We got the best bowling lineup going into WC !!!

[vvvslaxman]

If the pitch has a little bit of pace we are going to be lethal. If it has bounce too we will be unplayable.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37jOpBHOoIk

[Vilander]

Rabada beat every Indian bowler so outright that it almost hurts, he is in some other plane. Other than that we know cummins is close to him. Archer is lesser than Bumrah Shami. Stokes is equal to Pandya in bowling. Indian spinners are in different league compared to others.  So i would say. SA followed by Ind/Aus then Eng in order of bowling lineups. If batting clicks then we can overwhelm SA and beat Aus, Eng batting and even WI batting seems too strong. Eng hopefully can be avoided in knockouts and WI hopefully we meet in a pacy  pitch where bowlers can outclass their hitters.

[Gollum]

Cummins

Starc

Jhy Richardson

Coulter-Nile

Kane Richardson

Behrendorff

Zampa

Lyon

Stoinis

Maxwell

 

Check how many options Aus have, look at the depth. They have picked 6 frontline quicks, we have 3...who do you think will be fresher in KO stage? Theoretically they can play Starc/Cummins only in 4-5 important group matches and unleash them on us in SF, Bumrah's gas tank will be empty by then and Shami/BK worse. They have no weak link, 5th bowler duties can be done by Stoinis/Maxwell. And Aussie teams will always be mentally tough in big matches, people often overlook that. 

 

Outstanding squad selection 

Poised to win 6th WC IMHO. 

Edited May 16, 2019 by Gollum

[vvvslaxman]

India's biggest trump card is Kuldeep who has absolutely owned top nations in recent times at various times. Chahal has complemented beautifully. This is the luxury none of the other teams have. Using him at the right time is very very crucial.

[rkt.india]

Aus and SA have better bowling than us.

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Cummins

Starc

Jhy Richardson

Coulter-Nile

Kane Richardson

Behrendorff

Zampa

Lyon

Stoinis

Maxwell

 

Check how many options Aus have, look at the depth. They have picked 6 frontline quicks, we have 3...who do you think will be fresher in KO stage? Theoretically they can play Starc/Cummins only in 4-5 important group matches and unleash them on us in SF, Bumrah's gas tank will be empty by then and Shami/BK worse. They have no weak link, 5th bowler duties can be done by Stoinis/Maxwell. And Aussie teams will always be mentally tough in big matches, people often overlook that. 

 

Outstanding squad selection 

Poised to win 6th WC IMHO. 

Excluding Hazlewood from the squad should go down as one of the worst decision ever in history of the game.  Jhy got injured and they replace him with Kane Richardson and still not Hazlewood.  Any team would love to have a bowler like Hazlewood.

[vvvslaxman]

IN the last 2 years

 

Away & Neutral record for India

 

Beat SL in SL 5-0

Beat SA in SA 5-1

Beat NZ  in NZ 4-1

Beat WI in WI  3-1

Beat OZ in OZ 2-1

Lost to Eng in Eng 1-2

 

Neutral record

 

 Asia cup - Won the final

 Won 5 tied 1

CT - Reached the final

Won 3 lost 2

 

We have been doing fabulously well even with lot of obvious inadequacies.  KulCha/Kohli/Dhawan/Sharma have been the main players during this period. Key points. Six hitters we have only 2.  Dhoni out of 1117 balls he faced hit only 11 sixes. That is way too less for a lower order hitter. 

