From: kaushik@dvorak.amd.com (Kaushik Chhotani)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Indian Bowling sucks...
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:22:01 GMT
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In article <6NOV199216250298@utarlg.uta.edu> d188sid@utarlg.uta.edu (S RAMACHANDRAN) writes:
>INDIAN BOWLING - AN ANALYSIS (PART II)
>=======================================

< stuff deleted>

>2) the wkts are going to be green..so we have to play 4 quicks. But it 
>would be great if we can play a specialist spinner as well.
>
>3)India should play all three openers to be fair to Raman(43 ag ZiM) and
>Jadeja (in-form)...Amre sit out please!
>
>the "if " analysis:
>===================
>1) I don't know abt you guys but I think it we would have been better
>off w/ Abey Kuruvilla and Venkatesh Prasad rather than Chetan and 
>Bannerjee. Why? b'cos these guys are quick ..as quick as Srinath atleast
>..big 6 ft plus guys who are atleast intimidatory enuff to scare a 
>few under 25 yr olds. Chetan and Bannerjee are seamers who swing and 
>seam...they can be dangerous in helpful conditions but they have
>not mastered swing like Dev and Manoj. It's always prudent to have a
>Quickie than seamer when both are Half-baked, unpolished rookies.
>Anyway a team attack of Kapil, Manoj ,Kuruvilla/Prasad and Srinath looks
>a lot scarier than DeV,Manoj,chetan and Bannerjee.
>I heard that A.Donald,Macmillan and Schnell are really good..
>
>- Sidd .R.
>
>the Best Indian Test 11
>========================
>1) W.V.Raman.
>2) R.Shastri.
>3) S.Manjrekar.
>4) S.Tendulkar.
>5) M.Azhar.
>6) A.Jadeja.
>7) N.Kapil Dev
>8) M.Prabakar.
>9) K.More.
>10) J.Srinath.
>11) Maninder.S.

In this team of yours, there are only 3 quickies. Where is the 4th you talked 
about above? You said that we should play all 3 openers to be fair, but this is
a Test/ODI team we are talking about and a question of fairness does not arise
here. Only the fittest shall survive in the team. So, going by current form,
I think that Raman should be dropped and Jadeja/Shastri should open. 

As regards the middle order, it looks pretty sound but if you want to beef it 
up more, then we could possibly replace More with Yadav, who is a much better
batsman than More. This is not to detract anything from More's capabilities
as a w/keeper or batsman but as I said before a way of beefing up the middle
order.

We already have a left arm spinner in Shastri who seems to be doing much better
than Raju, and the inclusion of another left-armer in Maninder would not provide
much variety. Instead, Kumble who seems to bowl as fast as Chandra used to might
provide the necessary weaponry to spearhead the Indian team to victory.

So that leaves us with a middle order slot vacant to fill either with a strong
middle order bat such as Amre or Kambli. Or if a 4th pacer is needed, Kuruvilla
or Venkatesh Prasad may be included.

So the team as it now stands is:
1)Shastri
2)Jadeja
3)Manjrekar
4)Tendulkar
5)Azhar
6)Amre/Kambli/4th pacer
7)Yadav
8)Kapil Dev
9)Prabhakar
10)Srinath
11)Kumble

I believe that we do not need a 4th pacer and need to strengthen the middle 
order by including a specialist middle-order batsman.

I hope there can be some fruitful discussion regarding this on the net and
all flames will be directed to /dev/null.

Kaushik

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