velu Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Quote New Delhi: Legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has once again put his weight behind Ajinkya Rahane and he also hit out at selectors for dropping the stylish opener for the upcoming T20I series against Australia. Despite putting on a fine performance with the bat against Australia in the ODI series, Rahane was once again dropped from the team but KL Rahul — who didn't play a single match in the series — secured a place in the squad. This has not got down too well with Gavaskar and he has let his feelings known. "The man (Rahane) who has scored four consecutive fifties, why is he not included in the team? KL Rahul is a fine player, but he didn't play a single game in the five-one day matches against Australia, why is he in the team and Rahane who scored four half-centuries is not there," Gavaskar was quoted as saying by NDTV.This is not the first time that Gavaskar has batted for Rahane and has hit out at the selectors for constantly dropping him, despite his good show with the bat. Earlier, during the ODI series against Sri Lanka last month, the little master lashed out at the selectors."It looks like all the nice guys are being left out and they should start getting a different hair style and some body art done too to get picked in the team. Rahul got yet another chance while the top scorer of the just-concluded One-day series in the West Indies - Ajinkya Rahane - sat out once again." Gavaskar wrote in a column for a leading daily. In the end, Rahane could play just one match in Sri Lanka (5th ODI) and that too after opener Shikhar Dhawan had to return to India to look after his ailing mother. Moreover, Rahane was then left out of the one-off T20I against Sri Lanka as well.On the other hand, when Rahane was asked regarding the same, he said that he respects the decision taken by the team management and the selectors. "Yes, so much cricket we play, the team management, selectors take a decision and we respect it. It (competition) is necessary and it helps you to give your best performance. Whoever gets a chance does well for the team. I have always enjoyed the competition," Rahane told reporters.India are scheduled to play three T20Is against Australia, with the first match set to be played in Ranchi on Saturday. someone shld tell little master that T20 is a different format @Pollack http://www.news18.com/cricketnext/news/gavaskar-hits-out-at-selectors-for-dropping-rahane-from-t20-squad-1536425.html JaFanatic 1 Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Can someone please hit Sunny G OpeningBatsman, RAZPOR, Stuge and 1 other 4 Link to comment
beetle Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 He has become senile. velu 1 Link to comment
Rasgulla Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Bambi quota... Now remove rohit he ll have a heartattack RAZPOR, JaFanatic, Vilander and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Sehwag kehta hai yuvi, raina ko wapis lao Sunny g wants rahane in all formats Tendulkar tells rahane to back his game which is flawed in LOI Ganguly once said in an interview on aaj tak adjust rahane anywere be it no.6 and he supports nehra's comeback Kumble wanted gambhir, yuvraj back and he got them. Ye to haal hai humare legends ka SecondSlip, velu, AuxiliA and 6 others 1 7 1 Link to comment
speedheat Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Buddha sathiya gaya haai RAZPOR 1 Link to comment
CommonMan Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 yeah.. why not Vilander, velu and Rasgulla 1 1 1 Link to comment
MCcricket Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Selections should not be made on emotions but logic, t20 requires players to have s/r above 100 or close to it, Rahane struggles to maintain 80 so is poor, so is Dhoni, Dhawan for T20, time to blood new guys, Hooda, Pant n other guys. Link to comment
