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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Harbhajan Singh on Saturday sacked a trio of high-level drummers on the first day of the Indian Premier League, before highlighting the importance of a finger pointer to the cause of the India to the next Cricket World Cup.
Playing for the Chennai champion, Harbhajan fired Virat Kohli, former captain of the Royal Challengers in Bangalore (RCB), the former pillar of South Africa, the AB de Villiers, and the versatile Englishman Moeen Ali on a track at the MA Chidambaram stadium, which offered valuable help to slow bowlers.
Wrist spinners, once considered a luxury by their penchant for hunting puppets, stormed the restricted formats and banished their cousins to the fingers.
Five of the top ten places in the International Cricket Council's list of international day bowlers are handled by wrist spinners: Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Imran Tahir (South Africa), Indian couple Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal, and England Adil Rashid.
Harbhajan, who has played 103 tests and 236 ODIs for India, said it was perceived that wrist spinners were more likely to succeed because they possessed more variations in their arsenal.
"I played all my cricket as a finger disc and I'm never complaining about it, I managed to do it, not bad, very happy with everything I've done." said the 38-year-old, who has taken over 700 wickets in all three international cricket formats.
"It's a question for people and their belief that finger spinners can do the job or not, I think finger spinners have a role to play if you support them.
"Of course, the spinners also need to support themselves to spin the ball rather than not to turn them.The new generation is not trying to turn the ball … As long as you try to turn the ball, you are there in the game. "
Saturday, the relay 3-20 of the former Indian player, at the beginning of the heats, left the RCB in shock and was finally regrouped for 70 players, leaving the team Mahendra Singh Dhoni win the match opening of the IPL 2019 by seven wickets.
Tahir also picked up three wickets and Ravindra Jadeja, the Indian multi-risk, took two, while defeating Indian skipper Kohli and De Villiers.
The success of Chahal and Kuldeep has made Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin out of step with India's demands, but India has been competing for the World Cup in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14. Wales.
"Someone like Ravindra Jadeja, he's still in the game," said Harbhajan about his left arm colleague.
"I do not want to talk too much about the World Cup, but he could be a key member of Team India to win this victory.
"He is a factor, he plays bowling, he beats and he is a brilliant field player, spinning players in the hand must have the responsibility, they will deliver it."
(Report by Sudipto Ganguly, edited by Peter Rutherford)
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