India's newly appointed bowling coach - Bharat Arun is looking forward to a left arm seam bowler in the squad to complete all kind of variations required for the World Cup 2019.
After Zaheer, Nehra established fear for the opposition and Irfan Pathan, R.P. Singh's swing created tension among all opposite ranks, since then, India has not found a left armer who was stayed with the squad for long. Kohli and Co. tried Barinder Sran but the focus then shifted to Aniket Choudhary who currently is being monitored by Rahul Dravid.
"We have wrist spinners like Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal. So, if we can get even one good left-arm fast bowler it will go well for the side."
"I have just come into this role so definitely we will be speaking to the coaches of the 'A' team and I guess there needs to be information that needs to be shared for us to make best use of bowlers coming in", said Arun.
Bharat Arun also put an end to the controversy of playing Ravichandran Ashwin in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 hosted by England.
"This question should be asked to the selectors but as bowling coach I think he is an extremely talented bowler. Even if you look at his last ODI which he played in West Indies, he has got 3 for 28."
"He (Ashwin) is very skilful. I don't want to look at what has happened so far but he is definitely part of the ODI team. We would also like to give a lot of opportunities to other bowlers as well (hence the rotation), then we can have a long-term plan in place and then we will take a call accordingly"
Arun dropped hints of having a backup bowler for every 'A' bowler in the Indian side for the World Cup 2019.
"If you look at the bowling unit as a whole there has been tremendous improvement since the last couple of years. But looking ahead to the 2019 World Cup, we will need to have backup options for every bowler that we have. There are enough bowlers in our country to provide that bench strength."
Bharat Arun also complemented on Hardik Pandya's improvement and his willingness to learn more and become a complete all-rounder who can give 10 overs to his captain.
"If you look at Hardik, he works up very good speeds and bowls 135-plus consistently. He wants to bowl those full 10 overs. And he does understand that to bowl those 10 overs he needs to work harder and become more skilful. He is not afraid of trying different things. So my job is a lot easier to be working with somebody like Hardik who wants to upgrade on his skill."
Arun also explained the importance of fitness being a fast bowler.
"Fast bowling is about 50 percent fitness and 50 percent on your skill. So to remain fit, to bowl fast over a period of time, you have to be extremely fit and that's one thing that we are emphasizing on."
"It is important that we monitor the workload of the bowlers. You take into account not only what they do in practice but also what they do in the matches and you keep their workloads pretty ideal. That's the key to workload management", said Arun.
Cheers,
Sparsh
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