‘Bahutule should have rectified Bishnoi’s run-up’

Former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan has questioned Team India’s spin bowling coach Sairaj Bahutule for failing to correct Ravi Bishnoi’s increasingly wide run-up, which resulted in repeated back-foot no-balls during India’s four-wicket defeat to England in the second T20I. Bishnoi conceded 60 runs in four overs and cut the return crease three times, including twice in the 17th over that yielded 29 runs and swung the game decisively in England’s favour. 

“A spinner should not be bowling a no-ball. It’s a crime. And for him to bowl a back-foot no-ball, cutting the return crease, is something that should have been noticed in the nets. Sairaj (Bahutule) should have first noticed his run-up and looked at whether he was overstepping or cutting the return crease. First thing you look at is bowling a legal delivery, and then bowling a legally good delivery,” Sivaramakrishnan said. The former India leg-spinner said a spinner committing no-balls at the international level reflected a lack of proper guidance.