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All of a sudden after one failure Parthiv Patel becomes the option for many just because he scored some runs the last time he was picked against England at home. Parthiv if played can be only played as an opener which already Rahul is already ahead of in the wait list. Saha is doing fine, its not that other keepers score tons of runs after coming at number 7-8. Saha has dug India out of trouble a few times already and at home in India, he doesn’t really get as much opportunity with Ashwin batting ahead of him.

 

I will stick with him all this series and may be till England first test at least and we can asses him then, but to talk about dropping and replacing a keeper now is ridiculous. 

 

We need to back the guy. 

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9 hours ago, CG said:
9 hours ago, Vijy said:
Dhoni fanbois will consider him a better keeper than bob taylor or ian healey and a better batsman than gilly, sanga or flower in tests. the hard reality is that, apart from eng, Dhoni has done virtually nothing outside SC, not even in WI.

Saha failed in 1 innings .Atleast Give him some time.He AVG 45 last year and is world's best keeper.

it's not about 1 innings,it's apparent team management has no trust in his batting abilities ,he is being played as a tailender ,his 45 avg doesn't look like convincing to captain at least,ideally a wk should be batting at no.6 with our combination,pappu patel is that pathetic a keeper that one shudders to take gloves away from Saha,great dichotomy for the team

Also as someone said yesterday there ll be less chances of paddle sweep this series :giggle:

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25 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

All of a sudden after one failure Parthiv Patel becomes the option for many just because he scored some runs the last time he was picked against England at home. Parthiv if played can be only played as an opener which already Rahul is already ahead of in the wait list. Saha is doing fine, its not that other keepers score tons of runs after coming at number 7-8. Saha has dug India out of trouble a few times already and at home in India, he doesn’t really get as much opportunity with Ashwin batting ahead of him.

 

I will stick with him all this series and may be till England first test at least and we can asses him then, but to talk about dropping and replacing a keeper now is ridiculous. 

 

We need to back the guy. 

yes, one duck and now everyone's baying for his blood. perhaps the same "courtesy" should be extended to the great kaptaan.

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it's not about 1 innings,it's apparent team management has no trust in his batting abilities ,he is being played as a tailender ,his 45 avg doesn't look like convincing to captain at least,ideally a wk should be batting at no.6 with our combination,pappu patel is that pathetic a keeper that one shudders to take gloves away from Saha,great dichotomy for the team
Also as someone said yesterday there ll be less chances of paddle sweep this series :giggle:
Saha won us a test on green wicket in Kolkata against NZ when top order failed with 50 in both innings.Was Mom.
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3 minutes ago, CG said:
5 minutes ago, SK_IH said:
it's not about 1 innings,it's apparent team management has no trust in his batting abilities ,he is being played as a tailender ,his 45 avg doesn't look like convincing to captain at least,ideally a wk should be batting at no.6 with our combination,pappu patel is that pathetic a keeper that one shudders to take gloves away from Saha,great dichotomy for the team
Also as someone said yesterday there ll be less chances of paddle sweep this series :giggle:

Saha won us a test on green wicket in Kolkata against NZ when top order failed with 50 in both innings.Was Mom.

so the question arises why is he playing at no.8,I mean why ,can you give any legit reason?

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2 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

so the question arises why is he playing at no.8,I mean why ,can you give any legit reason?

because the team management are morons who fail to know what players should be selected, and what positions/roles they should assume.

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4 minutes ago, CG said:
6 minutes ago, SK_IH said:
it's not about 1 innings,it's apparent team management has no trust in his batting abilities ,he is being played as a tailender ,his 45 avg doesn't look like convincing to captain at least,ideally a wk should be batting at no.6 with our combination,pappu patel is that pathetic a keeper that one shudders to take gloves away from Saha,great dichotomy for the team
Also as someone said yesterday there ll be less chances of paddle sweep this series :giggle:

Saha won us a test on green wicket in Kolkata against NZ when top order failed with 50 in both innings.Was Mom.

Wait what ?  

 

1st innings 

Pujara - 87

Rahane - 77

 

2nd innings

Kohli - 45

Rohit sharma - 82 

 

Bhuvi ash jaddu - 3 each second innings.. We won by 178 runs..So how exactly did he win us ? He played good supporting role.. That's it. He hasn't a clue how to play steyn. He got out in similar fashion back in 2010 vs steyn in India. 

 

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Wait what ?  
 
1st innings 
Pujara - 87
Rahane - 77
 
2nd innings
Kohli - 45
Rohit sharma - 82 
 
Bhuvi ash jaddu - 3 each second innings.. We won by 178 runs..So how exactly did he win us ? He played good supporting role.. That's it. He hasn't a clue how to play steyn. He got out in similar fashion back in 2010 vs steyn in India. 
 
Go and watch highlighted India were 100-6 when Saha came he and Rohit Build a partnership Saha was mom as he got 50 in both. Ininngs.Even Against Wi He and ashwin Saved us.Just Use common Sense Many have problem Against Steyn.Its just One innings.
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13 minutes ago, CG said:
19 minutes ago, Rasgulla said:
Wait what ?  
 
1st innings 
Pujara - 87
Rahane - 77
 
2nd innings
Kohli - 45
Rohit sharma - 82 
 
Bhuvi ash jaddu - 3 each second innings.. We won by 178 runs..So how exactly did he win us ? He played good supporting role.. That's it. He hasn't a clue how to play steyn. He got out in similar fashion back in 2010 vs steyn in India. 
 

Go and watch highlighted India were 100-6 when Saha came he and Rohit Build a partnership Saha was mom as he got 50 in both. Ininngs.Even Against Wi He and ashwin Saved us.Just Use common Sense Many have problem Against Steyn.Its just One innings.

 

30 minutes ago, CG said:

Saha won us a test on green wicket in Kolkata against NZ when top order failed with 50 in both innings.Was Mom.

So why are you giving solo credits to him? When Rohit and Pujara scored more than him in both inning.. you didn't even mention Rohit till I posted here and I believe Pujara comes under top Order..Congrats did well against WI with Ashwin. Give him ballon d'or and once again read that last line... HE GOT OUT IN SIMILAR FASHION BACK IN 2010 IN NAGPUR VS STEYN.. So it's not just 1 innings like you mentioned. The fact that he bats below Ashwin and pandya says how much faith management has in him. Only reason he is the squad is because of his keeping. He is Indian version of aussie Wade. 

 

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The reason why Saha gets so much hate is because of his demeanor. Looks timid and a pacca introvert, sharif nadaan baccha who likes to stay away from the limelight, such people are easy target to cover any failure. May be he should grow a moustache, start twirling it every now and then, do MC BC loud enough to be heard by stump mic and kabaddi slap his thighs after every catch/stumping. May be people will lay off him then.

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India has taken 12 wickets so far in this test .....  6 of them have been caught Saha

 

He has not scored .... but in an innings where our second highest score is 26

 

And his head is being sought because of his batting  !

 

Shows how little some people value the necessity of a really good keeper in test matches .....  T20 influence I guess

 

And it is not as if the keeper he replaced was a great batter in tests outside Asia. (  Dhoni averages just 29.8 in tests outside Asia )

 

The question of lesser batting ability of Saha arises only in tests in Asia ( where Dhoni averages 47.2 ) ....  but we are winning everything in Asia and I would rather have a good keeper.

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23 hours ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Cant believe from MS Dhoni's class we have gone to this :facepalm:

 

In modern day cricket, mere keeping skills is not enough...his batting skills are as much important. Why not try Parthiv or DK in tests?

You make it sound like Dhoni was some great test batsman. Shaha has already helped us win more games than Dhoni in his entire career.

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