Please drop Pandya to maintain Test cricket’s sanctity.

[zen]

More frustratation - Ind is doing badly and Pandya is doing relatively well

[sandeep]

38 minutes ago, zen said:

More frustratation - Ind is doing badly and Pandya is doing relatively well

2 edged boundaries off of Pandya, and scorecard fans will cluelessly post a few hours later about Pandya 'leaking' runs.  

[zen]

8 minutes ago, sandeep said:

2 edged boundaries off of Pandya, and scorecard fans will cluelessly post a few hours later about Pandya 'leaking' runs.  

For these manipulative fans, Pandya is definitely leaking runs even though:

 

ov)
BOWLING        O    M    R    W    ECON
I Sharma        8    1    37    1    4.62
Mohammed Shami        10.4    3    43    2    4.03
Kuldeep Yadav        4    1    15    0    3.75
HH Pandya        7    0    22    1    3.14

 

 

 

 

 

[rkt.india]

Pandya showed he can bowl.  I want Kohli to give to give him more responsibility as a bowler. 

[Moochad]

Pandya 

[zen]

may be it is time to close this thread 

[tweaker]

Pandya gets Bairstov

[Ankit_sharma03]

Manju- i felt before this game is not for test level

Ganguly to manju- i dnt agree to that, he has pace n movement. He is a batting all rounder jst needs to be careful regd his shot selection

 

Ab log kahenge ganguly bhi pandya ka PR hia 

[zen]

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON	WD	NB
I Sharma	19	3	88	1	4.63	0	0
Mohammed Shami	19	4	74	3	3.89	0	1
Kuldeep Yadav	9	1	44	0	4.88	0	0
HH Pandya	17	0	66	2	3.88	1	0
R Ashwin	17	1	68	0	4.00	0	0

[asterix]

^ certainly better than Ishant Sharma in this match...

Good thing is that the pace brigade will be off his back now as they’ll target Kuldeep. And that’s what they should’ve done right from the beginning as Kullu was selected in place of Yaddu...

[zen]

1 minute ago, asterix said:

^ certainly better than Ishant Sharma in this match...

Good thing is that the pace brigade will be off his back now as they’ll target Kuldeep. And that’s what they should’ve done right from the beginning as Kullu was selected in place of Yaddu...

As I mentioned on one of the threads, we have bigger problems to worry about than Pandya. We should start out with picking the 5 best batsmen, 4 best bowlers + the best WK option based on conditions. If these specialist slots are not optimized, there is no point in bothering about Pandya's slot, which actually lends balance to the 11 

 

Here too, he picked up the game with 3 of the 4 specialist bowlers not performing. In fact, his effectiveness in terms of SR is close to Shami's .... Shami and Pandya have been our best bowlers today 

[express bowling]

4 minutes ago, asterix said:

Good thing is that the pace brigade will be off his back now as they’ll target Kuldeep. And that’s what they should’ve done right from the beginning as Kullu was selected in place of Yaddu...

 

Most of the pace brigade strongly support both Kuldeep and Hardik.    

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 minute ago, zen said:

As I mentioned on one of the threads, we have bigger problems to worry about than Pandya. We should start out with picking the 5 best batsmen, 4 best bowlers + the best WK option based on conditions. If these specialist slots are not optimized, there is no point in bothering about Pandya's slot, which actually lends balance to the 11 

 

Here too, he picked up the game with 3 of the 4 specialist bowlers not performing. In fact, his effectiveness in terms of SR is close to Shami's .... Shami and Pandya have been our best bowlers today 

once ur specialist start to perform, pandya will start to look like a gr8 strength to this side

[zen]

I am happy that Kuldeep played as I don't think that the inclusion of Yadav could have made a dramatic difference. I don't have huge confidence in Ashwin and Jadeja in these conditions. Looking at the future, Kuldeep can be developed as a spinner who can chip in most conditions and can be destructive in conditions that favor him. This will be a good learning experience for him .... I started a thread where I discussed Ind's tour to Down Under in 91-92. There Shane Warne went for a lot in his first test. As long as Kuldeep can come back strongly, it is ok 

Edited August 11, 2018 by zen

[rkt.india]

9 hours ago, zen said:

I am happy that Kuldeep played as I don't think that the inclusion of Yadav could have made a dramatic difference. I don't have huge confidence in Ashwin and Jadeja in these conditions. Looking at the future, Kuldeep can be developed as a spinner who can chip in most conditions and can be destructive in conditions that favor him. This will be a good learning experience for him .... I started a thread where I discussed Ind's tour to Down Under in 91-92. There Shane Warne went for a lot in his first test. As long as Kuldeep can come back strongly, it is ok 

Yadav could easily have picked 1-2 wickets especially he troubles woakes. 130/5 to 350 is criminal. This seemed like NZ 2013-14 redux.

[Lannister]

He is not at the level of Stokes, Woakes and Curran, and he's certainly not a third pace bowler. 

[rkt.india]

2 hours ago, Lannister said:

He is not at the level of Stokes, Woakes and Curran, and he's certainly not a third pace bowler. 

Woakes and Curran are bowling alrounders like BK.

[Lannister]

15 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Woakes and Curran are bowling alrounders like BK.

Yeah, I forgot about that. So why are they scoring more runs than our batting all-rounder. 

[Clarke]

1 minute ago, Lannister said:

Yeah, I forgot about that. So why are they scoring more runs than our batting all-rounder. 

Home vs away conditions.

 

Pandya has the ability to hammer bowlers to oblivion in India/SC. Over there these bowling all rounders like Curran & Woakes will struggle with both bat & ball.

[rkt.india]

5 minutes ago, Lannister said:

Yeah, I forgot about that. So why are they scoring more runs than our batting all-rounder. 

They are playing at home and not facing anderson and broad. When England were in India, our bowling alrounder Jayant Yadav scored a 100 against them. Their alrounder Stokes did zilch. And you are forgetting conditions. India batted in completely different conditions.