Former Indian spinner Maninder Singh has asserted that the Indian leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi’s biggest issue was a flawed run-up that should have been observed and corrected by the Indian bowling coach.
Notably, Bishnoi went on to concede 60 runs in his four-over spell without picking up a wicket in the second T20I of the five-match series against England in Manchester. Interestingly, the leggie conceded three no-balls after his back foot repeatedly cut the return crease.
“He has to do a lot of work on his run-up because you normally run straight to the stumps. He goes left, right, then left, then tries to come back to the crease, and that is where he is going wrong,” Maninder told The Indian Express.
“When he bowled those no balls, I was just wondering what was the bowling coach doing with Ravi Bishnoi. Because obviously he was bowling in the nets also in the same way. Why wasn’t he stopped? That should be the first job of a bowling coach. So I really don’t understand why he wasn’t being corrected when he was bowling in the nets that way. Because these days in white-ball cricket, bowling a no-ball is a crime,” he added.
“Sometimes your wicket-taking ability can go down if the team management is not showing confidence. I think he still has it in him. It’s just that if you keep him on the bench all the time and don’t give him chances to play, you don’t give him confidence,” he noted.
“There are some cricketers you need to keep talking to all the time. If you are not only keeping him out of the scheme of things but not even thinking of playing him in the first eleven, then these kinds of problems are going to come,” he stated.
“Because a bowler of his calibre, who was getting you wickets in the middle overs, suddenly starts going down, there has to be a reason for it. And the reason, I feel, is that he is not getting enough confidence from the team management.”
“That is the only problem. Everything else is the same. He used to bowl a little slower through the air a couple of years ago, but he has worked hard on it. Good follow-through. Using his shoulder well.”
“Using his body well. The only problem at the minute is that he needs confidence. If you keep taking his confidence away, then you start talking about release position, ball drift and everything else, which is secondary. If you give that man the confidence a cricketer requires, you will see him back among the wickets,” Maninder said.
Zimbabwe T20I squad: Sikandar Raza (c), Brian Bennett, Ryan Burl, Tanaka Chivanga, Ben Curran, Brad Evans, Wessly Madhevere, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani, Dion Myers, Richard Ngarava, Newman Nyamhuri, Milton Shumba, Tafadzwa Tsiga
India T20I squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma (vc), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Shivam Dube, Suryansh Shedge, Rinku Singh, Harsh Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Yash Thakur, Ashok Sharma, Mayank Yadav
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