Year 2019 Review

[vvvslaxman]

Apart from the brief collapse in the semi final, it was a fabulous year for India.  Hatricks across formats.  Catching probably was the worst

 

ROHIT & KOHLI combo achievement this year is staggering

 

Edited December 22, 2019 by vvvslaxman

[SK_IH]

World Cup was the only thing that mattered this year tbh. So, for a dominating team like India missing an opportunity to win that will always remain the abiding memory of the team. However, 2019 was the year of Rohit the batsman and Shami the bowler. Rohit specifically is now a legend of the game. May he continue his form in 2020. 

Win in Aus was a sweet beginning to the year .Virat was prolific but once again disappointed and missed a golden opportunity to fortify his name as the undisputed greatest ODI player to have played the game. He has huge monkey to get off his back.

Edited December 22, 2019 by SK_IH

[vvvslaxman]

No.1 ranked in Tests

No.2 ranked in ODIs

No.5 ranked in T20s which i don't care for much

 

Around 10 players in top 10 Test ranking.

[zen]

5 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

World Cup was the only thing that mattered this year tbh. So, for a dominating team like India missing an opportunity to win that will always remain the abiding memory of the team. However, 2019 was the year of Rohit the batsman and Shami the bowler. Rohit specifically is now a legend of the game. May he continue his form in 2020. 

Win in Aus was a sweet beginning to the year but Virat was prolific but once again disappointed and missed a golden opportunity to fortify his name as the undisputed greatest ODI player to have played the game. He has huge monkey to get off his back.

I agree for most parts .... positives for me were the test series win in Aus .... and MI win in IPL 

 

As for performances: Pujara in Aus is easily one of the ATG  performances for India esp. in an overseas series win. Other memorable performances being Gavaskar in WI and Sehwag in Pak 

 

[putrevus]

2019 has been execellent year.Rohit  and Kohli have carried this unbalanced odi Indian team on broad their shoulders.It is their sheer greatness that is making this team competitive in odis.It would have been a miracle if India won world cup with this team after Dhawan's injury.

 

Today's match showed why this team will go as far they take them.It is not their fault this team does not have any talented batsmen in middle order.

[SK_IH]

6 minutes ago, zen said:

I agree for most parts .... positives for me were the test series win in Aus .... and MI win in IPL 

 

As for performances: Pujara in Aus is easily one of the ATG  performances for India esp. in an overseas series win. Other memorable performances being Gavaskar in WI and Sehwag in Pak 

 

Yup forget Pujara. That was an ATG effort by Che, easily one of the best from India as you said. 3 centuries overseas in a winning effort against top bowlers, Che did himself justice as well, a great test batsman deserved to get rid of that irritating HTB tag 

[Ankit_sharma03]

Positives this year beyond kohli n rohit 

 

• Saini 
• iyer
• mayank
• vihari
• Rahul return to form
• Shami return to Odi cricket and most importantly his fitness
• dhoni going on sabbatical 

[ShoonyaSifar]

In a WC year, not winning the Cup overshadows everything else. But that loss has been masterfully swept under the carpet as if the WC never happened. No scrutiny of the captain and coach was done.

 

Rest of the year was about bashing some average teams (Aus without Smith and Warner, SA in  a rebuilding phase, some useless wins vs WI and BD, two bottom ranked teams) and lots of stat padding. Team has hardly moved forward, no young player has come through. Youngsters who were shining stars in 2018 are struggling - KulVha, Pant, Vihari, Shaw. Gill continues to wait. Bumrah is under injury cloud

 

In fact the year ends with more questions than answers.

 

Real action was outside the field with Dada as BCCI head. Hoping to see some good changes in the way Indian cricket is being run.

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

In a WC year, not winning the Cup overshadows everything else. But that loss has been masterfully swept under the carpet as if the WC never happened. No scrutiny of the captain and coach was done.

 

Rest of the year was about bashing some average teams (Aus without Smith and Warner, SA in  a rebuilding phase, some useless wins vs WI and BD, two bottom ranked teams) and lots of stat padding. Team has hardly moved forward, no young player has come through. Youngsters who were shining stars in 2018 are struggling - KulVha, Pant, Vihari, Shaw. Gill continues to wait. Bumrah is under injury cloud

 

In fact the year ends with more questions than answers.

 

Real action was outside the field with Dada as BCCI head. Hoping to see some good changes in the way Indian cricket is being run.

