Current Test Team Under Virat Kohli Is India's Best Ever: Sunil Gavaskar

[Gollum]

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Balance, skill, temperament: Sunil Gavaskar calls Virat Kohli’s Test team ‘India’s best-ever’

 

 

 

[Gollum]

'Best ever in SC conditions' would have been believable.

 

PR team has reached Sunny now? 

[raki05]

BC, budhha sathiya gaya hai.

[Gollum]

0-2 in NZ, no semblance of fight 

1-4 in Eng

1-2 in RSA

 

However if we draw this Aussie side in their backyard, that will be a sign of recovery. If we beat them it will go down as India's greatest cricket accomplishment of all time. 

[Gollum]

Aim is to be the cricket equivalent of Nadal. Invincible on familiar turf, and occasional success elsewhere. Nadal faced 1st week exit at Wimbledon from 2012-17....now set to pass Federer's numbers and lay claim to GOAT title with 66% of his career success coming on one surface, in a 3 month period in the calendar year.

 

We can be a great side even without doing as well as ATG WI/Aus/RSA teams overseas. Just have a run similar to 2007-10 Indian team in SENA and we are back in business. That Fab 4 team was lucky in a way that it faced the weakest Kiwi side in the last 50 years, and a relatively weak English side. Kohli's team will be lucky that it will face the weakest RSA side of all time and a beatable English side. All hope is not lost....yet. Just avoid whitewashes and 1-4, 1-3 scorelines we became so used to in the 2010s....next cycle 2 series wins in SENA, 1 fighting draw, 1 fighting loss, enough. 

Edited August 23, 2020 by Gollum

[zen]

Let me roughly check Gavaskar's theory by doing an AT11: 

 

Player - best decade 

 

Gavaskar - 1970s

Sehwag- 2000s

Dravid/Amarnath/Pujara - 2000s/1980s/Current

Sachin - 1990s

Kohli - Current 

Mankad - 1950s

Kapil - 1980s

Engineer (batting + keeping)/Saha (for keeping skills)/Pant (on batting potential) - 1960s/Current

Srinath/Shami - 1990s/Current

Zak/Bumrah -2000s/ Current

Gupte/Chandra - 1950s/1970s 

 

Decade: # of players

 

1950s: 2 (Gupte, Mankad)

1960s: 1 (Engineer)

1970s: 2 (Gavaskar, Chandra)

1980s: 2 (Amarnath, Kapil)

1990s: 2 (Tendulkar, Srinath)

2000s: 3 (Sehwag, Dravid, Zak)

Current: 6 (Pujara, Kohli, Shami, Bumrah, Saha, Pant) 

 

 

Edited August 23, 2020 by zen

[Tibarn]

The debate is between Dhoni's #1 team and Kohli's #1 team. 

 

Dhoni's team has 2 ATG batsmen, Dravid and Sachin, and a more well rounded batting unit, with VVS and Dhoni himself as a true keeper-batsman, as well as good openers Sehwag, and Gambhir.

 

Kohli's team is lacking in quality/established batting, the only other established players are Pujara and Rahane. The openers, number 6 position, and the wicket-keeper are all positions which are constantly in flux. However, bowling wise it isn't really close. Ashwin/Jadeja/Bumrah/Shami/Ishant/BK/Umesh as a unit are both deeper and more talented by miles than Dhoni's team. 

 

I'm not sure which one is better. 

[maniac]

What a topic

 

Covers Mumbai lobby bashing 
 

Covers  ridicule of BollyWood Kohli @Suhaan 

 

Will obviously throw in a couple of punches on MSD along the line

 

And then there is a bot programmed  to  bring in Sachin in anyways 

 

Sunny G

 

will be waiting

 

 

[Suhaan]

Even a drunk Shastri won't buy this blantant lie

Shastri will say-howcome you sir ? apka baat sun ke toh mera hi nahi virat ka bhi goti muh me aa gaya

 

 

 

[cricketfan28]

yes, if we win the WTC.

[Gollum]

8 minutes ago, Suhaan said:

Even a drunk Shastri won't buy this blantant lie

Shastri will say-howcome you sir ? apka baat sun ke toh mera hi nahi virat ka bhi goti muh me aa gaya

 

 

 

Nah in Shastri's mind we are already comparable to Lloyd/Viv's WI and Waugh/Ponting's Aus.

