S Iyer or KL Rahul at no.5 in WTC Final 2023

[Majestic]

Gill has cemented his place for WTC Final with a century today as opener spot unless there is any injury.

 

Pujara and Kohli due to their decades and centuries of eggsperience will continue to bat at 3 and 4 and change games with their performance or lack of 

 

At 6, you will have Jadeja, a keeper at 7 and Thakur at 8.

 

This leaves us with an open spot for no.5 where there are still doubts on Iyer's proficiency with bat overseas while the meek Rahul comes with more proven performance in English conditions where he displayed class of Martin Crowe and Dilip Vengsarkar level last time with an amazing 81 in first test and a century in second test. However, he also comes us with proven mettle of bottling in ICC tournaments let alone ICC knockouts.

 

Discuss!

[spiritb2]

KL is gone mate

 

 

Edited March 13 by spiritb2

[Jamadagni]

SKY should bat at 5.

[vvvslaxman]

Sarfraz. you drop somebody for performing poorly. You don't select him again when he absolutely did nothing to prove his form in between. 

[Adamant]

Sarfaraz gets my vote. 

[vvvslaxman]

He can replace KS Bharat though lol. Yes. Bharat is that bad as a keeper.

[cricketfan28]

Iyer.

[nevada]

Picking KL for the final is like playing with just 10 players. He is mentally shot and is allergic to any kind of pressure. 

[Adamant]

Kl as a wicketkeeper could be a good option. 

[Frustrated]

KL cost us the Bangladesh odi series by dropping sitters.   Guy is **** with the bat and with the gloves.  Should go on extended honeymoon and hopefully never returns.  

[wanted_desi]

Gill at #5, Jaiswal to Open.

[Serpico]

Play jaddu at 5 and pick Ashwin as well. Iyer/kl/sky none of them will work in England. No point debuting sarfraz in a final 

[Majestic]

@Serpico Ashwin for batting credentials?? You might as well pick Washington Sundar then.

 

Jadeja and Sundar both in middle order at 5 and 6 in any order.

[Majestic]

@Serpico Ashwin for batting credentials?? You might as well pick Washington Sundar then.

 

Jadeja and Sundar both in middle order at 5 and 6 in any order.

[vvvslaxman]

2 hours ago, Frustrated said:

KL cost us the Bangladesh odi series by dropping sitters.   Guy is **** with the bat and with the gloves.  Should go on extended honeymoon and hopefully never returns.  

 

KS Bharat told  hold my beer to KL Rahul in this Test.

[coffee_rules]

Stick a fork in Kela. He’s done!

 

Time to look beyond KL

[AuxiliA]

 

 

If KS Bharat can't keep well then there's absolutely no sense in playing him over Ishan Kishan. 

[vvvslaxman]

20 minutes ago, AuxiliA said:

 

 

If KS Bharat can't keep well then there's absolutely no sense in playing him over Ishan Kishan. 

Technically one of the worst i have seen. He looks like a gully keeper. He may not play as much as Parthiv to beat him for the worst Indian keeper ever. INitially i put that down to nerves. Seems like he is nervous every match.

[speedracer]

10 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Sarfraz. you drop somebody for performing poorly. You don't select him again when he absolutely did nothing to prove his form in between. 

100% sarfraz

 

Jaiswal

Fatty. Soon shaw

Ghujara but really should be someone like patidar

Sarfraz over coolie

Gillllyyy

Ishan or upendra yadav for now 

 

No more bharat pls. Forever

 

7 to 11 gets tricky in England

7 should be sundar imo

Could even play him at 6

8 should be undacutta or thakur or hangerskar potentially 

 

But they will play jaddu I reckon

 

9 has to be shami 

10 siraj

11 one of harshit rana/kuldeep sen or prasidh if they return

[Gollum]

Neither, I want Sundar in my team. Cummins, Hazlewood will be tough to deal with in those conditions but they both struggle against LHBs.