India performed exceedingly well in the ICC Cricket world cup last year in Australia. India won all its league matches and the quarterfinals before going down to Australia. The pace trio of Shami, Umesh and Mohit Sharma was very effective. India bowled out each and every team before 50 overs except for the semi finals against Australia.
However after 11 months the same set of players are not able to repeat their performance in Australia. Yes its true that Mohommad Sami is injured. But the rest of the bowlers are not really bowling their best. Umesh Yadav who took 18 wickets in 8 matches of the World Cup has been hit around by Australian batsmen. He has not bowled a consistent line and length.
The debutant Barindar Saran and Ishant Sharma have not been very effective. Ravichandran Ashwin who took heaps of wickets in the test series against South Africa on the turning tracks has been a no show in Australia. The bowling failure has been a major cause of India's loss of the bilateral one day series. The bowling simply outdid all the good work done by the batsmen.
India batted pretty well in all the three one day internationals scoring 309, 308 and 295 respectively. However each time the Australians were able to get past Indian total. In Perth and Brisbane Australia actually set new records for highest score made by a team batting second in a winning effort. In Melbourne though the match was relatively more competitive however Australia had the last laugh.
The plus for Indian team should be the batting of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma hit two consecutive centuries in the first and second one day internationals. The hundreds were big hundreds. Virat got a century in the third one day. Other than that there is very little to cheer about India's performance down under till now.
One just hopes that in the next two matches, Team India can atleast bowl better than what they have done till now and win at least one of the two matches, to avoid a complete white wash.
However after 11 months the same set of players are not able to repeat their performance in Australia. Yes its true that Mohommad Sami is injured. But the rest of the bowlers are not really bowling their best. Umesh Yadav who took 18 wickets in 8 matches of the World Cup has been hit around by Australian batsmen. He has not bowled a consistent line and length.
The debutant Barindar Saran and Ishant Sharma have not been very effective. Ravichandran Ashwin who took heaps of wickets in the test series against South Africa on the turning tracks has been a no show in Australia. The bowling failure has been a major cause of India's loss of the bilateral one day series. The bowling simply outdid all the good work done by the batsmen.
India batted pretty well in all the three one day internationals scoring 309, 308 and 295 respectively. However each time the Australians were able to get past Indian total. In Perth and Brisbane Australia actually set new records for highest score made by a team batting second in a winning effort. In Melbourne though the match was relatively more competitive however Australia had the last laugh.
The plus for Indian team should be the batting of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma hit two consecutive centuries in the first and second one day internationals. The hundreds were big hundreds. Virat got a century in the third one day. Other than that there is very little to cheer about India's performance down under till now.
One just hopes that in the next two matches, Team India can atleast bowl better than what they have done till now and win at least one of the two matches, to avoid a complete white wash.
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