maniac Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 We all seem to worry about our bowling after Zaheer and middle order after the Big 3 retire especially in overseas conditions but questions we seem to ignore is who after Dhoni the keeper? Parthiv Patel is a decent to average backup in Odi's and maybe T20 but he should be not be anywhere near WK gloves in test matchs. we don't seem to have a test match calibre keeper coming up in the ranks who can be a more than a handy bat.... Wriddhiman Saha is not international level....Karthick has been on a decline and out of contention. Speaking about Indian FC The only time I follow unknown players is maybe theIPL and I havent seen much promise there either with the likes of Rayudu,Uthappa who are primarily batsmen being part-time keepers.... Does anyone know who the next exciting WK prospect is or are we going to go back to the days of MSK Prasad,Deep Das Gupta, the guy who scored 100 in WI(Mind blanked out and too lazy to look it up on cricinfo)? Link to comment
urbestfriend Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 There are few like CM gautham , Uday Kaul etc but PP, saha are decent as backup, and Dhoni will not be retiring for another 5-6 years..:two_thumbs_up: Link to comment
div Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I think Saha is better keeper than Dhoni:hmmm: Link to comment
Sid Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Uday Kaul,his 1st class record is impressive. Link to comment
WC2011INDIA Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 There are few like CM gautham ' date=' Uday Kaul etc but PP, saha are decent as backup, and Dhoni will not be retiring for another 5-6 years..:two_thumbs_up:[/quote'] I see Dhoni retiring sometime end of 2016 or early 2017. Link to comment
Trichromatic Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 ^ Yeah, Dhoni will play for at least 6-7 years. Some other keepers will emerge by that time. Link to comment
ganeshran Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Whats with the "who after" series on ICF? Lets start them for RD, Viru, VVS and Sachin too Link to comment
WC2011INDIA Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Whats with the "who after" series on ICF? Lets start them for RD, Viru, VVS and Sachin too Me thinks Rahane will be a good replacement for RD. Will be very hard to replace Viru and Sachin with an equally good player. Link to comment
maniac Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Whats with the "who after" series on ICF? Lets start them for RD, Viru, VVS and Sachin too Stole the idea from the 'Zaheer' thread:--D While Dhoni has a lot of cricket left in him....Did not see too many promising keepers from the only exposure I have had to Indian FC cricket in the form of IPL:giggle: I am glad people have identified some upcoming talent because look at Aus after Gilchrist...Haddin is decent but no where close to the impact that Gilchrist or even Ian Healy had SA have AB doing parttime duties as they don't have any one better to replace Boucher who is past his sell date but still has to be persisted with. Link to comment
maniac Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Me thinks Rahane will be a good replacement for RD. Will be very hard to replace Viru and Sachin with an equally good player. Viru again like Dhoni is a once in a lifetime player...we saw this when Rahane and Patel were opening in recent ODI's...we all were bored despite the fact that they did score at a decent rate at times...We are just used to see India getting to blazing starts Sachin--don't have to get into details here VVS---The guy has singlehandedly rescued us and ensured victory on so many occasions that it has become a habit for us to expect him to do something like that....In the current lot only Kohli looks to have that kind of a temparement but not sure how he will do in Tests RD---Pujara and Rahane seem to have the technique but not sure if they have the patience which sets RD apart Link to comment
Yoda-esque Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Who after Arjun Tendulkar? Link to comment
Cric_is_Life Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Dhoni was the precious gift Indian Cricket got as a WK-Batsman-Captain untill now. Hope someone else will come to replace him when he wants to call it quits. Link to comment
WC2011INDIA Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Who after Arjun Tendulkar? hopefully, uska beta Link to comment
ganeshran Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 We will get a decent wicketkeeper for sure. The captaincy position are bigger boots to fill. Both Kohli and Raina (who seem to be long term contentders) have not cemented a test place yet. If they are not able to, then it will be a dilemna for the selectors Link to comment
Trundler27 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 We had totally mediocre wk's for a long long time before dhoni..... iirc the long list of nonsense keepers included nayan mongia, vijay dahiya :facepalm:, sameer dighe , msk prasad :haha:, saba karim, kiran more, etc. So we should consider ourselves extremely blessed to hv such a genuinely world class wk-batsman for the foreseeable future. We should not start worrying about the wk slot just yet. Let's enjoy this era while we can. Link to comment
MCcricket Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Uday Kaul , N Ojha are two players I wanna keep an eye on. Link to comment
maniac Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Who after Arjun Tendulkar? As long as Anjali Bhahbhi is ok and God has no more injuries...many more Link to comment
Jersey #10 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 writhiman saha....oh yeah... Link to comment
Yoda-esque Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 As long as Anjali Bhahbhi is ok and God has no more injuries...many more :cantstop: Link to comment
sarcastic Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 dhoni will play 7 more years.. patel will be more experienced so he`ll be d best bet.....please dont write me off but i think patel>>>rohit nd pujara, these 2 r **** test batsmen I don't know what you have against Rohit/Pujara!!! Do you think Pappu patel stands a chance to compare himself purely as a batsman before talents such as Rohit/Pujara.... Link to comment
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