What should be our bowling attack for June 4th against Pakistan ?

[express bowling]

Looking at the India vs. NZ match yesterday and SA vs. England match today

 

IF   we have a seamer-friendly track which is expected to produce a low-scoring game

 

then  we may play  

 

Shami 

Bumrah,

Bhuvi 

Umesh

Jadeja

 

ONLY  against Pakistan as they are really weak against good quality fast bowling and swing bowling

 

On such a track, Pandya has little chance of contributing with the bat and Ashwin has little chance of contributing with the ball and there is not much point in taking them.

Edited May 29, 2017 by express bowling

[Lord]

3 hours ago, kira said:

 

"Junaid bhai ka psychological pressure hai India pe"

 

"Hamare fast bowlers to hamesha se India ke batsmen ko tang karte hai"

 

"Hamre bowlers ke paas swing hai aur wahab bhai ki pace hai"

 

"Junaid bhai ne India ko outclass kar diya tha"

 

"Kohli humko seriously kyun nahi leta, wo bola it is just another match aur hum log toh isko sab se bada match bolte hai" 

 

[Tibarn]

via Accuweather

Morning: Precipitation 55% Cloud cover 60%

Afternoon: Precipitation 55% Cloud cover 70%

Night: Precipitation 25% Cloud cover 88%

 

The chance for rain and cloud cover means we only need 1 spinner at most, especially if Jadhav and/or Yuvi play, they can fill any quota of spin required. Kumar will take 5 padosi wickets himself  , if we have that predicted cloud cover, but we will have to watch out for Amir. 

 

It's probably better to bat 2nd, if there is a curtailed game, as D/L will favor us chasing. 

[Khota]

11 hours ago, speedheat said:

 

Ashwin why???? Ashwin is big No vs Pakistan considering the fact that they are very good players of off spin, we should go all out four pronged pace attack which they struggles.

I sort of agree. I am being conservative in case if pace does not work that day. No compelling reason just going by gut.

[rkt.india]

On 5/28/2017 at 8:17 PM, Ultimate_Game said:

IMO it comes down to whether you want to chase 320 with Pandya or chase 280 without Pandya. I would go with the latter but yeah against Pakistan we can go with Pandya and against Saffers we can get Ashwin in the team.

You will have to chase 320 without or without Pandya. Someone will eventually go for runs. This is LOI cricket these days.

[mishra]

17 hours ago, express bowling said:

Looking at the India vs. NZ match yesterday and SA vs. England match today

 

IF   we have a seamer-friendly track which is expected to produce a low-scoring game

 

then  we may play  

 

Shami 

Bumrah,

Bhuvi 

Umesh

Jadeja

 

ONLY  against Pakistan as they are really weak against good quality fast bowling and swing bowling

 

On such a track, Pandya has little chance of contributing with the bat and Ashwin has little chance of contributing with the ball and there is not much point in taking them.

If pitch is not dud, We wont need 4 pacers. 3 with a spinners will do enough damage to get rid of top 5-6 batsmen by first 30 overs.

If Pitch is dud, In all likely hood, 4 pacers wont be any good. And most likely score will be around 180/2 in first 30 overs

 

Only case where above combo will work is when pitch is more balanced. However it is highly unlikely to see a balanced pitch. More likely we will have dud pitch

Edited May 30, 2017 by mishra

[express bowling]

I hope people can see the value of Hardik Pandya, the batsman, after today's innings...80 not out off only 54 balls.

 

He has shown that he has the ability to build an innings while scoring at a fast clip and hitting the big shots.

 

He will be invaluable on flat and flattish tracks and walks into the team for me.

 

The only place I may think about dropping him is on very seamer-friendly tracks where a low score is expected,  where a front-line fast bowler maybe more handy.

Edited May 30, 2017 by express bowling

[Ankit_sharma03]

On 5/28/2017 at 11:03 PM, Temujin Khaghan said:

5) if we take Pandya, then we got ourselves another hitter. he is not exactly ben stokes or Corey Anderson with the bat.. you can expect a 35(20) blitz from him, but you cannot expect a prolonged assault of 80(55) from hardik.

 

80(54)

 

[Unstable Joe]

On 5/28/2017 at 11:03 PM, Temujin Khaghan said:

5) if we take Pandya, then we got ourselves another hitter. he is not exactly ben stokes or Corey Anderson with the bat.. you can expect a 35(20) blitz from him, but you cannot expect a prolonged assault of 80(55) from hardik. but our bowling will be too weak. he hasn't bowled consistently in the IPL and the opposition will target him. Don't be surprised if he returns 10-0-80-0 kind of figures. and to add to our misery yuvi isn't in bowling form. All our batsmen are 1-dimensional. None of them bowl. Even Rohit Sharma can manage 3-4 overs at max. we will leak runs in the middle overs. 

 

 

Well, well, well.....  

[CG]

Lol.

[CG]

Rarely in Indian cricket history we have such a problem of plenty between Pacers.

[mishra]

1 minute ago, CG said:

Rarely in Indian cricket history we have such a problem of plenty between Pacers.

Actually, I am looking forward to our bowling more than our batting

[mishra]

That delivery from Bhuvi was too good for Kayes. Deserved a wicket. Probably a better bastman may have nicked it

[mishra]

Kayes frustrated and gone

[beetle]

Play pandya as a batsman in place of yuvi.

The form yuvi is right now along with his not being well....pandya won't be worse than him .

[mishra]

After todays performance, Choose any 4

[Temujin Khaghan]

1 hour ago, Unstable Joe said:

Well, well, well.....  

lol he did exactly that... but as long as the team wins, I don't mind being wrong another 1000 times :)

Edited May 30, 2017 by Temujin Khaghan

[New guy]

Man talk about problem of plenty

[Ultimate_Game]

3 minutes ago, New guy said:

Man talk about problem of plenty

Wish we had the same problem on the batting front too  

Edited May 30, 2017 by Ultimate_Game

[mishra]

9 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said:

Wish we had the same problem on the batting front too  

We have, Just that selectors went for experience