Am I the only one reluctant to watch India when KL is in the playing XI ? Averages less than 35 in 45 tests. Is he Brijesh Patel’s karnataka quota guy ?

[raki05]

35 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Very painful to enter these threads as his  fan. He needs correction or we need to look past him. That Sir was a retort to unowho. 

I was joking. Yes i pretty well know that is why I said KL was stabilizing the ship.

[helperononline]

Hopefully  his career will be over with this test series 

[ThirtyD.]

Are we still surprised to see low performers in our test line up? Don’t forget after all the noise around our 3-5 batters’ average, we have only gotten rid of Rahane. Pujara and the king are still around. 

[vvvslaxman]

1 hour ago, ThirtyD. said:

Are we still surprised to see low performers in our test line up? Don’t forget after all the noise around our 3-5 batters’ average, we have only gotten rid of Rahane. Pujara and the king are still around. 

 

Pujara won fake man of the series award lol

[vvvslaxman]

Australia should have played 5 bowlers.

[vvvslaxman]

Shubman Gill must be watching this painfully Two losers got out for almost nothing

[coffee_rules]

45 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Shubman Gill must be watching this painfully Two losers got out for almost nothing

If he had played and failed on this pitch, pretty sure they’d be yelling at him as well. 

[vvvslaxman]

7 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

If he had played and failed on this pitch, pretty sure they’d be yelling at him as well. 

 

It is not about what will happen. It is about what should happen. A young gun who has come of age in two formats. Also as a batsman averages 50 plus against this particular opposition. He should be the first name in that list  It is not like these guys have been failing only for a series or so. They have been failing for 3 years. Intermittently they score a 50 somewhere and keep their place.  Rohit sharma went missing in the Gabba test. It was Thakur, Sundar, Gill who put their hand up alonwith Pant.   Pujara was sucking the momentum out with his 8 runs in 95 balls.  Gill was doing the heavy lifting.

[rangeelaraja]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

It is not about what will happen. It is about what should happen. A young gun who has come of age in two formats. Also as a batsman averages 50 plus against this particular opposition. He should be the first name in that list  It is not like these guys have been failing only for a series or so. They have been failing for 3 years. Intermittently they score a 50 somewhere and keep their place.  Rohit sharma went missing in the Gabba test. It was Thakur, Sundar, Gill who put their hand up alonwith Pant.   Pujara was sucking the momentum out with his 8 runs in 95 balls.  Gill was doing the heavy lifting.

Gill is very talented against pace. 
 

But nothing out of the ordinary against good spin bowling. 
 

But he most certainly deserves to be in the playing Xi 

[ThirtyD.]

4 hours ago, ThirtyD. said:

Are we still surprised to see low performers in our test line up? Don’t forget after all the noise around our 3-5 batters’ average, we have only gotten rid of Rahane. Pujara and the king are still around. 

As expected, our walking wickets did not disappoint.

[Tillu]

Kohli, Rahul and Pujara should hang themselves using Chahal's underwear. Shameful.

[vvvslaxman]

1 hour ago, Tillu said:

Kohli, Rahul and Pujara should hang themselves using Chahal's underwear. Shameful.

 

 They will escape with that 

[vvvslaxman]

5 hours ago, rangeelaraja said:

Gill is very talented against pace. 
 

But nothing out of the ordinary against good spin bowling. 
 

But he most certainly deserves to be in the playing Xi 

 

We shouldn't really have any reservation play him against a side that has 2 off spinners one being a debutant regardless. He is still a better player than Lohli and co. 

[rangeelaraja]

7 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

We shouldn't really have any reservation play him against a side that has 2 off spinners one being a debutant regardless. He is still a better player than Lohli and co. 

Horses for courses. If there is only place for 1 replacement - I would get Iyer instead of Gill. 
Iyer is the best player of spin in the current squad as a pure batsman and it is amply clear that Aussies will persist with these 2 spinners
 

Ideally both KL and loli should be kicked out of the side and both Iyer and Gill should be in. 

Edited February 10, 2023 by rangeelaraja

[raki05]

7 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Pujara won fake man of the series award lol

Yup that was the most cringey award it should have gone to Iyer or even Gill. I believe they both scored runs when it mattered not like Khujara when we were already cruising.

[kohli]

10 minutes ago, raki05 said:

Yup that was the most cringey award it should have gone to Iyer or even Gill. I believe they both scored runs when it mattered not like Khujara when we were already cruising.

Not gill. He scored only in 1 innings out of 4

[deepdynamo]

We were ecstatic when Rahane was outsted from the team.

 

But the mediocre trio is intact with Rahul taking Rahane place.

 

 

 

 

[Austin 3:!6]

Gentle Reminder

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-england-2021-2022-1239527/england-vs-india-2nd-test-1239544/full-scorecard

 

[Lord]

1 hour ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Gentle Reminder

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-england-2021-2022-1239527/england-vs-india-2nd-test-1239544/full-scorecard

 

 

Siraj deserved the MOTM there. Performed both innings.

 

Anyway over 45 Tests some good innings will be there

[Mosher]

Venky not mincing words