 

Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
V Kohli	30	30	10	1882	160*	94.1	1949	96.56	7	9	1	175	22
S Dhawan	36	36	3	1717	132*	52.03	1704	100.76	5	8	1	231	19
RG Sharma	32	32	5	1601	137*	59.29	1797	89.09	7	7	2	149	51
MS Dhoni	36	25	12	850	87*	65.38	1117	76.09	0	7	1	55	11
AM Rahane	12	11	1	481	103	48.1	635	75.74	1	4	0	43	5
AT Rayudu	13	13	4	389	90	43.22	487	79.87	0	3	2	32	12
KM Jadhav	29	16	7	350	63	38.88	352	99.43	0	2	1	34	5
KD Karthik	14	12	5	294	50*	42	374	78.6	0	1	1	25	3
HH Pandya	27	15	2	277	76	21.3	221	125.33	0	1	2	16	18
B Kumar	31	11	5	181	53*	30.16	261	69.34	0	1	0	13	2
Yuvraj Singh	8	7	1	162	53	27	181	89.5	0	1	0	18	2
KL Rahul	7	6	1	97	60	19.4	124	78.22	0	1	1	7	1
MK Pandey	3	3	1	94	50*	47	110	85.45	0	1	0	6	0
RA Jadeja	14	6	1	82	25	16.4	117	70.08	0	0	0	3	0
SS Iyer	3	2	0	48	30	24	58	82.75	0	0	0	4

 

Player	Mat	Inns	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Kuldeep Yadav	28	27	245.4	7	1095	57	6/25	19.21	4.45	25.8	4	1
YS Chahal	24	24	217.1	3	1043	44	6/42	23.7	4.8	29.6	1	2
B Kumar	31	30	231.2	15	1130	37	5/42	30.54	4.88	37.5	1	1
JJ Bumrah	20	20	162.1	11	674	35	5/27	19.25	4.15	27.8	1	1
HH Pandya	27	26	189.4	2	1021	23	3/40	44.39	5.38	49.4	0	0
Mohammed Shami	9	9	78.4	4	370	18	4/48	20.55	4.7	26.2	1	0
KM Jadhav	29	21	98.5	1	477	17	3/23	28.05	4.82	34.8	0	0
RA Jadeja	14	14	126	3	630	13	4/29	48.46	5	58.1	1	0
UT Yadav	9	8	70.1	3	387	13	3/30	29.76	5.51	32.3	0	0
AR Patel	4	4	40	1	154	6	3/34	25.66	3.85	40	0	0
SN Thakur	5	5	35.5	0	218	6	4/52	36.33	6.08	35.8	1	0
R Ashwin	6	5	48	1	242	5	3/28	48.4	5.04	57.6	0	0
KK Ahmed	4	4	31	1	167	4	3/48	41.75	5.38	46.5	0	0
DL Chahar	1	1	4	0	37	1	1/37	37	9.25	24	0	0

 

 

NOTE: This record is purely on Away and Neutral venues.

Edited May 16, 2019 by vvvslaxman

[vvvslaxman]

6 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Aus and SA have better bowling than us.

Not true if you look at the impact that Kulcha left during our overseas. They don't have one spinner let alone two that come close to these two.

[Gollum]

6 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Excluding Hazlewood from the squad should go down as one of the worst decision ever in history of the game.  Jhy got injured and they replace him with Kane Richardson and still not Hazlewood.  Any team would love to have a bowler like Hazlewood.

I thought Josh was injured for the last 3-4 months.

[vvvslaxman]

Shami averages 20 overseas in the last 2 years !!!

[rkt.india]

28 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Not true if you look at the impact that Kulcha left during our overseas. They don't have one spinner let alone two that come close to these two.

in those conditions, spinners would not be as effective, proved last time when we lost the ODI series.

[rkt.india]

29 minutes ago, Gollum said:

I thought Josh was injured for the last 3-4 months.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/josh-hazlewood-bitterly-disappointed-missing-world-cup-australia-richardson-star-finch-langer/2019-05-15

 

He had injury but has recovered and proved his fitness though selectors want him to focus on Ashes.

Edited May 16, 2019 by rkt.india

[vvvslaxman]

2 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

in those conditions, spinners would not be as effective, proved last time when we lost the ODI series.

He still won one match for us. He is not going to bowl to the same batting power house every match. He will bowl to different teams. Besides he didn't have Bumrah or Shami as back ups. Now they will have. IIRC in one match they opened with Pandya.

