Indian Board gets to right Bowling Combination for World Cup

By , February 19, 2015 3:36 am

The Indian team management has finally hit the right combination as far as the bowling is concerned. They seem to be pretty sure now who their five first choice bowlers are.

In the limited over games on the Australian tour so far, two slow swing bowlers i.e. Stuart Binny and Bhuvneshwar Kumar had been taking the new ball for India and had been giving away a lot of boundaries early on.

Finally, in the game against Pakistan which was India’s first game in the ongoing Cricket World Cup, MS Dhoni relied on two of his quickest bowlers i.e. Mohammad Shami and Umesh Yadav as far as bowling upfront is concerned and both of them did the job in grand style for India.

They shared 6 wickets between themselves and did not let Pakistan go smoothly in their chase of 301.

Shami, in particular, was mighty impressive. He hit the deck as hard as he could and bowled some snotters.

The ball that Shami bowled to Younus Khan, that ball could have got even the best of the players out. It left the batsman in no man’s land because of the length from which it bounced. The batsman was always going to fend because he did not have time to get into any sort of position to play a shot at it.

Misbah got a good one from Shami too towards the end. From around the wicket, the Indian speedster made the ball rise to about head height and it was almost impossible for the Pakistani captain to have his pull shot under control. He was caught at mid on just a step or two inside the 30-yard circle.

It was Shami’s performance with the ball which played key role in India’s win there in Adelaide. However, the man of the match award went to the centurion Virat Kohli.

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