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MUMBAI: Is the lack of a bowling coach hurting India, especially in the light of former India head coach Ramesh Powar‘s sudden exit recently? Going by what has been evident so far in the India-Australia T20I series, that clearly seems to be the case.
After managing to take just two wickets in the first two games at the cost of 360 runs, India, after putting Australia in at the Brabourne Stadium in the third T20I, managed to dismiss big guns, Aussie captain Alyssa Healy and Tahila McGrath for 1 each, but then in walked Ellyse Perry and blasted 75 off 47 balls. With Grace Harris (41 off 18 balls) too firing away, Australia managed to post 172-8 in 20 overs and eventually won by 21 runs. Post the defeat, which saw India go 2-1 down in the five-match series, Indian women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur admitted that her side is missing a bowling coach, though she stressed that her bowlers are taking control of the situation.
“I know we are missing a bowling coach, but our bowlers are taking charge. They are participative in bowlers’ meetings. They have full responsibility and today [it was] all their plans and they were leading the way. I was just supporting them in the middle,” Harmanpreet said.
With just a couple of months to go before the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, India surely need to pull up their socks in the bowling department.
Harmanpreet said that her bowlers have enough experience to work out their own plans in the absence of a bowling coach. “Renuka (Thakur) has the experience because she has done well in the past six-seven months and has got good results. Whenever we set plans for the pace bowlers, she takes the lead and our video analyst gives us a lot of information. Talking about spin bowlers, almost all spinners have played a lot of T20 cricket like Deepti [Sharma], Radha [Yadav], Rajeshwari [Gayakwad]. Devika [Vaidya] is new to the team but she also has the experience of international cricket and has done a lot of homework with respect to international cricket,” the Indian women’s team captain explained.
India are clearly missing experienced pace bowling allrounder Pooja Vastrakar, who was forced to miss this series due to an injury. After having conceded 41 runs in 3 overs across the first two games without taking a wicket, pacer Meghna Singh was dropped in favour of left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gaikwad.
“[We are missing] Pooja for sure. On these tracks you need a medium pacer. Definitely, when you bowl back-to-back spin bowling, it allows opposition batters to settle easily. We are definitely missing Pooja because she has the experience of death-overs bowling. We tried Meghna in the first two games but it didn’t click,” confessed Harmanpreet.
A shining light in India’s bowling attack has been young left-arm seamer Anjali Sarvani, who has impressed in her maiden international outing in this series. She took 2-34 on Wednesday. “The way we bowled in the powerplay, especially Renuka and Anjali [was commendable. They were swinging the ball and bowled according to the plan. They were not giving easy runs to the batters,” praised Harmanpreet.
After managing to take just two wickets in the first two games at the cost of 360 runs, India, after putting Australia in at the Brabourne Stadium in the third T20I, managed to dismiss big guns, Aussie captain Alyssa Healy and Tahila McGrath for 1 each, but then in walked Ellyse Perry and blasted 75 off 47 balls. With Grace Harris (41 off 18 balls) too firing away, Australia managed to post 172-8 in 20 overs and eventually won by 21 runs. Post the defeat, which saw India go 2-1 down in the five-match series, Indian women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur admitted that her side is missing a bowling coach, though she stressed that her bowlers are taking control of the situation.
“I know we are missing a bowling coach, but our bowlers are taking charge. They are participative in bowlers’ meetings. They have full responsibility and today [it was] all their plans and they were leading the way. I was just supporting them in the middle,” Harmanpreet said.
With just a couple of months to go before the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, India surely need to pull up their socks in the bowling department.
Harmanpreet said that her bowlers have enough experience to work out their own plans in the absence of a bowling coach. “Renuka (Thakur) has the experience because she has done well in the past six-seven months and has got good results. Whenever we set plans for the pace bowlers, she takes the lead and our video analyst gives us a lot of information. Talking about spin bowlers, almost all spinners have played a lot of T20 cricket like Deepti [Sharma], Radha [Yadav], Rajeshwari [Gayakwad]. Devika [Vaidya] is new to the team but she also has the experience of international cricket and has done a lot of homework with respect to international cricket,” the Indian women’s team captain explained.
India are clearly missing experienced pace bowling allrounder Pooja Vastrakar, who was forced to miss this series due to an injury. After having conceded 41 runs in 3 overs across the first two games without taking a wicket, pacer Meghna Singh was dropped in favour of left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gaikwad.
“[We are missing] Pooja for sure. On these tracks you need a medium pacer. Definitely, when you bowl back-to-back spin bowling, it allows opposition batters to settle easily. We are definitely missing Pooja because she has the experience of death-overs bowling. We tried Meghna in the first two games but it didn’t click,” confessed Harmanpreet.
A shining light in India’s bowling attack has been young left-arm seamer Anjali Sarvani, who has impressed in her maiden international outing in this series. She took 2-34 on Wednesday. “The way we bowled in the powerplay, especially Renuka and Anjali [was commendable. They were swinging the ball and bowled according to the plan. They were not giving easy runs to the batters,” praised Harmanpreet.
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