For fast-bowlers in IPL Season 8, variety is the spice

If your pitch-map as a fast bowler at the end of a limited-overs contest showed a cluster of deliveries on a length, it meant you had a good day.

If your pitch-map as a fast bowler at the end of a limited-overs contest showed a cluster of deliveries on a length, it meant you had a good day. And if it was all over the place, it meant that you had been all over the place and had a day to forget. That perception, however, seems to have changed in IPL 8. For odd-lengths are in. Metronomic discipline is passe, or so it seems, analyses Bharat Sundaresan.