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Time for a rethink in bowling strategy for Pakistani pacers against Indian batsmen in Asian pitches

Savak

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Have said it many times and have seen it many times. Our bowlers too are operating as if this is the 90's where just turning up and bowling aggressively Imran Khan style against a very good batting line up will pay dividends. Look at the score card, can't even get wickets, can't even keep the run rate under control.

Whenever i watch Bumrah and Bhuvenshwar bowl, i get the impression that these guys don't give a crap about taking wickets but they are determined to be as economical as possible where they bowl in the right areas, they bowl to their field and they know eventually the batsmen will take risks under pressure and give away their wickets.

The pacers need to understand that they cannot blast through the Indian batting line up on these pitches when there is no swing, seam or any form of assistance. They have to bowl to their fields, have to build pressure through dot balls

But i can understand they lack the skill and experience to do that right now which is why the lack of 10 years of IPL experience has hurt them.

I remember when South Africa were chasing 450 plus against India on the last day in South Africa and South Africa surprised India with a fast scoring rate and were 300 plus by Tea time with only 3 wickets down with one final session left with nothing in the wicket for the bowlers.

What Dhoni did was a master stroke by spreading the field, instructing the pacers to bowl out side off stump and restrict the scoring via dot balls or singles. End result South Africa fell short by 10-15 runs.

This is the sort of game awareness and adaptation the bowlers have to display in the modern era. If you can't get wickets, then find a way to keep the scoring rate down to build pressure.

Our batting line up cannot consistently post 300 runs on the board and even if they did, it would not be enough against this Indian power house. Our bowlers have to find a way to adopt to modern defensive bowling and learn bowling dot balls, keeping scoring rates down is the key to getting wickets rather than just going out aggressively Imran Khan style thinking that will get wickets.
 
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