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22 hours ago, saik said:

The Consolidators and Trundlers XI

Murali Vijay

Rahane

Pujara

Rayudu

Manish Pandey

Dhoni(c)

Binny

Jadeja

Ashwin

Dhawal Kulkarni

Unadkat

 

Imagine this team going to the WC

The destroyers XI :-P

Surya Kumar Yadav

Shreyas Iyer

Rishab Pant

Nitish Rana

Ricky Bhui

Ishan Kishan

Krunal Pandya

K Gowtham

Avesh Khan

N Saini

V Aaron

22 hours ago, saik said:

The Consolidators and Trundlers XI

Murali Vijay

Rahane

Pujara

Rayudu

Manish Pandey

Dhoni(c)

Binny

Jadeja

Ashwin

Dhawal Kulkarni

Unadkat

 

Imagine this team going to the WC

Harsh on Manish, his List A and ODI SR is 91

Would keep all 3 , DK should not have been dropped in the first place was coming into his own as a finisher. Could argue about jadeja spot but he's back up all rounder too, and Shankar has played himself in as batsman who can bowl a bit.

On 4/17/2019 at 6:15 AM, vvvslaxman said:

India left many good marginal choices out. Wish they have a practice match with a reject XI before going.

 

Agarwal

P Shaw

Shubman Gill

Shreyas Iyer (c)

Rishab Pant

Ishan Kishan

Ashwin

SHreyas Gopal

Saini

Prasidh

Khaleel

Strong team... Id probably get Krunal in for Ashwin. I know people here dont like Manish Pandey but he is one of the best List A batsmen and IMO was not given a long and fair enough run- although he didnt grab his chances too.

Agarwal

Gill

Vihari (instead of Shaw because he can bowl)

Manish (c)

Iyer

Rishab 

Krunal

Gopal

Rajpoot

Saini

Krishna

Should be in the next T20I squad

Rohit should be on the list, should be averaging high 40's in tests

1 hour ago, zen said:

This is not the squad likely to be chosen by selectors but the squad based on: 

 

• The form and potential of the players
• The flavor of cricket that India should display 

 

• Batsmen + WKs: Shaw, Agarwal, Kohli, Pandya, Pant and KL (can also serve as the reserve WK if required until a backup is drafted in)
• Pace Bowlers: Bumrah, Shami and Saini 
• Spinners (Mystery/Wrist): Kuldeep, Chahal and Gopal 
• Open Positions: 

1. Batsmen + WK: 2 from Rohit, Dhawan, Dhoni, DK, ....
2. Bowlers: 1 from Bhuvi, Krishna, .... 

 

Cant send two debutant openers to the WC man, not least because Rohit and Dhawan are world class.  

Rohit Sharma

Shikar Dhawan

KL Rahul

Virat Kohli

Vijay Shankar

Hardik Pandya

Rishab Pant

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Kuldeep Yadav

M Shami

J Bumrah

Dinesh Kartik, Ankit Rajpoot, Yuz Chahal, K Jadhav

5 hours ago, jusarrived said:

He’s not that good anyway . One of those players who bullies domestic bowlers but short of international standards 

5 hours ago, jusarrived said:

He’s not that good anyway . One of those players who bullies domestic bowlers but short of international standards 

How do you know, he has only played 6 ODIs. Should at least be givena run has earned it

Suryakumar Yadav should be playing T20is . Especially if he has a good IPL as he did last season. Nice to see Iyer up his SR too. 

Next T20I XV:

Rahul, Rohit, Suryakumar, Virat, Hardik, Rishabh, Krunal, Gopal, B Kumar, Kuldeep, Jasprit

Ankit, Iyer, Kishan, Gowtham

11 : Rohit, Shikar, Virat, MSD, Shankar, Kedar, Hardik, Kuldeep, Shami, Jasprit, Chahal

Bench : Bhuvneshwar, Jadeja, Rahul, DK

I wouldnt mind a 5 to 7 of... Shankar, Hardik, Dinesh... that gives it muscle in the closing stages of an innings. But not sure we can trust Shankar and Hardik with 10 ovs between them

17 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 Imagine guys like Subhman Gill, Shaw, Agarwal getting the similar chances in the last one year ahead of Rayudu. 

Cant because those guys are openers or top order bats, Rayudu was got in to solve the no 4 issue

Iyer, Pandey and Rahul should have all bee tried instead of AR in the middle order. Given a long run at 4 each

Rohit, Shikar, KL, Virat, Shankar, Hardik, Dinesh, Bhuvneshwar, Kuldeep, Chahal, Jasprit

28 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

 

Its so tough to become a cricket fan in this country. First of all they dont show any live cricket in freeview channels (used to do before) and now Sky lost all rights to Hotstar UK app of India matches. And the worst part is, Sky never formally announced anything. Sky signed 5 year IPL contract in 2017 but aparently they wont show it this year but no announcement.

