What is Kohli and team management problem with K L Rahul?

[King Tendulkar]

Just now, gattaca said:

Rohit time again proved he can't play tests. Even in India he plays against west indies and srilanka and scored well. He failed against South Africa.

So you would throw shankahr and iyer in v sa . Suicide . Everyone is gambler when it’s not their money 

[King Tendulkar]

5 minutes ago, gattaca said:

Do they warrant a place in test match. Why they are selected ? No one knows. Who pushed for their selection the captain. Do we need to know anything else ?

For upcoming sa series yes I would have both innsquad .

[jalebi_bhai]

3 minutes ago, jusarrived said:

Do we need 6 batsmen against SL ? On flat Indian pitches you take the load off your bowlers especially with an important away series , that's sensible and actually being aggressive . 

We went with 5 bowlers in the first test. How many overs did our 4th or 5th bowlers collectively bowl in both innings? How many wickets did they take?

 

In the second test, our sixth batsman scored a century and our 4 bowlers bowled out Lanka twice in less than six sessions. 

 

So to answer your question, yes, six batsmen is a better strategy vs Lanka.

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 hour ago, King Tendulkar said:

Dropped ashwin and jadeja from white cricket . Gutsy call dropping to massive stars in India cricket . Icf not recognised this 

Actually that happened  quite late, half the world realised the importance of wrsit spinners long back and it took a CT loss for kohli to have that realisation

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

12 minutes ago, New guy said:

Kohli told his logic. The reason he batted first. He hoped the pitch had something on it and his batsmen get decent outing before the overseas tour. I think he has the bowling line up fixed in his mind, Shami, Ishant and BK. I think he is still not sure which batsman to pick in the final XI overseas

Even normal people on twitter these days are smarter to tell how dhawan n rohit fall behind others in test format and their selection ahead of others make no sense

[New guy]

4 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Even normal people on twitter these days are smarter to tell how dhawan n rohit fall behind others in test format and their selection ahead of others make no sense

Rohit most probably will not be in the XI over Rahul. They are just testing him

[Ankit_sharma03]

3 minutes ago, New guy said:

Rohit most probably will not be in the XI over Rahul. They are just testing him

If rohit scores today 95% he ll be in playing 11

[King Tendulkar]

4 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Actually that happened  quite late, half the world realised the importance of wrsit spinners long back and it took a CT loss for kohli to have that realisation

 

 

 

Still had balls to drop 2 established stars who played with for a long time and still young 

 

Well let’s see how new spinners do away from home . I am hopefull. But rest assured in odi fixtures since ct ashwin and jadeja also would have done well 

 

but I agree in white ball cricket wrist spin is way forward 

[raki05]

Laxman an Akash is shamelessly defending Dhwan as an test opener for foreign tour.

[Ankit_sharma03]

5 minutes ago, raki05 said:

Laxman an Akash is shamelessly defending Dhwan as an test opener for foreign tour.

Laxman- SRH ko muh dikhana 

Akash- kaha gayi wo solid defence ki baaten

[puneet28]

KL Rahul based on his talent and form for last one year, would make into any format/team in world, but sadly we are playing Dhawan because he scored one big daddy hundred against Sri Lanka and clowns like Manjrekar or Chopra shamelessly admire him on social media about his improved technique. 

 

Rahul will be back in team and in all the formats once Dhawan will be eaten alive by Steyn and company next month, but this is not the good way. How will you give confidence to young players? I like Kohli as a batsmen, but as a captain he's awful. He has forgotten his time, when he performed averagely in his debut series and was even average in first 3-4 years of his test career, but team management showed confidence on him. Now days, he drops players just on basis of 1-2 bad matches.

 

Now, those who are saying Dhawan performed well recently, all his runs came against Sri Lanka, but it was Rahul who stood against Australia (tough series). I would take 4 good 50s rather than 1 big hundred against club level team. 

Edited December 2, 2017 by puneet28

[vvvslaxman]

KL Rahul is in top 10 ICC rankings. Unless he is injured or something he should play all the matches.

[King Tendulkar]

41 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

KL Rahul is in top 10 ICC rankings. Unless he is injured or something he should play all the matches.

Agree 

 

the one big mistake ( don’t believe kohli has power to drop dhoni )kohli making 

[BeautifulGame]

22 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Agree 

 

the one big mistake ( don’t believe kohli has power to drop dhoni )kohli making 

Thing is though this isn't a one off bad judgement from Kohli and management.

 

Rahul has been unfairly dropped from odi and T20 team as well.Infact he can't even get into odi sqaud even despite Kohli being rested.And in T20s it's even worse somehow considering he is our second best bat behind Kohli.

 

At some stage it has to stop being a mistake and start being intentional, and targetted unfairly .

Edited December 2, 2017 by BeautifulGame

[wanted_desi]

8 hours ago, Gollum said:

Rahul has the potential to outshine Kohli as an all format batsman, he isn't a flat track maestro unlike Kohli either, he can play under pressure and on difficult tracks like he showed against Australia early this year. How can Bunty Sajdeh and Kohli allow such a talent to flourish? Plain jealousy and creeping insecurity on Kohli's part. He did the same with Ashwin in tests by deliberately under bowling him after Ash had racked up 7 MOS in no time.

I know people don't realize this, but people who reach at the top become the most insecure people around. 

[Lannister]

There's too much power given to Mumbai and the clowns are misusing it. Shastri's pulling all kinds of tricks as he wishes and for Gavaskar to back that decision in the commentary panel. Until and unless we don't kick out all these players starting with Dhoni, expect to see the same team in the next worldcup. They are like a one-big joint family and will always find a way back into the team. 

[Pollack]

Rahul is not as good a buddy as dhawan and Rohit. Only explanation it seems. Frankly kohli preferring his buddies is so obvious nowadays. Initially I didn't believe. But now I am a believer.

 

[rkt.india]

19 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

I thought this series was specially prepared and scheduled to make pujara look good . O wait sorry make Rohit look good . O no ashwin look good

 

or maybe for bcci to keep their politics allies Sri Lanka happy for icc votes and help make an impoverished Sri Lanka board a bit of good money

SL is not getting any money from this. This is an Indian home series, not SL. BCCI will make money from this. SL won't.

[Pollack]

41 minutes ago, Lannister said:

There's too much power given to Mumbai and the clowns are misusing it. Shastri's pulling all kinds of tricks as he wishes and for Gavaskar to back that decision in the commentary panel. Until and unless we don't kick out all these chewts starting with Dhoni, expect to see the same team in the next worldcup. They are like a one-big joint family and will always find a way back into the team. 

LOL. Kohli doing a delhi lobby and his yarana lobby and still Mumbai lobby is blamed. The world revolves around Mumbai lobby for some icfers.

 

[Lannister]

27 minutes ago, Pollack said:

LOL. Kohli doing a delhi lobby and his yarana lobby and still Mumbai lobby is blamed. The world revolves around Mumbai lobby for some icfers.

 

That maybe true but it is the responsibility of the management to make sure right players are getting selected. Both Shastri and Gavaskar have been shameless with their jobs, just pushing their own agendas.