prudent_kreeda

looking at SA WCup try to find 1. PP dashing opener - Abhishek /Sooryavanshi/Samson. 2. Batter with bowling ability - Riyan Parag /Tilak 3. All rounder - Nitish/Bawa 4. LA spin - Axar 5. Express pacer- Mayank Yadav/Ashok Sharma/Harshit Rana 6. LA quick with death bowling skill & power hitting -Mangesh Yadav. 7. Swing Bowler with batting ability & death bowling ability -Aquib Nabi 8. Proper opener -Jaiswal This will also provide back ups for Rohit , Virat, KL, Iyer , Siraj, Arshdeep

think having a better bowling attack is more important right now . Without Bhumra our attack is pathetic. If we do not have high quality bowlers atleast have some bowlers who can be defensive to start with. Need of the hour - 1. A left arm quick with good death bowling - we should scout for some new talent - If one of Mangesh yadav ,Naman tiwari can become good would be a gr8 boost. Another option- Arshdeep becomes more consistent in his death bowling with ability to bowl good yorkers when needed with increased pace. 2. An Express pacer - Not many on horizen. A fully fit mayank yadav or Ashok sharma if they add some defensive bowling skills . 3. Pace All rounders - disappointing so far wr.t. Bawa , Nitish . Should also look at R S Ambrish U19 player 4. A swing bowler with batting ability - Try Aquib Nabi esp for Sena conditions . 5. Include 2 batters with bowling ability - Give chance to Riyan parag and make Abhishek and Tilak to develop their bowling. 6. Pace bowler with power hitting - Harshit Rana I would make below changes ASAP to fill some voids - 1. Include Riyan Parag. 2. Try out Mangesh Yadav as LA quickie with death bowling ability and power hitting. 3. Try - Ashok sharma/Mayank if fully fit. 4. Bawa /Nitish - atleast one of them have to come good within a year . give chances early 5. Include jaiswal, 6. Include Ruturaj, Sooryavanshi in 15 member sqaud. 7. Make Rana , Aquib Nabi part of 15 8. Try out among Prashant Veer ,Harsh Dubey, Sindhu , Sutar . 9. Need 1 Mad max batter at top - Abhishek or Sooryavanshi

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.

We have 2 batters with test potential to play for long in Jurel & Sai. Need to test them by giving 8-10 tests before discarding. Issue is Jaddu the AR is failing in his role of controlling bowling at one end in SENA and no quality bench strength in Pace bowling , We have to live with now and cannot expect win series outside india consistently .

Ability to play attacking shots be against pace or spin if it is there and has been demonstrated already , it just does not go away in a ziffy. It is the team's needs or one's own mental state which may be affecting it for a short period. I see TM instructions and his own form & pressure as reasons. Now he is playing under pressure - low confidence and pressure of a place in the team which is 1 test match failure away.

Yes looks a real good bet for long term. In swinging conditions every one gets out early and team scores below 200. It does not just apply to J.Smith alone. Definitely not a bazball hack.

Really are they in contention? I think time's up for them. Go for young guns - Jaiswal, Gill, Sai, Iyer, Rahul, Pant, Tilak will cover it up.

Can't exclude Siraj on giving 100% effort during the game though his fitness discipline is in doubt and hence struggles at times in matches.

Attapattu had 5 - 6 0s at the start of career if i am not wrong.

It matters if you are at the fag end of the series ( last innings he bowled in the series) and made to bowl without much rest in one innings . You could make out what was his condition - Ab bas , mar jaunga kind of !!

Fault of Rohit was he just went on bowling Bumrah for a long spell without break which really grinded him down to the ground. See that spell of bumrah and his condition just before he broke down in BG series and went off from the ground. Was fearing that he will break down and same thing happened. Rohit should have instead used for 3-4 overs for short bursts from bumrah. That was mindless act from Rohit.