Laxman Sivaramakrishnan open to coach Indian spinners for World Cup 2019

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After the poor show in England, Indian team management is contemplating to hire a skilled spin bowling coach to assist their spinners. In the wake of it, former leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan has stated that he is ready to coach especially for the white-ball cricket till next year's world cup. 

After a glorious home season, Indian spinners had a tough England tour and despite Kuldeep Yadav picking up two five-wicket hauls in both T20I and ODI series combined, he was undone by Joe Root subsequently and went for runs. Yuzvendra Chahal also had faced a hard-time as his variations went out for a toss thanks to the flat beds in England. Considering the World Cup in the same country is just a few months away, India thought of appointing a spin bowling consultant and Sivaramakrishnan is ready to throw his hat into the ring.

"All our spinners are good, but need fine-tuning. I'd like to help our spinners till the World Cup in the role of spin consultant/ coach, if the BCCI approaches me with an offer. The middle overs - from 11 to 40 - is the period when we need to pick up the wickets. If our spinners take five wickets in this period for about 150, they'd have done their job. Otherwise, you're looking at a potentially dangerous situation, where the opposition's middle order is set to lunch into a slog in the last 10 overs," Sivaramakrishnan, who represented India in nine Tests in the early 1980s, told TOI.

Kuldeep and Chahal have not looked back ever since replacing Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the limited-overs team. The leggie spoke about the observation about the duo and stated that they need more improvement on stumps.   

"Kuldeep Yadav's balance while delivering the ball needs to improve. His body isn't synchronized properly, and his arms aren't rotating in a round manner while delivering the ball. Yuzuvendra Chahal tends to drift to the leg and middle, which means the batsmen can look to smash him to mid-wicket, which is likely to be vacant since the two fielders on the on-side are likely to be stationed at deep square leg (for the sweep shot) and long-on.

"Both Chahal and Kuldeep have the conventional leg-break and the googly, but they can add a top-spinner to their repertoire. They also need to be careful to not overuse the googly," stated Sivaramakrishnan.

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