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Aus will start as the fav in BorGav Trophy


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With its pace attack expected to be back, relatively good fielding standards and home conditions, Aus will start as favorites in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 

 

If we appraise team Ind, its case to win is more based on hope than merits considering the following candidates for a place in the squad (16-18 members): 

 

Candidates:

 

Batting: Shaw, Rahul, Pujara, Kohli, Rahane, Vihari and Agarwal 

WKs: Pant and Saha (if fit)

Pace Bowlers: Bumrah, Shami, Ishant, Yadav, Siraj, and Pandya (AR)

Medium Pacers: Bhuvi 

Spinners: Ashwin, Jadeja and Kuldeep 

 

Green = Top, Blue = Above Avg, Orange = Wild Card / Game Changer, Purple = Question Mark 

 

  • In their respective domains, only Kohli (batting), Bumrah (Bowling) and Saha (WK) inspire confidence of consistency 
  • In batting, Rahul and Rahane are type of players who are expected to do well in such conditions but have a tendency to "throw" it away at crucial junctures. May end up with a couple of 50s in the series .... Pujara would need to translate his rhythm in to good to big scores .... Shaw, Vihari and Pant are new
  • Pant as WK: Since he would be keeping to pace bowlers most of the time, his glove work would be relatively safe. But still has a question mark   
  • In pace bowling, Ishant struggles to pick up wkts on consistent basis. Yadav is hot or cold. Shami loses steam. While Siraj is new. Pandya is an AR 
  • Medium pacers: no comments 
  • Spinners: Apart from Sydney, their work would be cut out at other venues 

 

In fielding, Aus may take a few blinders, while we may drop some straightforward chances .... No need to say that we would have to play excellent cricket to draw or win the series 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, UnknownGenius said:

Aussie batting is weak

 

Finch 

Khawaja

Marsh

Head

Marsh

Lasbugenre

Paine

 

That's a very non intimidating top 7

Considering their bowling and fielding adv, how many would they need to score to be competitive? 

 

 

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If Ind is going to lose, I want the following 11 as it will weed out some of the players (and ideas) and help us to focus on more optimal players (and concepts) once the World Test Championship starts after ODI WC19 

 

  • Rahul -> talent + consistency? 
  • Shaw (new)
  • Pujara
  • Kohli
  • Rahane -> done and dusted or still viable?
  • Vihari (new)
  • Pant (new)
  • Jadeja / Ashwin - how useful as a spinner in SENA?
  • Bhuvi -> useful in swinging conditions. If not successful, it could potentially put a full stop on his test career which ironically started in Aus. And we finally start to move away from trundlers (hopefully)
  • Ishant / Shami -> consistency / fitness 
  • Bumrah

 

By playing the extra batsmen (w/o optimizing the batting, it would not help), we could also potentially tire the bowlers out (if they don't clean up Aus relatively quickly) .... Double whammy! 

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2 hours ago, Jimmy Cliff said:

They would've been overwhelming favourites with Smith and Warner in the side but not right now. Fully expect us to win this time as long as our first choice players are available :aha:.

There it was sam curran here it could be mitch Marsh (ressurection time for him)

As we will continue with passengers like umesh,ashwin,dhawan,thakur

Lambuschane will have a dream series a against this foolish(with nonsense selections of course) team

 

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1 hour ago, Suhaan said:

There it was sam curran here it could be mitch Marsh (ressurection time for him)

As we will continue with passengers like umesh,ashwin,dhawan,thakur

Lambuschane will have a dream series a against this foolish(with nonsense selections of course) team

 

Dhawan drop ho gaya na bhai. Thakur is generally picked in the tourist quota. Bumrah/Ishant/Shami/Bhuvi are all ahead of Umesh in the pecking order. Don't know much about Lambu Aata. We will winz as long as our best players are fit :aha:.

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29 minutes ago, zen said:

Pak is strengthening Aus, while WI is taking the wind out of the sails of some of our players :lol:

 

I guess Shaw-Agarwal opening combination is shaping up for Aus 

 

 

No way indian managment will have opening pair of shaw agarwal ,

 

May be rahul /shaw but doubt mayank gonna get seven a single game before tour.Let alone aus tour

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