prudent_kreeda

And for WC in India - 3 best bowlers -Bhumra, Varun & Kuldeep. Jaiswal should be included among batters .

Kitna lamba hai us se kaam nahi chalega . I will take Siraj in place of the tallest indian player on any day . Even little of bit help, his skillsets with the ball going to triumph.

I tend to agree. He seems like a WIP ODI player . Plays too many dot balls and then plays the big shot. No fluency and knack of taking singles missing as of now. Hope a permanent place in India T20 X1 and captaincy being given to him in some matches makes him confident . Just needs to rotate strike and take lot more 1s and 2s . Even yesterday do not think he got much runs with tailenders. Was taking single pretty early in the over and getting to non-striker end. All those asking for him in ODI will start abusing if he plays the way he is playing in ODI currently. That is the one shortcoming need to be corrected.

Current weak links - 1. SKY's Form -So need a back up plan in his place. But should be in X1 if gets back to form. 2. Samson - Again not very good show esp against express pace and vs quality spin. (why not Jaiswal in his place ?. Much solid than Samson). 3. Gill - His job is to see we do not end up 3 wickets down in PP as happened in Asia cup final . It was stupid when he got out as 3rd player within PP in a final. jaiswal need to come either in place of Gill or Samson. 4. Dubey - Not convinced - selected on spin bashing ability. Sadly NK reddy's form dipped . I feel if in good form,reddy can bash spinners as well as Dubey plus a much better bat vs pace and if Hardik is playing then will go for Riyan Parag. 5. No 2nd death bowler -We are using spinners towards death. This may backfire if bowling 2nd with heavy due in FEB /March , else looks OK with Kuldeep(17th over) , Bhumrah (18th Over & 20th ) & Varun ( 19th) . If we go for Arshdeep,we have to shorten batting to 7th . That is the dilemma . If we find answers to these weak spots in next 10-12 matches , we will have a very good team.

The kid from Bihar Kishan Singh looks a good prospect . Leftie - bowls over the wicket , round the wicket well , moves it away from over the wicket , brings back to righties from round the wicket , think he is the pacier among the 3 playing today , gets bounce, has a bouncer but not control on it. Looks strong in build. Should be given good exposure and coaching . Skill set looks good.

Problem with current T20 selection is that there are many batters who are with one dimensional skill i.e. just batting . Gill, Jaiswal, SKY, Tilak, Rinku, Iyer - You cannot have a balanced team of 11 with so many pure batters hence few of these have to be benched at any point. It is upon players like Jaiswal to try Wkeeping or Iyer to develop spin bowling. This will brighten their chances easily. Would have been happy if Jaiswal was given a chance than Gill. He was the front runner since 2024, was part of WC 24 team pool. Iyer has shown better game in 2025 but before that he did not have the kind of SR likes of Tilak, Rinku Jaiswal have done in international matches.. So no need to go over board on his non selection. It seems Iyer most probably will play Tests vs in WI in India . So he will play at least 2 formats. Anyway we have another 15 matches before WT20 , he will get the chances - If any of Rinku , SKY who are not firing , Iyer has the opportunity to cement his place. Some selections look not so great individually like Dubey , Harshit but when you look at overall team composition this looks logical. Dubey is the back up to Hardik as medium pace all rounder in case hardik gets injured. Rana - They want a bowler who can hit a few blows at # 8 . Hence got the nod ahead of Prasidh who should have been the first choice as pace bowler.

This is going bit overboard . Fact is India do not have the bowling right now to win everywhere esp. pace bowling is really weak with no one of potential high class emerging. Time to be bit sober .

Why not ? Why a 40 year old need to be first choice when he is literally out of cricket now ? Another not much interested in cricket , will try to have his own way be it nets , travel , matches etc. Both just want to hang on and use their brand name to further their interests . More harmful towards team bonding. Both make fun of and blurt out gaalis at junior players in the field itself , imagine what they would be doing to them off field. Even if they have to be considered in 20 probables list , let them play all domestic matches esp. Ranji and excel & be top 4 batters. Not convinced about coaching of GG in tests but having the guts to keep out these aging leeches is his big favour to indian cricket. They had their time , Did well for india - no doubt on that , now time has come to move on.

Do not remember any match which has gone into 5th day and india won just by such a small margin with 300+ runs to chase.

Most perplexing thing for me was Ashwin singing praises of Kambhoj and Akashdeep during this series. I always thought his words carried weight and can be relied upon. He was of the opinion post a 10fer of Akash that he will be deadly if there was some help in the pitch & he , bhumra & Siraj would be deadly in 3rd test . but after seeing him in last 2 tests i am thoroughly disappointed . Kambhoj -again he said everyone at CSK had very high opinion about his ability . AM confused what to make out - Can Ash be such a poor judge of talent ( difficult to believe that is the case ) or is it to do with views/subscribers to his podcast saying things which most of indians want to hear ? Even on end of 3rd day review in this test , from his analysis it was clear he did not think india will bowl out them( was spot on saying pitch would play better on 3rd and 4th day to score if one stays long) but at the end gave 70:30 chance to India.

Nahi Bhai . Apun ko tho Root jaisa batting karnewaala chahiye wo bhi 1st test se hi ! If he was so bad he would not have scored 60+ in the 1st innings in this pitch .

seems some sessions with Ishant might help Krishna , Ishant too had same problem, one he started pitching up and bringing the ball in , he started getting lot more wickets apart from rising deliveries.

Kuch to gadbad hai Daya ! Hope Bharat Aun becomes bowling Coach.

Gill is not ATG at this point to expect Joe root , Smith kind of performance every time he bats. Gill carried his weakness of his play against spin and against swing bit too long -atleast thought he will iron out his play against spin quickly but perhaps did not figure it out or not worked on it hard . Only since 2024 season he has shown ability to stick and score runs in spin pitches. In this tour has improved his batting technique (slightly shorter & straighter bat swing , very straight bat while defending, Play close to body while playing balls on the sumps to get single ) but weakness against movement still persists ( Anyway this a huge problem with all younger players in every team not just limited to Gill) . In moving conditions one needs to leave lot of balls and have good front foot drives as you get lot of balls pitched up. He has to have a plan to stick longer (improve defence further against in coming balls & curb certain shots ) , he has very good front foot drives down the ground , cover drives . -So runs will come if he stays longer. Only KL looked better at handling moving deliveries in this series. He has started getting 1000+ runs in 2024 & 2025 . looks like he is capable of getting such scores in a year for some more years.

That 774 was not against best WI bowlers of 71 series. Look at names of 71 WI team. Even in 78-79 series score above 700+ was against depleted 2nd string post packer saga in India.