Duleep Trophy 2023

[vvvslaxman]

Sai Kishore never leaves the stumps

[vvvslaxman]

Sarfraz is standing well outside the crease when he faces Kaverappa

 

[vvvslaxman]

About Kaverappa this guy is never going to reverse the ball with that action or wrist position in my view. He just relies a lot on angles targetting the stump. If i have to compare him with young Ishant,  this guy is way below him. Ishant when he was young would bring the ball back at pace.

[vvvslaxman]

Panchal tuk tuk academy master by the look of it. Not punishing even half vollies

[vvvslaxman]

India could have appointed WV Raman as coach instead of this Rahul Dravid. He is blunt with his assessment.

[vvvslaxman]

Review taken. Wasted review. Inside edge. Outside the off stump

[vvvslaxman]

For longer format i am okay with bowlers bowling 10  kph lesser than their peak speed. But this is very poor speed.

 

[vvvslaxman]

WV Raman makes sense. WZ should score as much as possible against the tired SZ bowlers today and leave very little tomorrow to score.  The other commie was okay batting slowly. This aggressive tactical mindset is what missing our current team management.

[vvvslaxman]

Negative bowling worked for South Zone. They packed the leg side with 6 fielders kept bowling outside the leg stump line and on the pads. Sarfraz played a very risky on drive against the turn it hit the pad and bowled him. Credit to Sai Kishore for hitting the length consistently.

[vvvslaxman]

Panchal is an okay tuk tuker. He can hang around. But he is not going to enforce.

[vvvslaxman]

What a bad luck for West Zone lol They were wasting time for bad light. Umpires told them to continue. Now there is actual bad light. Sarfraz gone few balls before bad light.

[Vijy]

6 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

WV Raman makes sense. WZ should score as much as possible against the tired SZ bowlers today and leave very little tomorrow to score.  The other commie was okay batting slowly. This aggressive tactical mindset is what missing our current team management.

surfer khan (sarfaraz khan) was scoring at a fairly brisk pace before he threw his wicket away like a feckless idiot

[vvvslaxman]

9 minutes ago, Vijy said:

surfer khan (sarfaraz khan) was scoring at a fairly brisk pace before he threw his wicket away like a feckless idiot

 

Yea.. Succumbed to the field set. Bit over confident.   If they get rid of Priyank it will be tricky for West Zone. Don't know if this guy has another gear. So far looks way too orthodox.

[Vijy]

Just now, vvvslaxman said:

 

Yea.. Succumbed to the field set. Bit over confident.   If they get rid of Priyank it will be tricky for West Zone. Don't know if this guy has another gear. So far looks way too orthodox.

panchal is a tuk-tuker. surfaraz has extra gears, but has been batting like a headless chicken lately

[Lone Wolf]

17 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

About Kaverappa this guy is never going to reverse the ball with that action or wrist position in my view. He just relies a lot on angles targetting the stump. If i have to compare him with young Ishant,  this guy is way below him. Ishant when he was young would bring the ball back at pace.

Ishant never got bounce as far as I know also he later changed his wrist position to bowl in swingers at right handers...  But lost the ability to take the ball away from RHB.  That move did make him more threatening vs LHB though. 

[wazza]

Just a reminder 127 avg on local speed gun is 5 to 6 kmph slower so keverapaa really is 133 on average. 

 

Once he joins the main team, he can be coached to bowl at faster speeds. He should be able to add another 5 kph easy. He has a decent action

 137 138 averaging test bowler will be deadly. 

Edited July 16, 2023 by wazza

[Trichromatic]

8 minutes ago, wazza said:

Just a reminder 127 avg on local speed gun is 5 to 6 kmph slower so keverapaa really is 33 on average. 

 

Once he joins the main team, he can be coached to bowl at faster speeds. He should be able to add another 5 kph easy. He has a decent action

 137 138 averaging test bowler will be deadly. 

 

What kind of logic is that?

[wazza]

21 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

What kind of logic is that?

Indian speed guns put out lower speeds compared to international speed guns. 

 

It's always slower in domestic. Umran etc was clocking 138-144 when in reality same balls were 145 plus in international cricket

 

Not just him. Even bumrah was clocked at 130-135 lol. We all know that's not true. 

[Lone Wolf]

So South Zone wins Duleep trophy beating a much fancied West Zone (Defending Champs). 

They had a better bowling attack than everyone barring maybe NZ. 

 

 

Irani Trophy >Duleep Trophy > IPL> Ranji Trophy in terms of identifying Test standard players imo. 

Ranji has become hub of Trundlerism & stroke less wonders & is probably worst domestic competition going around. 

[Lone Wolf]

Kaverappa,  POTM & MoS as well...  Could be closer to a India cap than ever before. 

Ended Parsi quota Nagwaswalla once & for all. 

 

Upto Harshit Rana to light up Emerging Asia Cup.