[zen]

2 hours ago, Tibarn said:

The debate is between Dhoni's #1 team and Kohli's #1 team. 

 

Dhoni's team has 2 ATG batsmen, Dravid and Sachin, and a more well rounded batting unit, with VVS and Dhoni himself as a true keeper-batsman, as well as good openers Sehwag, and Gambhir.

 

Kohli's team is lacking in quality/established batting, the only other established players are Pujara and Rahane. The openers, number 6 position, and the wicket-keeper are all positions which are constantly in flux. However, bowling wise it isn't really close. Ashwin/Jadeja/Bumrah/Shami/Ishant/BK/Umesh as a unit are both deeper and more talented by miles than Dhoni's team. 

 

I'm not sure which one is better. 

 

If you are considering b/w those two teams - at home, they are both good but away Kohli's team is more fun to watch esp. for bowling. In the last 2 years, Pujara hit 4 memorable 100s, Kohli has some good knocks too, and so on. In SENA, the current team won for the first time in Aus, one of the best series that I have seen. 

 

 

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Team	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	W/L	Ave	RPO	Inns	HS	LS
India	2009-2014	29	5	15	0	9	0.333	30.69	3.25	57	707	94

 

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Team	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	W/L	Ave	RPO	Inns	HS	LS
India	2014-2020	28	13	11	0	4	1.181	32.46	3.21	49	622	107

 

 

If you still can't make up your mind - Go with Gavaskar! 

[raki05]

Bloddy they got humiliated in sa, eng ,NZ and won against hapless aus and they are best ever. What about the team which won in eng and NZ and drew in sa and aus. 

[express bowling]

15 hours ago, zen said:

Let me roughly check Gavaskar's theory by doing an AT11: 

 

Player - best decade 

 

Gavaskar - 1970s

Sehwag- 2000s

Dravid/Amarnath/Pujara - 2000s/1980s/Current

Sachin - 1990s

Kohli - Current 

Mankad - 1950s

Kapil - 1980s

Engineer (batting + keeping)/Saha (for keeping skills)/Pant (on batting potential) - 1960s/Current

Srinath/Shami - 1990s/Current

Zak/Bumrah -2000s/ Current

Gupte/Chandra - 1950s/1970s 

 

Decade: # of players

 

1950s: 2 (Gupte, Mankad)

1960s: 1 (Engineer)

1970s: 2 (Gavaskar, Chandra)

1980s: 2 (Amarnath, Kapil)

1990s: 2 (Tendulkar, Srinath)

2000s: 3 (Sehwag, Dravid, Zak)

Current: 6 (Pujara, Kohli, Shami, Bumrah, Saha, Pant) 

 

 

 

Agree with most of it.

 

But Bumrah would be my sole choice for the first pacer's slot.

 

Bumrah

Srinath / Shami

Kapil

 

would be my 3 pronged pace attack.

[Nikola]

16 hours ago, Gollum said:

'Best ever in SC conditions' would have been believable.

 

PR team has reached Sunny now? 

But current team hasn't faced best Srilankan and Pakistan team.

[Lone Wolf]

Someone show him the clips of recent NZ tour.  Even in 2014 we were so close to win two tests there.  This time there was no fight. 

Our ex cricketers have no balls to stand up to BCCI.  Too much politics at play here. 

[Suhaan]

Atleast pak ex cricketers criticize their board and current setup,here we don't see "any match ka mujrim" kind of things anymore

[Adamant]

18 hours ago, Tibarn said:

The debate is between Dhoni's #1 team and Kohli's #1 team. 

 

Dhoni's team has 2 ATG batsmen, Dravid and Sachin, and a more well rounded batting unit, with VVS and Dhoni himself as a true keeper-batsman, as well as good openers Sehwag, and Gambhir.

 

Kohli's team is lacking in quality/established batting, the only other established players are Pujara and Rahane. The openers, number 6 position, and the wicket-keeper are all positions which are constantly in flux. However, bowling wise it isn't really close. Ashwin/Jadeja/Bumrah/Shami/Ishant/BK/Umesh as a unit are both deeper and more talented by miles than Dhoni's team. 

 

I'm not sure which one is better. 

Dhoni's team?

Call it Dravid or kumble's team.

Dhoni is the worst test captain india ever had .Elo ratings took a big dive during his tenure.

[Adamant]

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[coffee_rules]

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