Blogs Not the batting order, but the batsmen need to be changed
June 29th, 2009 by kapoorIt was about to happen at any time again — India’s susceptibility to playing too many shots on pitches that were even remotely assisting bowlers was highlighted in the just concluded T20 World Cup and the West Indies used the same clues to defeat Dhoni’s men in the second one dayer of the ongoing one-day series. However, I don’t agree with the experts commenting in newspapers that Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan should bat up the order. For starters, Dhoni is integral to the Indian middle order and Pathan just cannot play the moving ball. It is the batsmen who need to be reconsidered, particularly Rohit Sharma who is always in a hurry for some inexplicable reasons. Maybe, Badrinath or Murali Vijay could be given a chance to try and have someone in the Dravid mould bat at number three, i.e. consolidate at one end while the other stroke-makers play their shots?
