McGrath wants to bowl in short spells in tests

McGrath wants to bowl in short spells in tests
Express News Service

MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 20: Pace bowler and gentle giant, Glen McGrath, said here on Tuesday, that he will bowl in short spells to conserve energy in the humid Indian conditions. Citing the obvious, McGrath felt that even with a back-up of good bowlers like Damien Fleming, Jason Gillespie and Michael Kasprowicz, it was was still challenging and hence important to bowl in short spells.

“At this jucture of my career I would not want to bowl long spells and it is very tough for a fast bowler to bowl long spells in humid conditions on batsmen friendly pitches”.

“I feel it is better if the fast bowlers get short spells though it would be a big challenge for me to bowl to Indian batsmen like Sachin (Tendulkar), Dravid (Rahul) and Ganguly (Sourav),” he added.

On whether he had any specific plans to bowl to Tendulkar, McGrath said “Why only Sachin I have chalked out different plans to bowl to all the top order batsmen in the India team”.