{"id":34115,"date":"2018-06-14T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34115"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:58:19","slug":"afghanistans-rashid-khan-and-mujeeb-ur-rahman-face-challenge-of-t20-to-test-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/afghanistans-rashid-khan-and-mujeeb-ur-rahman-face-challenge-of-t20-to-test-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Ur Rahman face challenge of T20 to Test transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afghanistan captain fired the opening salvo when he claimed his spinners were better than their Indian counterparts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no doubt Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi have been excellent in the shortest format, their effectiveness with the red ball over five days is still to be tested.<\/p>\n

The key difference between bowling in T20 and Tests is that the need to score quickly and paucity of time often leads to cheap dismissals in the former. But there\u2019s no such rush in Tests, and therefore, only quality bowlers succeed over a period of time. Anyhow, it\u2019s worth taking a close look at their three spinners and what they bring to the table.<\/p>\n

The leg spin sensation from Afghanistan is arguably the best T20 bowler in the world now. His high arm action, quick arms and disguised googly haven\u2019t been deciphered despite him plying his trade across the globe in various T20 leagues. Leg spinners with a high arm action might get less side spin but their googlies are more effective because they don\u2019t have to change their point of release to slip in the wrong one. Generally, as a batsman, you see the back of the hand when a bowler is trying to bowl a googly but in Rashid\u2019s case, you see the back of the hand all the time. Since there\u2019s no visible difference at the point of release, it\u2019s very difficult to differentiate between leg-spin and googly. His speed in the air also makes it very difficult for the batsman to adjust if he misreads the length. Robin Uthappa is one of the rare batsmen who has got a very good record against Rashid, and he claims to play him like an off-spinner. Perhaps, that\u2019s what the Indian batsmen might have to do in Bangalore.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the new mystery bowler in town who\u2019s also shown good control. Often he bowls with the new ball in the powerplay overs of a T20 game and he\u2019s rarely expensive. He\u2019s got two key variations a front of the hand carrom ball that goes away from the right-handed batsmen and a back of the hand googly that turns in after pitching. Besides the positioning of the hand at the point of release, the key difference between the two is also the speed of the ball. The faster ones are carrom balls and the slower ones are almost always the googlies. It\u2019ll be interesting if he\u2019s able to bowl long spells without bowling boundary balls in Test cricket, for unlike T20, it\u2019s almost impossible to pack both sides of the pitch in a Test.<\/p>\n

His style of off-break is a throwback to the years gone by. He\u2019s got a clean action and he relies on the traditional drift and dip to beat the batsman in the air. He doesn\u2019t have a doosra or a carrom ball and his only variation is the arm ball that holds its line and goes away from right-handed batsmen, and is delivered a little faster and flatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afghanistan captain fired the opening salvo when he claimed his spinners were better than their Indian counterparts. While there\u2019s no doubt Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi have been excellent in the shortest format, their effectiveness with the red ball over five days is still to be tested. The key difference between bowling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34117,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34115\/revisions\/34117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}