Indian batsmen will hold key to win Test series in England: Sourav Ganguly

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18 minutes ago, jusarrived said:

Dhawan should do better in England than in SA, along with NZ two places I think his technique should be adequate. Not expecting big hundreds, but a quick 50 to give us some momentum if scoring gets tough. I would play KL at 3 here ahead of Pujara. 

He flopped last time in England 

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On 7/22/2018 at 10:13 PM, Straight Drive said:

Batting is the biggest concern. In SA our batsmen none apart from Virat scored runs at good average (48) . Everyone but Virat flopped and were pathetic batting performance wise averaging less than 20. Details are as follows:

 

Top Order

Player / Innings / Runs / Average

 

Vijay / 6 / 102 / 17

Shikhar / 2 / 32 / 16

Chet / 6 / 100 / 17

Rahul / 4 / 30 / 7.50

 

Middle order

 

Player / Innings / Runs / Average

 

Virat / 6 / 286 / 48

Rohit / 4/ 78 / 20

Hardik 6 / 119 / 20

 

Wicket - keepers

 

Player / Innings / Runs / Average

 

Parthiv 4 / 46 / 14

Saha /  2 / 8/ 4

 

Bhuvi (101) and Ashwin (90) contributed 191 runs, which were 5 runs more than total tally of runs scored by 3 openers and 2 wicket-keepers (Vijay, Shikhar, Rahul, Parthiv and Saha) who scored 186. 

 

 

 

50 run partnership right up in first innings of first test. Didn't expect even this, but it's a welcome change.

 

Think the batting averages of our batters are going to be above 20 each this series.

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LOL. Ration subsidy shop open.  

 

Batsman - Average:

 

Shikhar Dhawan - 26

Murali Vijay - 20

KL Rahul - 4

 

 

 

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Gauti, Dravid, Sachin, Saurav, VVS.... Jane kaha gaye woh din.

 

 

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The batting line up I am afraid is very very thin hope it doesn’t end up like South African Test Series where bowlers do their job but batsman screw up.

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5 minutes ago, Switchblade said:

The batting line up I am afraid is very very thin hope it doesn’t end up like South African Test Series where bowlers do their job but batsman screw up.

Same worries here. 

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Already looks like for our fragile batsman it’s going to be a very very long test series.Lets hope they can at least post 200 on the board.