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The face of Lathams batTom Latham has shown two important facets of his batting against spin in this series. Since the ball was turning sharply in Kanpur, he swept quite regularly. Here, in Indore, he has used the same shot sparingly because the spin is manageable on this surface. He chose to play with a straight bat more often. He also used the depth of the crease nicely to punch the ball through the midwicket region with a straight bat. The only area where he has not been targeted as much is full and outside off by the spinners. He got out nicking to R Ashwin in the second innings of the Kolkata Test, and here also, he has driven through the off side only once. In fact, he has scored only one run through mid-off against spin in the entire series.Guptills long stride doing the trickFrom the outside it felt that Ravindra Jadeja was bowling too full to Martin Guptill, for the ball rarely hit the top half of his bat. It is a new Test match on a different pitch and therefore the thought is plausible. But did Jadeja actually bowl too full? If you look closely at his pitch map to Guptill in this innings and compare it with his pitch map to how he bowled to the right-handed batsmen throughout the series, you will not find a huge difference. What made the difference in Indore was the length of Guptills stride. He is a tall man and has used his height to good effect. In addition to that, Guptill has always put the bat ahead of the ball against Jadeja and that allowed him to negate the ones that came in straight after pitching. Ashwins seam positionSeam position is something you follow closely while playing the fast bowlers, for it is an indicator of where the ball is likely to go. The same is true for spinners who use the seam to extract drift in the air and response from the pitch; Ashwin is one from that clan. For the stock ball to a right-handed batsman, the seam points towards fine leg with the shine facing the fielders at covers. Since the ball is reverse-swinging, the shine would take the ball away from the batsman in the air and then spin into him after pitching. The one that is designed to go straight after pitching has the seam pointing towards square leg with the shine on the same side. What makes it tougher for batsmen on dusty pitches is that some balls land on the seam and turn, and some land on the leather and go straight.Where are the bouncers?The first two days in Indore emphasised the difficulty posed by the bouncers because the bounce and pace are not trustworthy. Ajinkya Rahane was in more than a spot of bother on many occasions. Incidentally, Indian fast bowlers did not try the bouncer throughout. Instead, they focused on keeping the ball fuller and targeted the pads. 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Williams scored 11 points in 10 minutes, Alan Anderson scored 17 points, and the Brooklyn Nets finished the exhibition season with a 108-87 win over the Miami Heat on Friday night. Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley said he thinks his brother, former Duke guard Bobby Hurley, will root for the Rams against the No. 1 Blue Devils when the teams meet in the final of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tipoff in Uncasville, Conn., on Sunday.Thats a tough one. I mean, blood over Dukes family, Hurleys family -- I think hes with me though, because he talks to me more than K, Dan Hurley told ESPN after his No. 21 team survived an NCAA tournament game against No. 24 Cincinnati in the semifinal nightcap Saturday.Bobby Hurley, a point guard who helped Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski to back-to-back NCAA titles, is the coach at Arizona State. He wont be at the Mohegan Sun Casino Arena on Sunday, but the Hurley brothers dad, noted high school coach Bob Hurley Sr. is there watching Dan and his 4-0 Rams, who face Krzyzewski and his battered Blue Devils for the tournament crown.Once again, Rhode Island will have the crowd at its back -- these games being played 37 miles from its Kingston campus. The Rams face a Duke team (3-1) that came to Connecticut shorthanded and suffered more problems in Saturdays victory over Penn State.Were banged up more than any team Ive ever coached, Krzyzewski said after a hell of win over Penn State that saw Chase Jeter go down with an ankle injury while Grayson Allen hobbled around on a bad toe.Before the game and then during the game ... I mean, Amile (Jefferson) has been hurt this week, he has 15 rebounds and 16 points. Matt (Jones, 15 points) plays the last two ball games in the second half with four fouls. The veteran play of those two kids really saved us.Duke, which will likely fall out of the top spot in the poll because of a loss to Kansas on Tuesday, has three freshmen who havent even played yet because of injury.The three freshman wont play Sunday, Allen should and Jeter might as Krzyzewski tries for his 19th in-season title.Rhode Island had to overcome some adversity Saturday as well, losing point guard Jarvis Garrett to what looked like a scary injury in the first half.ddddddddddddGarrett, hustling for a rebound, fell over the end line and appeared to hit his head on the knee of a cameraman. He was down for several minutes, got up on his feet but was taken from the court, his neck in a brace on a stretcher and sent to a hospital for evaluation.Players from both teams wished Garrett well as he was wheeled away, with the Rhode Island bench emptying to wish their teammate well -- and Garrett was able to text his coach from the hospital.Hes getting tests done. He has some type of neck injury, Hurley said. No idea in terms of a timetable or as to the severity of it.I thought our guys love for him and love for each other as brothers caused them to rise to the level and want it even more.Asked about reacting to losing a key player, Hurley pointed to a pair of in-season tournament blowouts his team suffered the past two years, against Maryland and Kansas.Not this year. Were fully loaded, he said.He said he thought Saturday was a sign. That the hype about our teams was probably real; based on the way weve grown, with our young players, and the adversity of last year. Cincinnatis a heck of a team, probably underrated.Saturday, the Rams missed their first nine 3-pointers before hitting eight of their last 12 with E.C. Matthews nailing a 3 from the right corner off a late out-of-bounds play.And now they get Duke.Special for the coach?I was coaching high school games seven years ago and driving vans around ... now were nationally ranked and playing Duke (Sunday) for a championship, Hurley said, calling Duke the premier program in the country that embodies everything you want in a college program. It kind of means a lot. ' ' '