Perspective on Indian Bowling from a Former Indian Cricketer

Perspective on Indian Bowling from a Former Indian Cricketer

Perspective on Indian Bowling from a Former Indian Cricketer: The T20 World Cup is coming up soon. And India has another thing to think about: their problems with death bowling. From the start of the Asia Cup, India’s best death bowlers were not up to par. So Rohit Sharma had a lot to think about. This included Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s performance in the penultimate overs against Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the first and third T20Is against Australia. Bumrah’s return was expected to bring a ray of hope for the Men in Blue. Now, Bumrah is back. But not much has changed because the Indian bowling attack is letting out a lot of runs.

At the end of the 15th over in Hyderabad, Australia was at 123/6. Even though Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, and Jasprit Bumrah are not in their best shape, they are India’s top pacers. So the question is, should the Indian side be worried about the bowlers in their squad? Sanjay Manjrekar, a former India cricketer and well-known cricket expert, doesn’t think so. This is because he thinks Bhuvi has been playing a lot of cricket lately.

Manjrekar’s take on Indian bowlers

“With Bhuvneshwar Kumar, it’s never a very simple answer but you’ve got to give one of the simple answers and one of the main reasons why Bhuvi seems to be off the boil – is playing too much cricket. In the sense, that he’s played all the matches coming into this series as well,” Manjrekar said.

When asked about Patel, however, Manjrekar didn’t hold back and said that he has some problems as a bowler.

“So, I’m going to put down Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s current performance to just match fatigue. Harshal Patel has limitations as a seam bowler, but India must look as one of the third seamer options and must look at a couple of others as options and I keep stressing on Mohammed Shami as the other option,” Manjrekar added.

All eyes will be on these Indian bowlers during the remaining T20Is against South Africa.

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