http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s fielding has improved over the past years - Jonty Rhodes
Many of the cricket pundits have criticized India’s fielding as their weakest department going into the World Cup but Jonty Rhodes, one of the finest fielders cricket has seen, feels India’s fielding has improved a lot and the side is pretty
good in the department than before.
“Indian team are a lot better all around the park,” reckoned Rhodes on Thursday. “A couple of years ago, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Kaif-c77040 were top fielders. Now they have got
a couple of young players who are putting their hands up and look sharp in the field," Rhodes
Rhodes, who is fielding consultant of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752, said that the standard of fielding of India has considerably improved over the last couple of years and feels the controversial Twenty20 league, the Indian Premier League (IPL), has played
a key role in that.
The 41-year-old hinted that fielding could make the difference in closely contested World Cup matches.
Besides India, the former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 and Kenya as stronger fielding sides in the latest edition of the quadrennial ICC show piece tournament.
Jonty however did add that the general standard of fielding of all the teams participating in the World Cup has improved.
"I think a team like Australia, regardless of who comes into their side are a good fielding unit,” said the veteran of four World Cups. "As for South Africa…they are pretty good altogether. The Kenyan
side are strong and New Zealand have always been pretty good in the field," he added.
When asked to pick the best team from the 14 sides participating in the World Cup, Rhodes said that all the teams have improved their game a lot over past couple of years so it is quite difficult to pick one of them as the best.
The former South African batsman, who played 245 One Day Internationals in his 11-year-long cricketing career, played down the talks that the matches in the mega event would be high-scoring adding that the runs saved could be the difference
between a winning and losing side.
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