Axar patel wud be the key against England

[neel roy]

20 minutes ago, ShebbySB said:

Going by your logic Australian management was comprised of bunch of fools when they played Warne and MacGill in tandem.

Yes actually they had no option to play an offspinner as their top 4 Sheffield shield spinners were all Leg spinners in Warne Macgill Peter McIntyre and Brad Hogg. The only off break bowler they had was Gavin Robertson if you remember him who was thrashed by Sidhu and Sachin in 1998. He ended up with an average of 40

in 4 tests..India has options.. Australia didnt.. 

[ShebbySB]

19 minutes ago, neel roy said:

Yes actually they had no option to play an offspinner as their top 4 Sheffield shield spinners were all Leg spinners in Warne Macgill Peter McIntyre and Brad Hogg. The only off break bowler they had was Gavin Robertson if you remember him who was thrashed by Sidhu and Sachin in 1998. He ended up with an average of 40

in 4 tests..India has options.. Australia didnt.. 

Mate Hoggy was a chinaman. I totally get your point and not at all countering that but Kohli clearly said that he wants to play as many option possible in India who can bowl and contribute with the bat. I have a feeling Axar, Ashwin and Sundar will be picked along with Bumrah, Ishant. Kohli likes depth in the batting.

Edited February 4, 2021 by ShebbySB

[neel roy]

9 minutes ago, ShebbySB said:

Mate Hoggy was a chinaman. I totally get your point and not at all countering that but Kohli clearly said that we want to play as many option possible in India who can bowl and contribute with the bat. I have a feeling Axar, Ashwin and Sundar will be picked along with Bumrah, Ishant. Kohli likes depth in the batting.

Hogg was still a wrist spinner. The Australian s struggled with finger spinning options throughout 90s and tried all sorts of bowlers ( Mark Waugh bowled off spin and statistically he is amongst the top 5 off spinners in Australia all time test history with 59! Wickets)  . As per Kohli s latest interview Kuldeep is playing. So you have one slot left. Either Sundar or Axar. Based on England batsmen’s performance in SL Axar is the safe option as he will as I said before take the ball away. 3 finger spinners in one team will be really surprising if Ashwin Sundar and Axar play together. Kuldeep is a wrist spinner which adds to variety..

Edited February 4, 2021 by neel roy

[Soldier]

2 hours ago, ShebbySB said:

Mate Hoggy was a chinaman. I totally get your point and not at all countering that but Kohli clearly said that he wants to play as many option possible in India who can bowl and contribute with the bat. I have a feeling Axar, Ashwin and Sundar will be picked along with Bumrah, Ishant. Kohli likes depth in the batting.

If he likes depth in batting, he would have actually thought about playing Ashwin and jaddu overseas together long time back. 

[ShoonyaSifar]

Axar Patel has been ruled out of the first test. Shahbaz Nadeem and Rahul Chahar added to the squad. Not sure if Nadeem has been with the squad since they landed in Chennai.

 

The three spinners likely to be Ashwin, Kuldeep and Sundar

[helperononline]

Lol injury started even before start of the first match

 

 

[R!TTER]

6 minutes ago, helperononline said:

Lol injury started even before start of the first match

The * is that physio doing 

[Ankit_sharma03]

Lo batao

[kohli]

On 2/5/2021 at 9:33 AM, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Lo batao

Will he fit before 2nd test?

[Ankit_sharma03]

13 minutes ago, kohli said:

Will he fit before 2nd test?

 

No idea

[GautiMaan]

 

[R!TTER]

https://twitter.com/yuzi_chahal/status/1359423424645398530/

Edited February 12, 2021 by R!TTER

[raki05]

Everyone hyping acar as if it's jadega let's see after match he ll be jadega or Nadeem.

[Yoda-esque]

Let's see what he does

[Clarke]

Haven't depended this much on a debutant before. He's got perfect conditions to start. 

[R!TTER]

19 minutes ago, Clarke said:

He's got perfect conditions to start. 

Should've played HP here, Brat again read the pitch wrong. We need extra batting here & just the one pacer, with another part time pacer in HP, would've been enough. Right now we'll really on Sharma the most & Root getting out cheaply!

[Clarke]

2 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

Should've played HP here, Brat again read the pitch wrong. We need extra batting here & just the one pacer, with another part time pacer in HP, would've been enough. Right now we'll really on Sharma the most & Root getting out cheaply!

 

 

HP's fitness is unclear. 

 

I'm hoping Siraj will contribute with reverse. 

[R!TTER]

Even 5 overs from him would be fine, though batting was really what's needed here. He's also an excellent fielder & catcher, we badly missed that with Jadeja out.

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

[GautiMaan]

Clear upgrade from Nadeem on any sort of pitch.