Michael Holding advises Team India to garner express pacers – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 to get some quality fast bowlers in their squad if they want to regain their lost pride and position. He believes that no team can survive in the highly competitive environment of International cricket without an adept fast bowling department.
Holding strongly believes that the Indians have suffered seven consecutive defeats against the English for want of meritorious pacers. He also opined that the young bowlers of the team have proved to be incapable of sustaining their momentum.
Talking to the media today, the former speedster said, “Champion teams have always had good fast bowlers. You can't win Test matches or remain on top without real pacers. If you look at history, you will find that the top teams of different eras had top fast bowlers.”
He further told, “The Indian team did well in Test matches in the recent past because they had a quality bowler in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 and the Australian teams did in the past.”
The Men in Blue have lost four Tests, a one-off T20I and two ODIs to the Poms during their ongoing trip to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. Adding insult to injury, they lost their top Test spot in International Cricket Council’s rankings.
Like Holding, many other cricket analysts also link India’s losing streak to the lack of thumping fast bowlers in their team, whose skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, has also admitted this fact. Furthermore, the team manager also expressed concerns over this deficiency recently.
An important factor that Holding has pointed out is the Indian pacers’ carelessness towards their diet and physical fitness, which he thinks, affects their performance on the field.
Playing 60 Tests and 102 ODIs, Holding earned 249 and 142 wickets respectively in the two formats of the game during his International career, which spanned over 12 years.
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