Private machinery.That video taught me a lot.......about what it's like using heavy machinery.
The first ODI is ages away, better for Freds recovery i guess but this tme i'm just hoping he hasn't been rushed back.
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Private machinery.That video taught me a lot.......about what it's like using heavy machinery.
The first ODI is ages away, better for Freds recovery i guess but this tme i'm just hoping he hasn't been rushed back.
India (likely) 1 Robin Uthappa, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rahul Dravid (capt), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Rohit Sharma, 6 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), 7 Piyush Chawla, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Ramesh Powar, 10 RP Singh, 11 Munaf Patel.
Scotland (likely) 1 Fraser Watts, 2 Navdeep Poonia, 3 Ryan Watson (capt), 4 Gavin Hamilton, 5 Collin Smith (wk), 6 Neil McCullum, 7 Craig Wright, 8 Majid Haq, 9 John Blain, 10 Dewald Nel, 11 Paul Hoffman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/scotland/6949069.stm
We've got live coverage on the BBC website for the India vs Scotland ODI. The link is just under the headline on that page, not sure if it's British only viewers.
Ok, so he is quicker than 70mphAt the nets Munaf works up a good pace; he is visibly faster than any of the others there, Irfan Pathan included.
"To me, he was asked to bowl like [Glenn] McGrath, that's where the problem started," Sekhar says. But that doesn't explain Munaf's brittleness, does it? It does, according to Sekhar - at least the latest back injury.
"The idea behind fast bowling is to have all your movements towards the batsman," Sekhar says. "He ran in straight, but he jumped towards fine leg, just before the stride. The batsman suddenly was at a different angle.
"Naturally and biomechanically, if your force doesn't go in the right direction, problems are bound to happen. McGrath can do it because he is bloody strong. Munaf is strong but not that strong. When you are bowling that way, you have to rotate to bowl. Naturally there is a twist. Initially it would have been stiffness, then pain; then he is not able to bowl." Munaf has now eliminated that final sideways movement, but just why did he do it in the first place?
"I thought line and length was more important in one-day cricket," he says. "I was feeling good with that action; the team was getting good support too. I was feeling good because that inward jump made the away-going delivery more effective." One wonders if the presence of a specialist bowling coach then would have helped, if the tinkering with the action was what caused the injury.
Well I missed India's bowling because I was at work but would have been interested in seeing how Agarkar and Munaf bowled. I'm also excited about Uthappa and Gambhir--these could be the future opening pair once Sachin/Sourav are done.
Dude trust me Gambhir hasnt done anything.He is too inconsistent.He plays one good inning always against weaker oppositions.I think we should find another good opener.Those who think he can replace Ganguly needs to check their eyes.Utthappa has a bright future.Gambhir is in and out of the team for the last three years that tells the story.well dinesh karthik is gone, gambhir looks a promising prosepect.....