Saturday, April 3, 2010

Prince and the Pauper

The first half of IPL3 is over and will be soon reaching the business end . The success of Indian players has been the story of this years IPL so far.
But the tragedy is that it has failed to throw any new names. Take RR's Naman Ojha. His names started doing round at the same time as Parthiv Patel.
Unfortunately he plays for  a  state which neither has financial nor cricketing muscle, Madhya Pradesh. Ojhais a far better player than patel, but I doubt he
will ever make it to the national squad . Most of the success stories of this years IPL is about known  names  who lost their way or have been pushing their way for sometimes.
While Indian batting bench seems to be in good health.

The quality of fielding too has been good. India used to be a good fielding side in 70's and 80's. But in the nineties and noughties we were mostly crap. Hope the next decade would be good.

But the future of our bowling department looks worrisome. There are no names worthy of mention.
It is really painful to watch witcket keepers standing upto most of our quickies. Kumble is his heydays was quicker than most of the names going around. The spind department looks to be ok,
nothing great but in much better health than pace. Dare Devils Umesh Yadav seems to come like a breath of fresh air. It's good to see a bowler turn in 140K deliveries regularly. His radar seems to be good.
Hope he stays away from the MRF pace academy.
Of late it seems to have developed a knack of converting fast/fast medium bowlers to slow bowlers.

Overall it seems we are princess in batting department and paupers in bolwing. Again nothing knew about it






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