India A team to face england in unoffical tests

[rkt.india]

2 hours ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

How are the two even comparable. Sehwag had a great record behind him, Aaron has been an outright failure internationally so far. He looked like getting some sting back and had started to swing the ball at pace. All seem to have gone away with time.

How many games has he played to be called outright failure?

[Vijy]

12 hours ago, express bowling said:

Unofficial tests

 

1.  Easwaran

2.  Shaw

3.  Panchal  /  Mayank

4.  Gill

5.  Shankar

6.  Pant   (  to practice keeping against spin )

7.  Rinku Singh

8.  Gotham

9.  Rahul Chahar

10.  Avesh

11.  Rajpoot /  Mavi 

 

 

12.  Mayank /  Panchal

13.  Nair

14.  Markande

15.  Mavi /  Rajpoot

16.  Aniket C

Although it's evident that Pant needs to improve his keeping, I'd rather see someone play in the "A" tours who is not a regular in the Test squad, and I think Pant has a settled place in the team (for the near future). Ditto Mayank and Shaw. All of them need to work on their skill sets for sure, but I wish to see more back-up options for the future being tested. My "A" squad focusing on potential back-ups would be:

 

(1) Easwaran, (2) Panchal, (3) Gill, (4) P. Garg, (5) Kishan (?), (6) Rinku Singh, (7) Gopal, (8) Rahul Chahar, (9) Mavi/Rajpoot, (10) Avesh and (11) Aniket C/Tanvir ul-Haq (need to try lefties)

 

Remaining 5 include: (1) Aniket C/Tanvir ul-Haq, (2), Mavi/Rajpoot, (3) Gowtham, (4) J. Sidhu, (5) Saurabh Kumar/S. Dubey

 

I think this team has reasonably experienced openers for near-future, some young guns to be tried in middle-order (Garg, Gill, Sidhu) and a lower-middle-order specialist (Rinku). I omitted the likes of Nair and Bhui in favour of Sidhu & Garg - have seen 2-3 of their innings, and I think they have the beginnings of something special IMO.

In my book, leg-spin is the most important of the lot as far as spinners are concerned. Hence, I'd like to see both Gopal and Chahar get a shot - one is more of an all-rounder with domestic experience (Gopal), while the other has raw talent and potential (Chahar). India is sadly lacking in offies (apart from old warhorses Rasool & Saxena), so I've gone with Gowtham. Not seen enough of Saurabh Kumar, but we need a proper back-up for Jaddu - left-arm orthodox who can plug away, and score some useful runs. Dubey had a strong beginning, but fell off - however, I think he is better than Shankar as a bowler.

 

Pace options select themselves: Mavi, Rajpoot, Aniket. Siraj and Saini have already had their share of "A' tours exposure. Stuck Tanvir in the mix as well, since we need to try out lefties.

 

Back-up Keepers are definitely an issue: have not seen Wadkar (Vidarbha) and Upendra Yadav (UP) keep. They both have good batting records, but not sure how they are in terms of wk keeping. Bharat has gone on enough A tours - I think he is a safe-ish keeper, but his batting is not much to write home about. No idea about younger keepers like Anuj Rawat either.