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Is Vijay Shankar the worst Indian player ever to be picked in WC squad ?


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5 minutes ago, kubrickian said:

Yeah right, specialist batsman who has to wildly slog whenever he is under pressure. He is not a specialist ODI batsman that's for sure. 

He slogged only for Sunrisers Hyderabad lol who cares.

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22 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Not only did he made the world cup squad, MSK Prasad publically announced he will bat at 4.

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He doesn't decide batting order. He has no authority. It is Kohli that decides. He was at the selection table as well.  Actually Rohit sharma was the one who promoted him at.3 if i am right. Until then he was languishing down the order.  Even in Nidahas he promoted shankar above KKD. He is not a man you want in the end overs. If Jadhav plays Shankar won't play and vice versa. It will be a shoot out between Rahul and Karthik depending on the captain. 

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49 minutes ago, kubrickian said:

Yeah right, specialist batsman who has to wildly slog whenever he is under pressure. He is not a specialist ODI batsman that's for sure. 

every batsman needs to slog wildely when under pressure.....i think u forgot he did well under pressure in international cricket only

Look beyond IPL 

We were under pressure against NZ n aus both when he played his knocks and did well batting in end in one game to when he just had to slog. Infact did slog well for SRH to at start ...now has just trailed off which can happen. Ur making it sound like this hasnt happened before with anyone

Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, kubrickian said:

Yeah right, specialist batsman who has to wildly slog whenever he is under pressure. He is not a specialist ODI batsman that's for sure. 

He is not a specialist ODI batsman because he slogged in T20s in IPL? That makes no sense.

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On 5/3/2019 at 12:14 AM, Gollum said:

2003 WC we had Dinesh Mongia in the starting XI :cantstop:

1999 WC Ramesh....gun test bat but shambolic in ODIs. 

Dinesh Mongia was not that bad. Had scores like 153 against zimbawe in those days.

Posted
7 minutes ago, Insidious said:

Dinesh Mongia was not that bad. Had scores like 153 against zimbawe in those days.

80 odd against Sa also

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he got a couple of wkts but that's more down to pak ineptness. batting was terrible. jadhav should have entered earlier

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15 minutes ago, Vijy said:

he got a couple of wkts but that's more down to pak ineptness. batting was terrible. jadhav should have entered earlier

Hitting right from the word go doesn't come naturally to him, he is suited to the number 4 role like Kane, Smith...not saying they are comparable in terms of ability, just that they aren't very versatile. If our score is 60/2 after 12 I would prefer Shankar over the rest, otherwise he should come at number 7. 

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1 minute ago, Gollum said:

Hitting right from the word go doesn't come naturally to him, he is suited to the number 4 role like Kane, Smith...not saying they are comparable in terms of ability, just that they aren't very versatile. If our score is 60/2 after 12 I would prefer Shankar over the rest, otherwise he should come at number 7. 

jadhav should have come ahead in my book. if TM distrusts him so much they should just play jaddu instead.

Posted
1 minute ago, Vijy said:

jadhav should have come ahead in my book. if TM distrusts him so much they should just play jaddu instead.

yeah definitely, that decision should be criticized. 

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Well...
When we talk a about worst players to represent India in world cup, the list is huge and many come ahead of Vijay...

I started watching world cup matches from 1992 and I was a kid...I couldn't remember everything but I remember I thing for sure...
Ajay Jadeja use to come as opener and go religiously before entering double figures...he should be the worst player who played the world cup..

Ajay Jadeja is the star player in the next world cup which is 1996..... Still can't forget his innings against Pakistan ...esp against Waqar Younis...
Back then, he was considered to be best pace bowler in world....

In 1996, Raju was the worst player..

In 1999 world.cup, Ajit agarkar was the worst player....he single handedly made sure, indian doesn't qualify for knock offs....
He made sure Zimbabwe won against us.....he bowled huge number number of no-balls

In 2003, dinesh mongia was worst ..

In 2007, Dhoni was the worst player..

In 2011, I didn't understand why Kohli was playing...

Point, I am trying to prove was
1) what we think is worst now, could be good in the next world cup.

2) there are definetly worst player than Vijay who represented India in world cup -- Raju, Dinesh Mongia.

I have seen very good innings from Vijay in Ranji in turning land mines. He is by far the best player of spin bowling in the current team. All he needs to do is....stay fit and treat intl match like a domestic game...

He is technically very good batsmen ......don't treat him like a allrounder.

His bowling is bonus.



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Yeah right, specialist batsman who has to wildly slog whenever he is under pressure. He is not a specialist ODI batsman that's for sure. 
You took 10 odd games to decide that ....

If you would have watched Kohli in his initial stage, you would have totally rules him out...

Against NZ and AUS, he looked better than Kohli in the middle overs....that's a huge compliment...

He is still young to intl game and sometimes, he makes mistakes like slogging to get out of shell....he will learn slowly ....give him some time

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On 5/2/2019 at 2:44 PM, Gollum said:

2003 WC we had Dinesh Mongia in the starting XI :cantstop:

1999 WC Ramesh....gun test bat but shambolic in ODIs. 

We also had utterly useless hacks like Subroto Banerjee in 92 and Salil Ankola and Aashish Kapoor in 96. I rate all of them even lower. This trio would not make even India C today.

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Vijay is not a hit from fist ball batsman - he does seem to have a power game though when settled. He is military medium pacer with no variations. Limited cricketer, India will do better with someone better.

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