Appalling lack of consistency in Indian bowling

India's world class bowling attack could have done a far better job on the docile track at Motera and minimised the damage. The bowlers were guilty of not sticking to a consistent length and bowled with little purpose, writes S Dinakar in the Hindu.

Tactics are often dictated by conditions and a negative line can, on occasions, yield positive results. Mishra should have consistently landed the ball outside leg and spun it around the leg-stump. Instead, he experimented by flighting the ball across the right-hander and went for runs.