the whole concern of tailor made pitches for batsmen being used in IPL also serving as a graveyard for bowlers rekindled in my conscience when I saw Chris Gayle making a mockery of dinda and bhuvneshwar kumar, two bowlers who are trying to become the mainstay of indian fast bowling unit. If this is the treatment they are getting then is our fast bowling department heading the right way or actually highway. Without taking anything away from the great innings from the west indian, it pinched when you see fast bowlers being clobbered around the park as it was done by him. the larger picture being that what impact will it bear on the minds of young aspiring fast bowlers.
Bowler friendly pitches will be a huge bonus not only for the bowlers but also for the spectators as they will see some contest between bat and ball instead of seeing the bowlers being mauled by even the most rookie batsmen around the corner. Cant imgaine that a quality of player like Morne Morkel not getting games because some Mandeep Singh hitting him around or a Dale Steyn being hit by a Manish Pandey. Imagine what must be going through a mind of a kid who sees on TV fast bowlers being humiliated this way. He would never want to be a fast bowler as who wants to be a laughing stock. He would always want to be an average batsman who can play cross batted shots and getaway easily and then earning in lakhs, thanks to IPL. The wish to persevere the hard task of running in and bowling heart out will be an extinct scene in future times in cricket. As a ardent fan of cricket I believe that fast bowling is the most tedious job in this beautiful game but sadly there would be no takers for them if examples like these keep popping up.
so where does the problem lie, pitches suiting the batsmen has not been a problem in just the IPL, take a look around the wickets provided in the ranji games. Flat tracks which will be the same throughout the game has just been a graveyard for fast bowlers. with the exception of pitches like the one in mohali, green tinge is a rare sight in indian scheme of things. Thats highly demotivating specially for the younger crop who aspire to become Kapil Devs and Akrams.
its not only that bowlers who suffer from poor pitches, this also gives a lot of false hopes to batsmen with limited skills, as by plundering good fast bowlers on flat tracks they think that they have a impeccable tecnique and they just dont do enough hard work to brush and fine tune the flaws within, thats the reason they falter when the play for india specially when they travel abroad on way faster pitches then they are used to play. The perfect example being Suresh Raina, highly successful in IPL or home matches, infact the highest run getter in IPL in total, his technique was found wanting when he was on crease in testing conditions in England, his ineffiency to deal with short pitched stuff came to fray when he was jumping as a cat on a hot tin roof.
so what could be a solution for this, firslty get in pitch curators from abroad who are highly skilled to make pitches which poses a evenly challenge to both batsmen and bowlers. secondly, as BCCI has no dearth of funds, they should get in the right kind of equipement so that these wickets are maintained, thirdly board should hire a full time fast bowling coach so that the fringe fast bowlers can be looked after in an apt way.
Bowler friendly pitches will be a huge bonus not only for the bowlers but also for the spectators as they will see some contest between bat and ball instead of seeing the bowlers being mauled by even the most rookie batsmen around the corner. Cant imgaine that a quality of player like Morne Morkel not getting games because some Mandeep Singh hitting him around or a Dale Steyn being hit by a Manish Pandey. Imagine what must be going through a mind of a kid who sees on TV fast bowlers being humiliated this way. He would never want to be a fast bowler as who wants to be a laughing stock. He would always want to be an average batsman who can play cross batted shots and getaway easily and then earning in lakhs, thanks to IPL. The wish to persevere the hard task of running in and bowling heart out will be an extinct scene in future times in cricket. As a ardent fan of cricket I believe that fast bowling is the most tedious job in this beautiful game but sadly there would be no takers for them if examples like these keep popping up.
so where does the problem lie, pitches suiting the batsmen has not been a problem in just the IPL, take a look around the wickets provided in the ranji games. Flat tracks which will be the same throughout the game has just been a graveyard for fast bowlers. with the exception of pitches like the one in mohali, green tinge is a rare sight in indian scheme of things. Thats highly demotivating specially for the younger crop who aspire to become Kapil Devs and Akrams.
its not only that bowlers who suffer from poor pitches, this also gives a lot of false hopes to batsmen with limited skills, as by plundering good fast bowlers on flat tracks they think that they have a impeccable tecnique and they just dont do enough hard work to brush and fine tune the flaws within, thats the reason they falter when the play for india specially when they travel abroad on way faster pitches then they are used to play. The perfect example being Suresh Raina, highly successful in IPL or home matches, infact the highest run getter in IPL in total, his technique was found wanting when he was on crease in testing conditions in England, his ineffiency to deal with short pitched stuff came to fray when he was jumping as a cat on a hot tin roof.
so what could be a solution for this, firslty get in pitch curators from abroad who are highly skilled to make pitches which poses a evenly challenge to both batsmen and bowlers. secondly, as BCCI has no dearth of funds, they should get in the right kind of equipement so that these wickets are maintained, thirdly board should hire a full time fast bowling coach so that the fringe fast bowlers can be looked after in an apt way.
