Shaw and Vihari should start practising

[zen]

Performance meter so far: 

 

Positives

 

Batsmen:

• Kohli: He is having a remarkable series. Turned it around 
• Pujara: Put in a lot of hard work, which is finally paying off. Has hit back to back 50+ scores. Can say he turned it around too  

AR:

• Pandya: won Ind a test with his game changing spell. Played a few gusty knocks with the bat and a run a ball 50

Bowlers:

• The key pace bowlers have done well. They could have done better but cannot complain 

 

 

Question Marks

 

• Rahul: Yet to get a 50+ score. However, he is relatively new so in the question marks category 
• Pant: New 
• Ashwin: Has performed here and there but not consistent enough 

 

 

Negatives

 

• Dhawan: played better than expected but may not merit a longer run 
• Rahane: though he has one good inning, hasn't looked good enough to merit a longer run 

 

 

Selectors' Blunders

 

• Sent Kuldeep back
• Did not pick Siraj 

 

 

As things stand at this moment, Shaw and Vihari should start practising .... 

 

Edited August 31, 2018 by zen

[nevada]

Kohli likes to play safe. If the series is still alive he won't take a chance on uncapped players.

[rkt.india]

we have lost a great chance of closing out this test but that Kohli shot.  he was rattled by Moeen of all.

[fineleg]

VK wont give a chance to Vihari and Shaw for Test-5.

I think they will only carry drinks.

[zen]

11 that is shaping up atm:

• Shaw
• Rahul
• Pujara
• Kohli
• Vihari 
• Pandya
• Pant
• 3 bowlers - mix determined by conditions and form 
• Bumrah 

[sarcastic]

48 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

we have lost a great chance of closing out this test but that Kohli shot.  he was rattled by Moeen of all.

Even now, we are in a touching distance of England score and the bowlers only have to repeat their first innings heroics and get a 4th innnings target of < 250. Then it is all up to the batsmen to make up the chase successful. 

[zen]

To the positives: the magical 100 by Pujara now

[ravishingravi]

They are practicing for IPL 

[zen]

Not a big fan of LAS bowlers in tests in SENA, but would be tempted to try out Jadeja in place of Ashwin (or even consider an all pace attack)

Edited September 1, 2018 by zen

[zen]

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Player	Mat	Runs	HS	Bat Av	100	Wkts	BBI	Bowl Av	5	Ct	St	Ave Diff
V Kohli	4	544	149	68.00	2	-	-	-	-	4	0	-
CA Pujara	3	241	132*	48.20	1	-	-	-	-	0	0	-
AM Rahane	4	220	81	27.50	0	-	-	-	-	3	0	-
S Dhawan	3	158	44	26.33	0	-	-	-	-	2	0	-
HH Pandya	4	164	52*	23.42	0	10	5/28	24.70	1	0	0	-1.27
R Ashwin	4	104	33*	20.80	0	11	4/62	32.72	0	1	0	-11.92
KL Rahul	4	113	36	14.12	0	-	-	-	-	11	0	-
RR Pant	2	43	24	10.75	0	-	-	-	-	10	0	-
M Vijay	2	26	20	6.50	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	-
I Sharma	4	33	14	5.50	0	15	5/51	24.13	1	0	0	-18.63
KD Karthik	2	21	20	5.25	0	-	-	-	-	5	0	-
JJ Bumrah	2	6	6	3.00	0	11	5/85	19.90	1	1	0	-16.90
Mohammed Shami	4	18	10*	3.00	0	14	4/57	31.42	0	1	0	-28.42
UT Yadav	1	1	1*	-	0	3	2/20	25.33	0	0	0	-
Kuldeep Yadav	1	0	0	0.00	0	0	-	-	0	0	0	-

[kohli]

Give chance to Shaw,vihari.jadeja And Nair in last match.drop rahul,dhwan,pandya and ashwin.

Open with Shaw and vihari

 

[kohli]

We don't need 5 over pandya bowling 

[zen]

It will be interesting to see Ind's game plan for the test at Oval. Will the team make wholesale changes or less than 2 changes? 

 

So far the definite starters include: Kohli, Pujara and Rahane (just managed to secure his place for the last test), Bumrah, Shami, and Ishant. I don't think they should drop youngsters Pandya (who is inconsistent and now likely to have a good game) and Pant. Dhawan is a team favorite. That leaves Rahul and Ashwin. 

 

[mani sha]

jadeja and ashwin together .

all success in india has been cos of jadeja relentless pressure and accuracy 

drop pandya

 

pujara and dhawan to open

kohli rahane and rahul 

pant

ash and jaddu

ishant bumrah and shami