What can be done to improve India's bowling attack?
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The need Balaji and Nehra in their team. Nehra may be injury prone but he's a very intelligent bowler who can single-handedly win matches for the team. Balaji was dropped after a few bad matches, which was a litte harsh. So these 2 guys along with blokes like Pathan, Zaheer will make a huge difference to the team. Besides we have high quality spinners like Kumble and Harbhajan. Why is Kumble kept out of the ODI team? Surely the guy has enough in him to serve the team until the next world cup. Chappell needs to be more flexible, because there's no poin in having good fielders who can't bat or bowl, particularly if the team is losing. Get Nehra, Balaji, Kumble in the team.
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LOOK NILESH..\nNATION'S PRIDE IS MORE IMPORTANT.\nSOURAV WAS GOOD PLAYER.. HE THE BEST PERSON WHO HIT MANY 6' OF MURALIDHARAN.\nBUT HE IS HITTING LOCAL SIXES NOW.\nSHOWING HIS WEAKNESS WHEN THE BALL BOWLED OFF STUMP LINE.
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In Test Matches:\n\n1. While batting, pile up as many runs as possible with scant regard to run rate \n2. While bowling take as many wickets as possible with close-in fielders\n3. 5 batsmen+ 2 All rounders + 1 WK + 3bowlers\n\nIn ODI:\n1. While batting pile up as many runs as possible with a view to have a high run rate\n\n2. While bowling: Do not concede runs with defensive fielding\n\n3. 6 Batsman+1 WK + 4 Bowlers
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Opening bowlers have long been the bane of the Indian cricket team and the reason why they do not get close to the number 1 ranking.  Australia hit number 1 with McGrath and Gillespie and exception support from Kaspa, Bichel or Lee as a first change option.  And of course they had Warne.  South Africa briefly hit the number 1 spot using points from the great Donald career and the emergence of Pollock and Ntini as good opening bowlers.\n\nIndia do not need bowlers who are occassionally good with the new ball, they need bowlers who are constantly good and they could also use a good old ball bowler like Simon Jones.\n\nBatting will avail them nothing, they had an all time great batting lineup in Ganguly, Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman and it still didn't help them win away series.
702448
Unfortunately the performance of the Indian Team is very pathetic of late.   The present situation calls for drastic and harsh action from the Cricket Board.  I strongly feel that as a first step to improve the performance, payment to the players should be linked to their performance instead of graded system presently in force.  Once this is done, players will be forced to leave their complacency and try hard to earn their money by performing better, which ultimately turn around fortune of Indian Team
725908
In ODI'S, It's best to send your best players in first,so they have a better chance of playing more deliveries.!I don't see how that would help the team sending Tendulkar in at 3 or 4.????
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1. Take any action which is comfortable for you\n2. For bowling a good line and lenght, first go the other end from where the batsmean is batting, and from there, think that u r the batsman, and think of a spot on the crease on which if the bowlwr bowls, it would be difficult to play for u.\n3. As u r a beginer at that level, put a coin on that spot\n4. Now, mark ur run-up, and now, just easily run towards the crease, do the action which u prefer, and just concentrate on the coin and try to bowl on it.\n5. Do this about 15-20 times, till u can easily bowl on that coin.\n6. If u have chosen a good spot, a batsman will always have difficulty when u r bowling on it. Also, if u want bounce, have a high arm action (like farveez mahroof, wasim akram, irfan pathan), and if u want just pace, have a low arm action (munaf patel, brett-lee, shoaib akhta), and if u wanna swing the ball, while bowling move only the WRIST in the direction where u want the swing.\n7. If u follow tese steps just like as i have told, u will urself see the change in u, and u will become a successfull pace bowler\n8. Trust me, my brother gave me all these tips, and now he himself has problems playing my bowling now. My bowling has improved to a big extent.
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The main reason is the Pitches in Sub-continent is slow and batsmen can go for big shots easily because of that. So, bowling department get more relaxed and don't bother about how the score or what will be the score. Then there is tremendous ground support as well. When you have played a lot of cricket in sub-continent pitches and then you go to play in conditions like west indies or australia, the batsmen will automatically go for defensive shots and do a lot of mistakes, because the ball comes very quick with lot of movements. Indian bowlers are doing a pretty good job now, but they or not getting good support from the batting side while playing abroad. \n\nIndia have to produce more pacy pitches, that will help definitely for Indian batsmen as well as the bowlers.
