Remove Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and India will struggle too, says Tim Paine

[beetle]

King Tendulkar     3,198

 

 

Posted 14 minutes ago

Pathetoc by Paine.  What happened to the jokes?

 

Awful leadership bu Paine.  Saying need  these players what  messsage that send to current team, that no good and you will be axed when these 2 come back.  Applaing negatice statement which dont help team when lost, he needs to learn from Indian TM on postivity

 

Edit. Copy pasting King Tendulkar's post from the other double thread.

[R!TTER]

7 minutes ago, Rasgulla said:

Smith and warner would have made a huge difference. That's not even a question. 

 

Can't even comapre warner and Smith to other 3. They are nowhere near close to their level. 

 

It's like comparing kohli to shehzad. 

In a game of possibilities & probabilities everybody wins, at least anybody can.

 

What you're proposing is a definitive alternate outcome, except with an indefinite past nothing is definitive. What if Aus lost all tosses this series (or in 2004 vs India) would their bowling magically make up deficit, in terms of runs conceded?

[st12345]

he is right .smith single handedly won 2015 wc semi  for them and in 2014 series smith scored centuries in 6 out of 8  innings i remember 

[R!TTER]

And Root had a fifty against India every game (bar one?) before the 2018 series, so what was his avg - even after counting the second innings 100 on a flat Oval track?

Edited December 30, 2018 by R!TTER

[express bowling]

1 hour ago, Real McCoy said:

Spelling mistakes from Indian Express. Pane for Paine and Marnus for Marcus. These are schoolboy errors

 

Yeah ... should have written Pain and Marcass.  

Edited December 30, 2018 by express bowling

[King Tendulkar]

Awful leadership bu Paine.  Saying need  these players what  messsage that send to current team, that no good and you will  be axed when these 2 come back.  Applaing  negatice  statement which dont help team when lost,  he  needs to learn from Indian TM on postivity

[express bowling]

We too were playing without rising star Shaw and star bowler Ashwin.

 

 

And Shaw's absence hurt us a lot too given the poor form of  Vijay and Rahul.

[King Tendulkar]

Paine should thank his lucky stars Shaw got injured and Agarwk did not play from test 1

 

Or would be 3-0

[Mosher]

17 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

Yeah ... should have written Pain and Marcass.  

Pain in the Marcass 

[express bowling]

1 minute ago, Mosher said:

Pain in the Marcass 

 

Their nocturnal activity  ?      

[prudent_kreeda]

1 hour ago, beetle said:

King Tendulkar     3,198

 

 

Posted 14 minutes ago

Pathetoc by Paine.  What happened to the jokes?

 

Awful leadership bu Paine.  Saying need  these players what  messsage that send to current team, that no good and you will be axed when these 2 come back.  Applaing negatice statement which dont help team when lost, he needs to learn from Indian TM on postivity

 

Edit. Copy pasting King Tendulkar's post from the other double thread.

    Why not Warnie , MEcgrath , Ponting. He should Include them also.

  

[Chalks]

Funny thing is, Warner would make the team better on paper, but he doesn't get on with at least half the side now after Cape Town.

 

The other banned player, Cameron Bancroft (he of that infamous interview with Gilly), made his return in the BBL today for Perth Scorchers against Hobart Hurricanes in Launceston, and contributed the grand total of 2.

Edited December 30, 2018 by Chalks

[rtmohanlal]

32 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Paine should thank his lucky stars Shaw got injured and Agarwk did not play from test 1

 

Or would be 3-0

not only that ... that catch of Virat when Virat was clearly not out. It was plain luck that, that  catch was  given out , especially  considering  that a bit more  unconvincing case was ruled in batsman's  favour in the case of Dean Elger. 

 

Also in India , Virat missed a test due to injury( might had been a factor in his paltry  returns in that series as well)  yet India won 2-1

And Dharamsala was a pace bowling friendly wkt as well. So all these make Paine's whining even more sweeter. Hope , in the Sydney test

Pant & co rubs it in more into his wounds  even using 'sand paper' as  a catalyst. 

[JourneyMan]

None of their bowlers got banned and they still got hit for over 400runs in one innings. 

 

 

[Bigg Brother]

At home,Top 2 Ranji performers can replace Kohli-Pujara and we would do comperatively fine unlike Current Australia.

[Wall2018]

1 hour ago, prudent_kreeda said:

    Why not Warnie , MEcgrath , Ponting. He should Include them also.

  

Also missing sandpaper...

[rkt.india]

4 hours ago, Real McCoy said:

He is speaking the truth here. But somehow he comes across as a whining schoolboy. Maybe Pant should babysit him

In 2004, we didn't have SRT. In 2017, Kohli did nothing and also got injured, still we won the series. And this is their home. They are struggling at home just because two players aren't playing. We didn't have bumrah for first two tests in England. We also had BK injured there. Imagine these two playing all five tests in England, series result could easily have been different.

[nevada]

While that might be the truth, Paine shouldn't have said it publicly. Good leaders fight with whatever resources they have and don't whine about missing players - especially when they are out due to cheating bans. Moreover, this series isn't over yet and can still end up as a tie, in which case it would be a creditable achievement for the Aussies. 

[Straight Drive]

The fact that he admits the batting depends so much on the two players exposes the state of Australian cricket as far as test batting is concerned.  

[Khota]

No they will not. If the opening conundrum is solved middle order is a non issue for India.