The Indians can no longer hide. Their weaknesses have been exposed. Or so claims, Man of the match in the second ODI Ravi Rampaul.
Rampaul has not played for the West Indies in sometime. Yet on Sunday at Sabina Park, Jamaica, he was the reason for the train wreck that was India’s batting.
But Rampaul claims it was no fluke. He stated that being an attacking bowler, he was ideal to be bowling first up, especially at a time when he was able to extract swing. But Rampaul also touched upon another issue that has had the Indians worried since the ICC World Twenty20 in England.
In the matches against West Indies and England in the Super Eights, India lost the match because of their inability to counter short pitched deliveries. Of course, the ignominy carried on when they were beaten at their own game with spin becoming a factor in the game against the South Africans.
Rampaul stated that the Indians struggled to cope with the short balls and the swing only meant that it was obvious that the Indians would fall for the trick. The rest was easy, if Rampaul’s simplified analysis of the Indian batsmen’s weaknesses is anything to go by.
India have three days’ time to figure out how to thwart on the field what Rampaul has stated with such obviousness.
P.S. to ODI 2: Jackson Tribute from the Caribbean
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