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I would love to hear the analysis too. He was sooo good towards the end. Was bowling thunderbolts.

Bowling doesn't look ok too. Pacers Bumrah - Solid (shouldn't be overworked) Shami - Doubtful to start Siraj - Bhai tu rehne de Then newbie pacers Spinners Ashwin - No guarantee Jaddu - You know what to expect Washi - Good support bowler but would be madness to expect him to do the job of a main spinner Kuldeep - Huge potential but dunno if he would be played Axar - Won't get a chance On top of that, we have the LEGENDARY captaincy of Rohit Sharma who would make even bowlers going through a good spell look bad with his field placements lol. All in all, we have a cluster* on our hands. Lots of things to sort. Gambo and his team have a huge task on their hands.

Even taking that into account, you can see these batsmen have been garbage. A simple exercise to find out: Remove the contribution of Axar, Jaddu and Ash with the bat. Add tailender runs to their name. What would be the result? - Home series loss to Aus in 2023 - Drawn Bangladesh series 2023 - Messy home series vs Eng 2024 (Jurel and *Kuldeep* won us a practically lost game) - Even Aus 2020 series win was possible due to lower order resistance. Or else it would have been a thrashing. - Eng 2021 home series would have been messy too - Got thrashed in SA 2022 (tho our pacers also had a major role to play in that mess) - In 2023/24 SA series, we escaped with a 1-1 draw cos SA collapsed in the first innings just like India did. Or else it was an easy whitewash. Since 2019, These batsmen have been useless. - Kohli had a dream run in SA 2018, Eng 2018. - Pujara was in God mode in Aus 2018 and in Gritty mode in Aus 2020. - Pant was in God mode in Aus 2020 in the last 2 tests. Gill great support. Apart from Pant & Jaiswal (recent times) - our batsmen have been an utter and complete embarassment.

Hope things don't get to a stage where we start rooting for Aus to whitewash us 5-0 Down Under.