India vs Afghanistan, 1st T20I - Mohali 11th Jan

[Lord]

2 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Why are Noor and Rashid not playing? Have they gone off to the sat20? 

Back injury for Rashid. Travelling with the team though. Noor not selected I guess.

[vvvslaxman]

India just doesn't have big over guys. They hit a 4 or 6 series of dots and singles and another 4. Jaiswal is one guy who showed consistent intent. This Tilak still not sold on him as a pure batsman

[rageaddict]

Dube batting like Klusener.

[Sgattick10]

Tilak out 26 of 21 

[rageaddict]

Just lol @ Indian T20 team, struggling against the Afghans.

[Nikhil_cric]

2 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

India just doesn't have big over guys. They hit a 4 or 6 series of dots and singles and another 4. Jaiswal is one guy who showed consistent intent. This Tilak still not sold on him as a pure batsman

Technically weak as well. Can't judge offstump. And they play him at #3. 

 

Fall guy for Kohli's return. Nothing more. Gaikwad might actually put up a case for selection over Kohli. 

 

 

[Austin 3:!6]

Its 9 degrees in Mohali and 1 degree where I am

 

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, Nikhil_cric said:

Technically weak as well. Can't judge offstump. And they play him at #3. 

 

Fall guy for Kohli's return. Nothing more. Gaikwad might actually put up a case for selection over Kohli. 

 

 

Iyer atleast can spank trundlers and spinners. 

[Lord]

9 minutes ago, putrevus said:

If Umran is not there find another one.Arshdeep is not the answer for anything.

 

Find who? There's no one.

[bowl_out]

Why is Tilak playing ahead of Samson? This would have been the perfect chance to test out both Samson and Jitesh in parallel identify the first choice keeper batsman for the WC. Tilak has no chance to get into the squad anyway.

[putrevus]

So Jitesh is better hitter and batsman than Rinku Singh.

 

If Rinku is number 6 but cannot bowl , how will he add the balance once guy like Pandya comes into the team.

[Lord]

Just now, bowl_out said:

Why is Tilak playing ahead of Samson? This would have been the perfect chance to test out both Samson and Jitesh in parallel identify the first choice keeper batsman for the WC. Tilak has no chance to get into the squad anyway.

Tilak is a surety

 

 

[Nikhil_cric]

26 off 22. Useless knock. 

[Lord]

Just now, putrevus said:

So Jitesh is better hitter and batsman than Rinku Singh.

 

If Rinku is number 6 but cannot bowl , how will he add the balance once guy like Pandya comes into the team.

He can bowl some offies.  Everyone doesn't have to bowl anyway

[putrevus]

Just now, Lord said:

 

Find who? There's no one.

There is whole section on ICF praising about  fast bowling prospects who all bowl express. I have not seen many to comment on them.

 

So you are saying Dravid is not wrong in selecting these trundlers?

[New guy]

27 minutes ago, harpicP said:

Miss the days of big hitters. Heavy strong hitters like Dhoni who was 80 plus kg

Yousuf 85

Yuvraj 85 plus

 

Dhoni did Jack **** in international T20s, has a strike rate of 126 despite coming mostly at death. 

 

He played so long because of his captaincy and reputation, has only 2 T20 50s in international in his international career, in comparison Pant, who is poor in T20s had 2 50s in his first 10 matches.

[putrevus]

Just now, Lord said:

He can bowl some offies.  Everyone doesn't have to bowl anyway

So if Pandya comes in who are you dropping.You can Kohli can replace Tilak.

[rageaddict]

Gill in T20s is a liability, good for targets like 150-160 but his usual 110 SR knocks will do more harm than good during big chases 

[Austin 3:!6]

What happens if Dube had a brilliant series here and in IPL? We still drop him as soon as Pandya makes himself available? 

[Downtown]

9 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

India just doesn't have big over guys. They hit a 4 or 6 series of dots and singles and another 4. Jaiswal is one guy who showed consistent intent. This Tilak still not sold on him as a pure batsman

He's neither a batsman nor bowler! A complete dud! Vijay Shankar is 100 times a better utility player than this fake all-rounder.