By CricketCountry Staff
Former West Indies pacer Ian Bishop is highly impressed by right-arm India pacer Umesh Yadav, who made his Test debut for India in the ongoing Test series against the West Indies.
Published: Nov 17, 2011, 10:09 AM (IST)
Edited: Nov 17, 2011, 10:09 AM (IST)
Umesh Yadav claimed three wickets for 23 runs in West Indies’ first innings © AFP
By CricketCountry Staff
Kolkata: Nov 17, 2011
Former West Indies pacer Ian Bishop is highly impressed by right-arm India pacer Umesh Yadav, who made his Test debut for India in the ongoing Test series against the West Indies.
“He’s got pace. He is a hard worker. I guess when you are young and fresh to international cricket, you will run in hard,” Bishop said on Wednesday.
“Not that at 140km/hr, you can scare people to death but you need to do something with the ball as well. Yadav has shown he is capable of doing that,” Bishop was quoted by Hindustan Times.
The former West Indies pacer Bishop, who claimed 196 Test wickets as a strike bowler alongwith Curtley Ambrose in the 1990s, is impressed by Yadav’s ability to reverse swing.
“And he reverses the ball as well,” he said.
Yadav claimed three wickets in the first innings of the West Indies as the tourists were bundled out for 153 on the third day. He bagged the key wickets of Darren Bravo and Marlon Samuels to help India take a 478-run lead in the first innings.
The Vidarbha pacer also earned praise from West Indies opener Adrian Barath, who said, “I think he has bowling good line and length. He’s bowling 90 miles an hour so and any bowler who can bowl at that speed is special. There are not many bowlers around who will bowl at that speed.
“It will be a test for him as Test cricket is a different type of game. But he has what it takes,” Barath added.
