aditya123
National Board President
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2003
- Location
- Mumbai
- Online Cricket Games Owned
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - Xbox 360
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - Xbox One
We have played our best cricket outside the subcontinent in the past few years, at least more exciting cricket. Our bowlers are better suited to overseas conditions than the subcontinent as we are no longer a spin dominant team. Our spin bowling is our weakness contrary to what most people think. Our pace bowling is what has won us our most famous victories since the Ganguly era began. Take your mind back to Trinidad 2002, Headingley 2002, Adelaide 2003, Jo`burg 2006, Jamaica 2006,Perth 2008, Nottingham 2007 or even Galle in 2008 and Rawalpindi 2004. Look at that pattern. In all these test matches we won because of contributions from our pace attack.
We`d be better suited to preparing seamer friendly conditions as it would give our seamers a better chance of getting wickets. These dead tracks nullify our seamers and our spinners are`nt our attacking option these days and hence it only puts too much pressure on our batting. What happens in helpful conditions is that a score of 75 or 90 from a batsman can be a matchwinning effort in the end and with the quality in our batting, you would bank on them to do that more often than not like we saw at Perth in 2008. Our batting set up 330 in the first innings and our bowlers did superbly with some help from the WACA wicket. Even our batsmen would prefer a sporting wicket than these dead ones as it far too often puts more pressure on them to get obscenely huge scores.
Its my view anyway.
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