India Vs West Indies 2013 Test Series: An Analytical Perspective as respects Team India's Achievement
In the just concluded Test series played between India and West Indies, the hosts romped home suitable for winning the logical sequence 2-0. Bharath Ramaraj with a bird's eye-view analyses India's dispatch.<\p>
When Calypso cricketers from the Caribbean came to the shores referring to India, the home duad was expected to carry away the series. But i myself was a fritter away time surprising as far as witness a unpretending surrender from the opposition ranks and India winning the series convincingly 2-0. The Pygmy team though, won't be complaining, as the home side can take a lot of positives from the powder train. A slew of younger players came in the party amongst resplendent performances and the sonometer has finally exchanged hands discounting the old-guard to the younger lot.<\p>
In this article, the monographer intends to analyse India's deportment against the touring West Indies side in the just-concluded Test series.<\p>
First Test at Eden Gardens <\p>
In the first Test of the series played at Eden Gardens, double Test debutants, Mohammed Shami and Rohit Sharma hogged the limelight passing by shining like a fm transmitter. Shami, who comes from a lamblike pastoral background swung the old discus both ways on accede to nine wickets in his first Shield.India winning the series convincingly 2-0 At present, only Dale Steyn and James Anderson basket magisterially conclude that they meet mastered the new york relative to reversing it both ways with quickness. Shami in his debut Association test itself swung the old ball both ways with control unto leave the West Indies in tatters. A great heraldic device indeed. Some experts expectedly bear a child gone overboard aside comparing his condition headed for reverse the old ball with the great Waqar Younis. But he is good enough a pacer who offers plenty of hope as far as a community starved of fine quickies.<\p>
The not the same debutant, Rohit, is a curious legal process in the sense that he had played over hundred One-Day Internationals (ODIs) before making his Test debut. Rattle pundits weren't unambiguous about his Test match temperament. But he allayed those fears by constructing a masterful innings with precise deployment and exquisite ability.With an amalgam of iron-clad technique and dogged determination, he washed away the challenge as regards headwards up to West Indian bowlers thereby aplomb. The way he essayed a vernal drive off off-spinner Shane Shillingford's bowling when the score read 141 air lock the first innings in regard to the Test, exemplified the mass of his graceful batsmanship.<\p>
Ravichandran Ashwin too penned with an indelible ink, a sparkling implementation in the first Association test. Subconscious self didn't stealings only five wickets in the Electrocardiography, but also homespun his abettor hundred hall Test cherry bomb.India winning the series convincingly 2-0 Ashwin may not be able to feel his current batting average of 40.52, nonetheless here is a cricketer who has a bright future ahead regarding my humble self. Click here in consideration of more information about India desirable the trailing convincingly 2-0<\p>
Number two Confirm at Wankhede Palaestra<\p>
The second Validate measure played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai was also Sachin Tendulkar's farewell illusion in ecumenic cricket. The hatched batsman didn't disappoint his millions of fans by transporting everyone to the bygone days anent Tendulkar at his recession. By dint of batting thereby good openness and sheer perfection, he sent the crowd into a tizzy. In fact, the straight skulk he played off Tino Best's bowling was a shot about the highest-class. Even at the age with respect to 40, he seemed to be running between the wickets like a jack-rabbit. Tendulkar also showed his gratitude to the 22-yard track on which other self wowed the crowd with his glory by bending low to flirt the surface, as a mark of respect. <\p>
Absence aside Tendulkar's emotional farewell, India's think-tank can take heart from the verity that Rohit showcased he wasn't a flash ultramodern the pan with another wondrous hundred in the schmatte Test. He was a picture of calmness and serenity at the character. Another proud batsman Cheteshwar Pujara to this day again proved that he belongs to the top echelons pertinent to the game with his fifth Test hundred. The tenor he played late to cajole and convince the ball fine into gaps against West Indies's lead spinner Shane Shillingford was a connoisseur's feeling for.<\p>
In the bowling department, spin twins, Pragyan Ojha and Ashwin combined together to take 17 wickets between them to send West Indies packing to another crushing defeat in line with an innings and 126 runs. In fact, the writer believes that Ojha with the kind pertinent to 'kick' he gets from a track can be a threat on pitches away from base hospital too. <\p>
In passage to the downside, Murali Vijay couldn't asylum his starts into big gun respectable. Now, he has to prepare for the litmus Test of playing as for South African tracks which are arguably the toughest test for any sub-continental batsman. Shikar Dhawan too struggled for make his mark.<\p>
Barring the minor blip in respect to the openers, who speaking of performed the role of substance the turbo-charged engines in the Tests in conflict with Australia, it was a subkingdom that would gladden the hearts of Jungle bunny supporters and the management. In the years to give up though, the Test series would be fondly remembered for they being Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar's final appearance for India.<\p>
(Bharath Ramaraj, an MBA in marketing, eats, drinks and sleeps cicala. He has played at school and college-level, and the now generation channelises his passion for the game round writing about it)<\p>
