Ajit Agarkar,chairman of Selection committee

[singhvivek141]

On 2/8/2024 at 12:30 PM, tweaker said:

 

What is the fuss regarding Kohli rest due to personal reasons and skipping the full.5 tests.Will he just can walk in the playing 11 ,if Patidar or Sarfaraz plays well in the next three test.

That ship has long sailed after Rahane Nair fiasco.

 

When a mediocre batter like Rahane can come back in despite Nair scoring a triple century. What chances Patidar or Sarafarz have against mighty Kohli.

 

 

[putrevus]

8 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

That ship has long sailed after Rahane Nair fiasco.

 

When a mediocre batter like Rahane can come back in despite Nair scoring a triple century. What chances Patidar or Sarafarz have against mighty Kohli.

 

 

Rahane came back into the side more because he was VC .

 

What would you do if new player does well in place of an injured player.

[singhvivek141]

32 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Rahane came back into the side more because he was VC .

 

What would you do if new player does well in place of an injured player.

What I won't do is ditch the new player permanently, never to be picked again. 

 

It wasn't Nair's fault that Rahane was VC, he did performed and should have been persisted instead. Specially in Indian tests where Rahane was always poor vs spin.

Nair in Asia while Rahane as SENA specialist. VC is not some indisposable post.

[putrevus]

1 hour ago, singhvivek141 said:

What I won't do is ditch the new player permanently, never to be picked again. 

 

It wasn't Nair's fault that Rahane was VC, he did performed and should have been persisted instead. Specially in Indian tests where Rahane was always poor vs spin.

Nair in Asia while Rahane as SENA specialist. VC is not some indisposable post.

I agree, VC is not some indispensible post that Rahane could not be dropped or removed from the squad itself.

 

I am not fan of Rahane either.But I think there is misconception about Nair, that he was not dropped from squad immediately after his triple century , yes he was dropped for first test against Australia but played next three tests in the series.Where he looked overmatched against fast bowlers plus he was not great against spin either.

 

IMO Rahane was not great anywhere, he is worst investment after KL Rahul in Indian cricket.

 

 

 

 

[New guy]

2 hours ago, putrevus said:

 

 

I am not fan of Rahane either.But I think there is misconception about Nair, that he was not dropped from squad immediately after his triple century , yes he was dropped for first test against Australia but played next three tests in the series.Where he looked overmatched against fast bowlers plus he was not great against spin either.

 

 

 

 

Dropping will cause any young player to lose confidence, Pant, Dhoni all looked awful initially, Kohli was a sitting duck in his first English tour.. Lets stop making excuses for pathetic TM who screw over young players instead of helping them.

[putrevus]

27 minutes ago, New guy said:

Dropping will cause any young player to lose confidence, Pant, Dhoni all looked awful initially, Kohli was a sitting duck in his first English tour.. Lets stop making excuses for pathetic TM who screw over young players instead of helping them.

I am not making an excuse for anybody. Nair was rightly dropped in the first test in Australia series for Rahane .KL Rahul who was out injured otherwise Nair would not have made his debut in the first place.

 

Kohli  scored runs in Australia, SA and NZ before he failed in England. Not to mention he was best batsman on the team in 2014.Why would you drop your best batsman after one series failure.

 

Rahane was getting his spot back after injury. Rahane in 2016 was core batsman on the team with healthy avg of nearly 48 and Nair was the sixth batsman.

 

Why would drop your core batsman if he was doing okay.Nair was 6th batsman on the team.

 

 

Pant was dropped even after 2018 Australian series that too for guy like Saha.He has done okay for himself.

 

A guy like VVS was odd man many out on occasions when Indian team then dared to play with 5 batsman.If they kept playing with just 5 batsmen, VVS would not have had the career as he did not have any other skill.

 

 

 

Edited February 12 by putrevus