Indian Bowlers – An Endangered Species

During the era of 90's, some cricket team captainand Sehwag. Our team captain Mahendra sing Dhoni
practiced to substitute an extra batsman in the placehas too decided to follow the strategy of 8 batsman
of a bowler. But it was an exception for the specificand 3 bowlers. Do u really think that it is a logical step
case, probably taking reference to the circumstances.for conquest?
But now a day that particular practice has become aThe first ODI played on last Sunday at jaipur, India v
tendency for cricketers.s South Africa was too built on the same attempt of
Soon after the retirement of an all rounder like KapilDhoni's strategy. India was entered with just 3
Dev the impact and strength of bowlers went onbowlers and 8 batsmen. This is only was the reason
losing ground in a slow but sure manner. In the laterwhere India was not seen in good shape as it
stage India was crammed with some talented playersseemed to be.
like S Badrinath, MS Dhobi, AB Dinda, R Dravid,Do our captain Dhoni has set such a strategy to win
Harbhajan Singh, G Gambhir, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik, Zthe match or to escape from the controversies. In
Khan, V Kohli, VVS Laxman, A Mishra, AM Nayar, PPfact I would say that it is surely a clever decision for
Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, WP Saha, SRteam man who lacks the talented bowlers. In the
Tendulakar, S Sreesanth, Yuvraj Singh, RP Singh, SKODI's also the famous Harbhajan Singh was not
Raina, A Nehra, I Sharma, MM Patel, P Kumar, RGavailable. He was a casual leave on account of his
Sharma, V Sehwag, M Vijay and S Tyagi.sister's marriage and Gambhir due to the one and
But only few of them stood on the feet's ofonly reason Injury and injury.
bucketful performances like, Sachin, Ganguly, Yuvraj