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Originally Posted by Doink Ishant is 18 and said to be generating a lot of pace. |
Ishant Sharma was recently in the news that he was going to be in the squad for the final Test in South Africa. Click
here for the cricinfo article on the matter.
The guy looks promising and will diffiantly learn a few things bowling to Dravid and Co. in the nets if gets into the squad. He should not be selected in Test match as of yet, he is too raw.
He is 6ft 4" and is still growing!! Wow if he can be 6ft 5" and bowl at atleast 85mph then India have a great prospect at their hands. But at the moment I am concered with his built, he is looking like Bruce Ried of Australia- great tall bowler but could not reach his full potential because his frail body could not hack the workload of International cricket.
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Originally Posted by Doink india always have some very good seamers. its just that they fade away when its time to move up on the ladder. they just never graduate to the next level, thanks to lack of form, fitness or perhaps maybe desire. |
Good point there Doink, you are right India's pace bowlers do seem to fade away after they show good showings. If you look around the world India's pace bowlers have always been on par with other nations pace bowlers at club and under 21 level. The difference is that the other nations bowlers improve and get a level which is acceptable at Test level, where as we would be lucky to even get one bowler from the under 21's to improve to the next level.
They may be many reasons for this as you have mentioned lack of fitness, desire and form. One of the other main reason is the picthes in the domestic scene, no pace bowler aspires to bowl on them day in and day out. India is never going to churn out good pace bowlers if the bland pitches continue to exist in the domestic scene. For example Zaheer Khan has been bowling brillantly in the South African series after being dropped on poor fitness and lack of effectiveness with the ball- he corrected that by spending a season in England playing county cricket on helping pitches. Im sure Zaheer Khan would not be bowling as good as he is now if he didn't spend a season in helpful conditions.
If domestic pitches begin to help bowlers more im sure India will be a major force in world cricket in the future- we are cricket mad country and nothing is impossible for us in cricket if the system is run correctly. Better pitches equals a higer chance of good pace bowlers.