He's obviously weak against spin. Actually PJ is a better batsmen on Indian tracks than even Sanga / Paranavithana / Mathews. Mathews' importance will come when SL play in non-sub continental conditions. Apparently he plays pace very well.
It will be flat for the medium pacers. Murali / Herath might pull something out of the hat against Sehwag though. Fit would not have been flat for Prasad / Fernando / Thushara though.
Just compare there performance in India and see what I mean.
You don't drop your (second) best spinner permanently because of one bad game. Ojha's been largely dire today, bowling flat, sending wides down leg and trying merely to keep the runs down. It's now become a lot like that innings in A'bad. With Murali and Herath likely to get a lot more from the pitch, this move might just cost them the game.
Zeeks always been crap in Asia though.
Let's just hope they don't lose one more of their best players because of a bad game or series. They've laid off too many.
I agree, I've never been a big Zeek fan but when I watched his tours of England and New Zealand he really impressed me.
NUFAN said:
Migara has answered the question here Nufan..
It is flat for the seamers. Saw the first session this morning & there was no movement in the pitch for Khan & Sreesanth (although the bounce seemed consistent through to Dhoni)
Perhaps. It is hard to say, it is clear that he has a degree of intelligence. He uses the bouncer in great quantity and to some success when all seems futile, he is not afraid to throw the ball up full, but his stock delivery just seems to be too wayward. Perhaps it is age catching up with him, perhaps he is just not the most accurate bowler - I guess only time will tell. However, I do not discount future strong performances from Zaheer on flat tracks and I think, that with the amount of tried and tested bowlers in Asia in Test cricket, we can allow him bad form, as long as he shows these promising signs.
As much as I rallied against Sreesanth's selection, I must admit that he has not done too badly. I do struggle to understand how a bowler who moves the ball so much, at good speed, struggled to take wickets for Warwickshire and Kerala - it just does not add up for me. He has been loose, but he has always been prone to the odd poor delivery - anyone who swings the ball big, as he does, will be prone to that. It is a shame that he has not learned to keep to a stock ball and look to get in the variation as a surprise ball. He has been varying inswing and outswing too much and if anything, it keeps the batsman on their toes. The value of keeping a variation as a surprise showed when he got a wicket with the first bouncer of his spell. Alas, I think this was down to merely shelving the unsuccessful bouncer rather than any sort of long term planning.
And about time we had one too.
He was excellent on same flat decks vs AUS last year.
