KS Bharat : Is he the best we have after Pant ?

[Number]

Is it really the case that this guy is the best WK in the country after Pant.

Or it is that TM management really loves him for some other reason ?

Edited June 9, 2023 by Number

[RajBan]

Speaks volumes of our selection committee and team management. Surely we have better keeper batsmen in our domestics.

[Vijy]

10 minutes ago, RajBan said:

Speaks volumes of our selection committee and team management. Surely we have better keeper batsmen in our domestics.

upendra yadav and akshay wadkar are two test-level batters IMO

[wanted_desi]

He is another MSK Prasad type. 

[Prabhdeep Singh]

He is a politics based selection.

 

Samson should have been picked.

 

Then maybe Kishan.

 

I don't see the point of a so called 'Good Keeper' if team still conceded 470 on a difficult pitch.

 

Always India should go with players who have flare in batting then their wicket keeping.

[Lone Wolf]

A 29 year old journeyman is playing a ICC final for India...  Another pseudo quota south based team selection. 

DK in WT20 & now this clown thanks to galaxy brain Dravid. 

 

Give me Prabhsimran Singh over this guy anyday of the week. 

Even Mallu Samson would have been a upgrade. 

[figo6762]

Bharat is there to justify a place for hahul.. when hahul comes back they will make him keeper .. the don’t want any other keeper batsman to come in and be successful 

[Prabhdeep Singh]

Batting is a premium in especially SENA tours, always pick wicketkeeper on his batting ability.

[Nikola]

Have heard someone say always pick wicketkeeper who can bat best and then work on his wicket keeping skills.

[Vijy]

44 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

A 29 year old journeyman is playing a ICC final for India...  Another pseudo quota south based team selection. 

DK in WT20 & now this clown thanks to galaxy brain Dravid. 

 

Give me Prabhsimran Singh over this guy anyday of the week. 

Even Mallu Samson would have been a upgrade. 

dravidiot is already hatching a plan to bring DK into ODI WC

[sandeep]

Obviously I'm unhappy that India is 200 runs behind in this test - but honestly, I would have been less disappointed if we were in this situation with Ashwin and Kishan playing ahead of Umesh and Bharath.  No disrespect to either player.  

[bowl_out]

Even Saha would have done a better job here.  Wonder why he wasn't called in for a one of test even if it didn't mean a long term return. 

 

Upendra and Jagadeesan are two potential replacements in the future

[Vijy]

4 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

Even Saha would have done a better job here.  Wonder why he wasn't called in for a one of test even if it didn't mean a long term return. 

 

Upendra and Jagadeesan are two potential replacements in the future

not jagadeesen - not a safe keeper, and his batting doesn't seem that good either. upendra yadav seems solid. wadkar would be even better, but is old now.

 

there are emerging keepers to keep an eye on: kushagra and jurel

[Vijy]

3 minutes ago, sarchasm said:

Dhruv Jurel is the one who should be groomed as Pant's apprentice and substitute.

 

Kishan, Upendra etc are good but don't have Jurel's ceiling.

jurel has also done well in ranjis, although against some weak teams. kushagra is another potentially useful batter-keeper

[rkt.india]

its all about pecking order in the Indian team selections these days. Even the most talented are struggling to breach the pecking order. 

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, Vijy said:

not jagadeesen - not a safe keeper, and his batting doesn't seem that good either. upendra yadav seems solid. wadkar would be even better, but is old now.

 

there are emerging keepers to keep an eye on: kushagra and jurel

Wadkar is 28, not too old for a wk. 

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, sandeep said:

Obviously I'm unhappy that India is 200 runs behind in this test - but honestly, I would have been less disappointed if we were in this situation with Ashwin and Kishan playing ahead of Umesh and Bharath.  No disrespect to either player.  

had Ashwin played, he would have played in place of Shardul, not Umesh. Umesh being a front line pacer would still have played. Shardul is playing as an alrounder here like Ashwin. So alrounder replaced alrounder. That would have been the case. looking at the kind of trick pitch is playing, playing four seamers was not a  bad decision but needed right personnel for that, not Umesh as the third front line seamer.   

[sandeep]

52 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

had Ashwin played, he would have played in place of Shardul, not Umesh. Umesh being a front line pacer would still have played.

THat's..........nonsense.

[Vivek92]

57 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

had Ashwin played, he would have played in place of Shardul, not Umesh. Umesh being a front line pacer would still have played. Shardul is playing as an alrounder here like Ashwin. So alrounder replaced alrounder. That would have been the case. looking at the kind of trick pitch is playing, playing four seamers was not a  bad decision but needed right personnel for that, not Umesh as the third front line seamer.   

No way Shardul would have been dropped especially at England 

[rkt.india]

33 minutes ago, sandeep said:

THat's..........nonsense.

that is not nonsense. that is how it is. Shardul is not a front line pacer. he plays as an alrounder. Shardul is Pandya's replacement, not a replacement of Bumrah. Bumrah's replacement is Umesh.