 

Hotstar is charging 25£/month subscription. Those of us who already paying Sky, would need to pay additional fee to get digital hotstar. This is non-sense.

 

So Indian cricket fans in Britain, gear up...except world cup...no Indian cricket this year on Sky.

 

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REally?

Its increasingly become pointless to have Sky Sports. A lot of EPL football is on BT Sport as is rights to Ashes in Australia, and tennis is on Amazon prime 

Have said for months that India's  top 4 should be Rohit, Shikar, Rahul, Virat

2 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

Why did they even need to play Dhawan here? Should have opened with Pant and played Markande

Yep. We need 220+ with the paper thin bowling lineup we have today. What is the point of Krunal as low as 8 . terrible selection s

K Gowtham T20 bowling ave 28, econ 7.3 and batting sr of 168 with two T20 half centuries. 

Shreyas Gopal t20 bowling average : 18, econ: 7.5

Gopal is a more than useful bat. 

Markande T20 bowling ave 26, econ: 8

Given they're much better bats and probably just as good if not better bowlers (more experience too) I would have preferred Gowtham or Gopal in the team

8 hours ago, Rightarmfast said:

Has to be Waugh, Laxman and then Inzimam. 

 

I wonder how @Harsh Thakor is calling mark Waugh technically beautiful to watch. His batting was ugly but supremely effective. HIs captaincy, his part time bowling adds to his persona. 

Laxman scored against the best in test cricket. 

Inzy is a genuine Pakistan great, however not in the same league as Waugh or Laxman

Are you confusing Waugh brothers?

Laxman, Inzy, Waugh in tests

Waugh should have been much better with his ability.

On 2/10/2019 at 6:49 PM, zen said:

Squad of 15 based on some undroppable players and my preferred players 

 

Shaw / Agarwal (for relatively quick starts) 

Dhawan

Kohli

Rohit

Pandya

Jadhav

Dhoni / Pant

Kuldeep

Bhuvi / Chahal

Shami

Bumrah 

 

• The 14 above include additional batsman, batsman/WK, and a bowler (pace/spin) 
• 15th: Shankar (if he can bowl decently vs Aus when it visits Ind) or a back up quick bowler (can be some making his debut) 

That's interesting line up, but Rohit at 4 will not accumulate briskly enough and if he opens starts well and hangs around till the end it works well for us

Jadeja, Umesh, Kaul, Khaleel, are all battling for one spot. Do we need a 4th seamer or 3rd spinner/ 2nd all rounder

I'd like to think Krunal would go,  but unfortunately it's not happening

Sirajand Khaleel have been disappointing, Umesh is one with experience and did well last WC why not give him ODI series, why play T20 where he is even worse than ODIs? Kaul and Umesh should have swapped spots in the squads.

Rayudu is in the squad, so should not be in the poll

Kartik SHOULD be in the squad, done juussst about enough and it's too late to try Pant now, instead DK should have been given a long run to hone  his finishing skills until the WC

Of the rest, I'd choose Rahul because he can open, again it's form depending and he needs to be given all matches to find some... I don't think he should have played T20 let him play ODIs only and bat himself into form rather than have to go hammer at everything

Bump this in light of @Gollum thread... some interesting discussion and suggestions on here, from 7 years ago lol wow

Id open with Merchant for West and drop Vengsarkar, tricky one though. Hard to see past them winning it

Also, SS Karim should keep for RoI.

From my 2012 thread:

Central Zone: S Bangar, Vijay Manjrekar, M Kaif ©, P Amre, Raina, N Ojha (wk), Durani, P Kumar, N Hirwani, S Gupte, R P Singh

East Zone: Arun Lal, Pankaj Roy, SS Das, S Ganguly ©, A Malhotra, Dhoni (wk), Laxmi R Shukla, Utpal Chatterjee, Dilip Doshi, R Bose, D Mohanty

Can the South side be tweaked, open with Ramesh or Rahul instead of Kunderan . WOuldnt want Budhi facing a pace attack of Kapil and Ishant say

Get Kirmani to keep wicket drop Tiger and Kumble to captain. I dont like there being one paceman, but dont know how to fix it...interestingly Im pretty sure Buhdi Kunderan bowled a bit too in his time... :)

Murali Vijay

Ramesh

Dravid

GR Vishwanath

Azharuddin

Laxman

Kirmani 

Ashwin 

Kumble

Srinath

Chandra

@Gollum Great thread, btw I did something similar 7 (SEVEN!!!) Years ago

right here