At his peak, Tendulkar played a lot of limited-overs cricket against Wasim Akram, perhaps the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time and the maestro shared his comments with PTI during a chat.
Asked what he would have done if he had faced a bowler of Shaheen’s caliber during his playing days, Tendulkar laughed and said: “I haven’t kept my mind that way because I know I won’t face him. ”
But then on a serious note he shared his point.
“Shaheen is an attacking bowler and he likes to go for the wickets. He lifts the ball up and supports himself to swing the ball. He has the ability to hit the batsmen in the air and off the pitch at his own pace. So the strategy with him should be to play straight and within the ‘V’,” Tendulkar said.
Shaheen’s greatest quality is the ability to bring the ball back to the right hand at high speed and even achieve to keep some of the ball in his line without any change in pace.
He also has a good short ball that can quick the batsmen and make them candidates for the leg before.
Tendulkar, an excellent technician, also warned that even if a batsman makes a trigger movement, it should not equate to making a commitment to play the shot.
“The trigger movement is a preparation to play the ball, not a commitment, if you are not committed to playing the ball, it can be on the front-foot or the backfoot, but it is a trigger movement, not a commitment,” he said.
“Because once you commit on the backfoot, you can’t get on the front-foot and vice versa. The trigger movement is all about preparation.
Tendulkar concluded, “Every ball, there is some sort of pace, as long as it’s not a commitment, it’s fine.”
India and Pakistan will face each other in the first match of the T20 World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on Sunday.
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