Sunil Joshi made 69 ODI appearances for India and now coaches Bangladesh national cricket team's spinners. The two sides clash at Edgbaston next Tuesday.
Sunil Joshi is backing Bangladesh바카라s spin bowlers, led by the in-form Shakib Al Hasan, to hold their own against India when their ICC Men바카라s Cricket World Cup 2019 campaign continues next week. After beating Afghanistan by 62 runs at the Hampshire Bowl, Bangladesh can take a short but well-earned break before facing the double World Cup winners in Birmingham on July 2.
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It will be a special occasion for Sunil Joshi, the Bangladesh spin bowling coach, because he made 15 Test and 69 ODI appearances for India between 1996 to 2001.
He watched in delight as Shakib continued his brilliant all-round World Cup with five Afghanistan wickets, and also enjoyed the contributions of Mehidy Hasan and Mossadek Hossain in helping to restrain the Afghanistan batsmen.
바카라As a spin coach you cannot ask for more,바카라 said Joshi. 바카라Shakib is a legend, no doubt. It is a source of great pride that we have a player like that in the Bangladesh side. He is Mr Consistent for us be it with the bat, the ball or in the field.
바카라He has really focused on his fitness and lost between five and seven kilos recently. You can see how that has paid off with his running between the wickets, you can see the hunger in his cricket. His presence is really helping us to take our whole game forward.바카라
Joshi needs no second invitation to talk about the meeting with India, who are likely to include both Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal in a battle of the turning ball.
바카라We all know they play spin well,바카라 he added. 바카라But so do we, we play spin very well and played it well against Afghanistan.
바카라We have shown in the white ball formats here and before this how we are a good side, we won in Ireland, we have beaten West Indies home and away and come close to beating India three times in the past three years.
바카라We have our own brand of cricket we are playing with the likes of Liton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim, Soumya Sarkar, Tamim Iqbal, then Mashrafe Mortaza with the ball, and the others.바카라
Joshi wants to bring his own experience of playing in England to bear - pointing out the way, for example, that the open grounds allow the breeze to continually change direction.
But he admitted he would enjoy another surface at Edgbaston similar to that at the Hampshire Bowl which made life difficult for batsmen against the slow bowlers, underlined by how Afghanistan바카라s spinners restricted India in their previous match.
바카라We have quality spinners, the same as India,바카라 added Joshi. 바카라How do you deal with them? Facing them and bowling to them it is the same. You think of it one ball at a time.
바카라Every team has their strengths and weaknesses. I have seen India very closely when we have played them. We know where to bowl to them.바카라 (With ICC inputs)