India squad announced

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, neel roy said:

Are you in Mars? Akashdeep now has the best hair in town. Go and check his photos. Jokes apart he has been picked to replace Shami. Shreyas Iyer has been given enough chances and McCullum from stands asked bowlers to bowl at his head and in 2 balls he was gone in

the old trafford test.. Chakravarti cant even bowl 10 overs without huffing, do you think he has the skills and fitness to last 5 days and with English summer being dry it will be long days for bowlers..

English summer kab se dry ho gaya? Even currently I am seeing rain in several parts of England.

Edited May 24, 2025 by rkt.india

[neel roy]

3 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

English summer kab se dry ho gaya? Even currently I am seeing rain in several parts of England.

Its cloudy in London today. But this summer has been predicted to be vety dry

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/england-faces-drought-summer-reservoir-water-levels-dwindle

[rkt.india]

1 minute ago, neel roy said:

Its cloudy in London today. But this summer has been predicted to be vety dry

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/england-faces-drought-summer-reservoir-water-levels-dwindle

These predictions don't mean much for long term forecast.

[Lone Wolf]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Sarfaraz would have done well on these Eng pitches. Maybe even Shreyas. 

 

Gill as captain is surely a prank? No way is he good enough to be in the squad in overseas tests, even this washed up Kohli, Rohit are like Bradman compared to him. Imagine Bumrah taking orders from this lukkha. 

It was between Sarfaraz vs Karun.  Recent form is with Karun.

But for long term Sarfaraz was better pick.

Tricky call nevertheless.  Chances of Karun doing well are roughly same as Sarfaraz 

 

[Teengunalagaan]

On the brighter side, we have a good news.

 

All the PR and fans of RoKo can take a Pi*s, no more of that bs 

 

 

[The Realist]

Thakur's Belly > Rohit's Belly 

 

At least restaurants in UK will be happy.

 

Gill did not play in Aus (hence not good enough) but now somehow captain on an Eng tour. 

[neel roy]

37 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

These predictions don't mean much for long term forecast.

The test match starts in 27 days. Go and check this. I hope Uk met office has better knowledge than ours

 

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/business/public-sector/civil-contingency/3moutlook_mjj_v2-2025.pdf

 

[SandeepMotta]

2 hours ago, cowboysfan said:

huh? again you guys can't distinguish between T20s and Test cricket.

Don't try to act smart. In 3 innings after his century he score 5 runs 

. Also, he has a 1st class average of 23 with the bat after 28 matches.

[figo6762]

Honestly pressure on Sai and Jaiswal to score .. everyone else can just be blown away in 2 hrs in cloud covered afternoon .

[Nikhil_cric]

Can't have Arshdeep and Thakur playing Test cricket. 

 

Not sure why Rana isn't in the squad. 

 

The bowling attack will have lost all venom by 4th Test. 

 

 

[crictime]

3 hours ago, Prabhdeep Singh said:

I think KL and Gill will be under pressure based on their mediocre averages after playing so many test matches.

 

KL averages 33 after 58 test matches

Gill averages 35 after 32 test matches

 

KL has to do a lot work to get his average to a respectable average of 40 or above.

Selection on basis of performance is not the forte of selectors.

 

Very disappointing that such mediocre averages of 33 and 35 still gets them a test spot as a specialist batsman.

 

How can selectors think of wasting test batting positions on such mediocre averaging test batsmen.

 

 

[Sgattick10]

Not a bad squad at all, let's see how all the youngsters perform. 

[cowboysfan]

1 hour ago, SandeepMotta said:

Don't try to act smart. In 3 innings after his century he score 5 runs 

. Also, he has a 1st class average of 23 with the bat after 28 matches.

he averaged 38 in BGT,that is more than most of our frontline batsmen,you dont drop an allrounder like that.

[Nikhil_cric]

Jaiswal

KL

Sai

Gill

Nair

Pant

Jadeja/Washi 

Akash

Prasidh

Siraj

Bumrah

 

Probably the best lineup to ensure 20 wickets as cheap as possible 

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, neel roy said:

The test match starts in 27 days. Go and check this. I hope Uk met office has better knowledge than ours

 

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/business/public-sector/civil-contingency/3moutlook_mjj_v2-2025.pdf

 

As I said long term forecast aren't reliable. Forecast of more than 7 days can't be taken too seriously in the age of weather forecasting becoming difficult. A lot can happen in 25 days meteorologically and I am an avid met observer. 

[singhvivek141]

1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Can't have Arshdeep and Thakur playing Test cricket. 

 

Not sure why Rana isn't in the squad. 

 

The bowling attack will have lost all venom by 4th Test. 

 

 

Seems Rana post all his variations is now seen as a short format bowler.

Arshdeep has been given an opportunity based on the social media pressure. Lets see how he justifies his selection.

 

Thakur saab is just to provide some experience...and cover for the potential failure of Indian Batting...

[rish]

Dont think Gill has the technique to last in England.

KL will grind out 20s and 30s before nicking in the slips.Modern day sanjay bangar.

 

Also not sure about Karun nairs consistency.

 

Will be a tough tour.

 

 

[crictime]

15 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

Seems Rana post all his variations is now seen as a short format bowler.

Arshdeep has been given an opportunity based on the social media pressure. Lets see how he justifies his selection.

 

Thakur saab is just to provide some experience...and cover for the potential failure of Indian Batting...

If at all selectors had a habit of succumbing to social media pressure from fans. They would have dropped Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from two formats couple of years back. Jadeja would have been dropped feom ODI format as well.

 

On tour of Aus Nitish Reddy the batting all rounder was batting at 8 ?, Sundar was also there in some matches to cover the lack of runs from the actual batsmen. Won't be surprised if we see a specialist bowler less in playinh 11 to have a lower order batting depth to cover the lack of runs from avtual batting lineup.

[crictime]

19 minutes ago, rish said:

Dont think Gill has the technique to last in England.

KL will grind out 20s and 30s before nicking in the slips.Modern day sanjay bangar.

 

Also not sure about Karun nairs consistency.

 

Will be a tough tour.

 

 

Manoj Prabhkar (33) has average similar to what KL Rahul has in tests 

[Adamant]

Shardul Thakur is going to be our trumpcard in this tour.