Bowlers deserve more credit, says Shastri
Posted on Aug 31, 2008 at 09:39 | Updated Aug 31, 2008 at 23:43
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Mumbai: Former Indian all-rounder Ravi Shastri has urged the media to give more credit to bowlers when they do a super job like they did during the recently concluded One-Day series in Sri Lanka.
Bowlers rarely hog the same space as the batters in newsprint or prime time but it’s time they did. I can’t readily recall when each one, in isolation or as a group, was so telling like it was during the Sri Lanka ODI series, Shastri wrote in his column on Sunday.
Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel or Harbhajan Singh or Pragyan Ojha earned everyone’s respect. It isn’t easy to bowl in hot and draining conditions yet the bowlers retained spring in their feet. New ball was never allowed to go to waste in the first 20 overs and Sri Lanka were always four or five wickets down by this stage. To my mind it had a critical impact on the outcome and the bowlers fully deserves to take credit, he added.
The Indian report card puts most (both bowlers and batsmen) in good light. A few were exceptional yet majority was more than adequate. It papered over a few cracks in the line-up. A winning team always needs six or seven good performers and India nearly always had its’ men for the job, the former left arm spinner wrote.
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