Despite the ongoing India’s tour of England revealing Indian batsmen’s vulnerability against the short ball, England fast bowler Stuart Broad is promising plenty more of the same in the remaining four matches of the ODI series— especially at the Rose Bowl tomorrow.
“We have a full battery of pace bowlers and, although you need to adjust your skills with slower balls and yorkers against a powerful batting line-up like India, I’m a believer in adapting to the conditions,” the Sun quoted Broad, as saying.
“The short ball will certainly be worth using at the Rose Bowl, where the pitches for the Test match and ODIs recently have been pretty quick. So, the bouncer will be a legitimate tactic,” he added.
Broad also said how England players could hear Indian batsman Rohit Sharma’s screams of agony after he broke his finger during the first ODI in Durham on Saturday.
Sharma was struck by his first delivery from Broad as the ball squeezed his right index finger on to the handle of his bat.
“You never like to see a professional injured, but this is a brutal sport. The ball certainly hit Sharma hard. Out there, you could hear his screams and, when the physio got hold of him, it looked quite badly dislocated as well,” the 25-year-old said.
“The ball kissed the surface, hit his finger on the leather side of the glove and I would have thought he will be on a flight home,” he added.
