India team director Ravi Shastri may have vented his ire at the Wankhede
Stadium curator (Sudhir Naik) for not obliging the hosts with a turning track for the
fifth one-dayer. But the demoralized Indian side have some good news
ahead of the four-match Test series. With the South Africa pace bowlers
looming as the biggest threat, the hosts are pinning all their hopes on
turning tracks to overcome the visitors.
Initially, I was not in favor of this as it took the jest out of the game when it is not balance. I really cant imagine Dale Steyn to go wicket less even after bowling 20 odd overs. Also this doesn't mean that I can see the only two fast bowlers of India, Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav, to go wicket less too. It is very demoralizing for a quick bowler.
But we all know that the South African team, with player like AB De Villiers, Hasim Alma, Miller and Faf Du Plessis, can handle any attack (Bowling Ofcourse !) in the world better than anyone else. Bowlers like Steyn, Philander, Rabada and Imran Tahir just adds up to the woes of the opposition team. Its good to see Kagiso Rabada bowling with the similar temperament of Makhaya Ntini. He really performed well in the one day series against India in India (Ironic).
I recently had a casual discussion with my manager about the tracks in India favoring spin and it changed my whole perspective and I started liking the idea of producing spin tracks in India. It is something to do with the home advantage. It also tests the opposition's strength on our spin attack. We have really good spin bowlers like Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Jadeja (I have to mention his name as he is the man of the match for the first test match) who are capable of turning the match around in just their allocated quota of 6 balls.
Finally we were able to win our first test match with 108 runs, thanks to Ashwin and Jadeja for bowling some really good spin bowling which left the South Africans biting their nails in the dressing room. Although they also bowled really well with Dean Alger (Slow left arm) giving India the taste of their own medicine with four wickets haul in first innings.
Lets see what's in store for us in the Bangalore pitch, where the South Africans hold a much better record against us. But records are meant to be broken !!!
Initially, I was not in favor of this as it took the jest out of the game when it is not balance. I really cant imagine Dale Steyn to go wicket less even after bowling 20 odd overs. Also this doesn't mean that I can see the only two fast bowlers of India, Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav, to go wicket less too. It is very demoralizing for a quick bowler.
But we all know that the South African team, with player like AB De Villiers, Hasim Alma, Miller and Faf Du Plessis, can handle any attack (Bowling Ofcourse !) in the world better than anyone else. Bowlers like Steyn, Philander, Rabada and Imran Tahir just adds up to the woes of the opposition team. Its good to see Kagiso Rabada bowling with the similar temperament of Makhaya Ntini. He really performed well in the one day series against India in India (Ironic).
I recently had a casual discussion with my manager about the tracks in India favoring spin and it changed my whole perspective and I started liking the idea of producing spin tracks in India. It is something to do with the home advantage. It also tests the opposition's strength on our spin attack. We have really good spin bowlers like Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Jadeja (I have to mention his name as he is the man of the match for the first test match) who are capable of turning the match around in just their allocated quota of 6 balls.
Finally we were able to win our first test match with 108 runs, thanks to Ashwin and Jadeja for bowling some really good spin bowling which left the South Africans biting their nails in the dressing room. Although they also bowled really well with Dean Alger (Slow left arm) giving India the taste of their own medicine with four wickets haul in first innings.
Lets see what's in store for us in the Bangalore pitch, where the South Africans hold a much better record against us. But records are meant to be broken !!!
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