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I love Arjun the most , I know pragg deserves too but I will be gutted if Arjun does not win at some point.

This is awesome. These two won a medal in Asian games ? my memory is kinda blurry

yes true Hope Gukesh proves everyone wrong, Sindarov starts fav but I expect Gukesh to come better prepared and it wont be one sided.

some 20+ national records have been broken in the last 12 months . Hockey results, gymnastics gold in Asian juniors, Thomas cup bronze, Volleyball bronze, even sepak taktaw we won a gold, Archery gold ...lot of great results in indian sports outside cricketb

We have played mostly in SC conditions last 3+ years including ICC tournaments this has made lot of FTBs look much much better players than they are..I have never liked Iyer, Samson and Kishan. All three benefited with India playing non stop on these flat pitches, Samson though played some genuine match winning knocks in WC, Kishan can still score runs if if he can make some adjustments ...but Iyer? the smug face is a tailender captaining India has to be a joke. Its going to be fun watching him bat in England

Honestly, i dont want to defend KL I completely agree his approach when he opened for India in the past was painful to watch but as a middle order bat hes not put a foot wrong in last 4-5 years. The WC final is the only one people question, but I completly disagree that he was responsible for the loss. As for Iyer, i have never rated him he has surprised me on ocassions, but hes a good fringe player at best imo . He deserves his place today based on his current form but I dont see a point backing a 31 year old who has a limited upside from here. Him being a T20 captain is an even bigger joke.

all of them batted the same way, Virat came in early and played as slow as KL after 15 overs once the pitch started geting difficult. SKY who came in the slog overs scored at SR of 65, jadejas SR was 40. I cant believe am even debating this

Am only talking about ODIs, we can twist the stats anyway we want. His last 2 ICC tournaments where very good, i watched matches I dont need stats to prove this. let this hack iyer play few matches outside SC, you will see how many runs he will make with his bharatanatyam technique

how much did rest of the batsmen score, even Virat and others in the last 10 after KL got out? That pitch was extremely difficult. it was an avg innings did nothing for us in the end, but he was not responsible for us losing that day.

it was still better than Iyers knock.

seriously man the bias, the very same innings if KL had played you would have called him panauti, slow, Tuk tuk and what not

oh give a break. Iyer has done jack **** in ICC tournaments, the couple of matches in WC he scored even KL scored. in the final this FTB could not last a few balls on a a difficult pitch, you guys conveniently forget that and target the batsmen who stayed till near end . which are these matches am not aware of where RR is high and Iyer came and wont it for us? IIRC KL pretty much won us the last CT

Am so pissed off, I will slap the next libral I meet.

Lets see how the moeny spent on PR helps tatas get away this time.

This Prabhakar kid looks extremely good, hope karnataka persist with him

KL has been superb in past 18-24 months, but some of these guys will find a way to criticize him ..we lost the WC final cos of him? heights really. The Bharatanatyam dancer and other FTBs could not survive for few overs and put us in 20/3 position, but blame the guy who applied himself and at least got to 240..yeah it was not match winning, but his fault really?

You should stop watching test cricket if you think thats even a debate. Iyers wont buy a run if he opens in Tests even in Flat indian pitches let alone SENA How has KL stat padded in Tests? with 10+ hundreds in SENA and having played 70% of his matches overseas?

One of them is a common friends wife, both husband and wife are cabin crews. They have 10 year old daughter. Just heart breaking man

Govt wanted to make a example out of him, average indian hated him, media hated him and he was not Ambani or Tata.

Tendulkar could do everything ABD did and more, he was just a little less adventerous manily cos he played in a ear a reverse sweep was frowned upon

Tendulkar was a massive underachiver with that kind of talent, I know am going to hurt few here but his lack of Killer instinct was difference between India still being medicore till he retired.

if Tendulakar was a 10, Virat is a 6-7.only AB came close to him purely on skills..and I would pick a dozen other bats between Tendu and Virat, but skills was not what made Virat a great

Sarfaraz, it feels like dosent get picked for non-cricketing reasons. He should have got a long run couple of years back

if KL opens he wont score more than 250-300 runs this series and thats not going to be enough . we need openers who can blunt the ball, i dont mind if Eashwaran avgs 20 this series and faces 70-80 balls on avg.

We are getting exposed badly this series, expect a few sub 100 ao with this lineup.