India are currently doing great across formats in cricket. Most of their current success has been their all-round performance in the field, in every sector of the game, i.e. batting, bowling and fielding. However, Sanjay Manjrekar feels that India’s trend of success only through batting is making a change, as the Indian bowlers are now starting to make a good name for themselves. With current Indian bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar claiming most of the awards in the match clearly proves that India is now in a state of evolving world class bowlers like Pakistan. Arjun Tendulkar shines for Mumbai in Cooch Behar U-19 Trophy
On India’s recent evolution of bowlers
“In India, we are a little more obsessed with batting. That is not the case with Pakistan, for example. When you look at Pakistan, superstars are mostly bowlers, starting with Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis. So their bowling heroes are revered more. India has somehow produced greatness in sport through batsmanship and not so much from bowling. It is up to the fans to start making heroes out of bowlers and I think that is starting to happen now. We have game-changers like Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar who are winning Man-of-the-Match or Man- of-the-Series awards. That s a nice trend, a different trend, but at the end of the day it s the fans who have to embrace who their hero is. They like batsmen more,” said Manjrekar. Yuvraj’s exclusive fitness training in NCA irks senior BCCI officals
“All India needs is one bowling superstar and it will have amazing [impact] effect on younger kids. You have best academies and infrastructure in the world, but youngsters get inspired by bowling and batting heroes. Cricket inspires young cricketers.” Virender Sehwag, Shoaib Akhtar to face each other in ice cricket
On Yuzvendra Chahal
“What strikes me about Yuzvendra Chahal s bowling, I have never seen a bowler in a T20 on a flat pitch, have the courage to ball in the zone where the batsman will usually hit it for a six, but he does that and he backs himself. It s amazing that the new generation, the kind of confidence that they have.”
Lalchand Rajput too added by saying, “As Sanjay said earlier, in India, it is the batsmen who get predominantly known. Like Sanjay I too looked upto Sunil Gavaskar and wanted to be like him. I always believe bowlers win you matches, you have got to take 20 wickets and that is the bowlers’ job.”
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