Green Park, Kanpur is considered very favorable for spinners. As the numbers suggest, the spinners have taken 329 wickets, while the pace brigade has taken 251 wickets. all this before India And New Zealand took the field for the 23rd Test match at the venue where the first Test was played against England in January 1992.
Among the spinners, there are 102 scalps in the left-arm finger spin variety, with magician Bishan Singh Bedi leading the way with ten wickets in three Tests. Right arm off break bowlers took 145 wickets and right arm wrist spinners took 73 wickets. Only two Chinaman practitioners have traded their way in a Test here and between them, Australian Lindsay Kline and South Africa’s Paul Adams, have taken nine wickets on a pitch commonly known as a flat deck.
On the third day of the ongoing Test match at Green Park, India’s left-arm spinner Axar Patel took five for 62 over the rival batsmen, which included 34 overs. The other left-arm spinner in the team, Ravindra Jadeja, took 227 wickets in 56 Tests, taking one for 57 in 33 overs.
Akshar from Gujarat’s Nadiad district has taken advantage of every opportunity he has got in the home series. An injury he suffered during training halted his debut against England in the first Test at Chepauk ten months earlier, but once he made it to the playing XI, he did not look back.
It is a matter of conjecture that if England had won the first of the four Test series and Joe Root had scored a double, if Axar, who played the first Test in three Tests by taking 27 wickets at 10.59 to England’s batsmen, played the first Test. . Akshar’s debut – at the cost of the injured Jadeja – was quite remarkable with second finger spinner Ravichandran Ashwin taking 32 wickets.
Axar took 2 for 40 and 5 for 60 at Chepauk, 6 for 38 and 5 for 32 and 4 for 68 and 5 for 5 at Motera, Gujarat as India reached the final of the World Test Championship final and knocked out England on the way. race.
Left-arm spinners are said to be much smarter than traditional off break bowlers. Vinoo Mankad was a champion left-arm spinner who took 162 wickets between 1946 and 1959. Old-timers who played with and against him and who had seen Mankad in action, nicknamed him “Master” because he used the ball cleverly and made a fool of himself. Batsman.
Next, India saw Sardar, who bowled with a “patka”, Bedi mesmerized all comrades and took 266 wickets in 67 Tests. Poetry in motion was the phrase used to describe the action from the top of Bedi’s bowling mark to the graceful end at the bowling crease.
India have been gifted with many more left-arm spinners, and have been successful at that as well, such as Bapu Nadkarni, Salim Durani, Dilip Doshi, Ravi Shastri, Venkatapati Raju, Maninder Singh, Pragyan Ojha. Durani’s two brilliant deliveries, bowled with varying lengths, got rid of Gary Sobers and Clive Lloyd which paved the way for India’s historic victory in the 1971 Port of Spain Test. The two unfortunate balls were Mumbai’s Padmakar Shivalkar and Haryana’s Rajinder Goel. Both did not play test match.
The left-arm spinner bowls around the wicket, using the width of the crease, moves the ball to the right hand and swings it to the other side after pitching. With the same action, he also straightens the ball after pitching to deceive batsmen: Axar Patel gave several examples of this in the two back-to-back Tests against England at Motera. He is quick to develop and for a tall man, the ball gives air time to confuse the batsman. As Durani said several months ago, Akshar makes good use of his height and the helpful track is hard to hit.
Daniel Vettori of New Zealand took 6 wickets for 127 runs in Kanpur 22 years ago. Australia’s left-arm fast bowler Alan Davidson took 7 for 93 in December 1959 and Geoff Dimock took 7 for 67 in October. 1979. He is a different kind, a left-arm bowler – pace and spin – and Axar Patel will be hoping for more success on the fifth and final day at Green Park on Monday.
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