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Will TNCA’s talent hunt to address the State team’s bowling shortcomings pay off?

Campers go through their drills at the bowling camp for medium pacers in Tiruppur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Tamil Nadu’s lack of depth in the bowling department, especially pace bowlers, has been hurting the team’s performance in First-Class cricket for a while. To address this the TNCA started a talent-hunt programme scouring the State earlier this year. S Mahesh with fast bowlers at the camp in Tiruppur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement After a thorough process over the last three months with an overwhelming response to the selection trials held at the district level first, followed by the final selection in Chennai, 77 bowlers have now been selected.The break-up of the 77 reads as 30 medium pacers, 16 off-spinners and leg-spinners each and 15 left-arm spinners. In...
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Warriorz — going big on quality as well as quantity as far as spin is concerned

UP Warriorz’s Sophie Ecclestone celebrates a dismissal against Royal Challengers Bangalore Women in the Women’s Premier League, at Brabourne Stadium, in Mumbai on March 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Shabnim Ismail is as quick as any bowler around in women’s cricket at the moment. She is among the most experienced seamers as well, with 314 wickets in international white-ball cricket for South Africa.So imagine her shock at being told that she was not going to play for UP Warriorz in its match of the Women’s Premier League. “Sixteen years I have been playing and I have never been dropped,” she told Lisa Sthalekar, the Warriorz mentor. “Welcome to the WPL,” Sthalekar, the former Australian all-rounder, told her. UP Warriorz’s Rajeshwari Gayakwad celebrates a dismissal against Royal Chall...