After a shambolic display against Mitchell Santner and Glenn Phillips in Pune, people are criticising players for ripping the Indian batter’s performance against spin. Six of India’s seven batters fell to spin, and that too to rather innocuous balls. Virat Kohli missed a full toss and got clean bowled; Sarfaraz Khan looked like a fish out of the water and in the end chipped one to mid-off.
Indian batter’s glory day against spinners done?
On a Pune pitching assisting Santner’s left arm quick spin, none of the right-handers look at home. The lefties, Rishabh Pant and Yashasvi Jaiswal were outdone by part-time Phillips. Pant went for a pull for a ball that wasn’t that short, while Jaiswal failed to convert yet another start.
Former New Zealand pacer Simon Doull expressed an opinion that many have held for some time now. He outrightly said that he doesn’t think any of the current Indian batters are of the level of the generation before them. That is, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and Sourav Ganguly were much better against spinners. He added that anytime a good spinner goes against the current lot of Indian batters, they are in trouble.
“There is a perception in modern-day cricket that Indians are great batters of spin. They are not. Gone are the days of Sachin, Ganguly, or Dravid. Now, they are the same as everyone else. As soon as a good spinner comes in, they are in trouble. We saw that in the IPL, as soon as the ball started to spin, they were in trouble,” Doull said on JioCinema.
