INDIA A tour of New Zealand

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 minute ago, express bowling said:

 

These A-team games are for " player development for senior international cricket " only. 

 

If R.Chahar is considered as a prospect ( and he should be )  then he should be playing A-team 4 day games irrespective of his recent performances in FC.  The fact that he has missed a few FC matches means he should play these games even more.

he has missed these A games due to injury only 

[express bowling]

3 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

he has missed these A games due to injury only 

 

Is he fit now ?

[Ankit_sharma03]

Just now, express bowling said:

 

Is he fit now ?

not sure....i think he got injured in one of the 50 over games 

[sandsaims]

Mayank Agarwal seems to be in terrible form , a pair in the  game.

Edited February 1, 2020 by sandsaims

[Vijy]

5 hours ago, sarchasm said:

Why can I not talk about both the game and the season? Understand the wide sense in which I wrote that post. Chahar is the type of bowler who would get to bowl as a strike option in non subcontinental conditions, unlike Nadeem. He should be playing ahead of random SLAs.

 

Lastly, Chahar is a little profligate like leg spinners usually are, but he's also the bowler with best strike rate among ALL spinners in FC cricket.

Yes, Chahar needs a longer run for certain.

 

Btw, he does not have best SR among all spinners in FC. His current SR is 48.2 whereas Gopal has a SR of 46.2 despite mostly being played a support bowler (or even as afterthought) in the strong Karnataka attack. Gopal is also a much better batsman, who has the ability to easily play at 7. And yet, the great selectors don't even give him proper chances in A squad.

 

Markande has a SR of 49.1 and Ansari has a SR of 50. All 4 names listed here are leggies. When playing outside SC, we should consider only 2 types of spinners: (a) genuine ARs who can hold an end up (e.g., Jaddu/Ash to some extent), and (b) wrist-spinners (preferably leggies instead of chinaman).

[Vijy]

1 hour ago, sandsaims said:

Mayank Agarwal seems to be in terrible form , a pair in the  game.

needs to be benched for a while until his hunger returns. too many good openers as of now - shaw & gill are there, and rohit won't be dumped. there's also KLR in the wings. mayank seems to have let his success get to his (big) head.

[vvvslaxman]

2 hours ago, Vijy said:

needs to be benched for a while until his hunger returns. too many good openers as of now - shaw & gill are there, and rohit won't be dumped. there's also KLR in the wings. mayank seems to have let his success get to his (big) head.

He was the highest run getter  for India in 2019 with two double centuries. We shouldn't read too much into these A tour failures of established players. 

[cowboysfan]

24 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

He was the highest run getter  for India in 2019 with two double centuries. We shouldn't read too much into these A tour failures of established players. 

he sucked in most of the ranji games too,seems to lost form all of a sudden.

[vvvslaxman]

7 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

he sucked in most of the ranji games too,seems to lost form all of a sudden.

Doesn't matter.  Unless and until he fails continuously  in Tests he should be our primary choice. We already made the mistake of leaving out Pujara because he didn't do well in county.  Probably he was a bit too casual.

[Vickydev]

Hundreds for Panchal and Gill. 

Shouldn't write off Panchal yet, he is a proven Ranji performer, done well in previous A tours as well and has a very compact technique to succeed outside Asia i believe.

[vvvslaxman]

18 minutes ago, Vickydev said:

Hundreds for Panchal and Gill. 

Shouldn't write off Panchal yet, he is a proven Ranji performer, done well in previous A tours as well and has a very compact technique to succeed outside Asia i believe.

Yea.. Many dismissed him after one bad innings. I have seen entire Indian line up folding on first day in NZ without scoring much. Including Dravid, Tendulkar. 

[vvvslaxman]

https://scoring.nzc.nz/#md3b44507-7050-4a9d-9cad-96a02dbd9181

 

You can check clippings of Indian batting.

[Vijy]

many seem to dislike panchal because he is "mediocre" or "old". yes, he is not as outwardly talented as gill/shaw but I would rather take him over KLR, dhawan, rohit in tests. my current pecking order ideally would be shaw, gill, agarwal, panchal, KLR, dhawan, easwaran, and rohit.

[vvvslaxman]

Saw the dismissal of Agarwal. Ball just took off with movement and caught the edge. Agarwal reacted like he didn't touch it. He probably did i think.

[SUMO]

Gill 204* and Hanuma 100* match drawn.

Great match for Gill, enhanced his reputation even more. Should be in the playing XI in ODIs and test both.

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, SUMO said:

Gill 204* and Hanuma 100* match drawn.

Great match for Gill, enhanced his reputation even more. Should be in the playing XI in ODIs and test both.

They will play only their buddies.

[vvvslaxman]

Gill would have probably already been our own Labuschagne if he had gotten the break earlier.

[rkt.india]

Typical New Zealand pitch. 3 100s including one double on 4th day. 

[rkt.india]

25 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Gill would have probably already been our own Labuschagne if he had gotten the break earlier.

There is no space in the xi.

[rkt.india]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Yea.. Many dismissed him after one bad innings. I have seen entire Indian line up folding on first day in NZ without scoring much. Including Dravid, Tendulkar. 

Second inning runs are useless on these pitches. They are dead pan cake by day 4. First innings is what matters and is challenging.