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Bowling of most teams is below par: Gavaskar

The IPL is now at the halfway stage for most teams and they will have found out what is the combination that works for them and what they are better at doing, setting targets or chasing totals. Most teams are opting to chase because the bowling of most teams is below par.

While there will always be some exceptional bowlers, most teams do not have the kind of deadly combination that can curtail the runs that the opposition gets. So skippers on winning the toss are prepared to chase for they are confident that with their batting they will be able to chase any target.

The only exception seems to be in the double headers where those teams playing in the afternoons prefer to bat first and field once the fierce sun has gone down, even though at some venues their bowlers may have to contend with the dew factor and unable to grip the ball as firmly as they would like.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni did that in the afternoon game against Hyderabad and won comfortably. On the other hand in the evening game Rohit Sharma opted to bowl first and despite a shoddy display of fielding Mumbai won, thanks to the superb batting by Sharma himself as well as Kieron Pollard.

Sharma when he gets going is a sheer delight for he combines the classical with style that is so rare in modern cricket which is so much about power hitting. Mind you when he hits the ball it also goes a fair distance.

Perhaps not as much as when Pollard hits it for then the ball seems to disappear out of the ground and out of sight. Pollard has come in the IPL after an injury and so has taken some time to get going but he is all primed and ready to explode now. He seems a little more relaxed as well and not as confrontational as in the past and that makes him an even more dangerous player for then he is focused only on destroying the opposition and not any individual.

Kolkata and Delhi both have had close losses and so will be looking to start winning again while the Bangalore team would want to keep the winning rhythm going with Kohli, de Villers in such superb form.

Source: PMG



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