by Dr Cricket » Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:53 pm
agree with simon doull in that india just need to find an third seam bowler and they have a team to challenge or compete very highly overseas in NZ, Aus, Eng and SA.
bhuvi and shami are world class and can match any seam bowler from those countries, not often who can say that in the past 20 years barring Srinath and Zaheer khan, so to have 2 of them is a good sign.
quite common lately for players to state bhuvi is the most skillful bowlers who can move the ball both ways and seam it as well, pretty much taken over from Anderson in that regard.
At the moments india just lacks a reliable 3rd option it is either wayward Yadav that struggles to use the new ball and is more effective and deadly in low slow pitches or with the old ball.
Ishant Sharma is probably india best option since he does have a stock ball and really the 3rd bowler just needs to bowl overs so Bhuvi and Shami don't bowl 25 overs a day etc.
Not really sure it is wise for Bumrah to play as a third option considering he not played a test yet and it needs to be seen if he can bowl the overs ishant sharma can.
Sadly for india at the moment they don't seem to have any depth in Test cricket outside Bhuvi and Shami.
Yadav is a bit one dimensional and ishant is ok/average bowler.
any injures to shami and Bhuvi then india struggling big time and need to hope the likes of Bumrah and the fast bowlers coming through are ready for Test cricket.
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