[Gollum]

49 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Not true if you look at the impact that Kulcha left during our overseas. They don't have one spinner let alone two that come close to these two.

Sadly SF/F will be played on fresh wickets and not used ones, meaning quicks have a huge advantage. Once you are there, it all comes down to pace bowling strength, form and freshness of the quicks. I don't doubt the former 2 but freshness I am not sure, 3 quicks for 9 group matches (no Canada/UAE/Oman/Uganda type minnow either) will take a heavy toll. Also since our campaign begins late we will have to cover our group stage in some 30 days, that's an insane amount of stress for a world event. I dunno why no one is talking about this scheduling, by the time our WC begins the other teams would have finished 2/9 matches 

 

Archer/Boult/Cummins/Starc by semis would have workload of maybe 6 matches in 36 days, Bumrah/Shami maybe 8 matches in 30 days. Who will have more in the reserves by the end? It is complete insanity to travel with just the 3 quicks and now these bastards want Axar as 4th spinner, mother*ers. 

Edited May 16, 2019 by Gollum

[vvvslaxman]

That is true. Back up seamer is always needed in places like England. This is the kind of information team management has to work out. That is what these bozos get paid for. Wish they had allowed 16 member squad.

[Gollum]

24 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/josh-hazlewood-bitterly-disappointed-missing-world-cup-australia-richardson-star-finch-langer/2019-05-15

 

He had injury but has recovered and proved his fitness though selectors want him to focus on Ashes.

Big relief for other teams. Josh/Cummins/Starc in starting XI would have been scary af. 

 

But Oz selectors rarely mess up especially before big tournaments, they would have had a solid reason to not pick him in the squad. Not 3D enough maybe, or they didn't want to risk a recently injured player (like Handscomb's case), recent form, rhythm in practice 

Edited May 16, 2019 by Gollum

[Norman]

5 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

That is true. Back up seamer is always needed in places like England. This is the kind of information team management has to work out. That is what these bozos get paid for. Wish they had allowed 16 member squad.

I think 17 member squad would have been ideal. It's pathetic from ICC to only allow 15 players for a month and a half long tournament. Just 4 backups for 11 games (provided a team goes to the final) is just not enough. 

[rkt.india]

26 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Big relief for other teams. Josh/Cummins/Starc in starting XI would have been scary af. 

 

But Oz selectors rarely mess up especially before big tournaments, they would have had a solid reason to not pick him in the squad. Not 3D enough maybe, or they didn't want to risk a recently injured player (like Handscomb's case), recent form, rhythm in practice 

half fit Hazlewood is any day better than fully fit Kane.

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, Gollum said:

Big relief for other teams. Josh/Cummins/Starc in starting XI would have been scary af. 

 

But Oz selectors rarely mess up especially before big tournaments, they would have had a solid reason to not pick him in the squad. Not 3D enough maybe, or they didn't want to risk a recently injured player (like Handscomb's case), recent form, rhythm in practice 

He lacks penetration, variation, top speed. Once the movement is gone he is pedestrian. Jhye Richardson is an exciting prospect with bundle of energy. Jhye Richardson is sort of a specialist in one dayers. He looks innocuous. But he is hard to go after in the beginning. May be a bit like Bruce Reid who had more bounce though.

 

[rkt.india]

24 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

He lacks penetration, variation, top speed. Once the movement is gone he is pedestrian. Jhye Richardson is an exciting prospect with bundle of energy. Jhye Richardson is sort of a specialist in one dayers. He looks innocuous. But he is hard to go after in the beginning. May be a bit like Bruce Reid who had more bounce though.

 

Jhye is injured and is replaced by Kane.  Also Hazlewood is as quick as Jhy and both have similar top and average speeds. Jhye is shorter.  Hazlewood gets bounce as well.  Currently, only Starc and Bumrah have better ODI record than Hazlewood.  Average 25, ER 4.73, SR 31.  This is one of the best stat combination currently where all three factors are great average, ER, SR.