Former India captain Sourav Ganguly expresses his concern over the health of cricket. The prince of Kolkata was scared’ after England notched 481 runs in an ODI against Australia at Nottingham on June 19.
Sachin Tendulkar was also concerned about this happening and he said bowling with two new balls has brought the dead end of reverse swing bowling. Ganguly also had the same opinion.
“Yes two news balls do take reverse swing out of the picture because the ball doesn’t get old enough to reverse,” he told PTI as reported by First Post
“Reverse swing is also dying because the grounds are a lot greener today. The balls don’t get scuffed up enough. They don’t get dry and rough on one side for the reverse to happen.
Ganguly quostioned the rotation policy which is followed by Australia on a regular basis.
“500 runs in 50 overs is terrible. Bowling has to find a way. I don’t understand why the best bowlers don’t play. Wasim (Akram) and Waqar (Younis) played ODIs and Tests all together, so did (Glenn) McGrath and (Brett) Lee and (Shaun) Pollock and (Allan) Donald. All played at the same time. I don’t understand having a separate set of bowlers for Tests and ODIs,” he said.
“It (481/6 in England) was a poor advert of cricket. Every over had three boundaries. You cannot have Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood not play. So the best of players have to play. Nathan Lyon mostly plays Tests, doesn’t play ODIs. Shane Warne played everything, so did Anil (Kumble) and (Muttiah) Muralitharan,” Ganguly added.
