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Please drop Pandya to maintain Test cricket’s sanctity.


Pandya is the next......  

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  1. 1. Pandya is the next.........



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Pandya is no Kapil Dev, said the wise Holding. Pandya is not even a Madan Lal, Prabhakar, or Roger Binny.

 

He has no place in Test cricket and needs to be dispatched to the more colorful cricketing attire with some urgency. The guy struggles to play a proper forward defensive stroke and has been wicketless for four consecutive tests. 

 

His bowling is pedestrian. The guy struggles to pick up one wicket in a match at First Class level, and will struggle to do that in Tests as well, probably at an average topping 50. 

 

Incredible that India are playing a specialist batsman at number 7 and 8, a specialist batsman who averages 35 in First Class cricket. A specialist batsman should at least average 40. This cow-lasher has a First Class average of 35, and one century after lappebaazing the hapless Sri Lankans.

 

Okay, leeway can be made for borderline all rounders. Stokes averages 35, but picks up 2+ wickets per match. Shastri averaged 35, but picked up 2 wickets per match, and opened and scored hundreds against good attacks away from home. This lappebaaz plays at number 7/8 and will struggle to pick up even one wicket per match.

 

The guy is 25 and has no upside of becoming even a Prabhakar, Binny, or Madan Lal. Please spare Test cricket the presence of this cow lashing, lappebaaz, gun barrel straight, pie-chucker. 

 

 

EDIT: Adding stats to help with poal choices

 

 

Sobers: Batting average - 58; Bowling average - 34 (2.5 Wickets per test)

Kapil: Batting average - 31; Bowling average - 29 (3.5 Wickets per test)

Flintoff: Batting average - 32; Bowling average - 33 (2.75 Wickets per test)

Watson: Batting average - 35; Bowling average - 34 (1.25 Wickets per test)

Shastri: Batting average - 36; Bowling average - 41 (1.9 Wickets per test)

Prabhakar: Batting average - 33; Bowling average - 37 (2.4 Wickets per test)

Abdul Razzaq: Batting average - 29; Bowling average - 37 (2.2 Wickets per test)

Madan Lal: Batting average - 23; Bowling average - 40 (1.8 Wickets per test)

Abid Ali: Batting average - 20; Bowling average - 42 (1.6 Wickets per test)

Ronnie Irani: Batting average - 17; Bowling average - 37 (1 Wicket per test)

 

Edited by The Outsider
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5 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Hardik's test batting average of 35 is good for a test batting all rounder. However, his test bowling SR of 88 is something which needs lot of improvement. Imo he should be given few more tests to let him showcase that he is improving as a test bowler. 

 for that he has to given a lot more bowling

he has jst bowled 102 overs in 8 test that basically 12-13 over per test which isnt much 

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Showcasing improvements, Haha! This is the showcase. 

 

A guy who can’t play proper forward defensive strokes and bowls utter tripe with no swing or controlled seam movement at the age of 25 has zero upside. 

 

There are a couple of non-negotiable things in Test cricket:

 

1. Batting: You must have at the minimum a proper forward defense. Successful batsmen who were attacking and weren’t sure of their off stump always, like Sehwag, Gilchrist, Kapil, all had a solid forward defense.

 

2. Bowling: Some kind of movement. This guy is gun barrel straight. He doesn’t swing the ball, neither does he hit the deck hard, and neither does he have the height to produce unpredictable bounce.

 

There are no cricketing tools to build on here. If he works on his game, he can possibly emulate Syed Abid Ali. Don’t see him crossing Madan Lal, Binny, or Prabhakar.

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5 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

His SR factors all the overs he bowls. 

that will improve with time and more responsibility at this point his role is to rest others and he is doing that....lets not look at s/r right now 

 

10 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

That's because he leaks runs and is part timer at best?

If u wanna call him a part timer u have to lower ur expectation towards him as bowler 

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Something about Pandya is irking the posters here and I'm not sure it's his cricketing pedigree or lack thereof

 

If Pandya is as bad as you think then Test Cricket will expose him just like Binny, Raina and others before.Right now we have bigger problems like how technically correct batsmen with forward defence can't score half the runs as Pandya

 

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14 minutes ago, The Outsider said:

Showcasing improvements, Haha! This is the showcase. 

 

A guy who can’t play proper forward defensive strokes and bowls utter tripe with no swing or controlled seam movement at the age of 25 has zero upside. 

 

There are a couple of non-negotiable things in Test cricket:

 

1. Batting: You must have at the minimum a proper forward defense. Successful batsmen who were attacking and weren’t sure of their off stump always, like Sehwag, Gilchrist, Kapil, all had a solid forward defense.

 

2. Bowling: Some kind of movement. This guy is gun barrel straight. He doesn’t swing the ball, neither does he hit the deck hard, and neither does he have the height to produce unpredictable bounce.

 

There are no cricketing tools to build on here. If he works on his game, he can possibly emulate Syed Abid Ali. Don’t see him crossing Madan Lal, Binny, or Prabhakar.

Prabhakar was different. He opened the bowling as well as batting.

 

But yes, I do agree that showcasing can not go on and on.  That's why I said 20 tests, not 30 or 60 odd.

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