Sooda

14 hours ago, express bowling said:

My preferred squad for the Unofficial tests 

 

1.  Mayank

2.  Shaw

3.  Easwaran

4.  Gill

5.  Nair

6.  Vihari

7.  Shankar 

 

8.  Pant

 

9.   Rahul Chahar

10. Nadeem

11.  Gotham

 

12.  Avesh

13.  Rajpoot

14.  Aniket  C

15.  Mavi  ... let the kid get some experience at                        this level

 

Easwaran over Panchal? Is Navdeep fit?

Easwaran was bit unfairly picked ahead of him for the last few A team squad. Think Panchal played one or two A team matches Vs NZ A? Could be wrong.

I don't have the last one , must be MJ though part of me thought Bishen bedi 

1 hour ago, R!TTER said:

Bumrah,  Warne, Lee, Mcgrath, Mushtaq, Thompson, Anderson, Vettori, Akhtar, Akram, Kumble, Johnson.

Very good! 4, 7, 9 and 11 were incorrect

4 is Marshall as kooljatt said. 7 , 9 and 11  are Styen , Kallis  and Joel Garner

Come on then !!!!!

54 minutes ago, goose said:

It's perception. Players that have bowling as their stronger suit are rarely known as allrounders. It's irrational though.

I would not say that, there have been ATG all rounder whose primary skill has been bowling. Bhuvneshwar is not a good enough bat to be called an AR he's. A bowler who can bat

Some current (and obvious) ones, some oldies 

9 minutes ago, sarcastic said:

 

Even, Hanuma could have been persisted with!

He is! May even open

Lara has more special great innings than SRT but SRT was more consistent over longer period. I'd say it's a close one between the two. Could make a good case for Lara>SRT

2 minutes ago, Mumbai Lobby said:

Not sure why you need to compare Virat to India's worst test captain in Tendulkar. It's night and day the difference and honeslty an insult to Kohli

because of the OP question

I watched this clip recently of Steve Waugh talking about Indias 1999 tour of Aus, must have been the first test and Aus were struggling at  not much on the board for 4 at lunch, Waugh was new to the crease and Sachin got on Gangulys part time medium pace for a few overs. Waugh settled in, and went on to score a ton.

No, Virat is not that bad a captain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQBCt9H0gnA

7 minutes ago, Jamadagni said:

Yes, we won all the tests after the first one in England. 

Of course not but once you start off on such a bat note it's kinda all down hill

The point is this is where warm up matches come in handy. Not a shortened match against borderline novices, actual FC matches where the mindset is honed for an intense test series.

Those matches should be preceded by a camp focussing on skills like bowling the right length and judgment outside off stump. That's what Pak did right before their England tours. One innings of a 3 day match is not enough after a long run of short format matches.

Proviso being you need a min of 5 from each

Gavaskar

Hayden

Bradman

Tendulkar

Border (c)

Gilchrist

Kapil Dev

Warne

KUmble/Srinath depending on where

Zaheer Khan

McGrath

1 hour ago, Muloghonto said:

Anderson is not an ATG because there are about 50 pacers in the history of the game with far superior stats overall. Just that simple. 

 

Aside from Steyn, Akram, Marshall and Hadlee.... who are the other pacemen with "far superior stats overall"?

41 minutes ago, jalebi_bhai said:

Jadhav provides better balance. 

KJ is a "better" batsman, but Krunal more suited to no 6

I was one of them, at least calling for Dhawan to be left out of the T20 team. Glad he proved me wrong

9 minutes ago, Khota said:

Explain to me plainly how his batting was needed in the Aus series.

Yes, fortunately. One ball or bad shot away from it being needed. What if it was needed, like on his debut vs WI..? 

How about neither - Krunal Pandya

41 minutes ago, Khota said:

I struggle to because no one can do that. Not possible.

But then there is a classic definition: Batting Avg > Bowling Avg.

1 hour ago, jalebi_bhai said:

How would you define an all-rounder? 

I do not think an allrounder has to be good enough to make the XI on one skill - only ATG all rounders were able to do that. The Pandyas are good batsmen. They maybe not as good as some frontline specialist batsmen - but the fact that they can chip in with overs and potentially wickets means that they make up for it. 

37 minutes ago, Khota said:

One team did bad because someone was masquerading as a bowler who had no place on the team.

That was not his fault, that is the fault of the selectors and management who decided on the final XI and its (im)balance.

He is an AR not a bowler, not someone who should be picked to bowl a full quota of overs/ We needed a 6th bowling option. Sadly there arent any apart from Hardik...Shankar and Hooda spring to mind but are they good enough...? Dont know if Sundar is a good enough bat

We lacked a 6th bowler today; Krunal is not someone who should be bowling full quota of overs. Both Pandya bros should play ODIs and T20Is , that will give us the balance we need. Hardik instead of Pant or Kartik , and that would probably be my ODI XI too.

I know Krunal didnt turn up with the bat either but Playing 5 out and out bowlers weakens the batting significantly and its not like specialist bowlers- Khaleel -we exempt from being hammered.

I do not think an allrounder has to be good enough to make the XI on one skill - only ATG all rounders were able to do that. The Pandyas are good batsmen. They maybe not as good as some frontline specialist batsmen - but the fact that they can chip in with overs and potentially wickets means that they make up for it. 

So the person who tweeted this was saj_pakpassion ... was it him who sent the question? 

If so, he aint Indian anyway. And he got the exact response he was looking for

There is room for 3 openers, if it is a choice between Vijay and Mayank- I would agree with Vijay being picked given his experience in Oz and hopefully he is back in form on the back of his county stint. He should find the pace and bounce there less challenging the movement in England. Harsh on Mayank but hard to disagree

Team for three T20I match series against Windies announced

Rohit Sharma (C), Shikhar, KL Rahul, DK, Manish, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem

Good-

Krunal finally

Bad

Umesh, Manish, Not sure about shabaz in short formats ahead of say Gowtham or Gopal. Already have two slow left armers