Middle Overs is all about Wrist Spinners:
In this World Cup and ODIs in general, middle overs are controlled by wrist spinners, no amount of fast men or finger spinners can do the job. That's why India is firm favorite to win the cup.
You can see the stark difference in IND and AFG bowling innings, how they are controlling the game. Initially AFG spinners had issues, bowling too fast, not getting length right, but now they got hang of the conditions, plus more sun, means more trouble for Western teams
India Learned its lessons from CT
India Learnt his lessons from CT loss, it was blessing in disguise for India, they would have carried on with Ashwin/Jadaja type spinners for two more years, have the won the CT. After the loss, they threw finger spinners and Brought proper, full-time wrist spinners into their attack. This has transformed India into the most potent attack in the world right now. India's biggest advantage in not Kohli or Bhumra but KulCha, that duo is going to make life uncomfortable for all teams. And they have no apparent answers for them. They can take wickets, while been economical. Which hits you on two ends...Even Batting first, teams would have hard time scoring freely against these guys, you have to take risk constantly, which is a problem. Plus, in between you will get really difficult delivers to deal with...
Pakistan miss the boat for this WC
Pakistan has not invested in spinner since Ajmal is gone. Pakistan are happy to field 3/4 allrounders, most of them are rubbish players, other than Shadab, none are consider even decent spinners. Which is horrible strategy, spin should be our strength been an Asian side, you should have it.
Secondly, Pakistan is obsessed with PSL, which is filled with million left arm spinners, first off that is bad strategy, you want to give chances to more leg spinners, secondly, focus on domestic cricket. T20 will not give you proper batsman or spinner...Left arm spinner is an easy way out, but that is no subsitute of quality leggy...
Other problem is Management obsession with Yasir Shah, who is below average leg spinner. His only skill is to take fifer on day 4/5 in UAE pitches, rest of the places he is completely flat. He does not spin the ball, he pushes it through at pace, on day 4/5 wicket that fetches him LBW/bold but no flight or spin(googliee is missing as well) in his armory...
Below average leadership will not built strong team
You got to look else where and incentivize people to bowl leg spin...Next World Cup is in India, spin will be even more important. you got to get rid of this Rallo Katta Allrounder culture and invest in proper spinners as well as seamers...Making Immad Karachi King Captain, was worse idea came from Mickey camp, he should not be in any team, let alone Captain. His primary skill is darting, he is in the wrong business.
What I am hearing, people are talking about making him Captain, that would be far worse. We cannot making another non-playing Captain, who not only contribute nothing, but creates a bad culture... Sarfraz is not only an unfit guy, but he is not a performing wicket keeper batsmen. Rest of the world has either hard hitter keepers or proper batsmen like BD, we got worse of both worlds...You can never develop teams around such Captains, whose skills are either outdated or does not match requirements of top tier of international cricket. Immad would be again an horrible choice, you want to get rid of players like Immad, Hafeez,Malik, Sarfraz not make the top of the leadership circle, doing that means you are aiming for #7/8 rank team...Team should be built around quality players, not below average individuals... We have to invest in specialists not Ralloo Kattas!!
In this World Cup and ODIs in general, middle overs are controlled by wrist spinners, no amount of fast men or finger spinners can do the job. That's why India is firm favorite to win the cup.
You can see the stark difference in IND and AFG bowling innings, how they are controlling the game. Initially AFG spinners had issues, bowling too fast, not getting length right, but now they got hang of the conditions, plus more sun, means more trouble for Western teams
India Learned its lessons from CT
India Learnt his lessons from CT loss, it was blessing in disguise for India, they would have carried on with Ashwin/Jadaja type spinners for two more years, have the won the CT. After the loss, they threw finger spinners and Brought proper, full-time wrist spinners into their attack. This has transformed India into the most potent attack in the world right now. India's biggest advantage in not Kohli or Bhumra but KulCha, that duo is going to make life uncomfortable for all teams. And they have no apparent answers for them. They can take wickets, while been economical. Which hits you on two ends...Even Batting first, teams would have hard time scoring freely against these guys, you have to take risk constantly, which is a problem. Plus, in between you will get really difficult delivers to deal with...
Pakistan miss the boat for this WC
Pakistan has not invested in spinner since Ajmal is gone. Pakistan are happy to field 3/4 allrounders, most of them are rubbish players, other than Shadab, none are consider even decent spinners. Which is horrible strategy, spin should be our strength been an Asian side, you should have it.
Secondly, Pakistan is obsessed with PSL, which is filled with million left arm spinners, first off that is bad strategy, you want to give chances to more leg spinners, secondly, focus on domestic cricket. T20 will not give you proper batsman or spinner...Left arm spinner is an easy way out, but that is no subsitute of quality leggy...
Other problem is Management obsession with Yasir Shah, who is below average leg spinner. His only skill is to take fifer on day 4/5 in UAE pitches, rest of the places he is completely flat. He does not spin the ball, he pushes it through at pace, on day 4/5 wicket that fetches him LBW/bold but no flight or spin(googliee is missing as well) in his armory...
Below average leadership will not built strong team
You got to look else where and incentivize people to bowl leg spin...Next World Cup is in India, spin will be even more important. you got to get rid of this Rallo Katta Allrounder culture and invest in proper spinners as well as seamers...Making Immad Karachi King Captain, was worse idea came from Mickey camp, he should not be in any team, let alone Captain. His primary skill is darting, he is in the wrong business.
What I am hearing, people are talking about making him Captain, that would be far worse. We cannot making another non-playing Captain, who not only contribute nothing, but creates a bad culture... Sarfraz is not only an unfit guy, but he is not a performing wicket keeper batsmen. Rest of the world has either hard hitter keepers or proper batsmen like BD, we got worse of both worlds...You can never develop teams around such Captains, whose skills are either outdated or does not match requirements of top tier of international cricket. Immad would be again an horrible choice, you want to get rid of players like Immad, Hafeez,Malik, Sarfraz not make the top of the leadership circle, doing that means you are aiming for #7/8 rank team...Team should be built around quality players, not below average individuals... We have to invest in specialists not Ralloo Kattas!!
