coffee_rules Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 11 hours ago, New guy said: https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/cricket/team-india-captaincy-how-suryakumar-yadav-rises-to-prominence-ahead-of-hardik-pandya-in-the-gautam-gambhir-era-article-111797099/amp Looks like Pandya has fallen out of favor completely and both Gambhir and Agarkar want SKY as long term t20 captain. Good to see Gambhir not letting his political affiliation come in between team decisions. What about GG's political affiiliations? He's quit politics. He quit KKR as a mentor.
Ultimate_Game Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 2 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: What about GG's political affiiliations? He's quit politics. He quit KKR as a mentor. Credit to GG, he has never let his affiliations affect his judgment. He has backed players with potential and brought some of them from a different state to Delhi. Recall most of Delhi pacers have been backed by him and also Nitish Rana. I expect him to do what's best for the Indian team. Maybe he can get likes of Harshit Rana, Varun C, Venkatesh Iyer, Abhishek Sharma, Rian Parag into the mainfold. deeppoint, coffee_rules, Frustrated and 1 other 1 3
IndianRenegade Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 11 hours ago, Number said: Makes sense. SKY is available for T20Is always. Pandya with those fitness problems and unavailability is not a good captaincy option. Rohit hardly played our T20Is but he was the captain of our T20 WC squad, wasn't he? Chakdephatte 1
deeppoint Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 1 hour ago, Ultimate_Game said: Would've preferred Pandya as T20I captain. But SKY may not be a bad choice as long as he brings everyone, including Pandya together. Good thing is SKY deserves his spot in T20s, and hope he backs likes of Jaiswal, Abhishek, Parag etc. and pushes for Abhishek to open alongside Jaiswal instead of Gill GG Should come in there. He should have a say. Abhishek, Yashavi are best option at the top, but when you have lefties you should form as many left-right combinations as you could. Solely keeping this in mind, my preference is to open with Gill+Jaiswal. If Gill gets out SKY should come in. If it's Yashaswi, Abhishek should come in.
deeppoint Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 1 hour ago, coffee_rules said: What about GG's political affiiliations? He's quit politics. He quit KKR as a mentor. I think he is a man of principles. Don't expect him to let his political affiliations (if any of it is left by now) affect his judgement. coffee_rules 1
Ultimate_Game Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 Just now, deeppoint said: GG Should come in there. He should have a say. Abhishek, Yashavi are best option at the top, but when you have lefties you should form as many left-right combinations as you could. Solely keeping this in mind, my preference is to open with Gill+Jaiswal. If Gill gets out SKY should come in. If it's Yashaswi, Abhishek should come in. The benefit of opening with Jaiswal-Abhishek far outweights the gains from a left-right combo. Left-right combo is great as long as the players are comparable but in this case Jaiswal & Abhishek are far better than Gill as openers in T20s. Plus you waste either Jaiswal or Abhishek as they're openers and that's their natural spot whereas Gill can bat at 3 as that's his game, i.e. similar to Kohli. vishalvirsingh 1
coffee_rules Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 17 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: The benefit of opening with Jaiswal-Abhishek far outweights the gains from a left-right combo. Left-right combo is great as long as the players are comparable but in this case Jaiswal & Abhishek are far better than Gill as openers in T20s. Plus you waste either Jaiswal or Abhishek as they're openers and that's their natural spot whereas Gill can bat at 3 as that's his game, i.e. similar to Kohli. Gill is not suited for T20s period. Rituraj makes a better #3 than Gill
Ultimate_Game Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 6 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: Gill is not suited for T20s period. Rituraj makes a better #3 than Gill Not too sold on Ruturaj. Gives me KL Rahul vibes and a poor catcher to boot - see him drop a sitter almost every match. Gill is preferable but as long as Gill/Ruturaj bat at 3, I'm good. coffee_rules 1
deeppoint Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 Luckily, Gill and Ruturaj are like for like replacement. So, God forbid if one gets injured the other can easily fill in. Alternatively, they both can play a series. 2-3 matches each in a series of 5 T20Is. 41 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: Gill is not suited for T20s period. Rituraj makes a better #3 than Gill 33 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: Not too sold on Ruturaj. Gives me KL Rahul vibes and a poor catcher to boot - see him drop a sitter almost every match. Gill is preferable but as long as Gill/Ruturaj bat at 3, I'm good. Ultimate_Game and coffee_rules 2
