5 bowlers who turned into a one-man army for their teams
Muralitharan doesn’t feature in this listCricket is a team game. All the players in the squad have a role to play in the side, even those who don’t make it to the playing eleven. It is the different skillset of the various individual players that combine together to form a team.The same logic goes for the bowling unit. The different kinds of bowlers in a team gel together to form a bowling attack.But sometimes an individual bowler is forced to handle the responsibilities of the entire bowling attack. There have been some memorable instances in cricket when an individual, through his great performances, galvanized his team.So in this slideshow we’ll have a look at the 5 bowlers who turned into a one-man army:-
#5 Harbhajan Singh
Though Harbhajan Singh’s Test career is past its peak presently, he was once the most potent weapon of the Indian bowling attack. He has played 104 Tests for India and picked up 417 wickets at an average of 32.46. He has also picked up 263 wickets in 232 ODIs at an average of 33.31.
Harbhajan’s rivalry with the Australians has been a key point of his career. He has managed to raise his game against them and he managed to dismiss Ricky Ponting five times under 12 in the 2001 series, a series in which he turned out to be the nemesis of the visitors.
In that series, he picked up 32 wickets in 3 games when none of his teammates crossed the tally of 3 wickets. The difference between him and the team’s second highest wicket-taker was a whopping 29 wickets. It was also the series in which he became the first Indian bowler to pick up a Test hat-trick. He surely turned out to be a one man army in that series.