Team India's bowling woes were on display for all to see as a virtual second string Derbyshire team made the visitors sweat for the best part of the first part of team India's second and final warm up fixture before the first test gets underway on July 9.........
While there is no denying the fact that team India did certainly have it's moments and at one stage even reduced the English second division county side to a rather worrisome 115/4 at one stage of their innings.......
Cometh the hour, cometh the man or then should I say saviour and a hitherto unknown Wesley Durston proved to be all this and more for his tottering side; Durston proceeded to knock the stuffing out of the Indian bowlers and stroked his way to a facile 95 off only 90 balls when the hugely underrated Stuart Binny accounted for him.........
Durston's innings was punctuated or then embellished with 14 scintillating fours and two towering sixes which landed a long way beyond the boundaries of the ground; the same (innings) also included a Pankaj Singh twenty run over (inclusive of three fours and a six) where the hapless bowler was virtually sent to the cleaners by a marauding Durston..........
Despite the mauling at the hands or then should I say blade of Durston; Pankaj Singh and Ishwar Pandey appeared to be India's best bowlers by a distance as they did hurry the batsmen into their shots on quite a few occasions and also induced a few edges which unfortunately did not go to hand though the two of them ended up ensnaring a wicket each.........
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar was miserly at best and only conceded 24 runs in the 13 overs that he sent down while Varun Aaron was his usual pacey self conceding 45 runs in the 12 overs that he sent down; Ishant Sharma continued to be India's biggest worry factor as he was plagued by a constant no ball problem all through his ten over spell (he ended up bowling ten no balls during his ten over spell), alas none of the three managed to scalp an opposition batsman.........
Ravindra Jadeja emerged as team India' most successful bowler and picked up two wickets while conceding a mere 27 runs during the course of his eleven over spell; while India's numero uno spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was severely under bowled and only sent down seven overs at a personal cost of 25 runs though it must be said that he failed to trouble the Derbyshire batsmen who more than warded him off with consummate ease........
Virtually at the end of his tether, captain M.S. Dhoni tried his luck at the bowling hustings and sent down the last over of the day in which he was taken for eleven runs by the unbeaten pair of Billy Godleman and wicket keeper Harvey Hosain.........
All in all, it was yet another eminently forgettable day for the visitors as yet another second string county team took them for more than 300 runs during the course of a day's cricket; the team's think tank (team management) not only needs to discover or unearth four bowlers who are more than capable of dismissing the English team twice over the course of a five day period but also keeping the runs down while doing so........
Here's wishing them the very best in their endeavours and toil........
While there is no denying the fact that team India did certainly have it's moments and at one stage even reduced the English second division county side to a rather worrisome 115/4 at one stage of their innings.......
Cometh the hour, cometh the man or then should I say saviour and a hitherto unknown Wesley Durston proved to be all this and more for his tottering side; Durston proceeded to knock the stuffing out of the Indian bowlers and stroked his way to a facile 95 off only 90 balls when the hugely underrated Stuart Binny accounted for him.........
Durston's innings was punctuated or then embellished with 14 scintillating fours and two towering sixes which landed a long way beyond the boundaries of the ground; the same (innings) also included a Pankaj Singh twenty run over (inclusive of three fours and a six) where the hapless bowler was virtually sent to the cleaners by a marauding Durston..........
Despite the mauling at the hands or then should I say blade of Durston; Pankaj Singh and Ishwar Pandey appeared to be India's best bowlers by a distance as they did hurry the batsmen into their shots on quite a few occasions and also induced a few edges which unfortunately did not go to hand though the two of them ended up ensnaring a wicket each.........
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar was miserly at best and only conceded 24 runs in the 13 overs that he sent down while Varun Aaron was his usual pacey self conceding 45 runs in the 12 overs that he sent down; Ishant Sharma continued to be India's biggest worry factor as he was plagued by a constant no ball problem all through his ten over spell (he ended up bowling ten no balls during his ten over spell), alas none of the three managed to scalp an opposition batsman.........
Ravindra Jadeja emerged as team India' most successful bowler and picked up two wickets while conceding a mere 27 runs during the course of his eleven over spell; while India's numero uno spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was severely under bowled and only sent down seven overs at a personal cost of 25 runs though it must be said that he failed to trouble the Derbyshire batsmen who more than warded him off with consummate ease........
Virtually at the end of his tether, captain M.S. Dhoni tried his luck at the bowling hustings and sent down the last over of the day in which he was taken for eleven runs by the unbeaten pair of Billy Godleman and wicket keeper Harvey Hosain.........
All in all, it was yet another eminently forgettable day for the visitors as yet another second string county team took them for more than 300 runs during the course of a day's cricket; the team's think tank (team management) not only needs to discover or unearth four bowlers who are more than capable of dismissing the English team twice over the course of a five day period but also keeping the runs down while doing so........
Here's wishing them the very best in their endeavours and toil........
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