Ajinkya Rahane: Felt I should have played for India at No. 4 in the 2019 ODI World Cup

[Gollum]

17 hours ago, SK_IH said:

No.4 batsman lol, he should stick to Ranji trophy and wasting a spot in an IPL team.

With Roy, Shaw, Hetmyer, Pant, Iyer, even Dhawan (heard he had a good IPL last season), why did the Delhi bosses waste $$$ on this loser? Will be epic troll if he is in starting XI. 

[Sandeep99]

17 hours ago, Gollum said:

Delusion has limits, shameless Rahane, lodu. One of the worst investments in Indian cricket history, our Asad Shafiq, but has played 90 ODIs and 20 I-T20s lololol. 

Not a single achievement apart from the Lords 100.. has been a useless failure ever since. Mental midget.

[Khota]

rahane is absolutely correct. He was a specialist bat and should have played. Playing 3 wkt kpr batsman in a presuure game was the dumbest thing in history of Indian cricket I have ever seen. India should have won that cup but the blame lies with BCCI. Having a moron as a head coach who has no experience reeks of incompetence at the top. Shastri should have been no where near the Indian team. BCCI should spend resources to get analytics in the game and start incorporating AI at various level but instaed they play three non specialist bats. Morons. And yes Rahane should have been playing.

[Ankit_sharma03]

also when has rahane played a good innings in moving conditons in LOI, in that asia cup game where amir was getting banana swing rahane looked as bad as rohit . 

Remeber this game against england at home where ball was jagging he looked **** 

 

To play in middle over u need to have strike rotation ability which he clearly lacked since he was so he always gets stuck against spinner and that day santner choked us in middle overs. 

 

Such was the sad state that our 2 options- rahane n rayudu for number 4 didnt even have 80 s.r in day n age of 350 

[Rasgulla]

16 minutes ago, Khota said:

rahane is absolutely correct. He was a specialist bat and should have played. Playing 3 wkt kpr batsman in a presuure game was the dumbest thing in history of Indian cricket I have ever seen. India should have won that cup but the blame lies with BCCI. Having a moron as a head coach who has no experience reeks of incompetence at the top. Shastri should have been no where near the Indian team. BCCI should spend resources to get analytics in the game and start incorporating AI at various level but instaed they play three non specialist bats. Morons. And yes Rahane should have been playing.

Khota bhai you rock  Big fan of you. You already know that. 

 

Rahane was a pillar in 2015 WC. His contribution has been immense @WC2011INDIA ll tell us more about it. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

17 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Merge this thread with:  

 

 

 

once he retires will add, he isnt Ex cricketer as of now

[maniac]

Bring on the troll votes but I would say Rahane and Rayudu would have played more sensibly than Pant and Pandya in that scenario In the semis.

Having said that, they would have been perfect for semi final scenario and useless in every other game.

Edited August 28, 2020 by maniac

[Stan AF]

Rayudu and Shankar did play a decent innings in the 4th ODI during our tour before WC.

 

8 minutes ago, maniac said:

Bring on the troll votes but I would say Rahane and Rayudu would have played more sensibly than Pant and Pandya in that scenario In the semis.

Having said that, they would have been perfect for semi final scenario and useless in every other game.

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Stan AF

[Khota]

15 minutes ago, maniac said:

Bring on the troll votes but I would say Rahane and Rayudu would have played more sensibly than Pant and Pandya in that scenario In the semis.

Having said that, they would have been perfect for semi final scenario and useless in every other game.

Absolutely. All these guys who come and shi$t on the forum do not comprehend that. Rahane + Raydu + one wkt kpr would have got the 20 odd runs needed. Three wkt kprs playing. I have never seen such stupidity in my life.

[Khota]

1 hour ago, Rasgulla said:

Khota bhai you rock  Big fan of you. You already know that. 

 

Rahane was a pillar in 2015 WC. His contribution has been immense @WC2011INDIA ll tell us more about it. 

I dont need fans but anyone who thinks that Rahane is not a bettre bat than other three needs some serious introspection.

[Lone Wolf]

Even if we had played Mayank Agarwal at no 4 in KO he'd have done better.  That SF match should be a reason alone to sack lolli as Captain.  There was no planning whatsoever. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 hour ago, maniac said:

Bring on the troll votes but I would say Rahane and Rayudu would have played more sensibly than Pant and Pandya in that scenario In the semis.