Sgattick10 Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 I am ok with sky ahead of pandu as t20 captain. He is specialist t20 player and can play all the t20 series leading upto 26' wc. express bowling and Stan AF 2
Bigg Brother Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 5 hours ago, New guy said: Yes attacking people always have zero game awareness while stat padding selfish blokes do. You guys are hilarious. One day you will realise t20 had only 120 balls and 10 wickets and we don't need awareness or anchors or stat padding Stop being oversmart.. Everyone knows t20 has 120 balls and 10 wickets you idiot. Adamant 1
express bowling Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 10 hours ago, Gollum said: Yeah, why not skipper Bumrah? Because Bumrah will be rested for most T20Is for the next 1 year. Sgattick10 and Adamant 2
AKane Posted July 17, 2024 Posted July 17, 2024 OT - Apologies - Looks like the US leg of the T20 WC has drilled a hole in the pocket of the ICC.... https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-board-seeks-answers-after-costs-spiral-for-us-leg-of-t20-world-cup-1443503
MumInd Posted July 18, 2024 Posted July 18, 2024 8 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said: Not too sold on Ruturaj. Gives me KL Rahul vibes and a poor catcher to boot - see him drop a sitter almost every match. Gill is preferable but as long as Gill/Ruturaj bat at 3, I'm good. in which world is gill better than Rutu G in T20.... that's apreposterous take... no matter how you look at it.... Rutu G is better.... Runs, stats... or winning mentality.... Rutu G ahead of gill.... Laaloo 1
New guy Posted July 18, 2024 Author Posted July 18, 2024 The interference already started https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/are-gautam-gambhir-and-jay-shah-divided-over-indias-t20i-captaincy-squad-announcement-likely-today/articleshow/111823173.cms Are Gautam Gambhir and Jay Shah divided over India's T20I captaincy? Squad announcement likely today As per various reports, the BCCI was scheduled to announce the squads on Wednesday but because there was no consensus yet on whether Hardik Pandya or Suryakumar Yadav will led the team in T20Is, the announcement was delayed for another day and will reportedly happen on Thursday
Gollum Posted July 18, 2024 Posted July 18, 2024 12 hours ago, express bowling said: Because Bumrah will be rested for most T20Is for the next 1 year. I don't think we need regular captains for this fickle format. He can captain every now and then and assume full responsibility come WC time.
Throwaib_Chuckter Posted July 18, 2024 Posted July 18, 2024 1 hour ago, Gollum said: I don't think we need regular captains for this fickle format. He can captain every now and then and assume full responsibility come WC time. Or have a non playing captain in shudder Dhoni-conda.
deepdynamo Posted July 18, 2024 Posted July 18, 2024 Not liking this sky vs Pandya thing floating in media. The team is at all time high...why break the team camaraderie ?? Just take both into confidence and assign them captain and vice captain till 2026 WC and give them full rein along with GG.
Number Posted July 18, 2024 Posted July 18, 2024 7 hours ago, New guy said: The interference already started https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/are-gautam-gambhir-and-jay-shah-divided-over-indias-t20i-captaincy-squad-announcement-likely-today/articleshow/111823173.cms Are Gautam Gambhir and Jay Shah divided over India's T20I captaincy? Squad announcement likely today As per various reports, the BCCI was scheduled to announce the squads on Wednesday but because there was no consensus yet on whether Hardik Pandya or Suryakumar Yadav will led the team in T20Is, the announcement was delayed for another day and will reportedly happen on Thursday Bambanis may armtwist JS to make their boy the captain. Gambhir may not have it all his way like KKR here.
Ultimate_Game Posted July 18, 2024 Posted July 18, 2024 11 hours ago, MumInd said: in which world is gill better than Rutu G in T20.... that's apreposterous take... no matter how you look at it.... Rutu G is better.... Runs, stats... or winning mentality.... Rutu G ahead of gill.... For one fielding. I've yet to see Gill drop a catch, while Ruturaj drops a sitters almost every game. And batting wise I don't really see how Ruturaj is better - very similar batsmen who can't tee off from ball one and need to get their eye in before upping the ante. Very Kohliesque in their batting approach. As I said I don't really care that much which one of those is selected to bat as long as they bat at 3 provided Ruturaj improves his catching.
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