"Had there been one good all-rounder it would have been a different story altogether -- If he can bowl 20 overs in a day and bat at no. 7 or 6. Stuart Binny has to come a long way to get into the team. He does not give the impression he can bowl 20 overs in a day. If he can manage that then he would look totally different," the legendary cricketer said.
"He's a brilliant fielder but I have a doubt whether he can bowl 20 overs. Let's be critical when we are required to be critical. All of them are four over bowlers basically. Ihave not seen them bowling 20-30 overs, that's where I have a doubt, a reservation in my mind. But let us give the benefit of the doubt to these boys."
Kapil wanted the Indian bowlers to stick to a fuller length and not bowl short like they did in New Zealand earlier this year."In the New Zealand series, we did not get the result and that was disheartening. We need a good seamer or a senior player to show the way. You have to bowl up, make the bowler play straight, not use the cut shot. In England you don't need to seam the ball half a yard, (need) just six or four inches,
and you're in trouble (as a batsman)," he said.
"In New Zealand they were bowling short and that cost us the results. You can't keep bowling short. The harder/ bouncier the pitch, you have to bowl half yard more up to the batsman." Kapil singled out Cheteshwar Pujara as the man the Indian team would be looking forward to hold one end up in the series that commences at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, and compared the Saurashtra batsman with yesteryear stalwarts Rahul Dravid and Ravi Shastri.
"Pujara is ideal to play five-day cricket. If he plays well, the result can come out better in India's favour. Pujara can play whole day, he has that temperament. Pujara can hold the wicket. I am not saying (Virat) Kohli is any less, but Pujara is the key player for me.
"In a couple of years he can play ODIs or T20s, but today he is your backbone (in Tests). He is the cricketer who can put his shutter down like Rahul Dravid and say I like to bat the whole day.
"In our time people used to say haai haai to Ravi Shastri, but we used to say Ravi you keep blocking. I told Ravi to occupy one end, play the whole day, don't score runs but play 40 overs against West Indies so that others can come and score."Such players might not get more runs, but they stay. Pujara is not Shikhar Dhawan or Sehwag, but we need players who can play out the day," he explained.
He also welcomed the five-Test series - the first for India in England since 1959 and wished he should have been playing now, and hailed the appointment of Dravid as an advisor to the Mahendra Singh Dhoni led team in the run-up to the Test rubber.
