[Gowza]

Originally Posted by jeesh
Agree Gowza. Perhaps its the nature of wickets there that makes run scoring so easy in India. But you also got to give them credit. They have the knack of producing very technically sound, run scoring machines.

Some of the Zimbabwean batsmen have very health FC averages. If you look at some of the teams closer to us in ranking-NZ, WI, Sri Lanka, they too have prolific run scorers. I am not talking abt the old guards. For instance in Sri Lanka (Apart from Dilshan, Sanga, Jayawardene) some of the emerging guys have outstanding FC record. Chandimal averages 55, Mathews close to 50, Thirimane over 40.

A lot of ppl say we need sporting wickets to develop our batting. But if our guys cant average 40 in placid wickets, how can they in more grassy bouncy wickets?

yes some emerging players do have great FC records even outside india but india has a lot, if you were to list all of the players in india who aren't in the national team/squad who average over 40 in FC cricket that list would be huge. there might be 2 or 3 from other countries but the list wouldn't be anywhere near as big as a list india could make. you mentioned 3 great emerging sri lankan players, they're all currently in the squad for the national team though, so who outside of them and the squad have such great averages? probably not to many. india certainly has a knack for producing batting talent even if as you say the nature of their wickets makes scoring runs easier.