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Can Washington Sundar bat at 4-5 in ODIs ?


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He can and probably ought to. He strikes me as someone who can: (i) rescue top order collapses because of his technique, (ii) rotate strike since he has good awareness of the gaps and placement, and (iii) bring out the big hits toward the end of the innings.

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Let us not create another Irfan pathan lol. Pandya was promoted too. What happened?  If you look at his knocks he is a stroke player. He will take chances. A risk taking young player. It is all fine and dandy when it comes off.  If you are a specialist batsman pressure will be higher on him to deliver. That is when things can go awry. Ashwin as a batsman flourished because of this. Put him at no.3 no.4 he might be exposed.

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1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

Let us not create another Irfan pathan lol. Pandya was promoted too. What happened?  If you look at his knocks he is a stroke player. He will take chances. A risk taking young player. It is all fine and dandy when it comes off.  If you are a specialist batsman pressure will be higher on him to deliver. That is when things can go awry. Ashwin as a batsman flourished because of this. Put him at no.3 no.4 he might be exposed.

irfan pathan was a bowler who could bat a bit. sundar, even up to U19 and FC level, is a batsman who could bowl a bit. by trying to make him bowl more (not less), we are going the irfan route. the way to avoid the irfan route is to make him bat more and higher up the order.

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On 3/8/2021 at 6:10 PM, Ankit_sharma03 said:

at this point TM shud have 2 concerns

 

  1. how to fit pant in ODI side and give him every chance possible to succeed 
  2. how to make jaddu bat up, use his peak ....dnt waste him at 7 which doesnt suit his game

I feel Pant's natural ODI spot is opening. people are slowly beginning to realize that he's like gilly and sehwag. and for both these guys, the best batting spot was opening. it's brutal to keep and then come to bat, so one option is to have KLR in the team and share some of the load. I think on current form KLR would merit selection in middle order. jaddu could bat at 6, although I am not sure if 5 is suitable for him.

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What is this fascination of getting youngster who has done reasonablly well in one format and force feeding him in all formats. Can he bowl ten overs in every match is the question which needs to be asked and can he use long handle .Answer to both questions is no at the moment.

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12 hours ago, Vijy said:

I feel Pant's natural ODI spot is opening. people are slowly beginning to realize that he's like gilly and sehwag. and for both these guys, the best batting spot was opening. it's brutal to keep and then come to bat, so one option is to have KLR in the team and share some of the load. I think on current form KLR would merit selection in middle order. jaddu could bat at 6, although I am not sure if 5 is suitable for him.

I agree pant shud be given a shot at opening and the kind of talent he shud be tried everywhere. With some players like rohit n pant u need to find a way to fit them in

KL owns the no.5 spot 

Jaddu i wud like at 4, need a leftie at 4 between kohli n KL to decrease the leg spin issue those 2 having

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On 2/17/2021 at 2:04 AM, express bowling said:

I doubt he will ever get a chance higher up the order.

Why is that? This is why Indian cricket belongs in the stone ages.

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On 3/17/2021 at 1:46 AM, AmazeBallz said:

Why is that?

 

Too many batsmen are competing for the top 6 batting slots. 

 

I rate Washington very highly as a batsman for test matches and he can develop into a good ODI batsman too. 

 

But who will he replace in the top 6 !!

 

Maybe Washington at 6 and Hardik at 7 is possible but for that he has to improve his big hitting skills. Needs to work on this aspect.

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26 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

Too many batsmen are competing for the top 6 batting slots. 

 

I rate Washington very highly as a batsman for test matches and he can develop into a good ODI batsman too. 

 

But who will he replace in the top 6 !!

 

Maybe Washington at 6 and Hardik at 7 is possible but for that he has to improve his big hitting skills. Needs to work on this aspect.

Sundar can easily do the same job that Dhawan is doing. Batting at a SR of 70 isn't difficult. Plus he can bowl 5-6 overs. Overall much better option than Dhawan if defensive approach is the way to go for this TM

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3 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Sundar can easily do the same job that Dhawan is doing. Batting at a SR of 70 isn't difficult. Plus he can bowl 5-6 overs. Overall much better option than Dhawan if defensive approach is the way to go for this TM

 

If Dhawan is removed ( he should be removed but he won't be ) then Gill is next in line. Then there are Shaw and Padikkal.

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He doesn't have any hitting skills so what is the point. Rohit and Virat average 55 but strike at 94-95 and then you will send Washi at 4??

 

Bad suggestion! We need a naturally attacking batsman at 2,4,5,6.

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2 hours ago, Majestic said:

He doesn't have any hitting skills so what is the point. Rohit and Virat average 55 but strike at 94-95 and then you will send Washi at 4??

 

Bad suggestion! We need a naturally attacking batsman at 2,4,5,6.

We need someone in our top 6 who can bowl. Sundar is the only one who offers us this choice. If it mean playing him at 1-2-3-4, let it be. He has shown enough batting strength in tests to be fully backed in LOIs

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1 hour ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

We need someone in our top 6 who can bowl. Sundar is the only one who offers us this choice. If it mean playing him at 1-2-3-4, let it be. He has shown enough batting strength in tests to be fully backed in LOIs

Pandya can bowl. Playing Sundar in top 4 means another accumulator like Rohit and Virat..

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