Kohli And Shastri Have This Special Vardhan Of Being Able To Get The Playing XI Wrong For Almost Every Game

[sensible-indian]

1. Ball is swinging like crazy and we have just 2 full time pacers & Pandya. The bowler whose strength is swing is dropped.

 

2. Pant was a must but we don't give him chances.

 

3. DK selection, I won't blame them in the current context but told ya...that guy will not deliver. You just have to wait and watch and he will eventually fail. Disappointment guaranteed.

Edited August 10, 2018 by sensible-indian

[velu]

1. agree

 

2. see how KL Rahul is doing 

[sensible-indian]

2 minutes ago, velu said:

1. agree

 

2. see how KL Rahul is doing 

True but KL makes sense on paper.

 

He has the game to play swing.

 

Plus he has scored in tough conditions in the Aus 2017 series against a high quality attack so he has pedigree.

 

It's not about the results but the thinking behind it, which is scrutinized.

[Moochad]

It will look even worse if either Shami or Ishant underperform with the ball. Ishant was poor in the 1st innings last match and Shami in the 2nd

 

There is no consistency with our pacers, yet we only played 2

[speedheat]

Dorks!

[SK_IH]

Pandya as 3rd seamer is right up there in terms of most inane moments of Virat Kohli's captaincy career

[coffee_rules]

They drop a seamer who would be great here, opt spin - so so

They lose a bowler and pick allrouder over a regular batsman.

Now Pandya will come to bowl after Ishant sprays around and bowl arrow -like straight deliveries with no swing and that too in cloud cover swinging conditions! 

[wanted_desi]

They are idiots. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

23 minutes ago, sensible-indian said:

1. Ball is swinging like crazy and we have just 2 full time pacers & Pandya. The bowler whose strength is swing is dropped.

 

2. Pant was a must but we don't give him chances.

 

3. DK selection, I won't blame them in the current context but told ya...that guy will not deliver. You just have to wait and watch and he will eventually fail. Disappointment guaranteed.

So many here wanted kuldeep 

High chances pant wud have met the same fate, u cnt drop someone after one game in case of DK.....,m not his supporter but 1 game is to harsh . I dnt want that we drop him after one game n bring him back after 2

give someone a fair (someone in Dk situation) run n then discard once for all if he doesnt

[Mosher]

11 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

 So many here wanted kuldeep

Wanted Kuldeep only if it was a dry pitch. 

[express bowling]

The rest of the team is ok.

 

But playing just 2 specialist fast bowlers in these conditions is a very very poor decision that would make people question the basic cricketing acumen of these guys.

Edited August 10, 2018 by express bowling

[sensible-indian]

19 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

So many here wanted kuldeep 

High chances pant wud have met the same fate, u cnt drop someone after one game in case of DK.....,m not his supporter but 1 game is to harsh . I dnt want that we drop him after one game n bring him back after 2

give someone a fair (someone in Dk situation) run n then discard once for all if he doesnt

Why do you assume Pandya is undroppable? Kuldeep comes in place of Pandya.

[Ankit_sharma03]

2 minutes ago, sensible-indian said:

Why do you assume Pandya is undroppable? Kuldeep comes in place of Pandya.

coz kuldeep cnt bat and we struggled to make runs in last game so why will anyone go for a lesser batsman

If i expected pandya to be dropped it wud have been for a batsman

Edited August 10, 2018 by Ankit_sharma03

[R!TTER]

Just now, sensible-indian said:

Why do you assume Pandya is undroppable? Kuldeep comes in place of Pandya.

Why do you assume logic has anything to do with Kohli or Pandya fanclub?

[speedheat]

Inability of this team management to asses the conditions and pitch and then selecting a team conducive to nature of the pitch n conditions is cringe!!

[asterix]

these people are sad because an idiot of a bowler like Yaddu dropped...

 

I tell you a Yaddu would’ve shat his Nagpuri crap all over Lords pitch...

 

What sort of expectations you guys have from a proven idiot bowler?

 

When was the last time that idiot has taken a fiver?

[Pollack]

Not really. Much better playing eleven selection than SA series.Dropping Dhawan for Pujara was the right move. Dropping Kuldeep for Umesh is a right move considering they failed to read the conditions properly before start of the match. It's very simple for us to say how can Kohli not select extra fast bowler here after watching Indian batting. For all we know Kuldeep can still be our trump card. 

Again I would emphasize, if we lose bowlers not batsmen are culprit. On this pitch no batsman can survive against Anderson, broad, woakes type bowlers. And Anderson is one of the finest swing bowlers. There is just no chance. Where we lose is our bowlers don't maintain the pressure on the opposition. They bowl well in patches allowing the opposition to get the edge in scoring.Ishant, Pandya, Shami,Umesh etc are no match to Anderson, broad and woakes, Curran in these conditions skillwise.

Edited August 10, 2018 by Pollack

[SK_IH]

Just now, asterix said:

these people are sad because an idiot of a bowler like Yaddu dropped...

I tell you a Yaddu would’ve shat his Nagpuri crap all over Lords pitch...

What sort of expectations you guys have from a proven idiot bowler?

However mediocre Yadav may be but he is still better than Hardik Sobers 

[asterix]

However mediocre Yadav may be but he is still better than Hardik Sobers 

That Nagpuri joker?

[express bowling]

23 minutes ago, sensible-indian said:

 Kuldeep comes in place of Pandya.

 

If we were really eager to play 2 spinners ...  keeping in mind our poor batting, it would have been better to play Jadeja in place of Pandya.