Moving on-Kanpur test - Team to beat the saffers

[Dravid]

:omg: :omg: did i just see ganguly ahead of vvs in that line up?? :omg:

[Rohan495]

yes, i like the left right combination thing.

[Laaloo]

sehwag ghambhir/kartik laxman ganguly dravid dhoni CAPTAIN harbhajan chawla sreesanth ishant sharma RP singh - we need to have faith in him IMO kumble should rest

[Dravid]

or it cus vvs been sucking it up lately.. ? y not put him @ 3 as u usually do ?

[Zakhmi]

he scored less than 20 runs in two innings. and on previous occassions where he has been asked to open' date=' he has been dismissed quite easily. not to mention that when we place emphasis on his batting, his bowling declines. a better question would be... does irfan deserve to be in the team? is his bowling that penetrating or his batting that brilliant that he can replace a batsman and a bowler? in test matches he is our very own abdul razzak, cant bowl too well nor can he bat too well, but because he has a few choice exploits in the past, he is still around.[/quote'] agreed, Irfan has to concentrate on his bowling. His place is first as a bowler then a useful batsman(bonus) in the team. Certainly, he needs some serious thinking and rigorous training to improve his pace, line-length and swing. Otherwise, very soon he will be a history like 1983 WC hero Balwinder Singh Sandhu after a year of WC.

[Predator_05]

Just one change needed as far as i am concerned. Pathan out, Kaif in. Or even Yuvraj. I don't care who it is, just as long as the 7+4 combination is maintained. That is all. I would also change the batting order a little bit - swapping Laxman and Dravid's positions.

[Zakhmi]

why?? btw wat injury did sharma suffer?

:finger: safety 4 glory (injury's name) as IS wouldn't shine bowling on Indian pitches.

[Rohan495]

dont start this again. hes not an opener no more experiments.

[Zakhmi]

dont start this again. hes not an opener no more experiments.

thats it...^ is the bottom line!

[Rohip]

Irfan is good enough to open for us, he has the technique and SRK's backing too so why not?

[Guest Hiten.]

Ishant fit and Munaf recalled for third Test Ishant fit and Munaf recalled for third Test Cricinfo staff April 6, 2008 Ishant Sharma and Munaf Patel have been added to the squad for the third Test against South Africa in Kanpur. Offspinner Ramesh Powar has also been recalled as Anil Kumble is not 100% fit. RP Singh has been dropped after his lacklustre performance in the first two Tests. Ishant missed the first two Tests as he was struggling with a finger injury besides a toe inflammation. Squad Wasim Jaffer, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Irfan Pathan, Anil Kumble (capt), Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Munaf Patel. © Cricinfo

[Desi Cartman]

WTF Still NO GG .. why do they still wanna play jaffer ?

[msb1991]

I'm happy to see Munaf Patel there, but quite angry that Jaffer remains.

[umpire]

why Powar? should have been left arm spinner Praghayan Ojha.

[Desi Cartman]

I guess selectors dont watch any cricket

[tonoy]

all right.

[tonoy]

wohoo

[cochise]

Jaffer is now a liability. Gambhir, Chopra or Karthik should have been inducted in his place. Don't know what the selectors know though. Maybe they see something more in him than we are seeing in the middle...or maybe they feel that as a partnership with Sehwag, they have been doing well together even though Jaffer doesn't score much and thus do not want to break it. Don't quite agree though, as the only good partnership this series was the one in Chennai. Well, hope they know what they are doing. And lets also hope that Jaffer shapes up quicksmart, because it looks like he is opening again, unless they go for a makeshift opener in Pathan.

[Laaloo]

seriously yo wth man ppl in the domestics are dying to be in the team thats wat we're missing:hunger

[Kartikey]

Munaf :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: