Ajinkya rahane is not a number 6 in tests!

[Nikhil_cric]

Ajinkya Rahane is probably our best batsman against pace and movement but is woefully inadequate against spin and is easily the worst player of spin in this batting lineup. Why are we playing him at 6 then? A number 6 should be able to counter attack and score runs and cannot be someone who is vulnerable against half decent spin. Our top 3 , on the other hand , are not particularly great against quality swing/seam bowling but are  very good against the turning ball. Is it time to bat Rahane either as an opener or at 3 ?

[CG]

If Rahane and Pujara Swap Places it would be best for both of them.

[Ankit_sharma03]

I have said before in overseas ill make rahane bat at 3 instead of struggling pujara.....even at home coz he comes at 5 when spinners are on (but at home pujara has been bradman)

 

[SK_IH]

Rahane has been tried at no.3 before ,he was not a success and Rahane is not our best batsman against pace and movement ,that would be Kohli

He is very overrated 

[Nikhil_cric]

1 hour ago, CG said:

If Rahane and Pujara Swap Places it would be best for both of them.

I would ideally not play Pujara overseas at all but yes Pujara at 5 seems to be a fair call in tests away.

[Austin 3:!6]

From another thread:

 

Dhawan
Rahul
Rahane
Kohli
Karthik
Pant
Ashwin
Kuldeep
Shami
Ishant
Umesh

[Ankit_sharma03]

26 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

Rahane has been tried at no.3 before ,he was not a success and Rahane is not our best batsman against pace and movement ,that would be Kohli

He is very overrated 

he scored a 100 at 3 in SL  in the 5 innings he has played at 3...........5 innings is to less to pass a judgement 

[Temujin Khaghan]

20 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

From another thread:

 

Dhawan
Rahul
Rahane
Kohli
Karthik
Pant
Ashwin
Kuldeep
Shami
Ishant
Umesh

+1 Austin, we don't need Hardik in tests. But kohli will persist with him just to show off that we also have a poor man's Ben stokes.

[Clarke]

Does he find it suitable at 3 ? If he doesn't, there's that saying about If it ain't broke ...

 

Besides, he's #5.

Edited July 19, 2018 by Clarke

[GolGappe]

9 minutes ago, Temujin Khaghan said:

+1 Austin, we don't need Hardik in tests. But kohli will persist with him just to show off that we also have a poor man's Ben stokes. 

Without Hardik, we will be down to 4 genuine number 11 batsmen - You'd see lot of scenarios like 250/5 to 265 all out.

[bowl_out]

31 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

From another thread:

 

Dhawan
Rahul
Rahane
Kohli
Karthik
Pant
Ashwin
Kuldeep
Shami
Ishant
Umesh

Karthik doesn’t even have a place in the Test side now.. And we suddenly want him to play as a specialist batsman? 

 

Play one of Karthik/Pant, probably DK to start off,.

Get Vijay to open with Dhawan with Rahul at 3 and Rahane at 5 and DK at 6.

[bowl_out]

Was Vijay Shankar any good in the A matches recently?

 

Ideally the fifth bowler should be a strong bat who can bowl a few overs while the quicks get a breather.. Vijay Shankar could fill in that role if his batting is worth something.. Yes, he sucked against Mustafizur in the T20 final.. but I wouldn’t judge him by 1 match that too in a different format.

[Moochad]

did not Ajinkya used to play in the middle order, 3-4 for Mumbai. He can probably move up the order then and have Pujara go down or even up into opener

 

an interesting lineup could be

Vijay

Pujara

Rahane

Kohli

Rahul

[Temujin Khaghan]

1 hour ago, GolGappe said:

Without Hardik, we will be down to 4 genuine number 11 batsmen - You'd see lot of scenarios like 250/5 to 265 all out.

lets go back to 7-1-4 equation if we are so insecure with our batting. let karun nair come at 4 down after rahane...

[Temujin Khaghan]

KLR

Murali

Rahane

Kohli

Pujara

Karun

DK

Ashwin

Shami

Umesh

Ishanth

 

P.S - we badly need a semi allrounder like SRT, Viru, Ganguly, Yuvi.. :/

someone tell gill and shaw to bowl 5 overs at the nets everyday :/

[Temujin Khaghan]

1 hour ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

From another thread:

 

Dhawan
Rahul
Rahane
Kohli
Karthik
Pant
Ashwin
Kuldeep
Shami
Ishant
Umesh

wth DK as specialist batsman? Thats like trying to make Rahul Gandhi into sherlock holmes... you dont want to go there :D

[Nikhil_cric]

1 hour ago, Moochad said:

did not Ajinkya used to play in the middle order, 3-4 for Mumbai. He can probably move up the order then and have Pujara go down or even up into opener

 

an interesting lineup could be

Vijay

Pujara

Rahane

Kohli

Rahul

With Pant at 6, Pandya at 7 and ashwin 8? That's not a bad lineup. Pujara should just be charged with blunting the new ball then. He had a terrible county season so we can't expect him to score much. 

[vishalvirsingh]

 

THE eleven I want is below and if Vijay PLays then Hardik should be dropped and KL rahul Played and we go with 4 bowlers only..

all 4 bowlers are rubbish batsman but great bowlers so we can pack with 7 batsman including kartik and even drop hardik.

 

1. kl rahul
2. dhawan
3. Pujara
4. virat
5. rahane
6. karthik
7. hardik
8. kuldeep
9. shammi
10. ishant
11. Umesh

[Pollack]

5 hours ago, SK_IH said:

Rahane has been tried at no.3 before ,he was not a success and Rahane is not our best batsman against pace and movement ,that would be Kohli

He is very overrated 

Pace and movement : Rahane better than Kohli. In any case even otherwise Kohli is not the best batsman against pace and movement both.

[vishalvirsingh]

2 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

With Pant at 6, Pandya at 7 and ashwin 8? That's not a bad lineup. Pujara should just be charged with blunting the new ball then. He had a terrible county season so we can't expect him to score much. 

Pujara only Plays Tests , i think he would be ready to face any kind of swing and tough conditions...unless he gets into the NO RUNS Mode when he and VJ just stick to wickets but do not score anything , i expect him to blunt the New Ball and then manage to Score runs or at least make it easy for Virat to Score big as Pujara will defend the Ball well...I am sure he would have got his form back by now ...