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before i answer, i must tell u that ur question is worth thinking after. \n\nindian coaches for india haven't been much successful in the past. before they choose a coach for a team, they must not see how many records they hold in the history of cricket, but the coach of the team should be able to teach the team in such a way that the players r forced to perfection and get 100% performance. \n\nas far as expertise is concerned, ther is no lack of experts in india, but still some experts of overseas analyse the statistics better sometimes. may b that's the cause that the foreign coaches r more preferred than our own coaches who actually own their citizenship and r no migrators. \n\nwe have seen how kapil dev plays, but we have also seen that under his coachmanship, india did not win many matches, while now, after greg chappel came in action, india is at her best of forms. \n\nif ur trying to ask for a replacement for gregy, well, i suggest someone like desmond haynes, kris srikkanth, sunny gavaskar,\nvivian richards, etc if ur thinking to improve the batsmen.\n\nif u want an ideal coach for bowlers, well, i thinking india should have a bowling coach like dennis lilee, holding, jeff thomson, wasim akram (well if pakistan would let him be a coach for INDIAN bowlers), etc.
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i think there should be some provision of third umpire as in cricket. so that critical decisions may be taken with the help of action replay in slow motion to avoid any doubt.
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do experiments in a limit like place dhoni at no4 place\nbut not cross the limit like send pathan at 3 place\n\ndravid is anice guys to perform by bat & captancy\nbut greg ih the real challange which affects the team performance.
900525
I agree with you. If at all he is worlds best batsman, he need to adapt to team's requirement. If he comes two down , ideally after 20 th over and can stay till end to stabilise the innings.
950487
no chance. it will be just too tough. they'll really have to search hard to find genuine pace bowlers. the only people they can rely now on are umar gul, danish kaneria, and naved ul hassan. and hope for the best in the world cup and rely on their batting line-up to win matches.
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I have observed that most of the batsmen were out to short pitched rising deliveries.  What is the need of the hour is to train the batsmen how to tackle the short pitched rising deliveries.\nAnother point I have observed the matches played so far is that while top order of South African batting failed, lower order rescued the team and posted defendable total, whereas in India's cse after first 6 batsmen are out, rest of the players get out without giving any fight.  India should develop some allrounders for the one day matches like South Africa.\n\nI strongly feel that with proper guidance and training the youngsters will improve and show better performance in future.\n\nWhile a whitewash is a distinct possibility, I hope India will try their best to atleast win the last match to redeem some lost prestige.
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go to hell.\nif we do so, the ODI will conclude in half a day.\nhow could we telecast the remaining ads..?\nrun away from here..
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This achievement is a result of the joint effort by all of above, all really wants to keep their role best in this.\nVengsarkar being new in this team deserves less ( eventhough inclusion of Jaffer, a big blunder)- \n\nWhat this Chappal & Dravid handle with our team, nobody understand.Their selection of final XI batting / bowling changes in each matches, nobody can digest.\n\nLet us look about the recent stories.\nAfter the continous failure of batsmen they never tried to shruffle the batting order according to their ability. They says to have done experiment with Pathan at no.3, that is not much a hilarious idea. Many punch hitters have been sent to these positions and been succesful for all teams. Even Chetan Sharma scored a century at no.3. So sending as Pathan as a punch hitter according to circumstances we can admit, but how we can consider him as a top order batsman..?\nThey never tried Dhoni at no.2 or 3, who can stay around and also go for big hits after being settled. Insted of Pathan they could have tested Dhoni Yuvraj or even Raina as one more chance. Since middle order batting collapsed worstly, Dravid had to get down upto no.5 or 6 followed by Sehwag.\n\nIn DLF cup Sreesanth was called back & he bowled well against WIndies & the next match he has been dropped.\nAgain in SA, Pathan & Sreesanth was included in the 1st match.After the match has been abandoned without a ball being bowled for the second match surprisingly both were omitted. At least 3-4 continous chance should be given for a player to evaluate his performance.\n\nWhat way these guys are thinking, nobody knows. Then Y this consideration is not giving to substitute batsman for long time in place of Raina or Kaif.\n\nOn recent performance of Indian team, a rotation base experiment of players, ( as Australia did before & hence became the best) since we have numerous young talents as well as experienced ones.\n\nThe present Indian team is not bad, but the utilization of it is important. When they R replacing Sehwag it should be DKarthick who was succesful in one day games than Jaffer at domestic matches, and also a better competitor.\n\nBowling we have all are almost at same range, but in SA type of wickets it is better if they go for Saheer,Munaf, Sreesanth,Pathan & Kumble ahead of Agarkar & Harbajan.\n\nHowever let us hope for the best in coming days...
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AN EFFORT BEING MADE TO HIGHLIGHT PATHAN AS A KEY PLAYER.\nWHEN INDIA PLAYING IN BATSMEN FRIENDLY PITCHES,\nTHE SOFTWARE (IRFAN PATHAN) SAFELY REMOVED FROM THE SQUAD.\nAND THE FANS THINKING, PATHAN'S ABSENCE WEAKENS THE BOWLING ATTACK.