Squad for CT 2025

[diga]

Shreyas Iyer should play ahead of Virat or KL on the spinning tracks of Dubai

[Lord]

2 hours ago, diga said:

Shreyas Iyer should play ahead of Virat or KL on the spinning tracks of Dubai

 

no all 3 should be avoided

[raki05]

22 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

Jaiswal will be in England ODI's.

Whether he will play as second opener or sit on bench in CT remains to be seen

 

Rohit, Gill, Jaiswal, Kohli, Shreyas, Hardik, Kuldeep, Shami, Bumrah, Axar, Sundar will be there.

 

Bench will be between Varun C, Nitish, Riyan, Tilak, Siraj, Arshdeep.

Jaddu may not play.

I will play NKR and one spinner kully and one spin alrounder axar. I dont trust sundar with his bat in loi.

[BacktoCricaddict]

We know what we need to do to win this tourney. We will score more runs and take more wickets than everyone else. It's as simple as that.

 

Yours truly,

Gautam Gambhir

[vvvslaxman]

Will Reddy be considered? India can almost field another team that beat the crap out of main team without Bumrah.

[cowboysfan]

Sai Sudharshan had sports hernia surgery,probably out till IPL.this guy has zero luck.

[Lord]

On 1/8/2025 at 11:56 AM, Nikhil_cric said:

Revzsports reported that India is likely to pick 3 spin allrounders - Axar, Jadeja, Sundar- and Kuldeep. 

 

God help Indian cricket. No batting allrounders and 4 spinners. Thought RoKo would've learnt their lesson after getting beaten on November 19 by a team that picked only 1 specialist spinner. 

 

We too have one specialist spinner only- Kuldeep.

 

The issue is none of top 5 can bowl even one over so we have to make such jugaad arrangement. 

 

They can rectify it atleast now by picking Parag/NKR. But likely they'll go with senior superstars again

[Nikhil_cric]

41 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

We too have one specialist spinner only- Kuldeep.

 

The issue is none of top 5 can bowl even one over so we have to make such jugaad arrangement. 

 

They can rectify it atleast now by picking Parag/NKR. But likely they'll go with senior superstars again

Let's not consider Axar , Jadeja and Sundar as legit. lower order batters .  What we need is guys like Parag who can bowl spin .  

 

Pandya should bat no higher than #7.  Top 6 have to be batters with a couple of them able to chip in with a few overs. 

 

 

Edited January 9, 2025 by Nikhil_cric

[Lord]

2 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Let's not consider Axar , Jadeja and Sundar as legit. lower order batters .  What we need us guys like Parag who can bowl spin .  

 

Pandya should bat no higher than #7.  Top 6 have to batters with a couple of them able to chip in with a few overs. 

 

 

yeah that's what I meant. Earlier we didnt have anyone like Parag. Jadhav was last such guy we had.

 

Now atleast they should fix the balance. But it'll require dropping a superstar bat like KL,Iyer so not realistic

[Nikhil_cric]

Just now, Lord said:

yeah that's what I meant. Earlier we didnt have anyone like Parag. Jadhav was last such guy we had.

 

Now atleast they should fix the balance. But it'll require dropping a superstar bat like KL,Iyer so not realistic

Not really. It requires dropping the likes of Jadeja from the Top 7. 

[Lord]

1 minute ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Not really. It requires dropping the likes of Jadeja from the Top 7. 

Parag is not a finisher though. He needs to bat at 4-5 max. Maybe we can have Rinku as finisher. He can roll his arm over too.

[Nikhil_cric]

47 minutes ago, Lord said:

Parag is not a finisher though. He needs to bat at 4-5 max. Maybe we can have Rinku as finisher. He can roll his arm over too.

Parag often bats at 6 in List A . Rinku's bowling is not that good.  Pandya has to play the finisher role at 7. 

[test fan]

Jaiswal 

Gill 

Parag 

Iyer 

Samson

Pant 

Pandya 

Axar 

Kuldeep 

Bumrah

Arshdeep 

 

This is good team and parag/ Pandya can Bowl combined 10 over .

 

[ungboysj]

Jaiswal

Samson

Gill/tilak

Pant

Iyer

Pandya

Parag

Axar

Kuldeep/varun c

Bumrah

Arshdeep

 

Both batting and bowling firepower 

 

[singhvivek141]

13 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Will Reddy be considered? India can almost field another team that beat the crap out of main team without Bumrah.

Depends if he is a Reddy type Reddy or Jagan type Reddy.

Pawan Kalyan may pitch in or not depending on the above.

[diga]

it will be between Varun Chakravarthy & Kuldeep Yadav for the spinners slot 

[cricspirit]

Starting 11

 

Jaiswal 

Gill

Samson

Tilak varma

Iyer 
Parag

Pandya 

W Sundar

Kuldeep 

Bumrah

Arshdeep 

 

Rest of the Squad

KL Rahul  << Backup keeper /Top order

Rinku Singh << Backup Middle order

Axar Patel << Back up Spin AR

Nitish Reddy << Backup Pace AR

Md Siraj << Backup Fast Bowler

Ravi Bishnoi << Back up Spinner

 

 

Drop - Virat, Rohit, Jadeja, Pant

[vayuu1]

17 hours ago, test fan said:

Jaiswal 

Gill 

Parag 

Iyer 

Samson

Pant 

Pandya 

Axar 

Kuldeep 

Bumrah

Arshdeep 

 

This is good team and parag/ Pandya can Bowl combined 10 over .

 

I'll replace gill with nkr ,also news coming in is bumrah is consulting a NZ surgeon,so this may be more than spasm

My team would be in case of bumrah not being fit 

 

Jaiswal 

Samson 

Iyer 

Nkr/parag 

Pant 

Pandya 

Rinku

Axar 

Kuldeep 

Shami 

Pandya 

 

Edited January 10, 2025 by vayuu1

[Nikhil_cric]

4 hours ago, diga said:

it will be between Varun Chakravarthy & Kuldeep Yadav for the spinners slot 

Chakravarty only if Kuldeep is not fit. 

[coffee_rules]

Too lazy to check schedule. Kab hain CT?