Setting clear plans clicked for England, believes Stuart Broad - Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465, the right-arm English fast bowler, believes that setting clear plans before the start of the series and accomplishing them, played a crucial role in England’s clean sweep over India in the npower Test series.
The 25-year-old pacer was beaming after being named as England’s Player of the Series. Broad revealed that all English bowlers had devised a strategy on how and where to bowl to Indian batsmen, and sticking to their plans paid-off
for them.
“We have worked well together; we have all bowled to a plan throughout the series. It has been very rewarding. They have a powerful batting line-up but we set pretty clear plans at the start of the series on how we wanted to bowl.
The plans have worked and we are delighted with the results,” said Broad.
The lanky pacer further said that pitches on which they played allowed him to bowl full length deliveries to Indian batsmen while surprising them with an odd bouncer.
Broad also hailed Swann’s bowling on the final day of the Oval Test. Swann picked six wickets as England thumped India by an innings and eight runs.
From being a man who almost lost his place in the national squad to being named player of the series, Broad has worked hard to silence those who doubted his talents. The 25-year-old was the highest wicket taker of the series and
grabbed 25 wickets at an impressive average of 13.84 from four matches. He also performed exceptionally well with the bat and scaled 182 runs at an average of 60.66.
On the other hand, Indian batting failed miserably on this tour as the infamous batting line could manage to score 300 runs just once in four matches. Apart, from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229 no one else stood to the onslaught from English bowlers.
For that very reason Dravid was chosen as man of the series from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flower-c44362.
The iconic right-hander heaped praise on English team and said, “http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 are deservedly the number one in the world, they played well in the series, they outplayed us. We expected a tough series as we know they have played some
great cricket over the past two and a half years but we thought we would play a bit better.”
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