Captain Boom

[sandeep]

If Rohit is out, Boomrah will be test captain for India.

 

I am excited to see how he goes, I want Boomrah to be in the mix as more than just a captain for a one-off test. I think he may have it in him to lead India in test match cricket.  

 

 

[putrevus]

Good luck to him, he needs to show up as a bowler first.

[Sandz]

Not so sure about this, would like him to just focus on his bowling and making a scoring a half century against the poms this time.

[Vijy]

as long as he doesn't bottle it as he did in WTC, it should be a good decision

[Norman]

Not sure about this. He already has too much on the plate. 

 

Could have went to Kohli to finish off something he started but both BCCI (read Ganguly) and Kohli are too thick to come to agreement with that. 

[coffee_rules]

Need to invent a different nick than Boom. Sounds very Afridiesque

Edited June 29, 2022 by coffee_rules

[Jay]

3 hours ago, Vijy said:

as long as he doesn't bottle it as he did in WTC, it should be a good decision

Yes. That was awful. Siraj would have bamboozled kiwis in those conditions. That's why form matters. Not sure why we picked when he was clearly just back from injury. 

[Vijy]

5 hours ago, Jay said:

Yes. That was awful. Siraj would have bamboozled kiwis in those conditions. That's why form matters. Not sure why we picked when he was clearly just back from injury. 

indians are mental midgets against kiwis, so we would have found some way of losing anyway

[gattaca]

9 hours ago, Vijy said:

as long as he doesn't bottle it as he did in WTC, it should be a good decision

People only remember one match. We should be very happy he got us there and won the aus test series first time in so many years.

[cowboysfan]

we really need Bumrah to be at his best,he either sucks the whole test or runs though teams and that cant happen.

[Vijy]

30 minutes ago, gattaca said:

People only remember one match. We should be very happy he got us there and won the aus test series first time in so many years.

I also remember CT 2017 vs Pak and other crucial matches.

[Jay]

1 hour ago, Vijy said:

I also remember CT 2017 vs Pak and other crucial matches.

2017 t20 choke massive one after no ball

Wtc final after injury choke massive choke. No form

 

New zeland series choke - but played with a niggle and literally came back from a serious injury

 

S.africa series he bowled well but got unlucky cause of our shitty batting which couldn't even score on pitches that got flatter. 

 

2019 he bowled very well. Our bozo batsmen louda chewtiya harami salah useless quartet did * all. 5/3 * sake. That was our world cup man. That one really hurt. Should have buried kiwis. 

[BacktoCricaddict]

16 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Need to invent a different nick than Boom. Sounds very Afridiesque

It's too easy, given his name.  What else would you do ... Jasfreak, maybe?

[BacktoCricaddict]

Confirmed now.  Rohit Sharma is still positive for CoViD. I hope he is okay and recovers soon.

 

Gill

Bharath

Kohli

Agarwal

Pant

Ashwin

Jadeja

Thakur

Siraj

Shami

Bumrah (c)

 

12th: Krishna

 

 

 

[R!TTER]

15 hours ago, Jay said:

That's why form matters.

The * did l*** d*** Sharma do in the WTC? Besides getting injured in the second innings! There were two culprits in bowling, in batting there were at least 3 if not more 

 

Probably should have played Thakur in there, it had perfect conditions for his swing & he's much better than the 3 chumps batting down the order.

[BacktoCricaddict]

2 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

The * did l*** d*** Sharma do in the WTC? Besides getting injured in the second innings! There were two culprits in bowling, in batting there were at least 3 if not more 

 

Probably should have played Thakur in there, it had perfect conditions for his swing & he's much better than the 3 chumps batting down the order.

This

[BacktoCricaddict]

10 hours ago, Vijy said:

indians are mental midgets against kiwis, so we would have found some way of losing anyway

Wonder why. Except for a couple of guys, the Kiwis looked bamboozled by the Brits in the last month.

[Jay]

3 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

The * did l*** d*** Sharma do in the WTC? Besides getting injured in the second innings! There were two culprits in bowling, in batting there were at least 3 if not more 

 

Probably should have played Thakur in there, it had perfect conditions for his swing & he's much better than the 3 chumps batting down the order.

Exactly. That's true. Thakura would have bamboozled those clowns plus he is clutch as *. Sharma injury hurt us yes. 

Batting though was woeful. *ing pathetic. Boils my blood so much. Totally erased any good memory we had from that year like the BG series win and England series being a technical win over 4 tests. Should have been 3 -1 if not for bloody rain in the first test. Only needed 150 odd. 

[R!TTER]

Among non Asian opponents NZ probably has the most favorable/familiar conditions in Eng, conversely Eng can play them just as effectively! As for bamboozled they simply didn't have the personnel to win, pretty sure a full strength Eng would likely have drawn against NZ last year as well if it were a 3 test series. Short series are generally much better for minnows like them 

[sandeep]

31 Not out with a world record.

 

And 2 quick wickets with the new ball. 

 

Captain Boom starting explosively well.