Open with Dhoni :)

[prasen82]

I think opening is a good idea. No team introduces spinners and dhoni can be like jayasuriya and can smash fast bowlers.His mishits can go for Sixers. Anyways we are 7 down whenever he bats low.. some unorthodox  moves could help..

[Amit228]

5 minutes ago, -Robin- said:

Thala will break Sharma's record of 264 

You mean 264 dot balls.. 

[-Robin-]

1 minute ago, Amit228 said:

You mean 264 dot balls.. 

No i am talking about runs

5 minutes ago, maniac said:

For that he would have to bat till the 2023 WC. You want him to continue till then?

You are underestimating dhoni he is capable of doing this in first attempt

[Stuge]

16 minutes ago, Shaz1 said:

His role should be of a pinch hitting opener.

why ? Yesterday's performance pinched you this much ;)

Edited July 1, 2019 by Stuge

[Amit228]

4 minutes ago, Shaz1 said:

I see nice racism there. This comment won’t get you a visa to HongKong for sure.

Racism?? Wait what?? Where?? Are u really that thick?? Or is that onerous to fathom.. dhoni won't even find a place in hong kong sixes cricket tournament as a "PINCH HITTING OPENER"... For ur information.. Hong Kong Cricket Sixes https://g.co/kgs/9AXPSQ it is a tournament.. not racism

[sage]

Players need to run him out, 1 (4) will be invaluable to the team. Sometimes he's even 5 (5)

[philcric]

khelo dimaag se khelo khelo dimaag se

[ViruDilSeKhelo]

If it wasn't for Agarwal being drafted in, this wouldn't have been a bad move. Dhoni is an immovable object with a lovely home made technique and fast hands. He can quickly analyse what to do as he showed in tests v England when others failed. I know he would make 100 off 120 balls easily, starting off slowly and accelerating a little. But his real value is at 4 now but we never play him there.

 

Now he's been working on the sweep to smash the spinners who are tying him down. He should just use his feet to spinners in every short, easy single. Fast bowlers can never tie him down. That jumping slash over point or nurdle off the hips he is very good at. He squirts the ball out with a lot of bottom hand.  

Edited July 2, 2019 by ViruDilSeKhelo

[maniac]

Bump.

 

Right time to do is tomorrow as we need his calculations as it may come down to D/L

[DHONI_FANN]

6 minutes ago, maniac said:

Bump.

 

Right time to do is tomorrow as we need his calculations as it may come down to D/L

Boult 

[Vijy]

26 minutes ago, DHONI_FANN said:

Boult 

I think I have seen more apprehension than Boult than most other bowlers in recent times on this board. he does have a very good record against Ind in ODIs, but we just need to see him out for 5 overs or so in his first spell. this is not an impossible endeavour especially if KLR can take the initiative and tuk-tuk (at the beginning) like he did against Ameer.

[Stuge]

1 hour ago, Vijy said:

I think I have seen more apprehension than Boult than most other bowlers in recent times on this board. he does have a very good record against Ind in ODIs, but we just need to see him out for 5 overs or so in his first spell. this is not an impossible endeavour especially if KLR can take the initiative and tuk-tuk (at the beginning) like he did against Ameer.

this is why we need full game instead of 20.over game.

[mishra]

^ Current Indian top order struggles against left arm seamers. Period!

[Chalks]

I was going to suggest Pant opening in case of a seriously curtailed game. If he comes off, we get a fast start, if not we still have our “real” batsmen to come.

[Vijy]

59 minutes ago, Chalks said:

I was going to suggest Pant opening in case of a seriously curtailed game. If he comes off, we get a fast start, if not we still have our “real” batsmen to come.

he is also a leftie and should be capable of playing Boult better. It's easy to forget seeing some of pant's brainless shots that here is a guy who did well in challenging conditions in Aus, and to some extent in Eng as well.