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***Official*** 2014 Asia Cup

Arjun

Arjun

Cricketer Of The Year
Match on, and I feel it is time to phase out Bhuvneshwar Kumar. There's no point picking a specialist bowler with returns as poor as 35 wickets in 32 games. He's not outright quick, can't bowl a decent short ball and he isn't even getting enough movement to snatch early wickets- and expectedly dire in the closing overs against set batsmen. It's like Mark Ealham being a frontline pacer.

Mushfiqur and Anamul have been the only blokes who have got set and made big scores. The others have been out cheaply. Clearly, at a score of 270 in 49, India have missed a trick by not forcing wickets.

In other news, over-the-hill non-performing Indian coach Duncan Fletcher gets an extension. For what? His achievement of winning the Ashes in 2005?
 
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indiaholic

indiaholic

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Arjun said:
Match on, and I feel it is time to phase out Bhuvneshwar Kumar. There's no point picking a specialist bowler with returns as poor as 34-ish wickets in 32 games. He's not outright quick, can't bowl a decent short ball and he isn't even getting enough movement to snatch early wickets- and expectedly dire in the closing overs against set batsmen. It's like Mark Ealham being a frontline pacer.

Mushfiqur and Anamul have been the only blokes who have got set and made big scores. The others have been out cheaply. Clearly, at a score of 270 in 49, India have missed a trick by not forcing wickets.

In other news, over-the-hill non-performing Indian coach Duncan Fletcher gets an extension. For what? His achievement of winning the Ashes in 2005?
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at an economy rate below 5. Bhuvi will work great in a very specialized role: just bowl him out in the first 20 overs.
 
Arjun

Arjun

Cricketer Of The Year
indiaholic said:
at an economy rate below 5. Bhuvi will work great in a very specialized role: just bowl him out in the first 20 overs.
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Tough luck. With some difficulty, he'll get one wicket a game. That's poor for a strike bowler. Even Thissara Perera has got much better returns, and he's a bowling all-rounder. You pick specialist bowlers for wickets, and Bucky has got few. The string of scores the Indians have conceded over 300 or 290 and the subsequent defeats are proof that economy is a useless statistic for a strike bowler.

Case in point from the Indian side itself- Shami, with his fourth wicket so far. He's looking good to close in on 50 very fast wickets.

Just how crucial is the wicket of Mushy? 300 won't happen. Should be a little bit easier, since the Indians' score of 290 was chased down two years ago.
 
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Arjun

Arjun

Cricketer Of The Year
I feel Varun Aaron's case should be handled a little differently. He can play the whole tournament, so that he realises what top-flight cricket really needs, then go back to Jharkhand, play a whole season across formats for them, play in every single India A event, till he's maintained form over a period of time, then he'll be ready. He too was brought in a little too early.

Got to feel for Ishwar Pandey too. Two great domestic seasons, and he carried his good form over to South Africa with the A team, but can't get a game for India, because he is apparently too raw.
 
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Rohit needs to start rotating the strike if he can't get boundaries in the powerplay. A SR of 57 is simply unacceptable
 
karan316

karan316

State Vice-Captain
Arjun said:
Tough luck. With some difficulty, he'll get one wicket a game. That's poor for a strike bowler. Even Thissara Perera has got much better returns, and he's a bowling all-rounder. You pick specialist bowlers for wickets, and Bucky has got few. The string of scores the Indians have conceded over 300 or 290 and the subsequent defeats are proof that economy is a useless statistic for a strike bowler.

Case in point from the Indian side itself- Shami, with his fourth wicket so far. He's looking good to close in on 50 very fast wickets.

Just how crucial is the wicket of Mushy? 300 won't happen. Should be a little bit easier, since the Indians' score of 290 was chased down two years ago.
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I fail to understand the reason for you being so critical about Bhuvneshwar Kumar. I mean, the biggest issue that the team has always faced is death bowling, and Bhuvi is surprisingly becoming a good death bowler. Even in this match, he bowled so many accurate yorkers at the death, haven't seen any other Indian bowler doing it that well in recent years. He might not always be successful since even the best bowlers can go for runs at the death, but he's still a better death bowler as compared to others.
 
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Does Dhawan's batting style remind anyone of Aamir Sohail? Especially when he comes down the track to the quicks, he looks like Sohail against Prasad in 96
 
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