But has to be cautious before answering tricky media questions. They can project anyone in anyway. More than that he needs to always have some new variations. So far so good!!
about the number of overs bowled in a day are high? Somebody please tell him about a guy called KAPILDEV , who is a fast bowler, a strike bowler and a fine batsman without complaining used to bowl more than 30 overs a day without any complaint. That should be the spirit. I wonder this guy is complaining about pitch and hard work at this young age? Is it the future. If it is I fear we don't have a bright one.
about the number of overs bowled in a day are high? Somebody please tell him about a guy called KAPILDEV , who is a fast bowler, a strike bowler and a fine batsman without complaining used to bowl more than 30 overs a day without any complaint. That should be the spirit. I wonder this guy is complaining about pitch and hard work at this young age? Is it the future. If it is I fear we don't have a bright one.
Ashwin.. You said "If I hadn't tried in that last spell we might have gone without a wicket on the day.". Thats not straight talking, looks like boasting. if india had batted first I doubt you would have been complaining like this"
Welcome to the Test cricket. its a battle, somedays u win, some days u toil hard. If you dont have patience, you will be out of test cricket in no time.
For any bowling attack in Tests, bowling strike rate is more important than line-n-length, economy rate based attack.
Ohja, Ashwin and Ishant are liked by the Indian lobby which is primarily strong in with accuracy based bowling. The problem is on flat pitches the batting lineup can be patient enough to see through the bowlers.
The WI decided to bat at a lower strike rate and see through the line-n-length based attack.
If have very little data and only 3 real Indian fast bowlers: namely Kapil, Srinath and Zaheer have average bowling strike rate of about 10-11 overs. Zaheer has improved in recent times and has a average bowling SR of 9 overs with a slightly higher eco rate.
With the emergence of Varun and Yadav the average bowling strikes rates will around 8-9 overs. What this means is you can bowl a team out in 80 overs. If that does not happen, you can least bowl at the tailenders or lower middle order when you take the 2nd new ball
