Current Indian side vs this Indian side from the 00s in a 5 match test series?

[Dil Dil India]

1) Gambhir

2) Sehwag

3) Dravid

4) Tendulkar

5) Ganguly

6) Laxman

7) Dhoni

8) Harbhajan

9) Kumble

10)Zaheer

11)Ishant (it was him or Sreesanth/RP Singh or someone; no choice)

 

5 match series, all in India.

[Adi BB]

That superstar team will win 3-1 or something like that 

[SK_IH]

Veeru and Kumble are big factors in Ind, will clean sweep the newbies

[Texan]

That team batting was far superior. Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman 

 

The bowling attack is better now though, especially early promise shown by Bumrah. 

[Number]

the current side has 2 batsmen Kohli and Pujara

Imagine Kumble vs Harane on day 4 Indian pitch 

Edited December 30, 2018 by Number

[kubrickian]

2000s team will win but what that team lacked was good seamers other than Zak. But with the batting they had, they could post a big total and Zak and Kumble would be good enough to put pressure. But if batting fails, they dont have the bowling to bail the side out of trouble.

 

 

[Dil Dil India]

13 minutes ago, Texan said:

That team batting was far superior. Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman 

 

The bowling attack is better now though, especially early promise shown by Bumrah. 

What do you think the result will be in a 5 match series?

[Dil Dil India]

2 minutes ago, Number said:

the current side has 2 batsmen Kohli and Pujara

Imagine Kumble vs Rahane on day 4 Indian pitch 

For that matter, even Kohli and Pujara would struggle in India vs Kumble. The current side can't play Lyon and Moeen Ali lol

[Dil Dil India]

2 minutes ago, kubrickian said:

2000s team will win but what that team lacked was good seamers other than Zak. But with the batting they had, they could post a big total and Zak and Kumble would be good enough to put pressure. But if batting fails, they dont have the bowling to bail the side out of trouble.

 

 

It is incredible how Zak had no support at all - Sreesanth, Irfan, RP Singh were all good in spurts here and there but overall he was India's only hope outside Asia.

[kubrickian]

Its important to consider where they are playing. At home, 2000s team all day every day. Overseas, it would be a tougher contest.

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 minute ago, kubrickian said:

Its important to consider where they are playing. At home, 2000s team all day every day. Overseas, it would be a tougher contest.

It wnt be easy at hone to as those guys were better players of spin 

[Trichromatic]

29 minutes ago, Adi BB said:

That superstar team will win 3-1 or something like that 

When did that team 3 match in a series anyway?

[sensible-indian]

On paper, the 2000 Indian team must thrash the current team in India.

 

But in a real fight, I think our current team will win or atleast the run that team close.

 

Current Indian spinners know how to use the SG ball. So there won't be a Murali situation.

 

Plus the whole team is clutch as hell in India.

 

2000 Indian team were never this dominating at home in the last decade.

 

Bumrah-Shami-Ashwin-Jaddu-Kuldeep is an insanely relentless attack to face at home.

 

It won't be easy even for the Fab 4 as there won't be any weaklings to target.

[Zero_Unit]

That batting lineup though. 

[sensible-indian]

Just now, Zero_Unit said:

That batting lineup though. 

Intimidating as hell. 

[Zero_Unit]

2 minutes ago, sensible-indian said:

Intimidating as hell. 

would make any team piss their pants (on paper ofcourse).

[Jimmy Cliff]

2000s team comfortably as they have only one weakness (2nd pacer). The current team doesn't have a settled opening pair, it has Rahane who can't bat in India and a lead spinner (i.e. Ashwin) who'd be taken to cleaners by the Fab 4 as well as Ganguly/Gambhir.

[R!TTER]

36 minutes ago, kubrickian said:

2000s team will win but what that team lacked was good seamers other than Zak. But with the batting they had, they could post a big total and Zak and Kumble would be good enough to put pressure. But if batting fails, they dont have the bowling to bail the side out of trouble.

 

 

So we're forgetting the times when we outbowled the opposition, even when batting failed? If you're going by that argument then how would this side do if the bowling fails, which it will against our best ever batting lineup?

[Dil Dil India]

India was very dominant at home even in the 00s - that team beat McGrath, Ponting, Gilchrist and Hayden 2-1; this team beat a much weaker Aus team 2-1...stats will show 2-1 for both teams so you could argue statistically both the Indian teams were equally dominant in their respective series but once you factor in strength of opposition, it's a no-contest.

[Ankit_sharma03]

3 minutes ago, Dil Dil India said:

India was very dominant at home even in the 00s - that team beat McGrath, Ponting, Gilchrist and Hayden 2-1; this team beat a much weaker Aus team 2-1...stats will show 2-1 for both teams so you could argue statistically both the Indian teams were equally dominant in their respective series but once you factor in strength of opposition, it's a no-contest.

but that team was also beated at home few times

Aus beated them in 2004

Pak drew a test from nowere in mohali n then beat us in banglore.....that series was 1-1

Eng beat us in 2006 i think in wakhade , 2001....they did well to drew last 2 test 

SA also gave a thrashing in one of test i think almost all the series they played us at home 

NZ use to draw against us at home 

 

This team is pretty much whitewashing opp and if not that .....we are winning most test in the series