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The Indian skipper, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, has asked his bowlers to adjust their length and pace according to the conditions at Kensington Oval in order to win the second Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, set to be played from Tuesday, June 28 to July 2, 2011.
Although, the Indian side won the first Test with a handsome margin of 63 runs, there was a lot going on about the difficulty in adapting to the bouncy conditions. On a seaming Kingston track, the visitors collapsed on a small total of 246 in the first innings.
However, the Indian bowlers made the most of the conditions and restricted the home side to paltry scores in both innings.
Dhoni urged his bowlers to be flexible in their approach since they will have to adjust their tactics with the changing conditions at different venues in the Caribbean.
“It’s important that pacers adapt themselves for a wicket with more bounce, they need to bowl fuller to get bowled and lbw dismissals. Length will be the absolute key,” said Dhoni.
In the first Test at Kingston, even though the ‘Man of the Match’ award went to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566,
the other fast bowler in the side, also troubled the Windies with his http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-James-Cullen-c52272 pace bowling, claiming six scalps in the match.
Expressing satisfaction over his bowlers’ act in the last game, the Indian wicket-keeper batsman shared, “Ishant has played a lot of Test matches and knows what to do to different batsmen. He is one of our http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Main-c73911 bowlers and forms an ideal
combination with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143. They are different, for Praveen swings the ball while Ishant is a back—of—length bowler.”
The skipper described that he is lucky to have excellent players who give their more than one hundred percent in the field. Meanwhile, he pushed his teammates to keep the good work in the next game and seal the series 2-0.
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