King Tendulkar

Agree with OP and thinking same We bemoan why we cant clean up opps tail. But thats cos dont have a tail. They have number 8s batting all way to number 10 i.e cummins, starc, rashid, curran, woakes etc etc So we get frustrated. While we have 4 number 11s. So fold quick. Sad but maybe cant just pick best bowlers but need to think about handiness with bat. BK should have played ahead of Umesh on batting front. Shows also how invalubale Hardik is and why needed, play him instead of Umesh this game would do similar job with ball but his batting could be massive Those close games away we had in last year, 30 to 40 more runs from 7 to 10 could have made all the difference. Hopefully new gen bowlers will be more handy with bat.

The guy has test hundreds in aus and eng. Hence I am not willing to say dump him forever End of day cricket history is littered with flops who get dropped. But then go away, work hard and come back to be frankly ATG. Too many to mention. Unfortunatlry indian fans are dropped means rubbish and never play for India again as crap but experonce playing for india must never be forgotten as often means can come back and do well Ps scored runs last test in 2nd innings dont rule out runs for him this 2nd innings as well

Raul is a fantsatic player but sdaly out of form. May need a break ffrom indian team and a spell in domestics But when back in form I would not hesitate to get him back in Rate him

Hmmn odd this As all I been reading on ICF is that he is a hack. In cos of mumbai lobby. In cos Kohli is an idiot and has no idea. In cos Kohli fav. In cos Kohli thick and worst captain ever. In cos Shastri is drunk and Rahane provides him with whisky. Hmmmm. Strange how batting well. How is this possible. As ICF wanted his head and dropped and slaughtered KOHLI for it. Anyone ready to back track and say THEY got it wrong and Kohli right? Thought not. Geeks!

You disgraceful hypocrites Let me get this right . You chumps having a pop at someone for being constantly negative to indian players and putting indian players down! Jeez If you ask me Manju is prototype fopr most posters in ICF. Smalll, malnorished, weak, geeky, boring side parting hairstyle, probale virgin ( well virgin in respect to women). Constantly moaning and complaining about every move india team does. Since we landed in oz ICF in full hate for the team. Kohli cant even breath as someone will say does it idiotic way! We bloody good team and done great like last 2 years. Yet ICF acts like we getting drubbed 0-8 with most losses by an innings! FFS the skipper of team ranked number 1 for over 2 years, 2 in a row winner of the test mace has a thread started saying is worst skipper in cricket history and rest of ICF wades in like sharks smelling blood to join in. Shame on you, you IT nerds

Gill 129 of 140 currently Will be playing for India in next 12 months, batting nice. With Vijay on last legs and KL out of form. Next home tests Gill and shaw may open Although always saw Gill as more a number 4 bat in test but in FC opneing

Yes rahane weak v spin. But not much happening for lyon

Jeez the complaining on this site Anyways Come on boys. Rahane and Kohli ton. Both. Game on Blunting their track Lots of work to do but no turn and Lyon looking not too threatning. We can do it. Seanmers must tire

Loads of great game and tests in India. Get decent game on balanced track abroad and we all go ga ga sigh

Look you hate indian cricket and slam everything and anything about indian team for years. Its actually boring

For the record I would have picked exact same team with squad availbale for this test. My gripe is Mayank aggarwal should have been in squad and would have opened with him instead of Vijay Other then that no gripes from me

You are picking team with hindsight. Nice Never said they get all things right, but who does? But they get most right defo. You never want to talk about these things Picking Bumrah from no where for SA tests with barely any FC experince in recent months Sticking with Rahane for last test when whole of ICF wanted him jailed. What happened to that commn sesne mistake? O wait you were wong Kohli was right Picking bowlers with wheels, maiking them bend their backs and bowl with energy meaning we have maybe best pace attack in the world and no doubts best in India history Making team play to win, positive cricket, play to win. Making team have never say die attitude, play till the end, fight till the end. Frankly never seen anything like this before for Indian test team Sticking with Pujara despite really really poor spelll, came good in eng eventually and carrying on so far As for above some call were made with some logic. Dhwan sensational in white ball cricket and in eng, so thought would pay off in tests - this turned out wrong but can see logic even though I would not have picked him Yes playing Raina in tests is poor, bad call Pujara was sucking can see why dropped. He made runs in Eng, this saved his career but lets not pretend till this eng knock he was blazing it, in fact was frigging awaful for long period and had his own lynch mob here on icf who had enough of him. Fair play managt got him back in despite sucking. Maybe dropping him gave him time to ponder and come back well? 2 spinners in overseas test is wrong, they made mistake there

What so in this so called extract you agree with all writer has said. None of those calls at the time you agreed with? Or isICF aka the mob just being slimey clever with hinsdight? In my experince 5ft 2 accountants are sneeky like this and cant be trusted, always trying to get people out of paying their taxes

Give a **** about your extract. A lot of these decsion above I agree with Kohli, just hindsight is wondefful thing. Shame this extract does not talk about amazing job done makiig us have the great bowling attack we have now, nor how we play positive cricket and seek wins with force and agression (does not always work but...) I mean above it mentions dropped ranhane few times as bad call. yet ICF wants Rahanes blood last year or so, so forgive me for being confused! Jeez What firgging skipper picks perfect team all the time. Plus impossible anyway, as everyone has different opion.

Pandya bowled well today. Poper wheels Impresssed, shows value he has , as adds amazing balance. eg Could have played instead of Umesh and not quite as good bowler but adds amazing batting depth as could have batted 6 and Pant comes in 7.