Rahul Dravid defends Suryakumar Yadav’s poor ODI form, says he is still learning about 50-over format

[Gollum]

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What sort of namoona is this Dravidiot? 2 months before the WC begins and apparently SKY is learning about this format, you can't be serious!!!! What sort of planning is this? Had he said this in 2020 or '21 fine, but what's the need of pointless experimentation so close to a WC. 99% chance SKY won't start in any of the games and he is too old, is the TM preparing him for 2027 WC?

[Sean Bradley]

Just like how Rahul Dravid is "still" learning about how to coach the big boys.

[Frustrated]

Dravid ka dimag fir gaya hai.  WC ko 60 days baaki hai.  Experimentation Experimantation karte raho.  BC, WC ko mazak bana rakha hai.      SKY is NOT Yusuf Pathan FFS.   SKY averages 22 after playing 26 games and his SR is also 100 and not 120 or something.    Y Pathan was a different beast altogether. And he could bowl part time spin as well.  (SKY brings nothing new to the table).    Yes, we are missing a big hitter in the lower order.  SKY is not the answer.   

Edited July 31, 2023 by Frustrated

[Norman]

My word....and to think this guy was practically forced by the BCCI to accept the coaching job as if he was some Kirsten or John wright level tactician.  

 

[Bigg Brother]

BCCI is the most corrupt governing body and people appointed by them are also corrupt and stupid. They give any BS statements to defend their stupidity and feast on the ignorance of those who watch Indian cricket team.

 

This "We are learning from defeats", "He is still learning X,Y,Z format" is pure BS and literally without any substance. Why can't you learn from winning and scoring runs? Is it compulsory to lose and lay eggs while scoring runs. This "Learning from failure" is pure overrated BS circulated by those who perpetually fail and this is what Indian team is. Perennial Failure when it comes to actually winning something. 

 

It is going to be again Raydu-Shankar like fiasco again, they will eventually drop Sky in WC and play someone who never got to play before wc just because of this fanboyism of SKY. Sky in ODIs is like one legged man in ass-kicking contest. A player who plays every shot pre-meditatively is never going to succeed in ODIs. He is even worse than Rohit Sharma of 2012 SL series.

[VT87]

Ye saala 2007 repeat karayega

[SM2907]

A sixth sense says the Indian team has been hijacked by the BCCI. Players have lost interest as they have been used as money making tools.

 

Hope all this is wrong though.

[Lord]

He's been bad but not sure what else he could say about SKY lol

[jalebi_bhai]

WTF has he been doing in domestic cricket for all these years?

[tapandrun]

Ind team finds it hard to get any impetus in the batting, they have been hoping if somehow Sky can fit in give 20 extra runs to their potential targets.

But this is not happening and they do not have much options left for Ind. They have been ending up scoring sub par or just par scores and with bowling Ind has its difficult for them to contain opposition batting.

 

Rohit Sharma has failed to score big as he tries to be aggressive in PP (it looks odd), Kolhi will play in the same manner. These days most teams have proper batter till no. 7 and good batting alrounders afterwards Ind's batting finishes at 5/6

[spiritb2]

Still No.4 conundrum continues.. Coach, Team management not in a hurry rather it seems to find the perfect player to replace Iyer (if he's not available). Trying SKY in ODI is foolish, he's no Maxwell.. atleast Maxwell scores in 2 out of 5 matches at a rapid strike rate.

[Nikhil_cric]

23 hours ago, SM2907 said:

A sixth sense says the Indian team has been hijacked by the BCCI. Players have lost interest as they have been used as money making tools.

 

Hope all this is wrong though.

This. A hundred percent. Much to the chagrin of posters here, I keep saying its time BCCI learn from PCB of all boards - They are fast-tracking talent, reformed their domestic, supported and promoted their best domestic coaches, invested heavily in a data-driven approach, and the next generation of kids they have are not even age fudgers. Heck their social media presence is two orders of magnitude superior to that of the bureacratic tyranny that is BCCI.

[Lone Wolf]

https://twitter.com/CricCrazyJohns/status/1686261926278606848?t=w_8-xKe3XAjwbhr0umniRg&s=19

They should stick with him of they want him as finisher...  Pandu Jadeja inspire zero confidence in us finishing strongly 

 

[Gollum]

2 hours ago, spiritb2 said:

Still No.4 conundrum continues.. Coach, Team management not in a hurry rather it seems to find the perfect player to replace Iyer (if he's not available). Trying SKY in ODI is foolish, he's no Maxwell.. atleast Maxwell scores in 2 out of 5 matches at a rapid strike rate.

And Maxwell is an effective bowling option, not to forget his fielding. SKY doesn't bowl and is a below average fielder. 

[R!TTER]

On 7/31/2023 at 12:34 PM, VT87 said:

Ye saala 2007 repeat karayega

Ab aur kya baaki raha hai, he's already lost us two(?) WT20, WTC & WC is all but gone as well. Unless the outcome is preordained we ain't winning it 

[vvvslaxman]

This is what you expect Minnow team coaches like Sridharan Sriram. Not coach of Indian team.

[bowl_out]

On 7/31/2023 at 2:04 AM, VT87 said:

Ye saala 2007 repeat karayega

Exactly. We were thinking 2007 was Chappell's fault. But it seems like Dravid had a big part to play there as well

[Gollum]

Haan, Chappell toh bematlab hi badnaam hai. Moron Dravid was the one who dragged us to the gutter in that era, same he is repeating as coach. 

[coffee_rules]

47 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Haan, Chappell toh bematlab hi badnaam hai. Moron Dravid was the one who dragged us to the gutter in that era, same he is repeating as coach. 

Not fair, remember the record number consecutive successful ODI chases (17) , a series win in WI  after 35 years and in Eng after 21 years and the first drawn test  series in SA! We had a first round exit in the WC is all we remember of his captaincy! 

[Majestic]

India's 2023 ODI World Cup 16:-

 

Rohit Sharma

Shubhman Gill

Ishan Kishan

 

Virat Kohli

Shreyas Iyer( subject to fitness)

Sanju Samson 

KL Rahul( subject to fitness)

 

Hardik Pandya

Ravindra Jadeja

 

Axar Patel

Kuldeep Yadav

Yuzvendra Chahal

 

Jasprit Bumrah

Mohammad Shami

Mohammad Siraj

Shardul Thakur( ideally he shouldn't be there)

 

That's 16. One of Iyer or Samson will be in reserves, so that will be 15.

Edited August 1, 2023 by Majestic