India v Pakistan – 1st T20I – Indian bowlers to watch out for [Part 2]
Continued from Part 1 ...
Ravichandran Ashwin
Widely considered the future of India’s spin attack, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228 was initially drafted into the team for the limited-overs formats of the game, after displaying prodigious skill in T20 tournaments such as the Indian Premier League. The Player of
the Series from the 2010 Champions League in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, Ashwin was granted the chance to make his international debut in the same year.
A Test debut followed in 2011 in a home series against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, and the off-spinner took 22 wickets in the 3-match Test series, in addition to scoring a Test century – India appeared to have found a bowler to spearhead the spin attack after Harbhajan
Singh. He followed it up with similarly substantial performances against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754, and while he put up a decent show against England recently, picking up 14 scalps during the recent 4-match Test series (and scoring two half-centuries), the hosts went on
to lose, with the Poms’ spin duo of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 beating them at their own game.
With the team currently on shaky ground, a lot will riding on Ashwin’s shoulders, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 look to reassert their dominance at home by keeping Pakistan in check. The off-spinner has a promising record in the T20 format of the game, and has claimed 114 wickets
from the 112 T20 matches he has played so far.
Ashok Dinda
A right-arm medium-pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566.
Dinda made his international debut in December 2009, in a T20I against Sri Lanka at Nagpur. Since then he has gone on to play 10 ODIs (with 9 wickets to his credit) and 7 T20Is (with 13 wickets) for the national side. His best T20I performance came during
the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka this year, when he claimed 4 for 19 against the home team at Pallekele. In addition to playing for the national side, Dinda features frequently in the domestic circuit, and has also been a regular participant in the Indian
Premier League.
With 71 wickets from 67 T20 matches to his credit, the 28-year-old, who has yet to face http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in a bilateral series, is bound to prove a vital part of India’s arsenal, and will be keen to gain some experience as he looks to cement a spot in the national
XI.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364
A skilled all-rounder, whose part-time left-arm spin has served India well in times of trouble, Yuvraj Singh has been through a great deal in recent times. While he put forth an impressive performance in the 2011 World Cup, which saw him clinching the Player
of the Tournament award, Yuvraj had been suffering from ill health throughout the competition, and was diagnosed with a lung tumour at the end of 2011.
Since his return to the team this year, the 31-year-old has displayed increasingly effective all-round skills, and having chosen the T20 format to ease back into cricket, his development is most defined in the shorter format of the game.
Yuvraj claimed 8 wickets in the 5 matches India played during the ICC World Twenty20 in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. The first T20I at Pune saw him clinching the Player of
the Match award after an impressive all-round performance, which included a 3 for 19, making him the highest wicket-taker in the match. While he remained consistent in the next game at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820, and snapped up 3 for 17, the team went on to lose. However, with
the team geared up to face rivals Pakistan, Yuvraj will undoubtedly be looking to put forth his best, and prove his worth, adding the final flourish to what has been a promising comeback so far.
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