Problem is bCCI selection also have issues. Carrying guys like Karthik, Jadhav, rookie Pant instead of proper batsmen like Agarwal, Gill. Promoting Rayudu for 2 years and dropping him at the last minute. Replacing him with a journey man like Shankar. India completely f***ed this up.  Worst thing we still carry that Jadhav in the side. 

[vvvslaxman]

BATTING THIS YEAR

 

In Tests

 

Agarwal, Rahane, Pujara, Kohli, Rohit, Vihari Jadeja all reasonably success stories with bat

 

In ODIs

 

Would you believe it Dhoni has the highest average for us in 2019   Averaging 60

 

Rohit, Rahul, Kohli, decent year.

 

Dhawan 18 innings 583 runs 36.43 avge 2 fifties 2 centuries. 

 

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

8 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Problem is bCCI selection also have issues. Carrying guys like Karthik, Jadhav, rookie Pant instead of proper batsmen like Agarwal, Gill. Promoting Rayudu for 2 years and dropping him at the last minute. Replacing him with a journey man like Shankar. India completely f***ed this up.  Worst thing we still carry that Jadhav in the side. 

Exactly what I meant by scrutiny of WC loss. Instead what we got to hear from captain and coach was how great this side was with Shastri even claiming to be in same league as WI of 80s and Aus of 2000s. With that level of arrogance, expecting any improvements is a pipe dream.

 

Dada as BCCI Head is the only real hope of restoring sanity and professionalism in our cricket team which has now become a cosy club of friends.

[velu]

49 minutes ago, zen said:

positives for me were the test series win in Aus ....

 

when did this happen  

[Prabhdeep Singh]

Most enjoyable aspect of this year was Rohit Sharma's test form.

 

Hopefully he goes one better and preforms in the NZ tests early next year so that he truly cements himself as truly great player across formats.

 

In last 3 years across formats he has scored 25 100's which is quite a performance (Also has not been a regular in test format so this is quite a feat). Only Kohli has more with 29 100's.

 

Out all of the Indian Batsmen currently definitely the most entertaining when in full flow.

[ShoonyaSifar]

"Apart from 30 minutes in the WC, this has been a great year for us" Kohli in the post match press conference.

 

Make that 60 minutes Virat, will ensure 2017 CT final loss also gets whitewashed 

[Ankit_sharma03]

9 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

"Apart from 30 minutes in the WC, this has been a great year for us" Kohli in the post match press conference.

 

Make that 60 minutes Virat, will ensure 2017 CT final loss also gets whitewashed 

thats what champions team do they prepare for worst situtation

We prep 3 batsman for worse situation who usually choke up in such situation. In such situation mostly middle order will hve to do the job which was taken without prep

[Suhaan]

Without WC ,i will term this  just above average year for Virushka led India

[Ajju]

Dhoni ODI avergae

Dhoni last over fireworks in IPL

 

only +ves

[Gollum]

Disappointing year though it started off well, SCG test and history created. We got smashed by Aussies at home in both white ball formats and then a successful NZ tour. WC SF was brutal, after that easy schedule for rest of the year. RSA demolition job was pleasing esp the 1st test, Saha's keeping , WI made us sweat...all in all in a few year's time we'll only remember the SF upset since both test wins in Aus happened in 2018. 

Edited December 23, 2019 by Gollum

[R!TTER]

Could've been a 100% win record in tests this year, missed out due to the Sydney rains!

[putrevus]

19 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Problem is bCCI selection also have issues. Carrying guys like Karthik, Jadhav, rookie Pant instead of proper batsmen like Agarwal, Gill. Promoting Rayudu for 2 years and dropping him at the last minute. Replacing him with a journey man like Shankar. India completely f***ed this up.  Worst thing we still carry that Jadhav in the side. 

How could they promote Gill when he came on scene late and he is not a middle order player.Jadhav deserved his place in the team.He did not do anything wrong .Jadhav still deserves to be in the team, do we have any no 6 who can role his arm and score at 100 SR and avg 42.

 

The only mistake they did was take Karthik instead of Iyer. Karthik should have never been part of the world cup squad.Dhawan got hurt too people tend to forget that fact.If Dhawan was there who know with his big match ability he would have made difference.With Dhawan went 1/3 of Indian batting.

 

How did England look when Jason Roy got hurt.

 

Edited December 23, 2019 by putrevus