India is one of the most one dimensional team in this tournament

[IndianRenegade]

11 hours ago, Vivek92 said:

The 2011 team had Sachin, Sehwag, Raina, Yuvi and Y Pathan in the squad, all of whom were pretty decent spinners.

 

We have three keepers in the current squad Pant, Kishan and Rahul, combine that with Rohit, Rahul, Kohli and Pant (our Top 5) none of whom  can contribute anything decent with the ball.

 

This is one of the more unbalanced squads we have chosen for any of the recent WC with Hardik not fit to bowl. 

Such a shame that both Rohit & Kohli who can bowl didn't try to improve their skill considering how crucial this skill in limited overs game. 

[vvvslaxman]

Now we are in 2022.

 

Still the same old one-dimensional team. Nothing learnt from 2021 fiasco.  Every team has tailenders that can score quickly runs in addition to bowling well. Why is our team management treating one-dimensional cricketers like they are indispensable

[BacktoCricaddict]

 

It's the only dimension we need for 2 more matches.  With KLR and VK also in decent touch, it ain't all doom and gloom.  Just win, baby.  Ashte.

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by BacktoCricaddict

[Nikhil_cric]

There's just not enough players with ability. How many Indian batsmen even in IPL/domestic play reverse sweeps and switch hits to away spin?  Just compare that to what English batsmen can do?

 

You need proactive, inventive batsmen to get ahead of the game in this format 

 

Likes of Kohli have made it clear that they won't play such shot because it affects their Test game . 

 

That conservative attitude cannot continue  

[maniac]

Didn’t deserve to win this. Pak winning this will be bitter but no way Indian team should win this with this team. We have a 15 man squad where 5-6 players are practically unplayable (for their own side)

[GautiMaan]

Why are we playing classical cricket in t20, we won only one t20 world cup and that was when the maharathis of that generation were rested, but t20 has grown so big that this generation's maharathis wont just go away. In today's t20 a player has to be 2 dimensional or an out and out match winner in his department. We have Rohit,Bhuvi,Axar,Ashwin and even Kohli who dont fit this criteria

 

Shaw

Sundar(groom this guy to be a low value wicket in the PP,chips in with the ball)

Samson

Pant

SKY

Rahul(Look at his stats in LOI's in the middle order)

Pandya

Bishnoi

Deepak Chahar

Umran

Bumrah

 

Batting till 10 and the bowlers are still gonna be smacked but atleast they will pick a wicket or two

[vvvslaxman]

KL Rahul cannot be part of our side as opener. Period. Freeloader. Just bullies in bilaterals, warm up games and minnows

[ThirtyD.]

50 minutes ago, maniac said:

Didn’t deserve to win this. Pak winning this will be bitter but no way Indian team should win this with this team. We have a 15 man squad where 5-6 players are practically unplayable (for their own side)

I think the number of unplayable players in that squad is around 13; in other words, you’d probably only pick SKY and VK (just because he scores more than othera).

[maniac]

Just now, ThirtyD. said:

I think the number of unplayable players in that squad is around 13; in other words, you’d probably only pick SKY and VK (just because he scores more than othera).

And Pandya.

 

Arsdheep has done well. Not getting attention because he is a trundler but he exceeded expectations. Good future prospect. Only positive for us.

[Vickydev]

I have got to say this, our players just don't improve. They are all in their comfort zones doing the same thing. Contrast to other teams it's so strange. 

 

Rahul, Rohit are both consolidators for their IPL teams and are doing the same thing here for India, not trying to adapt to each other. None of the top 5 bowl, our spinner ARs like Axar, R. Chahar don't bat well enough so we can bring in fast bowlers just for their bowling, while still keeping depth. Likes of Shaw, Iyer and Samson are the same players of 3-4 years back, not doing enough to kick out the seniors. Kuldeep has regressed. Saini, Avesh, Chahar haven't done enough to kick out Shami and Bhuvi from the T20 set up, Chahar is forever injured. Siraj should have been there though

[Sooda]

There's options that would have features if not for injury: Sundar, D Chahar, Jadeja

 

More than the one dimensionalism it's the conservative mindset that has hamstrung us. 

[GautiMaan]

We need to decide on our approach either batting heavy(England) or bowling heavy(Pak), English are able to go gung ho at the top because they have batting till 10 their lower order will bail them out and put in a par score if the worst comes to pass. Pakistan after the addition of Mohammad Wasim now have 6 bowling options(4 140k+ bowlers ,a leg spinner and left arm spinner, plus Ifti Uncle)

 

Then we have India with neither department its strong suit and relying on some individual brilliance here and there to scrape a few wins

 

 

[Vijy]

31 minutes ago, GautiMaan said:

We need to decide on our approach either batting heavy(England) or bowling heavy(Pak), English are able to go gung ho at the top because they have batting till 10 their lower order will bail them out and put in a par score if the worst comes to pass. Pakistan after the addition of Mohammad Wasim now have 6 bowling options(4 140k+ bowlers ,a leg spinner and left arm spinner, plus Ifti Uncle)

 

Then we have India with neither department its strong suit and relying on some individual brilliance here and there to scrape a few wins

 

 

of the 6 options for pak, 3 can bat and even naseem/shaheen are not mugs with the bat.