BCCI announces India squad for Champions Trophy 2017

[StriKe]

3 minutes ago, DDfan2017 said:

There are many replacements for Dhoni, who will do lot better than Dhoni at present. What good will experience do if you have totally lost the ability to hit or score runs?

India didn't worry about introducing a 16 yrs old Sachin in Pakistan, or an 18 yrs old Yuvi in Champions trophy itself in Kenya. And see the result, 18 yrs old Yuvi takes on an unbeatable Australia with no experience playing in Nairobi, and wins the match single handedly, took India to final. If indian selectors had thought your way that inexperienced players can't be sent to big tournaments, we would never have had this Yuvi.

Pant has shown some excellent keeping skills in this IPL, took great catches. And anyday keeping on indian pitches us tougher than in England.

If DeKock, Zampa etc can debut within 20, why can't India follow the same path?

If this was a ODI tour to England, I would have been pissed if Pant is not picked for the squad. Even if he is picked, I don't think Kohli will pick him in playing XI when he is picking Rahane for the squad.

[Oldhere]

2 minutes ago, DDfan2017 said:

Gambhir and Raina would have been lot better than Yuvi and Rahane. Check Raina's performance in last England series. Very disappointing selection

Gambo is finished internationally. He has been recalled a lot of times since 2012 and he has always squandered his chances eventhough he has performed in IPL. Need to move on from him.

 

Raina hasnt even played any domestic ODIs and only played in IPL and we lnow how he has performed in ODIs for like last 2-3 years.

[StriKe]

After this CT, We need to drop Dhawan, Dhoni, Rahane and UV.

4 spot up for grabs, build them for CW19

[Unleashed]

Can we talk about how awesome and well rounder pace bowling attacking looks like? Speaks volumes about the rest that someone like Shami will have to sit on the bench for the other three. Also nice to have a proper all rounder like Pandya in the team. My guess is that he'll open the bowling for India.

[Sidhoni]

If Rahane had a good IPL I would have been the first person to support his selection. 

[tweaker]

Expected this squad.This selection committee is spineless.Should have dropped Dhoni, Rohit, Shikhar, Yuvraj, Ashwin.Pant, Kuldeep,Rana should have been selected.Dont have high hopes from this squad.

[Lannister]

They didn't had proper plan coming into CT. They had no choice but to go for safest option here by going for experienced players. I just don't understand the obsession with Dhawan though. Hope this is the last tournament for majority of players in the squad. 

[zaqw222222]

As expected safe team by selectors and I personally agree with them. I would like to see players like Pant and Kuldeep easily integrate into the side rather than straight away introduce them to the international scene in such a big tournament. If the pitches are flat like they are normally for ODI's we should easily get to the semi final

[cric_fan]

I am surprised that Pants has not been selected.

 

Yuvraj?

Dhoni?

 

I thought these two have retired

[DDfan2017]

Disappointing selection. Picking Rahane is a blunder. Hope he doesnt get to play a single game. Ashwin and Jadeja with no variation will be hit out of the park. Ashwin can do nothing better than bowling a negative line. If Aussies can look past senior spinners and include Zampa, why can't we? Dhawan will be a walking wicket. Yuvi will have a painful stay in the crease for 25-30 deliveries, will neither get out easily nor will score runs. Same will be seen with Dhoni. Dhoni noway gives me the confidence that he can chase anything in ODIs with required runrate above 7. We will see reqd rate of 7 soon jumping up to 12-13 within few overs.

I guess selectors in 80s and 90s were bold enough to pick Azhar, Sidhu, Kumble, Sachin, Kambli, Bhajji, Yuvi within 20. It's time India should stop looking at past. India under dhoni's captaincy was actually lot better to dare to look past Sehwag, Gambhir, Bhajji, Zaheer. Now Dhoni, Yuvi, Ashwin(in ODIs) need the same treatment as Sehwag, Gambhir and Bhajji got.

[DDfan2017]

5 minutes ago, zaqw222222 said:

As expected safe team by selectors and I personally agree with them. I would like to see players like Pant and Kuldeep easily integrate into the side rather than straight away introduce them to the international scene in such a big tournament. If the pitches are flat like they are normally for ODI's we should easily get to the semi final

Pitches in England for ODIs are more or less flat only. If Yuvi could be introduced into international scene in a big tournament at an age of 18, why can't Pant be?

[BCCI]

41 minutes ago, StriKe said:

Who are the old players you're talking about?

 

To people asking why Gambhir and Raina is not picked, We are not PCB.

Dhawan , Rahane,Jadeja etc

[DDfan2017]

23 minutes ago, Oldhere said:

Gambo is finished internationally. He has been recalled a lot of times since 2012 and he has always squandered his chances eventhough he has performed in IPL. Need to move on from him.

 

Raina hasnt even played any domestic ODIs and only played in IPL and we lnow how he has performed in ODIs for like last 2-3 years.

Got a 29 and 50 in only test he played against NZ. Failed in one test against England and he was dropped. Do you call that enough chances for him?

[Vk1]

we are trying to make a rohit sharma out of rahane by continuous selection. Rohit at least was a superstar in ipl before the long rope. Rahane is a early 90's manjrekar kinda player. Except for that super knock against proteas in 2015 WC he is an all-time crap w.r.t Odis.

[kira]

Bc rahane has an odi average of 32 and strike rate of 78 and this is after 73 ODIs, which is a huge sample set, on top of that he is in pathetic form, how can the selectors justify this selection? Are they blind? Rahane would have tough time getting into our 90s odi team

[DDfan2017]

31 minutes ago, Oldhere said:

Only reason for not having Pant is that he wont be played and he will just be on bench.

 

Also, whatever i saw in IPL and last domestics, he isnt even played as an opener by his own teams so dont know he will be picked up as an opener in Champ trophy.

 

Just wait for sometime this kid is gonna have a long career and will play a lot but champs trophy he was never going to be selected.

 

I just think that for this tourney team is okay but yes going forward India needs to move away from Dhawan, Rahane, Yuvi and in sometime from MSD.

Not in sometimes, MSD need to go immediately. He is the most undeserving of the lot. I can still expect dhawan to give good start in few games, I can still expect Yuvi to take on the bowlers in some games, but I don't see MSD capable of hitting or scoring quickly and win matches for India. Mark my words, he will lose more matches for india, than any other player. A chasable score of 7 runs per over will soon turn to impossible 12-13 runs per over when Dhoni bats.

[Unleashed]

8 minutes ago, BCCI said:

Dhawan , Rahane,Jadeja etc

We've got an actual human being here who wants Jadeja to be dropped. SMH.

[Unleashed]

Rahane is nothing more than a backup. I agree he didn't deserve to be selected but people should calm down. 

[kira]

Just now, Unleashed said:

Rahane is nothing more than a backup. I agree he didn't deserve to be selected but people should calm down. 

He doesn't even deserve to be backup, I knew he was bad but I just checked his stats, he's way beyond bad, his all time T20 strike rate after 157 matches is 118, this guy can't play fast, he's just not capable of it, this selection makes no sense whatsoever, it defies all logic

[Vk1]

1 minute ago, Unleashed said:

Rahane is nothing more than a backup. I agree he didn't deserve to be selected but people should calm down. 

What it does is if dhawan looks out of form they will still persist with him considering rahane is the back up. Deep down dhawan too would be relieved since rahane can never keep him on his toes.