Ex-India star labels Ajaz Patel as ‘local club bowler’ after New Zealand series whitewash
Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif berated New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel after he decimated the Indian batting order in the third Test at the Wankhede stadium. Patel picked up a total of 11 wickets in the match and was even given the player of the match award.
Despite Ajaz completing the series with a whopping 15 wickets in 3 matches to his name, Kaif refused to call the New Zealand spinner a quality bowler.
In a video which is making rounds on social media, the former India batter ridiculed the Kiwi star saying that India have bowlers of his quality in every single club.
Ajaz Patel didn’t bowl well. If you see his pitch map, he delivered two full-toss, two short balls, and two length delivers but still managed to take wickets,” said Kaif.
Kaif also ridiculed part-time spinner Glenn Phillips, who picked up 4 wickets in the Mumbai Test. According to Kaif, Phillips doesn’t know how to bowl good deliveries.
“Glenn Phillips is a part-timer and he doesn’t know how to bowl good deliveries. We lost to part-timers and not to quality spinners. Let people say that Ajaz Patel has taken 22 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium. He can’t even land the ball properly. Ajaz Patel bowled just two good deliveries in an over and got wickets. The defeat in the final Test is embarrassing. There was no bowler in New Zealand side in the Mumbai Test,” Kaif said.
The only New Zealand spinner that Kaif praised was Mitchell Santner, who picked up 13 wickets in the second Test of the series in Pune before being ruled out of the third match due to an injury.
“Santner did bowl well. The bowling he produced in Pune was a classic Test match performance,” Kaif said
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