South Africa series could make or break pujara

[WC2011INDIA]

More like make and break for Hahane. His career will be done after SA series. Rohit will replace him.

[Forever Indian]

@ OP - It is same as the double standards you exhibit as well. When Dhoni was captain everything wrong was due to Dhoni, now when Kohli is captain everything wrong is still due to Dhoni (in LOIs), selectors, coach, players but not the captain.

 

Everyone has their agenda and posts accordingly. Doesnt warrant a thread for that.

[gakgupta]

35 minutes ago, WC2011INDIA said:

More like make and break for Hahane. His career will be done after SA series. Rohit will replace him.

He is a very good player and Indian Test team will be loser, if that happens

[jalebi_bhai]

52 minutes ago, Forever Indian said:

@ OP - It is same as the double standards you exhibit as well. When Dhoni was captain everything wrong was due to Dhoni, now when Kohli is captain everything wrong is still due to Dhoni (in LOIs), selectors, coach, players but not the captain.

 

Everyone has their agenda and posts accordingly. Doesnt warrant a thread for that.

Pay more attention to our LOIs games and notice who the real boss is on the pitch. 

[vvvslaxman]

Chepu is not even close to be in a make or break situation. If he finds a way to do well, he will be the ultimate asset as he can bat long, he can blunt attacks, he won't have brain freezes. He deserves the longest rope among all.

[Forever Indian]

9 minutes ago, jalebi_bhai said:

Pay more attention to our LOIs games and notice who the real boss is on the pitch. 

Dhoni also captained so many ex captains and legends like Sachin, Dravid, Sehwag, Laxman, etc and we all know how he handled them. It is upto Kohli what role he wants Dhoni to perform under his captaincy. If Kohli says that he is still not comfortable captaining in the fast pace of LOI environment, then whose fault is it?

[gattaca]

18 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

I like the guy and feel he can deliver overseas but no doubts his brilliant home record masks his failures overseas 

 

while others like Rohit and Dhawan get slaughtered for scoring runs only test runs at home ( in white ball cricket they do well overseas) . Pujara seems to slide from attention . Seems like double standard on icf ?

 

but this series is massive for pujara and if flunks the knives will sharpen . 

Pujara has better technique. He also makes sure kohli and co gets the older ball than new ball. He basically blunts the ball. Pujara may score 30 and gets out but he shields the team from tough conditions. Obliviously we want him to score more. Dhawan on other hand gives slip catching practice. Rohit doesn't know which ball to leave and doesn't know where his off stump is. He worse than ashwin and bhuvi. Ash and bhuvi atleast know where their off stump. Rohit is worse than the all rounders we have in the team and he is specialist bat. There are no double standards here. These are hard facts.

Edited December 2, 2017 by gattaca

[gattaca]

34 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Chepu is not even close to be in a make or break situation. If he finds a way to do well, he will be the ultimate asset as he can bat long, he can blunt attacks, he won't have brain freezes. He deserves the longest rope among all.

Ya he is the only specialist test bat with Vijay and rahane.

[King Tendulkar]

Massive test for pujara 

 

as let’s not kid ourselves . Pretty obvious what tactic will be v him by saffies . 

 

Simple 

 

gonna get chin music . Bombed . Head is target . 

 

Those low hands and fact he don’t pull or hook like kohli : rahane. They gonna go upper body 

 

fascinating to see if can cope and do the bussiness . This is massive series for his rep for not just being home bully 

[Forever Indian]

3 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Massive test for pujara 

 

as let’s not kid ourselves . Pretty obvious what tactic will be v him by saffies . 

 

Simple 

 

gonna get chin music . Bombed . Head is target . 

 

Those low hands and fact he don’t pull or hook like kohli : rahane. They gonna go upper body 

 

fascinating to see if can cope and do the bussiness . This is massive series for his rep for not just being home bully 

Pujara had a great series last time around in SA. It was in Eng, NZ and Aus that he failed.

[Vilander]

Steyn, Morkel, Philander and Rabada all fit -> test of his life time for Puj and for Indian top order for that matter.

[Vilander]

On 12/2/2017 at 1:39 AM, jusarrived said:

I don't get it , every one knows pujara has to prove himslelf . Rahane has to do better on spinning tracks . Virat needs to show up more often when the going gets tough . 

 

The question everyone is asking is , why are we dropping a young batsmen like kl who in his short career has scored home/away but also played a few great knocks when the team needed it and worse to accommodate players like rohit and dhawan ? 

he is in the tour party he will bat for sure.

[Gollum]

If Steyn, Philander, Morkel, Rabada, Maharaj are all available Du Plessis will play all of them, he is a very aggressive captain. Besides Philander, Rabada and Steyn can score against us. If they play all these 5 we won't score more than 250 in any of the 6 innings, if Vijay gets unfit we will have a few sub 100 scores. Vijay is absolutely vital and our bowling unit will have to deliver once in a lifetime performance in the series. Elgar, Amla, ABDV, Du Plessis, Kock....in me se 2 bhi click ho gaye to waat lag jayegee. I am officially concerned now after Rahane's buffoonery this series. 

[Vijy]

On 12/5/2017 at 3:28 PM, Gollum said:

If Steyn, Philander, Morkel, Rabada, Maharaj are all available Du Plessis will play all of them, he is a very aggressive captain. Besides Philander, Rabada and Steyn can score against us. If they play all these 5 we won't score more than 250 in any of the 6 innings, if Vijay gets unfit we will have a few sub 100 scores. Vijay is absolutely vital and our bowling unit will have to deliver once in a lifetime performance in the series. Elgar, Amla, ABDV, Du Plessis, Kock....in me se 2 bhi click ho gaye to waat lag jayegee. I am officially concerned now after Rahane's buffoonery this series. 

Sub 100 scores are rarer than you think. even in the era of devang gandhis, there were not too many sub-100 scores (there were a few). I think you're getting overly alarmist, which is fine but also important to stick to the facts. You forgot to mention that Maharaj is a bowling allrounder and he can score too.

 

I want to see Ind confront the 5-man attack you mentioned above. It will truly show us which ones amongst this crowd are genuine batsmen and which are the pansies.

[Cricketics]

What a ball.

 

The ball of the day for me and sums up the whole South African tour and how hard it is to bat in South Africa, especially for overseas bats.

 

Doubt any batsman could have scored any run of that.

 

Its a tough day but credit to this Saf bowling attack.

 

 

 

 

[cric_fan]

Pujara seems to be FTB?

[Cricketics]

2 minutes ago, cric_fan said:

Pujara seems to be FTB?

Ni he has already scored against these bowlers on rhese tracks on the last tour.

 

Not Every tour or game you will score runs.

 

[bhakum20]

Pujara was playing well and leaving the deliveries that the other hacks would have got out to, but Morkel finally did him in with a peach. There’s almost no chance anyone could’ve avoided playing that

[King Tendulkar]

Might as well bump this . While every other batsman is getting hammered he gets of Scott free even though flopped as well 

 

so bump just to be fair 

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Might as well bump this . While every other batsman is getting hammered he gets of Scott free even though flopped as well 

 

so bump just to be fair 

He was good in the 1st dig, blunted the new ball which helped Pandya later on. He was mediocre here but flop is too harsh a word to use.