With the current form of Indian cricketers. It made me think who is the better of the two?
Is it the dashing, aggressive, defensive(the famous wall) batsmen
or
the more accurate, fast & spin bowlers.
Lets look at some series which India has played/won since the debacle at world cup 2007. First up was the Bangladesh series(to boost the morale), South african series(in Ireland), England series, T-20 championship, Australian series at home, Australia Series(Away) , South African Home series, Asia cup and the famous New Zealand series.
England Test series- man of the series- Zaheer Khan. He took most wickets in the series- 18, kumble-14, R.P.singh- 12. As compared to leading England bowlers Anderson whose tally was 14 wickets in the series.
20:20 championship- man of the match in final- Irfan pathan. 3 crucial wickets in final. R.P.Singh- 12 wickets was the second best to Umar Gul(best bowler in the series, 13 wickets). The highest individual score by an Indian was 75 by Gautam Ghambir.
Australian ODI Series at home-
Australian Test and Tri Series in Australia- The test series led India to find a genuine fast bowler- Ishant Sharma. The series was fought very well. The lone test match which we won was led By Irfan pathan's swing bowling.
ODI series- Out of the total 11 matches played(2 were abondened) only 9 had result- Indians had 4 MOM(3 by bowlers, Praveen kumar(2), Ishant sharma and Sachin tendulkar).
South Africa Home Series- The test series was won by India and Man of the series- Harbhajan Singh(19 wickets).
Asia Cup- India lost the finals. But our batters did well there. India played 6 matches(4 won, 2 lost). All the four man of the matches won by Indian batsmen- Suresh Raina(3), M.S.Dhoni.
India In Sri lanka- India won the series comprehensively. Man of the series- Yuvraj singh.
India in New Zaealand- Indian won ODI & Test series. Man of the series ODI- Virender sehwag. But will equal contribution from the bowlers Harbhajan(he was the highest wicket tacker in the series) took 5 wickets in the series.
Test series- Even in the test series had great batsmenship from Sachin, Gautam, VVS, rahul. But Harbhajan(16) and Zaheer were just fabulous in the series.
The point I am trying to make is, its the bowlers who leads you to more victories than the batsmen. We have had the same set of batsmen for ages now(no offence made to any batsman's, they are just class apart) but with our bowlers also maturing and doing well we have started winning more series/matches. We in India are more inclined with the dashing batsmenship and long sixes. But its time that we should recognize the true ability of our bowlers.
Three cheers to Zak, bhaji, Irfan, R.P, Ishant, Mishra, Balaji.... The list is endless now.
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Your Stats are gud dude.. but i think they are suggesting otherwise. Its not that India is winning only because of our bowlers performance. It jus can't happen.. Your stats are such because India is winning, only when bowlers are performing. Batsmen have been performing always. records on the name of Batsmen are proof to that. And todays Indian team is strong because first time we can see a combination of good bowlers. otherwise bowling has always been a one man show in Indian Team. We never had five specialist bowlers to depend on.
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