Popular Post Austin 3:!6 Posted October 5, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 5, 2017 Only if Gavaskar was so angry for unfairly dropping Rishabh Pant. All they care about is for their own state. No one thinks about country. SecondSlip, AuxiliA, speedheat and 11 others 3 2 9 Link to comment
G_B_ Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 50 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said: Sehwag kehta hai yuvi, raina ko wapis lao Sunny g wants rahane in all formats Tendulkar tells rahane to back his game which is flawed in LOI Ganguly once said in an interview on aaj tak adjust rahane anywere be it no.6 and he supports nehra's comeback Kumble wanted gambhir, yuvraj back and he got them. Ye to haal hai humare legends ka old is gold mantra of Indian cricket. Link to comment
rkt.india Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 43 minutes ago, MCcricket said: Selections should not be made on emotions but logic, t20 requires players to have s/r above 100 or close to it, Rahane struggles to maintain 80 so is poor, so is Dhoni, Dhawan for T20, time to blood new guys, Hooda, Pant n other guys. close to 100? In T20s, we need career SR at least over 125, preferably some batsmen hitting SR of 135-140 and some 140 plus. Minimum requirement is 125-130. putrevus and Laaloo 2 Link to comment
G_B_ Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 An opener in T20 needs a strike rate of min 125 with an average of about 20 , so with byes and wide etc the average score with said strike rate will be 160. Batters at 6-7-8 need a min strike rate of around 130 as in most cases they will face 6-7 overs. Average of 15-20 Rahane has an average of 21 with a strike rate of 113. Which is not acceptable. Rahane, Dhawan and MSD just dont have good enough strike rates for the positions they bat at. Gollum and Vilander 2 Link to comment
express bowling Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 53 minutes ago, MCcricket said: Selections should not be made on emotions but logic, t20 requires players to have s/r above 100 or close to it, Rahane struggles to maintain 80 so is poor, 8 minutes ago, rkt.india said: close to 100? In T20s, we need career SR at least over 125, preferably some batsmen hitting SR of 135-140 and some 140 plus. Minimum requirement is 125-130. SR of T20 batters batting at 1 to 4 Rahane has a SR of 113 Overall figures Player Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s GJ Maxwell (AUS) 2012-2016 17 17 2 485 145* 32.33 269 180.29 1 2 1 50 27 E Lewis (WI) 2016-2017 14 14 1 468 125* 36.00 302 154.96 2 2 1 26 40 C Munro (NZ) 2012-2017 18 17 3 449 101 32.07 290 154.82 1 3 4 26 31 AJ Finch (AUS) 2012-2017 29 29 1 1014 156 36.21 678 149.55 1 6 0 105 45 KL Rahul (INDIA) 2016-2017 9 8 2 304 110* 50.66 204 149.01 1 1 1 29 11 LE Bosman (SA) 2006-2010 14 14 1 323 94 24.84 219 147.48 0 3 2 27 20 Shahid Afridi (PAK) 2006-2016 20 20 1 455 54* 23.94 309 147.24 0 3 0 42 17 PW Borren (NL) 2009-2017 13 13 1 305 57 25.41 208 146.63 0 1 1 30 13 V Sehwag (INDIA) 2006-2012 19 18 0 394 68 21.88 271 145.38 0 2 1 43 16 CH Gayle (WI) 2006-2017 51 49 4 1577 117 35.04 1085 145.34 2 13 2 134 103 SR Watson (AUS) 2008-2016 51 51 4 1369 124* 29.12 942 145.32 1 10 3 107 79 ML Hayden (AUS) 2005-2007 9 9 3 308 73* 51.33 214 143.92 0 4 0 37 13 LJ Wright (ENG) 2007-2014 31 30 2 568 99* 20.28 401 141.64 0 4 6 59 22 KP Pietersen (ENG) 2005-2013 37 36 5 1176 79 37.93 831 141.51 0 7 1 119 32 MS Dhoni (INDIA) 2006-2017 14 14 6 300 56 37.50 213 140.84 0 1 1 18 10 DA Warner (AUS) 2009-2016 63 63 3 1686 90* 28.10 1208 139.56 0 12 5 162 74 Sharjeel Khan (PAK) 2013-2016 15 15 0 360 59 24.00 262 137.40 0 2 0 48 13 MH Cross (SCOT) 2013-2017 19 16 0 389 60 24.31 284 136.97 0 1 1 42 16 Mohammad Shahzad (AFG) 2010-2017 58 58 3 1779 118* 32.34 1300 136.84 1 12 3 200 66 BB McCullum (NZ) 2005-2015 69 68 9 2119 123 35.91 1552 136.53 2 13 3 198 90 V Kohli (INDIA) 2011-2017 48 45 11 1804 90* 53.05 1323 136.35 0 