http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Prabhakar-c74254 slams India’s bowling – Cricket News Update
Former Indian all-rounder, Manoj Prabhakar is extremely disappointed with the performance of the Indian bowlers off-late and has said that it is extremely foolish to depend on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Irfan-Pathan-c1601 to deliver the goods on a consistent basis.
Since the last couple of years, Indian bowling has been struggling in international cricket and it has caused a downfall in Indian result. The fast bowlers have failed to perform in Test cricket as well as limited-overs cricket.
The conditions in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 are generally good for seam bowling but the Indian bowlers failed to make an impression even in those tours.
In the on-going Asia Cup 2012, the Men in Blue, who are also the World Champions, failed to reach the finals of the tournament because of the poor bowling displays. They failed to defend a massive total against a team like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 and that cost them the
tournament.
Prabhakar, who himself was a new-ball bowler in his playing days, expressed that Kumar and Pathan are not wicket-taking bowlers and both of them cannot bowl yorkers regularly, which is a vital delivery in the death overs of a match. The former all-rounder
admitted that India could have been worse off if the batsmen did not perform out of their skins.
He said, "If http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 is depending on Praveen Kumar and Irfan Pathan to get breakthroughs, then they are surely out of their minds. They don't know how to bowl yorkers, which is a fast bowler's main weapon in ODIs. They are struggling to bowl well in the slog
overs. We are fortunate that our batsmen are chasing well, but that is not how a World Champion team should function."
The former Test cricketer also believes that coaches have a limited role to play in international cricket, especially foreign coaches who are not aware of the dynamics of the sport in the Sub-Continent, and it is difficult for them to adapt.
"These foreign coaches have no knowledge of wickets in the sub-continent. It is their role to help our bowlers adapt to different conditions," he said.
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