Team balance is key: MS Dhoni - Cricket News Update
As the Indian team takes on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 has put emphasis on team balance, while further identified the need to bowl well at the death which in recent times have cost the Men in Blue dearly in major competitions.
His comments came in wake of his backing for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890. The all-rounder will provide the team with what Dhoni terms a ‘real part timer’, someone who could be handy
with the bat while further chip in with some useful overs.
He further rued the loss of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RA-Jadeja-c2238, both of whom have been excluded for the series with the former recovering from cancer, while the latter dropped on form. He identified their all-round abilities as crucial to the team, considering
that it helps them to fill the fifth bowler option while avoid the death-over malfunctions witnessed since the World Cup.
"The coming in of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Irfan-c64444 gives us the liberty of playing five specialist bowlers," Dhoni said.
"We don't have a real part-timer, in the sense that when Yuvraj was there, he can bowl, even if he is having an off-day, four to five overs, or when Jadeja is there he can bowl four to five overs minimum and you can rotate the bowlers and get the ten overs
out of them. But if we play with four bowlers, the catch-22 situation is that the rest of the overs will be bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HA-Varaiya-c1520 paa [Sehwag], Rohit [Sharma], [Suresh] Raina.”
Dhoni was also asked about veteran pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379, who has just played four ODIs since the World Cup 2011 and missed the recent Asia Cup campaign. It has considerably halted the Men in Blue’s charge since the mega event, but the skipper simply wants
his star player to get match fit.
“It is very important but I don't think we need to think about it from right the first game because we have to also get him match-fit," Dhoni said.
On the other hand http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228 has had paramount return since the World Cup, taking 33 wickets in 26 games at an average of 33.12 and an economy-rate of 4.81.
Tags: