Rahane is poised to 'go big' in the rest of the series

[Straight Drive]

The way he is scoring in last two years, he will not top score unless there is a massive change of form this series.  It's a very big ask. At the most 350 runs.  I don't see him having a big series of 500  or 600+ runs like Virat Kohli, Alaistair Cook did in Australia.  Far away from that form.

[sandeep]

On 12/12/2018 at 1:27 AM, gattaca said:

Perth is abrasive surface will take spin according to d Jones.

Jones has verbal diarrhea, don't rahe everything he says seriously. 

[PBN]

Rahane is such an underachiever.  Started his Ranji and international career with  with a bang.  Should be averaging 50+ but his lingering at 40.  Anyhow, Australia is a good hunting ground for with...has done really well here.

Edited December 13, 2018 by PBN

[diga]

 

On 12/12/2018 at 7:15 AM, diga said:

+1 ... 3 scores > 50 out 8 innings will change my rating of Rahane

On 12/12/2018 at 8:12 AM, sandeep said:

 

Fair expectation - I think he'll meet that.

Difficult now.. I think

[Vk1]

Rahane and Siddhesh lad should swap their places very soon in respective teams.

[Temujin Khaghan]

Hype.

[Tendulkar1996]

And as i predicted early in the thread,rahane  has shown his true colours after his quota innings.Needs to be dropped asap for gill.But we know thats never going to happen.Incoming statement from team management - 'we all know his class'.

[The Dark Horse]

Even Pant is better than Rahane...he comes at a comfortable position but never makes it count.

[chewy]

opportunity was there for Rahane today, but went into a shell, trying to play a "Pujara" type innings, but Pujara is good enough tackle those "ball with your name on it".

The first deadly bouncer at Rahane from Starc and Rahane got out. 

 

[SK_IH]

On 12/11/2018 at 9:01 PM, sandeep said:

He still looked a bit scratchy at times in Adelaide.  Especially against Lyon.  But barring Sydney, the rest of the tracks are not going to be anywhere near as helpful to Lyon. And I saw enough in Rahane's batting to get this gut feeling.  I think he's going to end up as the top scorer for the series.  

dont you think you over rate a bang average performer. "Gut feeling" , "going to end up as top scorer" these thoughts makes sense for someone like Virat, AB or even  Sachin level players , not for the likes of Rahane.  Mind you I say that keeping his infamous inconsistency in mind.

Edited January 3, 2019 by SK_IH

[The Realist]

7 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

dont you think you over rate a bang average performer. "Gut feeling" , "going to end up as top scorer" these thoughts makes sense for someone like Virat, AB or even  Sachin level players , not for the likes of Rahane.  Mind you I say that keeping his infamous inconsistency in mind.

Never mind top scorer, the bag of bones wants to be the world's best..

 

[sandeep]

I love Rahane, but the rope can only extend so far.  I don't know what's gotten into him.

[Real McCoy]

He plays at the easiest position in the batting order that too behind Pujara and Kohli. Adelaide 1st innings coming to bat at 3 for nothing, plays with "intent" and throws his wicket away. 2nd innings plays well but throws it away by playing a reverse sweep rather than shepherding the tail and increase the target to a better position.

 

Perth 1st innings edges to a straight ball from Lyon rather than marching down the wicket like Pujara before the second new ball and exposing Vihari in his first innings. Actually Vihari played better in that test than Rahane. 2nd innings plays with "intent" and throws his wicket away.

 

Melbourne out to a straight ball from Lyon rather than marching down the wicket like Pujara. 2nd innings coming to bat at 3 for nothing, plays a lackluster pull shot to be caught behind. Then this. What does it take to drop him. It has been 6-7 years since he debuted and is considered a senior and VC. When questioned about his form, he answers saying he is due a 200. Is he for real or is he smoking those funny cigarettes

Edited January 3, 2019 by Real McCoy

[rtmohanlal]

Very surprise that a batsman who achieved such great numbers in SENA in his first outings has regressed this much.But then the game is like that... these unexpected things can happen. Now we need to move on from him , because it seems to be a permanent regressive problem for him.Also we have other promising players coming up

[Adi BB]

3 hours ago, The Dark Horse said:

Even Pant is better than Rahane...he comes at a comfortable position but never makes it count.

True ,actually pant looked pretty assured when batting normally ,it was only when he was given instructions to hoick or when batting with the tail ,he goes for wild shots and gifts his wkts 

[Vijy]

5 hours ago, sandeep said:

I love Rahane, but the rope can only extend so far.  I don't know what's gotten into him.

a weird mix of complacency and insecurity. just as with KLR.

[Cricketics]

I think Rahane was talking about Pujara.