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Build-up to Indian Domestic Season 2009-10
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Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Now has 3/9, certainly outperforming Ishant Sharma and looks a good raw talent. He will be liable to poor performances such as the Irani Trophy but certainly one to watch for Tests in the long term and ODIs in the short term.Tyagi! Two wickets in three balls. He is a star.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Tyagi's pace is certainly solid and he extracts good lift and movement from what I saw in the IPL. But it is extremely hard to get your hopes up when you have so many Indian bowlers before him showing similar talent only to fade away, losing pace and accuracy in the process. Even Ishant is not half the bowler he was in Australia in ODI cricket and looking at his speeds slowly decrease toward sub-130kph, it would seem that his Test performances may follow a similar suit. Ishant's speeds have not dropped dramatically, they've dropped around 5kph, but he has lost a lot of the 'zip' he once had in his action and I can only see fatigue of the ridiculous amount of cricket being played as the cause.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Yeah, agreed Manee. The dropping of speed of Indian bowlers is some thing which has repeatedly happened and is deeply concerning but I would be surprised if Tyagi is not able to maintain this speed, if not increase it with more muscle. He certainly doesn't seem to be stretching himself too much while bowling - has a pretty smooth action.
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Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
He does have his God-awful days though, which is always a risk.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Indeed, and no wickets in 2009 either. Such terrible runs of form cannot be afforded for a player who does not rip teams apart on the best of days, at international level, and who cannot bat or field.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Indeed, with such spin talent, we should pretty much always look to get two full time spin bowlers in both the Test and ODI teams.
What speed is Munaf bowling btw?
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
120kph is very slow, indeed and simply will not be prying out ODI wickets. He may be able to capitalise on a good situation, but we do need a bowler who can force wickets and he currently is not able to do that.
I know our other pace bowling options are not that much better, if better at all but I think that Munaf, even at the best of times is not a great option. Someone like Praveen Kumar can have his good days with bat and ball whereas best case for Munaf is 10 tight overs. Munaf should always be in the bank for ODI cricket if it all goes wrong with the other options but I don't think we should be in a rush to put him in the ODI team. It is sad to say this after his extremely strong initial run in ODI cricket but he seems to have petered out a bit.
I think we should always look in ODI cricket to play two spinners, Harbhajan and one of the others and look to have two pacers. The sort of pecking order I think would be good would be...
1. Zaheer Khan
2. Ashish Nehra
3. Praveen Kumar
4. RP Singh
5. Sudeep Tyagi
6. Munaf Patel
7. Ishant Sharma
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