NEW DELHI: Pace legend Wasim Akram ripped aside Pakistan pacers for his or her uncommon chest peak bouncer techniques towards India captain Rohit Sharma throughout their ODI World Cup match at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
In-form Rohit unleashed a relentless assault on the Pakistan bowlers, dictating the sport and leaving them baffled together with his complete vary of pictures throughout the sector.
The dynamic opener, in a swashbuckling show of batting, scored 86 runs from simply 63 deliveries, comprising 6 well-timed boundaries and an equal variety of towering sixes. Despite Pakistan’s makes an attempt to bother Rohit with short-pitched deliveries, the ‘Hitman’ effortlessly dispatched them for some magnificent maximums.
Akram expressed his dissatisfaction with the techniques employed by the Pakistan pacers and emphasised that there ought to solely be one place for the bouncers directed at chest peak.
“You have bowled bouncers at chest height. Rohit Sharma is not 6’5’’. If you’ve to bowl the bouncers, bowl at his face height and that too slightly outside off so that he pulls and there is fine leg, and square leg. If you bowl bouncers at chest height, there is only one place for it – stands,” Akram mentioned, whereas anlaysing the sport on Pakistan-based sports activities channel A News.
In-form Rohit unleashed a relentless assault on the Pakistan bowlers, dictating the sport and leaving them baffled together with his complete vary of pictures throughout the sector.
The dynamic opener, in a swashbuckling show of batting, scored 86 runs from simply 63 deliveries, comprising 6 well-timed boundaries and an equal variety of towering sixes. Despite Pakistan’s makes an attempt to bother Rohit with short-pitched deliveries, the ‘Hitman’ effortlessly dispatched them for some magnificent maximums.
Akram expressed his dissatisfaction with the techniques employed by the Pakistan pacers and emphasised that there ought to solely be one place for the bouncers directed at chest peak.
“You have bowled bouncers at chest height. Rohit Sharma is not 6’5’’. If you’ve to bowl the bouncers, bowl at his face height and that too slightly outside off so that he pulls and there is fine leg, and square leg. If you bowl bouncers at chest height, there is only one place for it – stands,” Akram mentioned, whereas anlaysing the sport on Pakistan-based sports activities channel A News.
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Regarding Mohammad Rizwan‘s dismissal, Akram famous that Jasprit Bumrah outwitted him with a intelligent slower supply that in the reduction of in in the direction of the batsman, finally disturbing the stumps.
“Everything was finishing within the stumps, and there was the slow ball against the set batsman (Rizwan). Any batsman would have got out on this kind of delivery. It nipped back and then pitched, held its line, and just clicked his off-stump,” Akram added.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com