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Who is your first choice spinner for South African tour?


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Your fiest choice spinner?  

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  1. 1. Who is your first choice spinner for Souh African tour?

    • Ashwin
    • Jadeja
    • Kuldeep
    • Doesn’t matter, whoever bats better keep him.


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Play Ashwin in the 1st test and see how he goes, if he flops badly (with both bat and ball) play Jaddu/Kuldeep in the next 2. I am pretty sure the Saffers will take pitch tampering to the next level, totally nullifying our spinners like they did with Herath. In England I will defo pick Ashwin while Kuldeep can get the nod in Aus. We are so lucky to have Pandya, otherwise we would have been forced to pick 2 spinners overseas. 

 

The only reason I still prefer Ash is his past show with the bat in Eng and Aus, his stint in county should be appreciated because the lad clearly wants to do well overseas. Jaddu the test batsman is a total fraud(even more than Jaddu the ODI AR), I will trust Shami with the bat but not him. We need our tail to wag in SA and Ash-Bhuvi-Pandya trinity can get it done more often than the others. That is why I will play Ash-Bhuvi-Pandya and pick 2 out of Shami, Umesh, Ishant (form, fitness etc).

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14 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Ashwin

Have to play a wkt taking spinner now he can fail but he shud be our 1st choice and obv he is a better choice

 

So Jadeja is not wicket taking? He is not the same dart thrower which you saw him earlier. He has changed his style of bowling for while now. He turns the ball unlike before. 

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36 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

So Jadeja is not wicket taking? He is not the same dart thrower which you saw him earlier. He has changed his style of bowling for while now. He turns the ball unlike before. 

and what are we basing our judgment on .....indian pitches

He needs help from the wkt. Surely this shud be checked in warmup games

Even if their bowling is found at par, ashwin still is ahead with his batting

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2 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

and what are we basing our judgment on .....indian pitches

He needs help from the wkt. Surely this shud be checked in warmup games

Even if their bowling is found at par, ashwin still is ahead with his batting

We are supposed to pick bowler not batsman. For that we have Pandya who is there to balance. We are looking to win the match and for that we need bowler who will take more wickets and give least runs, and Jadeja has done that before in South Africa. 

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8 hours ago, renjith said:

kuldeep is a better choice than ashwin and jadeja. but ashwin will be selected for his batting. if we pick ashwin, pandya and ishant in the eleven, our bowling will be too weak.

Absolutely agree. I don’t trust Pandya as he is a mediocre bowler and not sure what to expect from his batting. But if he can provide some support with bat and ball, then makes a decent selection, but picking Ashwin just because he can bat is useless because now we are forgetting that the guy’s prime job is to help the team earn some wickets and not bat only. If we can’t depend on him to take couple of wickets every inning or more then no use of playing him. No one is expecting fifers but playing Pandya-Ashwin-Ishant together along with Umesh makes it a shyty bowlinng attack and team.

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14 minutes ago, fineleg said:

LOL @ Tics trying to big up Jadeja as though he is a far better than Ash bowling option overseas.

Both are either unproven or havent been successful commodities in Test tours like SA, Eng, NZ, gotta try one (most likely Ash) and see how it goes.

Jadeja has taken a 6fer in South Africa which included wickets of Smith, Amla, Kallis, De villers.

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9 hours ago, Cricketics said:

We are supposed to pick bowler not batsman. For that we have Pandya who is there to balance. We are looking to win the match and for that we need bowler who will take more wickets and give least runs, and Jadeja has done that before in South Africa. 

Well we are going to play 5 batsman + pandya ...batting will be important in case of ashwin n jadeja 

N how has ashwin become a bad bowler.........the guy played so many test with sports hernia which impacted his perfomance a lot and we started seeing jadeja as better 

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4 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Well we are going to play 5 batsman + pandya ...batting will be important in case of ashwin n jadeja 

N how has ashwin become a bad bowler.........the guy played so many test with sports hernia which impacted his perfomance a lot and we started seeing jadeja as better 

Yes first test we will play Pandya, but if he fails with both bat and ball, we will have to change. Pandya is there to balance the team, but if he can not add any runs or bowl and support the bowlers, then I rather play extra spinner and make Jadeja and Ashwin play from 2nd test onwards. We can not continue to pick Pandya overseas just for balancing if he is not scoring or taking wickets. Yes, we can't expect to have our support bowler take fifers, but he should be doing enough to bowl decent and chip in with wickets here and there and add some runs to make his case. 

 

Pandya's selection after first test will be very critical. Let's see how he does. If it works, it will be brilliant. 

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