20 November,2019 08:28 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Kuldeep Yadav
New Delhi: At the floodlit Eden Gardens, wrist spinners landing the pink ball with scrambled seam will be far more difficult to pick than finger spinners, feels senior off-spinner Harbhajan Singh. India will be playing its much-awaited first day-night Test against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens from Saturday and there is a lot of curiosity regarding how the pink ball would behave.
"Wrist spinners will have one advantage because it's going to be very difficult to pick the seam [with black stitches] of pink ball," Harbhajan told PTI. India have a wrist spinner in Kuldeep Yadav but Harbhajan didn't want to talk on selection matters. "Well, that's the team management's call and I can't comment. But then Bangladesh need to play the Indian pacers on the seamer-friendly track before spinners are fully operational," he said, referring to their performance against Mohammed Shami & Co in the first Test.
"And also between 3.30 and 4.30 pm, the time of sunset in Kolkata, seamers are known to do maximum damage. But yes, we need to figure out more about spinners if we want to play more D/N Tests in future." He reminded how Kuldeep turned out to be lethal during the 2016 Duleep Trophy, played with the pink ball. "If you remember Duleep Trophy, no one could effectively read Kuldeep from his wrist.
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Leg spinners got a lot of wickets during that edition," Harbhajan said. He explained why wrist spinners are more effective. "When a finger spinner bowls, the ball is released with seam, so that there is turn and bounce. When you are bowling the googly, the seam will be scrambled and very difficult to pick," he explained.
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