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This is why IPL is so great for Indian cricket. It gives talent the platform to perform and stake claims out of obscurity if you have got what it takes.
Indeed. The benefits are twofold and both displayed by Rajasthan. You have someone like Amit Singh who has a good FC record, but never got the chance at zonal level, to show that he is a most canny operator with the slower balls and then you have a tape ball bowler like Kamran Khan, taken out of obscurity and given a chance to go from 0 to 60 in no seconds flat.
Amazing really when the story is "Man who has played no cricket continues to play no cricket"
From that still picture, it looks like a huge chuck - I mean literally baseball chuck - not hyperextension. I'd like to see more slow-mo.Kamran Khan's been blessed with hyperextension. If he bulked up abit he'd be seriously rapid.
Khan's hyperextension for 'that' yorker.
They both have hyperextension, but this kid's arm extends forwards too (i.e. a throw). Seriously doubt that we'll ever see him in Internationals anyway.
It also creates a lot of false hope and can create a huge overestimation of a players ability. It shows you how a player can perform in a very specific role, in specific condtions against a less than international standard opposition over a very small time period. A prime example was Manpreet Gony, did ok in the IPL and was given an international spot where he was clearly shown up to be a million miles off international standard (wicketless vs Hong Kong, slapped around by Bangladesh). Shaun Marsh despite top scoring went on to have a relatively poor season in Australia (though he hit some steady 50's for the national side) and still doesn't look anything like a test quality player (unusual considering his role as an innings builder at the top of the order). In fact the only players who have had success at international level thereafter were already pressing for places through their first class performances anyway (e.g. Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Raina).
If the selectors weren't ****-for-brains, they'd use the FC system for that and reform it as necessary if it isn't providing that to their liking.
Manpreet Gony wasn't actually that good in the IPL, he just somehow gave the impression that he was. A bit like Pragyan Ojha and Yo Mahesh did. Commentators see young, half-decent Indians and cream themselves when they take a wicket caught at long-on or hit a full toss from a spinner for six and somehow the myth is perpetrated that they're international-standard players.
