The spinning juggernaut
A blog by 186notout:
To say the very less, the third day’s play of the Ind-SA test at Kanpur, it’s a commendable performance from India’s point of view. Everything has been spot on.
It feels very nice to see Harbhajan spinning away menacingly, after looking pretty ordinary for some months.
This test has really been the masifestation of our supremacy in the art of spin bowling, I believe. After the last test, someone in the SA camp, probably Kallis had written in a newspaper column that India’s spin-might is not at all incomprehendable to the other teams now. They are much better prepared.
True, ‘better’ prepared, but still under-prepared! The spinning ball is to them is still much a whizzing blur thing to them, it seems (to say in the lines of Kallis himself ). Baby, you have much to learn ( nothing to say of someone called Paul Harris ).
Those two balls of typical examples of orthodox leg-spin, in very different conditions, by different bowlers, but all the same, ‘Batsman beaten in flight and stumped’ would be etched in my mind. The first one by Kumble in the pace-paradise of Perth got Michael Clarke, and the second one was bowled by Piyush Chawla in the last test.
They remind of those glorious old days of Indian spin bowling, and of course they prove that the art is not waning at all.
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