SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Sure.ohtani's jacket said:
Mohinder was the best player of fast bowling of that age. Lloyd and all other West indians considered him the best player of fast bowling in the world. A few days ago there was a programme on ESPN or Starsports and everyone, Greenidge, Richards, Lloyd etc said he was the best player of fast bowling they saw in their careers.
He also played Imran the best amongst Indian batsmen in two series when most others floundered.
On his pathetic one run in 6 innings or something, it wasnt the fast bowling that was causing the problem. Mohinder developed a big flaw in his technique. He had developed a completely square on stance to play the Windies short pitched bowling when touring there to counter the bouncers (not as much as Chandrapaul but very pronounced)
When he came back to India to play them at home. They discovered that standing so square chested made it difficult for him to reach outside the off stump with his left foot. So while his bat went to the ball, the left foot , was barely going upto the off stump. This left a big gap between bat and pad and he became susceptible to the in coming ball from outside the off stump.
He was repeatedly bowled by pitched up in cutters from outside the off stump noyt any great express fast bowling.
By the time he realised this he had scored just one run in about six or so consecutive innings and then was out of the side for a very long time. I have always felt he should have been dropped earlier in that series and should have gone back to the nets instead of continuing and looking terrible with every successive failure.
He came back with a bang as he always did but had missed many matches in between.
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