can not only bowl quicker but also swing the ball like PK, along with probably being more useful with the old ball with reverse, make more sense. If nothing else he will get the exposure and learn while not doing much worse than PK at his best
Don't forget even the great Kapil Dev, who had a bag of tricks up his sleeves, wasnt that effective once he lost his pace then who are likes of PK
And if given the choice b/w Sami and PK, I will probably pick Sami as at least on his day, he could produce a spell of 5 for 75 or 6 for 80. PK on his day would hv 3 for 90 or 5 for 150.
If you look at Ind's history, it has produced only a handful of good quick bowlers. And as I said one of the reasons for this could be 'pace is not everything' mantra. Why bother pushing your self trying to bowl quick when you can stay by trundling and thus extending your career? ..... This is something that needs to be corrected and my focus is more on that. I would like to see Ind produce some exciting fast bowlers and to do that we hv to start somewhere even if it means taking some tough decision in the short term to get something in the long term. If we need exciting fast bowlers we need to do things where ppl want to bowl fast. A mesg needs to be sent, imo
In the past, when I had time, I would hv writen essays on this but not now .... if we can't agree on this then lets agree to disagree