17 0 193 34 AB de Villiers (SA) 2007-2017 63 61 9 1450 79* 27.88 1067 135.89 0 10 5 119 55 AD Hales (ENG) 2011-2017 48 48 6 1383 116* 32.92 1022 135.32 1 7 4 148 42 Imran Nazir (PAK) 2007-2012 24 24 1 500 72 21.73 370 135.13 0 3 2 59 22 Yuvraj Singh (INDIA) 2007-2017 32 31 6 816 72 32.64 605 134.87 0 6 0 53 48 RT Ponting (AUS) 2005-2009 15 15 2 401 98* 30.84 299 134.11 0 2 1 41 11 JJ Roy (ENG) 2014-2017 23 23 0 472 78 20.52 352 134.09 0 2 4 47 20 MJ Lumb (ENG) 2010-2014 27 27 1 552 63 21.23 413 133.65 0 3 1 64 21 PR Stirling (IRE) 2009-2017 44 43 4 975 79 25.00 731 133.37 0 6 6 121 30 F du Plessis (SA/World) 2012-2017 39 39 6 1191 119 36.09 894 133.22 1 7 0 107 38 DPMD Jayawardene (SL) 2006-2014 51 51 7 1439 100 32.70 1082 132.99 1 9 3 166 31 MDKJ Perera (SL) 2013-2017 27 27 0 716 84 26.51 542 132.10 0 6 0 76 24 SK Raina (INDIA) 2009-2017 36 35 4 943 101 30.41 714 132.07 1 4 2 81 36 MJ Guptill (NZ) 2009-2016 59 58 7 1796 101* 35.21 1364 131.67 1 10 2 169 76 HM Amla (SA/World) 2009-2017 41 41 6 1189 97* 33.97 908 130.94 0 7 1 135 25 Babar Hayat (HKG) 2014-2017 18 18 2 483 122 30.18 369 130.89 1 2 2 43 18 RG Sharma (INDIA) 2009-2017 41 40 5 1207 106 34.48 923 130.76 1 10 2 109 44 MW Machan (SCOT) 2013-2016 12 12 2 365 67* 36.50 280 130.35 0 3 0 31 7 SC Williams (ZIM) 2013-2016 17 17 1 349 58* 21.81 268 130.22 0 3 2 36 6 velu and Adi_91 1 1 Link to comment
putrevus Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) Rahane cost India a chance to win two t20 world cups and this clown Sunny wants him in t20 team. No wonder guys like Pant never get a chance. Edited October 5, 2017 by putrevus CoverDrive and Stuge 2 Link to comment
wanted_desi Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Sir Viv Rahane got big support group from Manjerakar and Gavaskar. That in T20, he shouldn't have played single game after that horrible 170 runs were at par wicket Wt20 Semifinal. Link to comment
Vilander Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Lol pathetic shameless mumbaikar and his mumbai lobby....ghati .... Link to comment
Khota Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Rahane deserves a spot at the same time Sunil gavaskar is a jackass as he always have selective outrage. His preference for Bombay players is shameful. Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) T20 needs players who can produce big gigantic overs when needed. Rahane is never known for that. I remember Gambhir/Viru put on like 76 runs in 5.5 overs against NZ in 2007 world T20 before India fell to Vettori. Rahane can never do that. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8604/scorecard/287865/India-vs-New-Zealand-13th-Match,-Group-E-icc-world-twenty20/ Edited October 5, 2017 by vvvslaxman Link to comment
putrevus Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 1 minute ago, MultiB48 said: rahane in that semifinal vs wi said 150 160 would have been a good score I can take bad performances by any player if he has potential or upside to be a match winner. Rahane has neither this nonsense Gavaskar is spouting that Rahane has hit 4 fifties in row is so wrong. As an opener especially on these Indian pitches you should have ability to play big innings once set. 4 fifties and no hundred prove one thing Rahane has zero upside . Rohit also like Rahane has limited ability to rotate the strike but he can make it up with big hits . Link to comment
MCcricket Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 1 hour ago, rkt.india said: close to 100? In T20s, we need career SR at least over 125, preferably some batsmen hitting SR of 135-140 and some 140 plus. Minimum requirement is 125-130. By this I am saying even when u lower the bar to lowest possible then too Rahane is a poor choice for T20 player where just strike rotation won't do, but u need to score on Ave 180 to 200 in 20 overs and that requires a S/R around 150 or above Link to comment
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