Asia Cup squad announced, Rohit to lead.... Khaleel Selected

[kohli]

8 minutes ago, The Realist said:

Loving the explosive retirement home middle order of Rayudu, Jadhav and Dhoni.

 

Dhoni seriously needs to retire. Its f embarrassing seeing him hanging on and appearing in tournaments as the oldest has-been.

Imagine raydu,karthik,dhoni and jadhav in middle order

[WeStMiDz]

No Rahul?

[raki05]

33 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Why axar why ????

If u want 3rd spinner go for gowtham.........he has power for lower order as well 

 

Manish, raydu, dhoni, karthik , jadhav- to many picks for middle order and to much mediocrity 

Where is k l rahul

[Ankit_sharma03]

4 minutes ago, raki05 said:

Where is k l rahul

he is their in the team....looks like he ll bat at 3

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

44 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

 

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, raki05 said:

Where is k l rahul

 

5 minutes ago, WeStMiDz said:

No Rahul?

Rahul is their acc to BCCI side 

 

[Lannister]

I think I am gonna skip this. Don't want to waste my time on losers like Dhoni, Jadhav, Thakur and many more.. There is nothing exciting about Indian cricket at the moment. 

Edited September 1, 2018 by Lannister

[beetle]

Dhawan is vc 

Ek yaar captain , doosra vc .

[nevada]

27 minutes ago, Franco Vazquez said:

Tendulkar played for a bit too long too. He should have retired after the WC win. Still can't figure out why didn't he retire after that night in Mumbai. What else did he want to achieve in ODIs?

Tendulkar didnt retire after the world.cup because he had 99 hundreds to his name at that time. The hunt for "just one more" took way too long and damaged his image.

Edited September 1, 2018 by nevada

[Austin 3:!6]

Kohli should not have rested in this tournament. Its against our arch rivals and our kuptaan sahab left the team alone. He could have rested during WI series.

This is what seperates Sachin and Kohli

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[raki05]

Why rayadu is in team especially  after pathetic display of SR in quadengular series.

 

[sandsaims]

 A middle order of Pandey,Rayudu, Jhadhav and Dhoni. Expect them to score against minnows and go to the world cup. Pathetic team selection, none of them would score a run in England.

[express bowling]

Pluses 

 

1.  Khaleel Ahmed included.  He is tall, left armed, bouncy and quick.  We needed this variation in our bowling attack.  We had too many shortish medium paced bowlers in LOIs in England.  Plus ... he is in good LOI form this year.

 

2.  Kohli rested.   Needs it badly.

 

3.  Kaul, Umesh and Raina dropped.  Kaul is not international class, Umesh should stick to test matches and Raina is past it.

 

 

Minuses

 

1.  Rayudu included  !!   Why  ?  His strike rate is usually very low in ODIs.  Very poor selection and perhaps a quota pick.

 

2.  Lack of power hitters in the lower-middle order barring Pandya.  We have been ignoring this important area for too long now.

 

3.  Krunal or Gowtham would have been better than Axar.

 

4. Saini should have picked in place of Shardul.  He is more accurate, which is very important in ODIs. Plus he is taller, bouncier and quicker.  Bumrah, Bhuvi, Khaleel and Saini would have been ideal.

 

5.  Dhoni stays on despite multiple very poor performances with the bat.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2018 by express bowling

[Gollum]

Wish Kohli was selected here. He could have been rested during the useless WI white ball series (5 ODIs, 3 T20s). In white ball cricket WC>>>WT20>CT>Asia Cup. Rest don't matter, bilaterals lost significance a long time back.

[sandsaims]

Happy to see Khaleel in the squad but Thakur and Axar Patel again absolutely useless. Our selectors have indeed become a bunch of Highly paid jokers. The middle order seems to be have been selected to make sure Dhoni looks good.

[Gollum]

What purpose will Bhuvi serve on UAE tracks in ODIs? Irritating to see them ignoring Shami who is statistically our best quick and someone who can take wickets upfront. He was also very good in the 2015 WC (3rd best bowler behind Starc/Boult)...how the hell isn't he in the picture for 2019?

[Nikola]

16 minutes ago, Gollum said:

What purpose will Bhuvi serve on UAE tracks in ODIs? Irritating to see them ignoring Shami who is statistically our best quick and someone who can take wickets upfront. He was also very good in the 2015 WC (3rd best bowler behind Starc/Boult)...how the hell isn't he in the picture for 2019?

Doubt shami will make xi for worldcup. Bhuvi and pandya will make xi but won't get any wicket and only bumrah & kuldeep will be impact player. Other all are trash and we will hardly get wickets on those track with only 2 bowlers.

 

Also none of these bowlers have played worldcup before so i would keep shami as experienced bowler in place of bhuvi and might actually want to drop pandya for geniune pacer.

Edited September 1, 2018 by Nikola

[speedheat]

My blood boils Seeing that useless fatty kedar jadhav in the team.. What has he done to be selected??  Just mediocre hack who can't hit can't run to save his life, dreadful  bowling filled with pies mostly and a gangling fielder.. Moron has no place in the team.

[Sooda]

Its not a terrible squad.

 

For me the only pick I'd disagree with emphatically it's Thakur. Done nothing in list A cricket to merit it. 

 

I'd like to have seen Krunal in there too, maybe even instead of Hardik who deserves a rest. Or instead of Kedar as spin bowling batsman. Iirc Kedar has done little/no batting for the A team since his come back from injury.

 

There is also the issue of where Kedar would bat - he's a good (indeed the squads only) 6th bowler option..but batting at 6 is too low for him and too low for MSD. Both should bat at 5 or not at all.

 

Hardik could bat at 6 maybe Axar at 7 but that's too high for him and too long a tail.

 

Not overjoyed with Rayudu, but he's been in form in the Quadrangular- more so than Iyer. And I guess bit more experience then Iyer and Vihari.

 

Can't believe the stick Manish is getting given the form he's in. His ODI  career has been a combination of not taken opportunity and unfair treatment. For me He has to play all matches in this tournament, at 4.

 

Axar  for all the criticism has a good ER . Would have been good to see Gowtham - I don't think he's much of an upgrade on Axar though-  or more so Gopal instead it'd be nice to try another leggie.

 

 

 

 

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, express bowling said:

Pluses 

 

1.  Khaleel Ahmed included.  He is tall, left armed, bouncy and quick.  We needed this variation in our bowling attack.  We had too many shortish medium paced bowlers in LOIs in England.  Plus ... he is in good LOI form this year.

 

2.  Kohli rested.   Needs it badly.

 

3.  Kaul, Umesh and Raina dropped.  Kaul is not international class, Umesh should stick to test matches and Raina is past it.

 

 

Minuses

 

1.  Rayudu included  !!   Why  ?  His strike rate is usually very low in ODIs.  Very poor selection and perhaps a quota pick.

 

2.  Lack of power hitters in the lower-middle order barring Pandya.  We have been ignoring this important area for too long now.

 

3.  Krunal or Gowtham would have been better than Axar.

 

4. Saini should have picked in place of Shardul.  He is more accurate, which is very important in ODIs. Plus he is taller, bouncier and quicker.  Bumrah, Bhuvi, Khaleel and Saini would have been ideal.

 

5.  Dhoni stays on despite multiple very poor performances with the bat.

 

 

yeah Saini should have been picked too.

[speedheat]

Also how ridiculous is to keep pant away from Odis, most likely format where he can do well.