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8 minutes ago, swapnil123 said:

ishant is a better bowler than bumrah in tests... come on now

I will play BBS attack again though. We have given enough chances to Ishant. Bumrah in South Africa isn't a bad option to be continued even though overall Ishant might be better test bowler for other conditions etc.  Anyways, Ishant hasn't done anything special to comeback into bowling line up that did pretty well in the first test

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6 hours ago, Gollum said:

Ishant is a better bowler now, we missed him in the 1st test. 

He averaged 70 last time he played  australia and over 100 last time he played SA. He gives the impressions he has imroved against weaker batting line ups and gets exposed against good ones. 

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5 hours ago, Silva said:

He averaged 70 last time he played  australia and over 100 last time he played SA. He gives the impressions he has imroved against weaker batting line ups and gets exposed against good ones. 

He can sometimes go batshit crazy and give us a winning position from nowhere. In a bowling line up as steady as ours we need an X factor bowler like him. 

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1 hour ago, Gollum said:

He can sometimes go batshit crazy and give us a winning position from nowhere. In a bowling line up as steady as ours we need an X factor bowler like him. 

How's is our bowling lineup steady?Only few months ago Umesh seemed to be regular. Now he is out. Bhuvi has made into team as a regular. Bumrah comes in from nowhere. Shami is in and out. Mostly out. But is in team now.

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5 minutes ago, Pollack said:

Patience Indian people have on this talentless (no offense) bowler is mind blowing because theh feel he is a workhorse whatever batsh!T it means. Improved Ishant has always been an illusion.Somethings never change.

he sucks but the reality is india doesnt have 3-4 bowlers better than him. 

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41 minutes ago, Pollack said:

How's is our bowling lineup steady?Only few months ago Umesh seemed to be regular. Now he is out. Bhuvi has made into team as a regular. Bumrah comes in from nowhere. Shami is in and out. Mostly out. But is in team now.

By steady I meant decent, no glaring weaknesses. I don't think they are SA/Aus level good but they are a well rounded attack. Put an Ishant in place of Bumrah and you will get the variety also. 

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A genuine match winner...yeah he can have an off day but it is not like the rest of the bowlers are epitome of consistency barring Bhuvi.

 

On a bowlers paradise like the one we got SA would have been bundled for a lower 1st innings score...no exaggeration...check how he outbowled every bowler including Zak on bowling friendly pitches in our last set of tours in 2013.

 

People just hate a few players for the heck of it.

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1 hour ago, maniac said:

A genuine match winner...yeah he can have an off day but it is not like the rest of the bowlers are epitome of consistency barring Bhuvi.

 

On a bowlers paradise like the one we got SA would have been bundled for a lower 1st innings score...no exaggeration...check how he outbowled every bowler including Zak on bowling friendly pitches in our last set of tours in 2013.

 

People just hate a few players for the heck of it.

I think people hate him cause he is the only specialist bowler who has been allowed to take 200+ plus wickets at an average over 33. and with strike rate close to 70 to boost. Had ishant played the last match and took out devilliers twice as well as decok and faf no one here would want ishant to be dropped. Even his biggest critics. The hate he gets is based on his horrible stats.

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15 minutes ago, Silva said:

I think people hate him cause he is the only specialist bowler who has been allowed to take 200+ plus wickets at an average over 33. and with strike rate close to 70 to boost. Had ishant played the last match and took out devilliers twice as well as decok and faf no one here would want ishant to be dropped. Even his biggest critics. The hate he gets is based on his horrible stats.

His average is over 36 in tests. How can someone call him a match winner with such pathetic average. Indeed stats sometimes hide a lot but with those pathetic stats there is nothing can be hidden. He is poor. His spell to ponting cost us a lot and now his spell in Lords is costing us another decade of mediocrity.

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2 hours ago, maniac said:

People just hate a few players for the heck of it.

Really? Ishant has been giving false hopes for the past decade! You can't fault people for wanting to move on. Below are his averages. Just when it seemed he was getting back in business, had an awful year in 2017. Story of his life.

 

2012: 75.6

2013: 48.2

2014: 31.4

2015: 31.5

2016: 28.7

2017: 37.7

 

He is still the 4th choice pacer but I don't think he can replace any of Bhuvi, Shami, Bumrah after the way they bowled on 4th day.

 

 

 

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