'Spinners should get the basics right'
Posted on Oct 04, 2007 at 12:40 | Updated Oct 04, 2007 at 12:59
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Mumbai: Ridiculing the Indian spinners’ performance at Kochi, former off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna said they should stick to simple basics for better showing in the third ODI at Hyderabad.
"I don’t know what our spinners were doing in Kochi. When they were finding it difficult to turn the ball on an under prepared wicket, they should have at least tried to stick to the basics of bowling a good line and length and mixing up the deliveries intelligently," Prasanna told Cricketnext.com from Bangalore.
"The Indian spinners – Harbhajan Singh and Ramesh Powar -- can learn a lot by just watching the Australian spinners adopt to our wickets. I was very impressed with the way both Brad Hogg and Michael Clarke bowled in the second ODI at Kochi and there is a lot our bowlers can learn from them," he added.
"Left arm spinner Hogg, who managed to get good purchase from the wicket, was mixing up his ‘Chinamen’ and ‘flippers’ beautifully and troubled every Indian batsmen while Clarke, who could not get any turn, struck to a good line and length and bowled to his field of five on the on and four on the off side, which produced results," Prasanna observed.
"Unfortunately the Indian spinners, who are considered better than their counterparts, failed to bowl to their field leaving their skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni helpless. If the Indian spinners don’t employ a game plan then they will continue to go for runs as there is no variety in our attack," the former Karnataka great added.
"I think a leg spinner would have exploited the wicket at Kochi better and I hope better sense prevails and the Indian think-tank opt for a leg spinner at Hyderabad, which can be a similar wicket, as there has been lot of rains in South India recently," Prasanna said.
"My advise to our bowlers is to stick to the basics and never hesitate to flight the ball in the air if there is no assistance from the wicket. It is always better to bag a few wickets even if you give away runs than try to contain the batsmen and end up wicket-less like Powar has been doing in the last couple of matches (Powar has conceded 80 runs without taking a wicket in the last two matches against the Aussies)," he added.
"And another important point is if the spinners don’t bowl to their field, I don’t think they (Indians) will be able to win any of the remaining matches in the seven-match series," Prasanna concluded.
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Posted By Jagwinder Singh
Not only spinners, but all Indian bowlers do not stick to the basics. They are poor in bowling yorkers and
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Posted By Aditya Mookerjee
I would like to know, what Mr Prasanna, and Mr Bedi, feel of Piyush Chawla, as a leg spinner. Mr
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Posted By S.Raghavan
It is 100% true. A veteran of yester years was wagging his magic wand and claimed terror against the opponents.The
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Posted By S Balakrishnan
Prasanna obviously knows what he is saying and should therefore be taken seriously.Never mind if he is part of the
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