{"id":10125,"date":"2016-06-29T07:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10125"},"modified":"2016-06-29T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:25:18","slug":"my-focus-will-be-on-line-and-lengths-in-west-indies-says-mohammed-shami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/my-focus-will-be-on-line-and-lengths-in-west-indies-says-mohammed-shami\/","title":{"rendered":"MY FOCUS WILL BE ON LINE AND LENGTHS IN WEST INDIES SAYS MOHAMMED SHAMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mohammedshami-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"India's Tour of West Indies, Test Cricket, Test, Holder, Kohli, Rahane, Pujara, Vijay, DM Bravo, Ramdin, Samuels, Shami, Ashwin, Jadeja, Holder, Taylor, Roach, West Indies Cricket Board, Board of Control for Cricket in India, Phil Simmons, Anil Kumble\" width=\"686\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a long break from International cricket, Mohammed Shami making his comeback from upcoming West Indies Tour. Mohammed Shami said he is looking forward to playing in West Indies for the Test Series.\u00a0 Mohammed Shami told bcci.tv that, \u201cI have played there earlier and I haven\u2019t found them\u00a0(the pitches) to be that different. They are almost similar to India. Yes, in the earlier times we would hear that the wicket\u00a0is bouncy and all that. But, now the wickets are similar to those in Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Shami further went on to say that, \u201cSo, there is no need to be excited as a fast bowler that\u00a0you will get bounce and carry. According to me, it is important to focus on line and length. I have an idea of the\u00a0conditions and one will have to be prepared.\u201d Mohammed Shami has last played a Test Match in January 2015 before he got injured.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Shami also said that West Indies will be a tough challenge on their home ground for us. \u201cWest Indies is the kind of team that can give you a run for your money on a given day and so you have\u00a0to be very focused and aware. We have to focus on line and\u00a0length. I will try to give my best and as a unit the effort\u00a0would be to bowl tight spells and get wickets,\u201d he further added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After a long break from International cricket, Mohammed Shami making his comeback from upcoming West Indies Tour. Mohammed Shami said he is looking forward to playing in West Indies for the Test Series.\u00a0 Mohammed Shami told bcci.tv that, \u201cI have played there earlier and I haven\u2019t found them\u00a0(the pitches) to be that different. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":10126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8,170,140],"tags":[114,1248,232,765],"class_list":["post-10125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-india","tag-indias-tour-of-west-indies","tag-west-indies","tag-wivsind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}