Rayudu who cant play pace (in before u quote his NZ innings, well there was no Lockie in middle overs the guy with pace his problem ...but in semi he played)

Rahane who cant play spin imagine that day against - santner who choked 2 guys who kill spin pant n pandya

 

Not to forget their awful strike rotation which is they key in such pressure situation 

 

Pant looked the best batsman that day 

Pandya was playing on one leg post his pulled hamstring while bowling

 

Imagine dhoni wasting balls and rayudu n rahane at other end wasting more balls 

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Having said that, they would have been perfect for semi final scenario and useless in every other game.

everyone who doesnt play looks like a match winner 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Ankit_sharma03

[Skipper]

Problem with Hahane is he is mentally shot and believes in mob mentality. What made anyone think he would not have out on the first 4 wkt which went down. We have seen similar instance in Asia cup where amir took first 3 wkts and rahane was one of them and loli came to the rescue. Problem with hahane kind of player is you can't bank on them and especially on crunch situation but then I see no one else as well in current indian team.

[BacktoCricaddict]

2 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

once he retires will add, he isnt Ex cricketer as of now

One can only hope ...

[Gollum]

1 hour ago, maniac said:

Bring on the troll votes but I would say Rahane and Rayudu would have played more sensibly than Pant and Pandya in that scenario In the semis.

Having said that, they would have been perfect for semi final scenario and useless in every other game.

Iyer or Pandey would have done better. I am sure Iyer wouldn't have allowed Santner to escape for 7 runs in 6 overs!!! These 2 have more grit, technique notwithstanding. 

 

As others have already said, Rahane would have been stuck against spin and Rayudu would have been a snack for Lockie. 

 

Lunacy is playing DK that day and sending him in after 3/5 when he has demonstrated throughout his career that he can't build an innings. Dhoni should have walked in at #4, better chance for DK to help us get 90 in the last 10 than consolidate/resurrect after top order collapse. So much stupidity that day starting with team selection. 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Gollum

[Rasgulla]

2 hours ago, Khota said:

I dont need fans but anyone who thinks that Rahane is not a bettre bat than other three needs some serious introspection.

I m your #1  fan whether you need it or not Rahane has classy elegance no others can match. 

[coffee_rules]

Team selection faux pas no even acknowledged. Agree Dhoni should have been natural #4. Both Rahane and Dhoni would have killed it. Pandey was pitted against Yuvraj initially and then Iyer. Pandey should have been groomed. He is a terrific fielder as well. Mumbai mafia cricketers lobbying for him, remember Gavaskar being livid when Rahane was dropped for IPL players, saying things like BCCI likes players with only tattoos. 

[WC2011INDIA]

*********************************  Just retire you pos mumbaikar.

 

 

Moderator Note: Filthy abuse cleaned up.  Warning issued, banned for 24 hours.  This isn't the first time you've let yourself go too far with this kachra.  

Edited August 28, 2020 by sandeep

[Vilander]

22 hours ago, SRT100 said:

I agree I think in those situations that Rahane would have been ok.

 

India created the problem, by not giving other players opportunities in the lead up to this world cup.

 

Allowing Rohit, Kohli to score mindless useless centuries in bi-lateral series instead should have been rested allowing other players to prove their worth.

Rahane and Shami India would have beat nz and made final and with the game condition in the final we got to see eventually ,plus fact that India is a big game team it could have been a memorable win for India. Stuffed up by lack of planning inspite of all the resources. 

[SRT100]

On 8/29/2020 at 11:59 AM, Vilander said:

Rahane and Shami India would have beat nz and made final and with the game condition in the final we got to see eventually ,plus fact that India is a big game team it could have been a memorable win for India. Stuffed up by lack of planning inspite of all the resources. 

As an Indian living outside of India, I feel the team is badly mismanaged and there is a lack of preparation for the ICC tournaments, its very easy to see this from afar.

 

India had THREE WICKETKEEPERS in that game vs NZ in the semi final.

 

It was just mindless stupidity how this can happen. Pant and Karthik are also not that great fielders so that became a liability as well while fielding.

 

India were 6-92 while chasing. It was fortunate that Jadeja played a miracle innings to save India from humiliation.

 

Just remember when it mattered most, Pant at least put up some fight in scoring 32 runs, which was only 9 runs less than the combined scores of KL,Rohit, Kohli, Karthik and Pandya. Yet he was afforded the luxury of getting easy games before the WC. Imagine if Pant was in the Indian ODI team for 12 months consistently. He may have saved us with Jadeja.

 

Rahane definitely would have provided a better performance than Karthik.