maniac Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Full Article https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/kapil-dev-and-sunil-gavaskar-picks-3-legends-who-would-have-excelled-in-ipl-3961853#pfrom=home-ndtv_ustrending Highlight quotes Gavaskar was asked to choose players from his team who are fit for IPL and he went with World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev as his choice for the all-rounder. As a batter, he chose Sandeep Patil and his choice for the bowler was BS Chandrashekhar whose action he believed would have helped him in white-ball cricket. While Mumbai Indians were his first choice, the legend said that he would like to play under MS Dhoni's captaincy. Mumbai Indians, who else? If not, then I would like to play for Chennai Super Kings. Chennai Super Kings for two reasons, firstly, the Chennai owners are passionate about cricket, they have done so much for the sport. Srinivasan sir has done a lot for cricket @velu velu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Sandip Patil is a great choice. Bob willis was thrashed for 6 fours in one over of old trafford test by him velu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 quite poor choices from senile Sunny. more appropriate choices would be as follows: 1. AR: kapil (kind of a no-brainer), although I suspect that amar singh and vinoo mankad can be in the conversation too 2. keeper: budhi kunderan (got to see some highlights of him, and he was made for LOIs) 3. batter: kris srikanth 4. bowler: bapu nadkarni (a no-brainer in my eyes) Tattieboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 From Gavaskar’s team there are many options (from 1980 and onwards): Srikant - will utilize PP’s well Shastri - will do a job similar to Jadeja Patil - a middle order big hitter Kapil - AR Sidhu - for spin bashing Etc. The 1987 WC team was quite good (red ball cricket): Gavaskar Srikant Sidhu Vensarkar Azhar Kapil Shastri Prabhakar More/Pandit Chetan Maninder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singhvivek141 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Late. Yashpal Sharma was also known for his big hitting ability and aggressive strokeplay....could have been proved useful in the IPL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putrevus Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) Kapil would have been best Indian player in t20s by a mile.There was nothing he could not do, he would have reached 140 plus in bowling and scored at very high SR along with excellent outfielding. Edited April 23, 2023 by putrevus cricspirit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniac Posted April 21, 2023 Author Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, Vijy said: quite poor choices from senile Sunny. more appropriate choices would be as follows: 1. AR: kapil (kind of a no-brainer), although I suspect that amar singh and vinoo mankad can be in the conversation too 2. keeper: budhi kunderan (got to see some highlights of him, and he was made for LOIs) 3. batter: kris srikanth 4. bowler: bapu nadkarni (a no-brainer in my eyes) His choices are not as cuckoo as you make it seem: sure he missed some names but Kapil is as obvious as it gets and Sandeep based on what his batting style was would have been a great fit and given the demand for mystery spinners in IPL Chandrasekhar: wasn’t he the original one? Edited April 21, 2023 by maniac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putrevus Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Chandra would have been impossible to hit on his day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putrevus Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 32 minutes ago, maniac said: His choices are not as cuckoo as you make it seem: sure he missed some names but Kapil is as obvious as it gets and Sandeep based on what his batting style was would have been a great fit and given the demand for mystery spinners in IPL Chandrasekhar: wasn’t he the original one? Spot on, Sunny's choices are bad at all. Kapil and Chandra would be very first names on most of the teams.Lack of finishers in IPL is so evident, Patil would be a very good lower order batsman. cricspirit and maniac 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, maniac said: His choices are not as cuckoo as you make it seem: sure he missed some names but Kapil is as obvious as it gets and Sandeep based on what his batting style was would have been a great fit and given the demand for mystery spinners in IPL Chandrasekhar: wasn’t he the original one? chandra was not mystery spinner as such; also, he didn't have high control. being wristspinner alone is not enough srikanth over sandeep patil is also a straightforward choice Edited April 21, 2023 by Vijy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Sandeep Patil would definitely have been a great fit. I feel like he got a raw deal from the selectors. He had a fantastic away record with hundreds in Aus and Eng in the limited opportunities that he got. He could also bowl some useful medium pace in away conditions. His poor home record eventually denied him more opportunities. tweaker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniac Posted April 21, 2023 Author Share Posted April 21, 2023 8 minutes ago, Texan said: Sandeep Patil would definitely have been a great fit. I feel like he got a raw deal from the selectors. He had a fantastic away record with hundreds in Aus and Eng in the limited opportunities that he got. He could also bowl some useful medium pace in away conditions. His poor home record eventually denied him more opportunities. he was the original Rahane I am assuming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Kapil Dev would be like Pandya, but actually good maniac and putrevus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 1 hour ago, maniac said: he was the original Rahane I am assuming Not quite. He was actually a very aggressive batsman, probably more Sehwag, but not quite as talented as Sehwag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tattieboy Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 16 hours ago, Vijy said: quite poor choices from senile Sunny. more appropriate choices would be as follows: 1. AR: kapil (kind of a no-brainer), although I suspect that amar singh and vinoo mankad can be in the conversation too 2. keeper: budhi kunderan (got to see some highlights of him, and he was made for LOIs) 3. batter: kris srikanth 4. bowler: bapu nadkarni (a no-brainer in my eyes) Good choices , don't know the bowler but the other three are good . Patil played a season here in Scotland and as a LOI player he wasn't in the same league as Budhi , that's why to this day he is still revered as an adopted Scot . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 11 hours ago, Texan said: Sandeep Patil would definitely have been a great fit. I feel like he got a raw deal from the selectors. He had a fantastic away record with hundreds in Aus and Eng in the limited opportunities that he got. He could also bowl some useful medium pace in away conditions. His poor home record eventually denied him more opportunities. He was dropped for disciplinary reasons along with Kapil dev for playing reckless shots in the Delhi Test. In his place Azharuddin made debut. He scored 3 centuries in 3 tests and became undroppable. That pretty much ended Patil's career. Vijy and tweaker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 11 hours ago, maniac said: he was the original Rahane I am assuming No way. He was the first swashbuckler in that era down the order. When India was slowly poking around to get to target in semi fina he came and thrashed the bowlers all over and killed any dreams that England had to stage a come back. tweaker and maniac 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) I thought of the India golden oldies who never played any LOI cricket... Mushtaq Ali Budhi Kunderan (wk) Vinoo Mankad Polly Umrigar MAK Pataudi (c) Chandu Borde Dattu Phadkar Amar Singh Bapu Nadkarni Mohammed Nissar Subhash Gupte A team that bats deep and aggressively, lots of quality bowling options and fields well too Edited April 22, 2023 by Sooda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 C K Nayudu and Atul Bedade FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 9 hours ago, Sooda said: I thought of the India golden oldies who never played any LOI cricket... Mushtaq Ali Budhi Kunderan (wk) Vinoo Mankad Polly Umrigar MAK Pataudi (c) Chandu Borde Dattu Phadkar Amar Singh Bapu Nadkarni Mohammed Nissar Subhash Gupte A team that bats deep and aggressively, lots of quality bowling options and fields well too this is a good team, albeit with some changes needed IMO depending on 50 vs 20 over cricket. for 50 overs, hazare and modi (rusi modi) should be in - both scored briskly, albeit not super fast. and they had the desired consistency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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