India's struggle in the first ten overs.

[Nikhil_cric]

Just read a stat on cricinfo that is the 5th highest total we have registered in the first ten overs since 2015 World Cup and this has only confirmed my suspicion that it was never the lack of a genuine finisher that has been hurting our ODI cricket. The fact we have not been able to consistently score at a run a ball without losing wickets in the first ten has led to some sub par scores. Yes, these haven't been ideal batting conditions but i'm pretty sure we have played in India, Australia and SL a lot in this 3 year period and they have flat ODI batting decks. Genuine finishers have always been rare and right now we don't have any consistent ones, so why aren't we trying to maximise our supposedly top heavy batting lineup? What do ICFers think? Genuine issue or not?

 

[velu]

all hain hitman  

[Khota]

Sometime give credit to the opposition. Bowlers are fresh and fielders are fresh too. If you can get 45 runs without losing a wkt a team has done well. You can make it up on the back end.

[jusarrived]

1 minute ago, Khota said:

Sometime give credit to the opposition. Bowlers are fresh and fielders are fresh too. If you can get 45 runs without losing a wkt a team has done well. You can make it up on the back end.

yes in 1995 

[Khota]

9 minutes ago, jusarrived said:

yes in 1995 

300 runs 9/10 times will still win the game with good ground fielding.

[jusarrived]

Just now, Khota said:

300 runs 9/10 times will still win the game with good ground fielding.

offcourse you could still win , but why should we rely in good ground fielding ..we have batted teams out in the past scoring 300+ consistently when 250 was a par score and now after 10-15 years when probably 320 is par we should be happy getting to 300 ? 

A weak batting linup like Pak posted 340+ against us , its that easy to post and chase 300 totals these days 

 

 

[WC2011INDIA]

7 minutes ago, Khota said:

300 runs 9/10 times will still win the game with good ground fielding.

and bowling. 

[Jimmy Cliff]

Genuine issue. Most of it is down to Rohit playing like an upmarket Manoj Prabhakar.

[kruiser]

Saala first 10 mein problem hai, finishers bhi nahin hain, fir hum khlete kub hain? #1 ranking aise hi aa gayee? 

[Number]

Our batting is too top heavy atm.
A team with solid middle order (3,4,5) can have dasher openers who can start hitting from word go but thats not the case with us.

But our openers are more than capable of making up for it when set so I would not look much into this. 

Edited February 13, 2018 by Number

[Nikhil_cric]

44 minutes ago, jusarrived said:

offcourse you could still win , but why should we rely in good ground fielding ..we have batted teams out in the past scoring 300+ consistently when 250 was a par score and now after 10-15 years when probably 320 is par we should be happy getting to 300 ? 

A weak batting linup like Pak posted 340+ against us , its that easy to post and chase 300 totals these days 

 

 

This. We are not ruthless enough in batting these days. Was a time when we would outbat opposition and attack relentlessly. Nowadays they can't even attack shamsi. Such a defensive approach for this era.

[Nikhil_cric]

1 hour ago, Khota said:

Sometime give credit to the opposition. Bowlers are fresh and fielders are fresh too. If you can get 45 runs without losing a wkt a team has done well. You can make it up on the back end.

I already have. I did say i'm not referring to this particular series but all matches since the last World Cup.

[sergio04]

we are worst side in last 10 overs too

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[Khota]

5 hours ago, jusarrived said:

offcourse you could still win , but why should we rely in good ground fielding ..we have batted teams out in the past scoring 300+ consistently when 250 was a par score and now after 10-15 years when probably 320 is par we should be happy getting to 300 ? 

A weak batting linup like Pak posted 340+ against us , its that easy to post and chase 300 totals these days 

 

 

Poor example. There were two spinners Ashwin/Jadeja playing who were not match fit. Umesh was dropped out. We just had 15 overs of proper bowling in that game.

300 still wins you almost all the games.

[Khota]

5 hours ago, WC2011INDIA said:

and bowling. 

And bowling. Agreed.