Playing two medium pacers on a drab Chennai wicket didn’t make sense.
Australia [ Images ] at least could say pace is their strength, but for Team India [ Images ] it made no sense.
The think tank made a blunder when they handed Bhuvneshwar Kumar a Test debut at the expense of Pragyan Ojha [ Images ], India’s best bowler in the series against England [ Images ].
With his pace, rather lack of it, it would be a surprise if Kumar will ever make an impact in the five-day format.
As it happened, Kumar and Ishant Sharma [ Images ] - who happened to hand Kumar HIS Test cap – bowled 30 overs between them in the Australian first innings and failed to make any sort of impact whatsoever.
Having ensured India a healthy lead (192 runs) with a blistering 224, the Indian captain quick to hand the ball to his spinners.
R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] and Ravindra Jadeja [ Images ] answered to the captain’s call and shared the wickets between them, hastening the Australian downfall in the second innings.
Not getting the two medium pacers to bowl much – Kumar didn’t bowl at all – in the second innings was, therefore, a smart move. And that is precisely where India, rather Dhoni [ Images ], got it right.
Photograph: BCCI
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