Suryakumar Yadav replaces injured KL Rahul in India squad for New Zealand Tests

[Lone Wolf]

Mayank 

Gill

Pujara

Shreyas Iyer

Rahane (c) 

Bharath

Jadeja/SKY

Ashwin

Axar

Siraj 

Umesh

 

[urbestfriend]

Bad luck Vihari for missing out after the heroic ...I dont know what the selectors think, there is no consistency in selection...Rahane is selected despite his continous failure and Vihari is dropped..

[afan]

SKYs selection is surprising indeed.

India will have an interesting 11 on the field.

I just hope they get to bat first, try and put on a score that would not require them to bat again in the test match

[bowl_out]

SKY ahead of Vihari and Ruturaj is shocking 

[Frustrated]

2 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

SKY ahead of Vihari and Ruturaj is shocking 

Agree.    SKY has no solid defense. Don't think he can survive long enough.  Even in t20 , he looks vulnerable against decent bowling.  

[New guy]

23 minutes ago, urbestfriend said:

Bad luck Vihari for missing out after the heroic ...I dont know what the selectors think, there is no consistency in selection...Rahane is selected despite his continous failure and Vihari is dropped..

 

10 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

SKY ahead of Vihari and Ruturaj is shocking 

Both of them are already on plane to SA so BCCI couldnt include them

[urbestfriend]

16 minutes ago, New guy said:

 

Both of them are already on plane to SA so BCCI couldnt include them

Yeah, but thats an after thought...Vihari should have been selected ahead of Iyer..

[Lord]

Why can't Vihari be called back? Its already a bad call leaving him out.

 

SKY is already 30+ and hasnt done much in FC

 

 

[prudent_kreeda]

1 hour ago, Adi_91 said:

Surprised with SKY's selection. There is Ruturaj Gaikwad and several others who probably deserved a call before him.

Gaikwad's  FC  record is not good Plus looks to struggle vs movement .

His best bet is 50 overs and T20 perhaps as of now.

[Adi_91]

9 minutes ago, prudent_kreeda said:

Gaikwad's  FC  record is not good Plus looks to struggle vs movement .

His best bet is 50 overs and T20 perhaps as of now.

 

Since he is already in the bio bubble, he is a far better bet than SKY imo.

[Lord]

how did Rahul get injured?

 

I get a feeling he just needed rest. Playing non stop since Eng tour

[sarcastic]

55 minutes ago, Lord said:

Why can't Vihari be called back? Its already a bad call leaving him out.

 

SKY is already 30+ and hasnt done much in FC

 

 

The squad is already in South Africa. Booking his return journey and then him playing immediately is not possible. It is not that we have two weeks of time for all this to happen.

Also, BCCI will not invest on him for all this just to save his career.

It is pure bad luck that when the spots in test team opened, many players such as Priyank Panchal, Hanuman Vihari etc. are not in India.

[Norman]

Aah yes "injured" KL Rahul.. 

 

Very believable. 

[Norman]

Probably workload management to remain fresh for the all important 10-team mega IPL in five months.