Pedro Collins and Adam Sanford were West Indies' two most successful bowlers in the Indian second innings, and a look at their bowling stats reveal that they used contrasting methods to get their wickets. Collins's mantra was a good control over line and length, which would build the pressure and force batsmen into errors. Sanford, on the other hand, bowled with lesser control, but slipped in the odd wicket-taking delivery to surprise the batsmen. Among the four West Indian seamers, Collins found the good-length area far more often than the others, bowling 61% of his deliveries there. Mervyn Dillon was next best at a mere 47%. At the other end of the spectrum was Sanford, who bowled only 33% on a good length. His stock delivery was short of a length – 59% of the time he pitched short.

Both Collins and Sanford bowled more than 80% of their deliveries on or outside off, but Sanford was guilty of spraying it wide of the stumps far too often. The batsmen were not required to play a stroke 26% of the time against him – that's once every four balls. With Collins, the corresponding figure was only 17%.

However, both were most effective in inducing false strokes from the batsmen. Against Collins, the not-in-control factor was 25%, and Sanford was only one percentage point lower. Different methods, but both did the job equally well for West Indies.

S Rajesh is sub editor of Wisden.com in India.

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