Could we've won the series if Ab de villiers was not playin?

[Scar]

Well, he decided to sit the English tour out and was gone from the team for almost a year but as soon as he heard of INDIA at stone throw away, he came wagging his tail thinking of us as some easy meat and padding up his stats. 

 

IMO, he was more of the decisive factor in us loosing first match than the team selection. 

 

discuss. 

[Forever Indian]

There are many more other reasons for us still falling short, the main one being nepotism in selection

[Rasgulla]

Nop.. 

[Rightarmfast]

we could have won the series had we been playing papua new guines and not south africa

[Tattieboy]

10 minutes ago, Rightarmfast said:

we could have won the series had we been playing papua new guines and not south africa

Bit optimistic lol

[Gollum]

Kohli was pestering him on social media to come back and play for Proteas. Dumb* kaptaan.

[Laaloo]

Someone else probably would have been a thorn in our sides.

[Austin 3:!6]

We lost the series due to our lackluster batting. It has nothing to do with ABDV. Not able to chase 209 with the fame batting line up is a same.

[maniac]

It’s not like AB is smashing 200s and 300s.....unless his replacement was Chris Martin the batsman don’t think it would have made a difference 

[SG1994]

Ab big part cos he made crucial runs in 1st innings of 1st test

[wanted_desi]

We could have won if our kaptaan had logical thinking.

[zen]

If ppl follow cricket only to see Ind win (rather than also for quality of cricket), they should follow series played against much weaker teams 

 

 

[Khota]

Series was on our batsman and they failed so far. 

[Nonbeliever]

there is a series going on between bangla,lanka, Zimbabwe. Had we played in that series we would have won all the games.

 

[nevada]

5 hours ago, zen said:

If ppl follow cricket only to see Ind win (rather than also for quality of cricket), they should follow series played against much weaker teams 

 

 

BCCI addresses the need of such people by arranging impromptu series against SL and West Indies.

[Sean Bradley]

This thread displays a defeatist mentality, not good signs for the fans of a Team which is no.1 in the ICC rankings, well firstly to answer your questions, No, we wouldn't have won with or without ABD. In fact ABD is yet to find his feet in the series, and if he plays to his full potential then we could have kissed the series a good bye right from first test. What's more scary is, Virat has played the innings of his life in tough conditions and yet facing a defeat, we are in the course of losing the series due to poor squad selection, team selection, improper planning, lack of practice games, Pujara's poor form, below average catching and obnoxious keeping from pappu.  

Edited January 16, 2018 by Sean Bradley

[Scar]

Well it's just conjectures, and it's not like I am asking something completely irrational as he wasn't in test side for a long time. Secondly, NO, it would not have been same if anyone else replaced him, as nobody is capable of playing such counterattacking innings like he do. I think, everything which could've gone wrong this series have gone wrong.