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Indian bowlers' height advantage helped them, says Sri Lankan assistant coach Stuart Law

Updated on: 06 December,2009 07:14 AM IST  | 
Sanjjeev K Samyal |

The Indian bowling attack of Zaheer Khan, S Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha were all impressive and incisive

Indian bowlers' height advantage helped them, says Sri Lankan assistant coach Stuart Law


The Indian bowling attack of Zaheer Khan, S Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha were all impressive and incisive.




Sri Lanka's assistant coach Stuart Law felt India has the height advantage with all the four bowlers being quite tall.

"Zaheer, Sreesanth, Harbhajan and Ojha are tall and get a lot more bounce off the wicket. That does play a big part," said Law.

"They are a good bowling attack. They have two good seamers who swing the ball conventionally and reverse.

Harbhajan has proved he is a pretty handy bowler.They put us under pressure. It's a good attack and they keep coming back at you," added the former Australia player.

Then, Virender Sehwag's blazing 293 ensured that India would completely dominate the proceedings. "You also sympathise with the bowlers because when Sehwag gets going, you can't stop him. It doesn't matter who is bowling at him when he is in that mood.

He punished SA last year as well. He scored more runs against them than us. It is intimidating when you have to open the bowling against a guy like Sehwag, who even on a bad day gets 200, it seems," added Law.

Zaheer, Sreesanth, Harbhajan and Pragyan Ojha.
Imaging/Satish Acharya


Dilshan was bitterly disappointed

Luck too was not on Lanka's side as T Dilshan got two rough decisions in the Test.u00a0 On Saturday, he was adjudged lbw tou00a0 Harbhajan for 16. "For a Sri Lanka supporter, it is like Sehwag being given out. The disappointment on that scale is hard to define. He was bitterly disappointed," said Law.

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