Bowling in a batsman's game

In the Indian weekly newsmagazine Outlook, Rohit Majahan speaks to some of the world's leading bowlers - Zaheer Khan, Daniel Vettori, Morne Morkel - and India's bowling coach Eric Simons to try and figure out what bowlers need to do to survive in an era of powerful bats, flat tracks and short boundaries.

Simons feels bowlers are trying too much too often, and mastering nothing. “They’d be trying seven-eight different deliveries—slow balls, yorkers, back-of-the-hand balls, bouncers, slower bouncer, knuckle ball, one-finger ball, et al,” he says. “That’s all wrong, because while you must have variations, you’ve got to bowl from a proper foundation.”