Decline in quality of offspinners in India
G Viswanath, writing in the Hindu , says the BCCI's clampdown on bowlers with suspect actions in the current domestic season has contributed to the below-par performance of offspinners.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
G Viswanath, writing in the Hindu, says the BCCI's clampdown on bowlers with suspect actions in the current domestic season has contributed to the below-par performance of offspinners.
This ought to be seen as an unhappy development in a country for which this type of finger spinners — with the ball breaking into the batsman’s body allied with flight and line and length variations with a high intelligence quotient of the practioners — have played a distinguished part and has been regarded as an important cog in the wheel of India’s bowling arrangement.
The decline of quality off-break bowlers has been a gradual feature in the last two decades and in this season the sheer anxiety of being called for illegal action has eliminated this particular facet of the game in India.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo