http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Philip-Narine-c91869 is just a temporary threat for batsmen, says Sourav Ganguly – Cricket News Update
Captain of Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746, has praised the performances of Kolkata Knight Riders’ off-spinner, Sunil Narine, in the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) but feels that the batsmen will start to pick his variations
with the passage of time.
Narine made his debut in international cricket last year and since then he has been a permanent member of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 team in the limited-overs version of the sport. However, the 23-year-old cricketer from Trinidad & Tobago became
a star in the current season of the cash-rich tournament.
The mystery spinner is among the leading wicket-takers of the tournament with 21 scalps in just a dozen matches, which is quite an extra-ordinary performance, considering the fact that this is Narine’s very first season of IPL.
Most of the batsmen in the current season have failed to read the trajectory and spin of Narine. The off-spinner has played a massive role in the success of his team this year.
Ganguly admitted that Narine is bowling brilliantly but feels that he will have a same kind of a fate as that of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BAW-Mendis-c1127. The mystery spinner from Sri Lanka rocked the cricketing world in 2009 but now the batsmen
are able to play him without much of a difficulty.
“He is a young spinner and is definitely bowling well, but he will be read very soon... The same thing happened to Ajantha Mendis. These days, all batsmen and bowlers get extra attention from the rival teams after their early successes,”
Ganguly said.
While talking about his team’s poor performance in the on-going season, ‘Dada’ expressed his disappointment and said that the team is not able to deliver the goods because it is just its second season in the tournament and the situation
will get better in the coming seasons.
He added, “There is a bit of disappointment, but that would always be there. After all, we are a new franchise in the tournament. We could have gone up the ladder, but we could not utilise the opportunity. At the end of the season,
we have to look at things and try for better showings next season.”
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