Well, every dark cloud does indeed have a silver lining and the Indian under 19 team's World Cup victory on Australian soil has certainly given all those souls who were despairing over the rather bare Indian spinning cupboard more than enough cause to rejoice......
The answer to India's spinning woes has come in the form of a dimunitive sardar who answers to the name of Harmeet Singh and this lad certainly has the experts singing hosannas about his uncanny ability to flight the ball in varying trajectories, use the depth and angles of the crease by varying the spot from where he delivers the ball at least three to four times during the course of every over and above all his mastery over his wrist position that makes it seem as though he seems to have the ball tied on a string and the same object was solely intended to do his bidding.......
Aussie cricket legend and doyen of television commentators Ian Chappell has gone as far as saying that Harmeet Singh is currently one of the finest spinner's going around the cricketing world and is second only to England's Graeme Swann amongst the phalanx of spinners operating at the present moment.....
Infact, Mr. Chappell did venture as far as offering words of wisdom to the Indian selection committee and ventured to say that these five supposedly wise men should draft this youngster forthwith into the Indian test team if they had an iota of wisdom and cricketing sense amongst them.......
The youngster who reminded Mr. Chappell of his old foe and lifelong mate Bishan Singh Bedi with his loop, flight, arc of delivery and languid and pleasing on the eye bowling action seems destined for international stardom and is all set to make his mark in the annals of the traditional form of the game (test cricket) if the manager of the World Cup winning team Pritam Gandhe is to be believed.....
One can only hope and pray that divine wisdom does indeed dawn on the five purportedly wise men entrusted with the onerous responsibility of ensuring India's presence amongst the topmost echelons of the test playing nations and that these very same men emulate the example of the irreperessible Pathan Imran Khan who remained steadfast to the policy of drafting in exceptionally gifted and talented individuals into the test team without waiting for them to got through the grin and make their mark on the domestic scene for at least three consecutive seasons before being picked for the national team.......
Hope the same fate does not befall this teenage prodigy called Harmeet Singh who deserves to don the Indian test colours without further ado........
The answer to India's spinning woes has come in the form of a dimunitive sardar who answers to the name of Harmeet Singh and this lad certainly has the experts singing hosannas about his uncanny ability to flight the ball in varying trajectories, use the depth and angles of the crease by varying the spot from where he delivers the ball at least three to four times during the course of every over and above all his mastery over his wrist position that makes it seem as though he seems to have the ball tied on a string and the same object was solely intended to do his bidding.......
Aussie cricket legend and doyen of television commentators Ian Chappell has gone as far as saying that Harmeet Singh is currently one of the finest spinner's going around the cricketing world and is second only to England's Graeme Swann amongst the phalanx of spinners operating at the present moment.....
Infact, Mr. Chappell did venture as far as offering words of wisdom to the Indian selection committee and ventured to say that these five supposedly wise men should draft this youngster forthwith into the Indian test team if they had an iota of wisdom and cricketing sense amongst them.......
The youngster who reminded Mr. Chappell of his old foe and lifelong mate Bishan Singh Bedi with his loop, flight, arc of delivery and languid and pleasing on the eye bowling action seems destined for international stardom and is all set to make his mark in the annals of the traditional form of the game (test cricket) if the manager of the World Cup winning team Pritam Gandhe is to be believed.....
One can only hope and pray that divine wisdom does indeed dawn on the five purportedly wise men entrusted with the onerous responsibility of ensuring India's presence amongst the topmost echelons of the test playing nations and that these very same men emulate the example of the irreperessible Pathan Imran Khan who remained steadfast to the policy of drafting in exceptionally gifted and talented individuals into the test team without waiting for them to got through the grin and make their mark on the domestic scene for at least three consecutive seasons before being picked for the national team.......
Hope the same fate does not befall this teenage prodigy called Harmeet Singh who deserves to don the Indian test colours without further ado........
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