Posts Tagged ‘ Yusuf Pathan ’

India needs to play three fast bowlers: Ganguly

March 4, 2011

Sourav Ganguly says: India will have the chance to review its bowling attack – as to whether it goes with three fast bowlers or continue with two spinners and two seamers, which I don’t think is the way forward. It needs three fast bowlers and then have someone like Yusuf Pathan bowling his 10 overs. 

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Kohli shows team’s selfless approach

February 20, 2011

“Maaro!”

None of the many moments that have stuck in mind from India’s comfortable win over Bangladesh in the opening game of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 are more significant that the sight of Virat Kohli telling Yusuf Pathan “Maaro”.

Kohli had taken a single off the first ball of the final over and Pathan approached him in the middle of the pitch, ostensibly wanting to know what the young man would like him to do, especially since he was batting on 99. The answer was instinctive: “Maaro!”

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One spin too many?

February 1, 2011

You do not have to strain your ears to hear the continuing buzz on 23-year-old Piyush Chawla and his selection in the Indian team for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. After he spent more than two years in the sidelines when others like Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha travelled with India’s Test and one-day international teams, the 23-year-old who answers to the call of Paras after the fabled stone that is reputed to turn all metal it touches to gold was picked ostensibly because captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni sought to have variety in the bowling attack.

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