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Love Sundar. Fantastic all rounder. However, I don't love that at times his inclusion results in better spinners than him (Kuldeep) being kept out in games when we need better spinners.

@sandeep, do you know anything about this ?

My dad disagrees.

Early 2000s era batsmen were being told the same thing by the previous generation - "you guys have it lucky. Back in the 1980s we had to play Marshall, Hadlee, Imran, Lillee, etc"

Entitled brat. Lucky to be born into a very rich industrialist family. Clearly looks down on labor class.

In his mind Gambhir probably felt like a Lagaan character fighting against a British colonizer

Guy sounded like this even as a kid. Ask his classmates from Modern School, Delhi. 8th standard Geography exam. This guy would get a 70%, and dedicate his performance to the grit and determination of soldiers who died at the border.

We will be lucky to see another player get past 10k runs once Williamson gets there

Send an under 19 team to the Asia Cup. They would be competitive. And it would be fck you to all of our wonderful Asian neighbors on all directions.

I wouldn't be surprised if Kamboj was hiding a fitness issue...

Why play tests at all? If we don't play, we don't lose.

Total failure by team management this series.

There are much better bowlers. But Gambhir doesn't want more than 2 bowlers who are weak batsmen. Those 2 spots are taken up by Bumrah and Siraj. All other bowlers must be able to bat a bit to make it to Gambhir's XI.

LOL Ashwin saying things Shoaib Akhtar would say

Not sure about Prasad. People have fond memories of him because of the 96 WC QF, but overall, he was very mediocre in an era where Indian fast bowlers (except Srinath) were below mediocre. Still, we could certainly use Prasad in 2025.

We are back to 1990s style bowlers with him

Easily Vijay. Very rock solid opener. Rahul is anything but solid. Rahul may be most unreliable and unpredictable batter to very play for India.

. ..and corruption. Too many people from top to bottom on the Indian side wanted bribes. F1 wasn't having any of it. Packed up and left.

Nearly had a heart attack. Thought for a second we were recalling RP to the current England tour.

Dude is 81 years old. Maybe it's time to step down and let someone else handle the business

Don't expect out of the box thinking from Bill Gambhir combo. For that, either coach or captain has to be shrewd.

I agree that Gill is not naturally aggressive. But it's crazy Link the defeat to Gill's aggression backfiring.

...and some people declare when batting on 367 not out

Opposing teams should only be allowed 6 players in their team when they play India. But India should be in allowed players. Otherwise BCCI should refuse to play. BCCI has the power.

Intelligence is low, but in general, cricketers aren't intelligent across the globe. The few that are intelligent are the exception. Coaching staff? Yes, Gambhir is unusually low IQ for a coach. Reminds me of the Kapil Dev, Madan Lal days of coaching.