Switchblade Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Quote https://www.crictracker.com/sunil-gavaskar-recommends-need-hour-indian-team/ India, led by Virat Kohli, recently ended their campaign on English soil where they lost the five-match Test series 1-4. Barring the match at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, the other four contests were a witness to both teams fighting tooth and nail in order to overpower each other. In the end, Joe Root and Co turned out a tad more venomous and deservingly had the last laugh. India’s bowling wasn’t a concern, but the batting strained to get the measure of the conditions and the English bowlers. Subsequently, the visiting team was unable to keep the Three Lions on the mat. In the meantime, Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian cricketer reckons that India need to get back to the drawing board in a bid to minimise the chinks in their armour. “I think massive changes are not required because that upsets the rhythm of the whole team. But you need to find the areas where you think were weak and need to be corrected. That is the need of the hour. We have to be brutally honest and see that this is the area we didn’t quite measure up. That’s the area they need to look at very, very hard,” Gavaskar was quoted as saying in India Today. India are scheduled to tour Australia at the end of November. The home team won’t have the services of their stalwarts in David Warner and Steve Smith. Hence, Gavaskar reckons that the Australian batters aren’t likely to pose the same threat to the Indian bowlers. Meanwhile, the 69-year-old also sounded curious to find out how the Indian batters tackle the lethal Australian pace attack. “For Australia tour, the biggest hope is that without Steve Smith and David Warner India will have a pretty inexperienced batting line up to contend with and we might as well win. But as we have seen in South Africa and England, bowlers will do their job but batsmen will have to get the runs. Whether the Indian batsmen will get the runs, even if it’s 180 or 150 to win, against Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood that we’ll have to wait and see,” he added. UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
coffee_rules Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) The need of the hour ... no big changes, same team! Is that what he is saying? Edited September 14, 2018 by coffee_rules Clarke and raki05 2 Link to comment
Switchblade Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 5 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: The need of the hour ... no big changes, same team! Is that what he is saying? Yes might want Rahane in the squad who knows might ask the Aussies to give him double batting bowl underarm to him. UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
The Realist Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Cheerleader only heard UrmiSinhaRay, Deleted_User_1 and nevada 1 2 Link to comment
Tibarn Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 I don't mind limited changes for the Australia series as batting in England isn't a good measure for batting in Australia. However, not blooding some potential replacements vs Windies would be foolish. At minimum try a new opener or two. UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
raki05 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 On 9/14/2018 at 8:24 PM, Switchblade said: Yes might want Rahane in the squad who knows might ask the Aussies to give him double batting bowl underarm to him. More than rahane he might want moochad in the team, he is big supporter of Duryodhan. UrmiSinhaRay 1 Link to comment
Switchblade Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 33 minutes ago, raki05 said: More than rahane he might want moochad in the team, he is big supporter of Duryodhan. He contradicts himself as far as Dhawan goes in fact in general what he says initially after two days does a complete U turn. UrmiSinhaRay, raki05 and zen 1 1 1 Link to comment
Khota Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 (edited) Gavaskar needs to follow his hero Imran in politics. I have yet to hear anything constructive abt cricket so far. Edited September 16, 2018 by Khota Switchblade 1 Link to comment
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