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Bears (Ind) vs Bulldogs (Eng) Pre-Match Discussion Thread (WC19)


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Jonny Bairstow has started the whining already. 

 

“The pitches that we’ve been playing on the last two years are surely the pitches we [should] be playing on in a World Cup,” he said, “so I don’t know why they’ve changed.

“That wasn’t a typical Oval wicket we played South Africa on in the opening game. It wasn’t a typical Trent Bridge wicket we played Pakistanon. It wasn’t a typical Lord’s wicket that we played the other day. They’re not the typical wickets we’ve been playing on over two and a bit years. That’s just factual. But I’m not making excuses, we’ve not played well enough to beat sides when we should have done. We know that.”

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3 minutes ago, WeStMiDz said:

Jonny Bairstow has started the whining already. 

 

“The pitches that we’ve been playing on the last two years are surely the pitches we [should] be playing on in a World Cup,” he said, “so I don’t know why they’ve changed.

“That wasn’t a typical Oval wicket we played South Africa on in the opening game. It wasn’t a typical Trent Bridge wicket we played Pakistanon. It wasn’t a typical Lord’s wicket that we played the other day. They’re not the typical wickets we’ve been playing on over two and a bit years. That’s just factual. But I’m not making excuses, we’ve not played well enough to beat sides when we should have done. We know that.”

of course, he will whinge. if eng does not whinge, then it will mean we are in a parallel universe.

 

Moving back to the original thread, my XI is: Rohit, Pant, Kohli, Rahul, MSD, Jadhav, Pandya, Kuldeep, Shami, Bumrah, Chahal.

 

IMO, our real weakness is at No. 4 even more than Nos. 6 and 7, where we have decent-to-good players. Having Pant open and giving him license to attack while also playing himself in (and not slogging from ball 1 as he would at 7) will enable him to play a Gilly-type enforcer role.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Vijy said:

IMO, our real weakness is at No. 4 even more than Nos. 6 and 7, where we have decent-to-good players. Having Pant open and giving him license to attack while also playing himself in (and not slogging from ball 1 as he would at 7) will enable him to play a Gilly-type enforcer role.

I was among the first ones to suggest that Pant should be tried as an opener during NZ/Aus series. However, the tracks are not behaving like what I had in mind (Eng is talking about that) .... His first game at Edgbaston can be tricky so Ind should start him at 5 or 6. Depending upon how he does (and on KL’s form), Pant can open 

 

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7 minutes ago, zen said:

I was among the first ones to suggest that Pant should be tried as an opener during NZ/Aus series. However, the tracks are not behaving like what I had in mind (Eng is talking about that) .... His first game at Edgbaston can be tricky so Ind should start him at 5 or 6. Depending upon how he does (and on KL’s form), Pant can open 

 

Nahin hone wala hai woo .No matter what we want to do ...Rahul and Rohit will remain opener.

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Bulldogs will be seeking to bounce back hard. If they get into rhythm, could go all the way. Bears will have to be at their best! 

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