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Given his experience in dealing with different bowlers, India\u2019s outgoing bowling coach Eric Simons believes that \u201cZaheer Khan has a big role to play as a mentor\u201d while \u201cIshant Sharma should be focusing on Test matches\u201d. In an interview to The Times Of India, <\/strong>Simons said that Vinay Kumar\u2019s work ethics impressed the coach who also rates Umesh Yadav as \u201cone of the most exciting bowlers in the world\u201d. Interestingly, he feels that Sreesanth\u2019s skills are just phenomenal. <\/p>\n

\u201cYadav is an incredible athlete with lots of stamina and strength. He\u2019s one of those who, when he bowls at 145 kmph, feels like it’s 150, because he\u2019s got such a rhythmical action,\u201d says Simons.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Simons has denied reports which claimed that the 50-year old South African, who came on board during the Gary Kirsten regime, had been sacked. In fact, he stressed that after the 2011 World Cup, he had extended his contract twice, but had made it clear to the BCCI that he won\u2019t be able continue after the tour of Australia.\u00a0 He told TOI, <\/strong>\u201cWhen Duncan Fletcher became the coach after the World Cup, he asked me to extend my contract so that I could work with him during the transition period and the end of the England tour which I did.\u00a0 Then he asked me to stay on till the Australian series, but I had then told him that I would be able to do so only till the Australian series. He did speak to me after the West Indies series if it was possible for me to extend my stay, but I didn\u2019t do that for a number of reasons. My contract was extended twice and it ends now and that\u2019s the reason I\u2019m going. There is no other issue around it and I was disappointed to see the press reports.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a report in The Tribune, <\/strong>Vinay Kumar has impressed with nine wickets at a staggering average 20.11 – a wicket every 25th ball – in the ongoing Commonwealth Bank one-day series. With the likes of Lasith Malinga and Ryan Harris in the fray, his is the case of the meek who has inherited the earth. \u201cOh, he must have bagged tail-enders. Or, his economy rate must be atrocious. Surely, the scalps are to catches in the deep when the batsmen are going for maximum. All wrong, for he has mostly got Pontings and Jayawardenes and Warners; his economy rate is 4.89 and the catches are unerringly the pouches in the slip cordon,\u201d says the report.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his recent poor run notwithstanding, Australian cricket team’s stand-in skipper Ricky Ponting says he is still “worth a place” in the side but concedes that reputation alone won’t be enough to get him the selectors’ nod all the time. According to a report in The Indian Express, <\/strong>Ponting said, “I think I am (worth a place in the team) but you’d better ask the selectors what they think about that. My last four games have not been what they would have liked but I guess if the selectors were thinking that way already then they probably wouldn’t have picked me for the start of the series. There are still a few senior players around the side and they (the selectors) made it clear to the younger guys at the start of the summer that it was vital they have a little bit of experience around them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given his experience in dealing with different bowlers, India\u2019s outgoing bowling coach Eric Simons believes that \u201cZaheer Khan has a big role to play as a mentor\u201d while \u201cIshant Sharma should be focusing on Test matches\u201d. 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