when he does, he can maintain the required line and length.
Today
when the Indian opening bowlers
were being severely punished for their wayward bowling,
it was left to Sourav Ganguly, to provide the first breakthrough.
Dileep Premachandran at Lord’s: July 19, 2007
Ball of the day – How to make an impression:
Your new-ball bowlers have been as effective as the wolf huffing and puffing to blow the house down, and you turn instead to your former captain, a man who bowls at 70 mph.
With his fourth ball, he gets you a wicket, breaching the defence of the dangerous Cook.
Eleven years after making a century on debut at Lord’s, Sourav Ganguly’s timing is once again spot on.
Finishing the day with figures of
O 9 / M 3/ R 24 / W 1 / ER 2.66
That for someone who bowls a bit, was job well done
But being Ganguly, his efforts will deliberately go unnoticed.
A lot of praise is again being heaped on captain Dravid.
Although it was his bad judgement that helped England to a flyer.
Text Commentary: cricBuzz.com
15.4 Zaheer to Strauss, FOUR!!,
fuller length delivery outside the off stump, swinging away from the left hander, Strauss gets forward and looks to go for the drive, outside edges it down to third man for four, a 3rd slip in place would have gobbled it up!!!
Poor field setting. Strauss is scratching around, they have just picked up a wicket and yet Dravid just has two slips in position. Guess what??? That goes right in the vacant 3rd slip area!!!
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan at Lord’s: July 19, 2007
Rahul Dravid’s 7-2 field didn’t help, not with the pitch playing so flat and definitely not with the bowling ammunition he possessed. It allowed bowlers to spray it wide, allowed runs to leak. Fighting fire with fire can be hazardous at time.
A bit more fairness would never go amiss.
Give credit where credit is due
it is cricket, after all.
Sorry, I forgot, its
Team India.
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