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We have seen many fast bowlers pace camps having been held over the years whenever Pepsi wants to run a marketing campaign, but this time around i think Pakistan needs to do a proper spin camp.
The spin camp should invite all the professional cricketers that bowl spin in Pakistan, and make them do a 4 week camp. In this camp, they should bowl on every kind of wicket that cricket provides, but with a white ball. (You dont need to select your red ball spinners through such ways, first class cricket is good enough for that purpose)
The batter should include our best players of spin and even a few ex cricketers that were very good players of spinners.
Cricvet does data analysis in cricket, there services should be hired to do data analysis of every spinner.
Now the data analysis part should be the main focus. The highest wicket taking spinner should not mean that he is the best bowler. Usman Qadir is a very good example that if you go on his cricinfo profile, you see his international stats, you will think he is a very good spinner but was not given a proper run.
Data analysis should be done like this
How many times the bowler pitches the ball at the same place : Line and Length Check
The degree of turn in his bowling : Spin Check
Whether someone is not getting spin due to their action : Action Analysis
How many other deliveries they can bowl and their landing consistency : Variety Check
How many half pitchers and full tosses were bowled: Again Line and Length Check
There can be many other variables aswell.
The idea should be that after this camp, to take out the spinner that has the best line and length and could also turn the ball.
The full toss bowlers need to be plucked out. (Usman Qadir, Shadab, Usama Mir)
The no turn bowlers but good line and length ones should also be plucked out. (Imad and Nawaz)
These plucked out bowlers should be red flagged, while the concentration should be on the spinners that spin and offer turn. Reason being, Usama Mir bowling 3 good balls and 3 bad bowls did not help us, infact it only led to Pakistan getting hit for more runs. Bowlers like Nawaz and Imad that dont turn, they are useless. We have argued in lengths that Nawaz should play when Imad was playing and vice versa, but point is, they both dont offer anything and waste the space of a spinner.
Side note:
Afridi was a bowler that got selected in Pakistan team on the basis of raw data. Proper analysis was not done, but when the guy was bowling leg spin, the only reason he landed in the team was because he did not bowl a single full toss in the nets. That was on the basis of raw analysis, now think about if Data Analysis was done, than a better bowler than Afridi could had been unearthed. ( I know Afridi is a bad example, but he was a bowler that got in the team based on such analysis)
The spin camp should invite all the professional cricketers that bowl spin in Pakistan, and make them do a 4 week camp. In this camp, they should bowl on every kind of wicket that cricket provides, but with a white ball. (You dont need to select your red ball spinners through such ways, first class cricket is good enough for that purpose)
The batter should include our best players of spin and even a few ex cricketers that were very good players of spinners.
Cricvet does data analysis in cricket, there services should be hired to do data analysis of every spinner.
Now the data analysis part should be the main focus. The highest wicket taking spinner should not mean that he is the best bowler. Usman Qadir is a very good example that if you go on his cricinfo profile, you see his international stats, you will think he is a very good spinner but was not given a proper run.
Data analysis should be done like this
How many times the bowler pitches the ball at the same place : Line and Length Check
The degree of turn in his bowling : Spin Check
Whether someone is not getting spin due to their action : Action Analysis
How many other deliveries they can bowl and their landing consistency : Variety Check
How many half pitchers and full tosses were bowled: Again Line and Length Check
There can be many other variables aswell.
The idea should be that after this camp, to take out the spinner that has the best line and length and could also turn the ball.
The full toss bowlers need to be plucked out. (Usman Qadir, Shadab, Usama Mir)
The no turn bowlers but good line and length ones should also be plucked out. (Imad and Nawaz)
These plucked out bowlers should be red flagged, while the concentration should be on the spinners that spin and offer turn. Reason being, Usama Mir bowling 3 good balls and 3 bad bowls did not help us, infact it only led to Pakistan getting hit for more runs. Bowlers like Nawaz and Imad that dont turn, they are useless. We have argued in lengths that Nawaz should play when Imad was playing and vice versa, but point is, they both dont offer anything and waste the space of a spinner.
Side note:
Afridi was a bowler that got selected in Pakistan team on the basis of raw data. Proper analysis was not done, but when the guy was bowling leg spin, the only reason he landed in the team was because he did not bowl a single full toss in the nets. That was on the basis of raw analysis, now think about if Data Analysis was done, than a better bowler than Afridi could had been unearthed. ( I know Afridi is a bad example, but he was a bowler that got in the team based on such analysis)
