Fletcher blames conditions for poor Indian display
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August 12, 2011, Friday
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INDIA'S famous batting lineup has flopped for a fifth successive innings as it is struggling to handle the swinging and seaming conditions in England, India coach Duncan Fletcher said on Wednesday.
So far India, a team which includes the two highest test run scorers in Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, has failed to score 300 runs in a single innings during this series and is in danger of relinquishing the top test ranking to England after being walloped in the first two matches.
England was 319 for two wickets in reply to India's 224 all out at tea on the second day of the third test at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday.
Apart from Dravid, who scored hundreds in the first two tests, the other batsmen have struggled, including world record holder Tendulkar and fellow veteran Vangipurappu Laxman.
"It's been pretty difficult for the batsmen to adapt," Fletcher admitted after being quizzed by reporters on another batting let-down. "And I have not seen three pitches, even when I was with England (from 1999 to 2007), that have swung and seamed around as much as these have here.
"Our guys are finding it difficult at the moment to handle the swing and seam. They have practised and there's not much more they can do. It's about getting out in the middle and putting things into practise."
Surprisingly, one of England's bowling heroes at Edgbaston, Tim Bresnan, said that the conditions did not assist the hosts as much as they had expected when skipper Andrew Strauss elected to field after winning the toss.
"As a seamer you look at the wicket and think 'I'd prefer to bowl on there than watch someone bat on it'," Bresnan said after finishing with four for 62 on Wednesday. "But it didn't really do that much."
So far India, a team which includes the two highest test run scorers in Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, has failed to score 300 runs in a single innings during this series and is in danger of relinquishing the top test ranking to England after being walloped in the first two matches.
England was 319 for two wickets in reply to India's 224 all out at tea on the second day of the third test at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday.
Apart from Dravid, who scored hundreds in the first two tests, the other batsmen have struggled, including world record holder Tendulkar and fellow veteran Vangipurappu Laxman.
"It's been pretty difficult for the batsmen to adapt," Fletcher admitted after being quizzed by reporters on another batting let-down. "And I have not seen three pitches, even when I was with England (from 1999 to 2007), that have swung and seamed around as much as these have here.
"Our guys are finding it difficult at the moment to handle the swing and seam. They have practised and there's not much more they can do. It's about getting out in the middle and putting things into practise."
Surprisingly, one of England's bowling heroes at Edgbaston, Tim Bresnan, said that the conditions did not assist the hosts as much as they had expected when skipper Andrew Strauss elected to field after winning the toss.
"As a seamer you look at the wicket and think 'I'd prefer to bowl on there than watch someone bat on it'," Bresnan said after finishing with four for 62 on Wednesday. "But it didn't really do that much."
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