What are our options without Pandya?

[flamy]

This is a precarious situation if we are without Pandya. Stress fractures are not minor injuries.

 

My first option is:

Replace Pandya with Pant. This means Jadhav has to bowl 10 overs. This gives hitting power, but little uncomfortable with entire 10 overs for Jadhav.

 

My second option is:

Shankar in place of Rayudu, and play Pant in place of Pandya.

 

Third:

Bumrah, Shami, Bhuvi, Chahal, Kuldeep - 5 bowlers, massive drop in batting power, and hope bowling makes up, and Bhuvi can bat a bit.

 

[Nikola]

Where is jadeja? he is better batsman in icc events than Rohit sharma.

[flamy]

Going by what happened in Aus:

 

Jadhav sits out, Pant/Karthik comes in. Jadeja comes in. Bumrah, Bhuvi, Shami, Kuldeep, Jadeja.

 

I think this is the most likely.

[zen]

Where is the news that Pandya is out of WC? 

[flamy]

2 minutes ago, zen said:

Where is the news that Pandya is out of WC? 

He was stretchered out last time, and now his injury has reappeared. This looks like a stress fracture which can be difficult to detect. Hypothetical, yes.

 

Discussing the contingency scenario when we are PUCKED like this.

 

Pandya is integral. 

[zen]

Just now, flamy said:

He was stretchered out last time, and now his injury has reappeared. This looks like a stress fracture which can be difficult to detect. Hypothetical, yes.

 

Discussing the contingency scenario when we are PUCKED like this.

 

Pandya is integral. 

Hypothetically, if he is out (from those said to be shortlisted by BCCI) 

 

pant

dhawan

kohli

rohit 

jadhav

dhoni 

kuldeep

bhuvi

shami

chahal

bumrah

 

If you want to add a batsman to strengthen batting on paper, Shankar in place of one of Bhuvi or Chahal per conditions 

 

 

[zen]

My preferred 15 (I tend to support youngsters who play fearless cricket relatively) 

 

Shaw

Dhawan / Rohit 

Kohli

Agarwal

Pant (wk) / DK  

Pandya 

Jadhav / Shankar 

Kuldeep

Shami

Chahal / Bhuvi

Bumrah 

 

Or a quick bowler in place of Shankar in the squad 

Edited February 23, 2019 by zen

[coffee_rules]

He is a fragile doll, gets imjured so often, for a young guy.

[sandeep]

4 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

He is a fragile doll, gets imjured so often, for a young guy.

Bowling at around 140k on a regular basis is always going to be fraught with injury risk.  And is, for bowlers all over the world.  

[vvvslaxman]

Jadhav is also injury prone. Shami is also injury prone. We have to factor those things in while selecting the squad.

[Clarke]

He's not an awesome all rounder that will be sorely missed. Jadhav/Shankar or someone else will fill those overs.

 

I understand the illusion of balance but our team hasn't felt that way mostly because of weak middle order & weaker death bowling besides Bumrah. Pandya can't fill those gaps by himself, those areas need to be addressed within themselves.

 

 

[zen]

24 minutes ago, Clarke said:

He's not an awesome all rounder that will be sorely missed. Jadhav/Shankar or someone else will fill those overs.

 

I understand the illusion of balance but our team hasn't felt that way mostly because of weak middle order & weaker death bowling besides Bumrah. Pandya can't fill those gaps by himself, those areas need to be addressed within themselves.

He is the best hitter in the side and one of the key players in the team. As the ODIs vs NZ showed, his hitting ability is at another level. Even without his bowling, he can be in the side. His bowling (and that too at 140+) is a bonus 

[Clarke]

6 minutes ago, zen said:

He is the best hitter in the side and one of the key players in the team. As the ODIs vs NZ showed, his hitting ability is at another level. Even without his bowling, he can be in the side. His bowling (and that too at 140+) is a bonus 

I don't doubt his presence in the side, just my opinion he's not Kohli/Bumrah type MVP. 

[zen]

3 minutes ago, Clarke said:

I don't doubt his presence in the side, just my opinion he's not Kohli/Bumrah type MVP. 

In his category, he is ....  hardly anyone has the ability to get off the blocks as quickly as he does .... it terms of batting, he is also a special talent who is good vs both pace and spin (see his recent batting vs Boult for e.g.) .... If he plays up the order, his avg will get higher too. He is more of a #5-6. And can be good opening the batting too if required 

 

 

[Khota]

Any proper batsman or a bowler will be an upgrade.

[Moochad]

Shankar or Jadhav 

[wanted_desi]

Pandya should be asked to sit out from IPL.

[philcric]

Replace Pandya with a 'proper batsman' and play with 4 bowlers?

 

Nice. 

 

I'm sure ICC will make an exception for India and let their bowlers bowl 12-13 overs each.

 

[philcric]

With our current resources,

 

4 Batters + 1 Wk-Bat + (Kedar+Hardik) + 4 Bowlers  is the only combination which looks fairly balanced.

 

Any other combination will look quite weak in either batting or bowling.

 

 

[nitinbwj]

Only batsman that can hit sixes at will especially against spinners. There isn’t a single player who can hit sixes freely with the departure of Yuvraj Singh. Every other team has 4-5 big hitters. We have NONE.