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Posted
Just now, mishra said:

If it is neutral venue, why not in Bangladesh or Sri Lanka or Sharjah/UAE?

 

Why England only?

because it's the so-called "home" of cricket.

Posted

If it's upto me, I'll play this XI at Southampton if Pandya starts bowling at his best again...

Sundar
Gill
Pujara
Kohli
Pant
Pandya
Jadeja
Shardul
Ashwin
Bumrah
Siraj

Capable batting all the way up to no.9 with Ashwin back in batting form...

4 seam options
3 spinners

It's like playing with 16 players. :drool:

Posted
7 minutes ago, Norman said:

If it's upto me, I'll play this XI at Southampton if Pandya starts bowling at his best again...

Sundar
Gill
Pujara
Kohli
Pant
Pandya
Jadeja
Shardul
Ashwin
Bumrah
Siraj

Capable batting all the way up to no.9 with Ashwin back in batting form...

4 seam options
3 spinners

It's like playing with 16 players. :drool:

 

Good 11 esp. with SDP who won Ind a test on its last tour (though not bowling now that much but an improved impact batsman)

Posted
4 minutes ago, Vijy said:

because it's the so-called "home" of cricket.

Why not MCG? Eden Gardens? If its between India and newzealand, some kiwi fans can easily make. If it was in Dhaka or Bangladesh or UAE, lot of Indians can make it. In England, I feel we have worse record in England and are mercy of English weather and pitch curators. Kiwis may not do Clouderson and match will end up in a dull draw

Posted (edited)
27 minutes ago, Norman said:

If it's upto me, I'll play this XI at Southampton if Pandya starts bowling at his best again...

Sundar
Gill
Pujara
Kohli
Pant
Pandya
Jadeja
Shardul
Ashwin
Bumrah
Siraj

Capable batting all the way up to no.9 with Ashwin back in batting form...

4 seam options
3 spinners

It's like playing with 16 players. :drool:

We will have Rohit and Rahane. I do not understand who to remove from the list. Tempted to drop Jadeja from your option. between Sharadul and Siraj, we can have only one in. 3 pacers 1 spinner, + Sundar will be able to provide enough rest to pacers.

 

A lot depends on pitch. Playing 11 can not be pre decided. But I have full faith in Kohli messing up with selection. Lets not forget the dreadfull selection when we played two spinners at Lords and all wickets went to pacers while our spinners scored century at bowling.

Edited by mishra
Posted (edited)

I can see why they’ve made that decision early but by time the match takes place it is hoped that things will be just about back to normal in the UK (fingers crossed) Hopefully it will seem overly cautious to still be hosting it in a bio bubble

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Posted
59 minutes ago, Norman said:

If it's upto me, I'll play this XI at Southampton if Pandya starts bowling at his best again...

Sundar
Gill
Pujara
Kohli
Pant
Pandya
Jadeja
Shardul
Ashwin
Bumrah
Siraj

Capable batting all the way up to no.9 with Ashwin back in batting form...

4 seam options
3 spinners

It's like playing with 16 players. :drool:

Great XI & it might pull off the win..  But since Southampton is little slow I'll take a stroke maker like Rohit over Pujara & play Gill at no 3. I think we will need players who can score runs at decent tempo & don't get stuck over there.  Pandya & Pant lower down the order can be lethal. 

Posted
3 hours ago, mishra said:

Why not MCG? Eden Gardens? If its between India and newzealand, some kiwi fans can easily make. If it was in Dhaka or Bangladesh or UAE, lot of Indians can make it. In England, I feel we have worse record in England and are mercy of English weather and pitch curators. Kiwis may not do Clouderson and match will end up in a dull draw

England are hosting it for the inaugural competition. It will be rotated around to other countries if there are future editions 

Posted
8 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Great XI & it might pull off the win..  But since Southampton is little slow I'll take a stroke maker like Rohit over Pujara & play Gill at no 3. I think we will need players who can score runs at decent tempo & don't get stuck over there.  Pandya & Pant lower down the order can be lethal. 

 

Pujara scored a hundred last time we played a test in Southampton. Could have been a match winning one had we not let their tailenders bash us in the 2nd innings..

 

Although Rohit is in great form, we have to understand that his maximum ceiling is 40-50 runs away from home (esp in challenging conditions) as we saw recently in Australia and countless times before. 

Posted
10 hours ago, mishra said:

Sundar will be able to provide enough rest to pacers.

Sundar will not play unless he's batting in the top 6/7 - Jadeja should play but I know Brat's temper tantrums so :nevermind:

Posted

So what is the purpose of coming first? Winners should get some advantage. 

 

How about winners get to choose whether to bat or bowl first? That's fair right for the final.

 

If we lose the toss and still lose the game then fair enough. All credit to kiwis. 

Posted
15 minutes ago, Jay said:

So what is the purpose of coming first? Winners should get some advantage. 

 

How about winners get to choose whether to bat or bowl first? That's fair right for the final.

 

If we lose the toss and still lose the game then fair enough. All credit to kiwis. 

Ageas bowl might be the one place where toss won't matter much.  Ashwin was horrible there last time & Mo ali exploited the rough there.  NZ has not played any game there.  I got a good Feeling about this game.  We should win.  Probably only ground in England Where Shami can be handful lol

Posted
1 hour ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ageas bowl might be the one place where toss won't matter much.  Ashwin was horrible there last time & Mo ali exploited the rough there.  NZ has not played any game there.  I got a good Feeling about this game.  We should win.  Probably only ground in England Where Shami can be handful lol

Why Shami on that pitch? Shami is suited for Asian, bouncy seaming tsacms. Not suited for swing. 

Posted

As i said, inspect the pitch , look at weather, either ways, more than one spinner is generally not good idea in English conditions, but you never know what lord curators and weather god has prepared for us. Ishant Bhuvi chahar Thakur shami Bhumrah Saini and so on. Play atleast 3 pacers among them with Pandya as fourth seam option. Make it hell for opponents with your bowling. Sundar Pandya and Pant must play. Rohit Chepu Gill and Kohli are our batting options but i am not convinced with batting option, because they are out of form or unproven. Hence they will eat a place among Sundar Pant and Pandya

Posted
45 minutes ago, bahadur_billa said:

14 day quarantine before the match which effectively means no practice match before the final. 

I hope we are somehow allowed to play some intra squad games. 

UK will be out of any Covid restrictions on June 21. Quarantine rules may be not there when team visits as this will be in last phase where organized sports is allowed and allmost no restrictions will be inplace,

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