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[Majestic]

4 hours ago, Lord said:

 

Have to see him as batsman who can bowl. Can easily bat at 5

He should bat higher. But whom to push below?

[Lord]

14 hours ago, Majestic said:

He should bat higher. But whom to push below?

 Bat 5 in place of Nair/Sai and include additional bowler/bowling AR

[Majestic]

19 hours ago, Lord said:

 Bat 5 in place of Nair/Sai and include additional bowler/bowling AR

Pant at 5, Jadeja 6

[Lord]

16 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Pant at 5, Jadeja 6

 

Jadeja is at 7 usually. Karun came in at 6 in first game. 

[Majestic]

24 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

Jadeja is at 7 usually. Karun came in at 6 in first game. 

They realised it was a mistake and hence they changed this from second game onwards.

 

Jadeja batted at 6 post that throughout. Sundar batted at 8 and then moved up to 7. 

[vvvslaxman]

Regardless of where he batted ever since they included him India competed way better. They lost just 1 test that too by 22 runs thanks to unusual India's batting collapse. Competed well in all the other tests. He adds value to the side. Nobody can dispute that. If Kuldeep is added he will add value. But not at the expense of Sundar.

[StraightDrive26]

India can play Sundar and Jadeja at the expense of a batter as they both are good enough to play as batters alone in the XI. The biggest issue for India is to find a pace bowling all-rounder who can score runs and also give effective 10-12 overs a day. Since Kapil Dev, India haven't been able to plug that gap. Irfan Pathan did that for a brief while but his bowling declined rapidly and he was dropped. Pandya could have been that for India in Tests but his body doesn't allow him to play the format. Now we have Nitish Reddy but I am not convinced about his bowling, his batting after his first 4 innings lacks consistency as well. If India can get one pace bowling all-rounder to play along with Sundar and Jadeja, it will be a very good playing XI.

Jaiswal

Rahul

Sai (wouldn't discard him yet)

Gill

Pant

Jadeja

Sundar

Kuldeep (if in India or on dry/flat wickets overseas), pace-allrounder/batter

Pacer 3/Axar if in India

pacer 2 (Bumrah overseas)

Pacer 3 (SirajO

[vvvslaxman]

6 minutes ago, StraightDrive26 said:

India can play Sundar and Jadeja at the expense of a batter as they both are good enough to play as batters alone in the XI. The biggest issue for India is to find a pace bowling all-rounder who can score runs and also give effective 10-12 overs a day. Since Kapil Dev, India haven't been able to plug that gap. Irfan Pathan did that for a brief while but his bowling declined rapidly and he was dropped. Pandya could have been that for India in Tests but his body doesn't allow him to play the format. Now we have Nitish Reddy but I am not convinced about his bowling, his batting after his first 4 innings lacks consistency as well. If India can get one pace bowling all-rounder to play along with Sundar and Jadeja, it will be a very good playing XI.

Jaiswal

Rahul

Sai (wouldn't discard him yet)

Gill

Pant

Jadeja

Sundar

Kuldeep (if in India or on dry/flat wickets overseas), pace-allrounder/batter

Pacer 3/Axar if in India

pacer 2 (Bumrah overseas)

Pacer 3 (SirajO

The intangible factor is clutchness. Both  Sundar and  Jadeja are super clutch.In conjunction with  Pant they form a dependable core. We may find more  skillful batsmen than these 2. But you can't buy clutchness. That is something  either you  have it or not. Any all rounder that replace one of these two  in  overly fast bowling condition must  meet this criteria of delivering under pressure.

[Majestic]

India need to find a way to maximise the runs scoring potential of both Jadeja and Sundar in Test cricket.

 

They play test style cricket and batting at 6 or below forces them to end with a lot of not outs. There is nothing to boost about being not out at end because all your scores only matter till the final wicket is not taken.

 

India did well by moving Jadeja up at 6 and I feel they can try and play both Sundar and Jadeja at 5 or 6.

[nevada]

14 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Regardless of where he batted ever since they included him India competed way better. They lost just 1 test that too by 22 runs thanks to unusual India's batting collapse. Competed well in all the other tests. He adds value to the side. Nobody can dispute that. If Kuldeep is added he will add value. But not at the expense of Sundar.

The game we lost, he took a bunch of wickets and kept the target to within 200. It's a shame we couldn't make his bowling a match winning effort!