India A tour of England

[cowboysfan]

great job Nair,we really need some solidity in the middle order.

[Teengunalagaan]

Nair is making a strong come back into contention for the playing XI

[diga]

have heard murmurs of bad blood between Karun Nair & Kohli ... any truth to it?

hindustantimes.com/cricket/karun-nair-was-in-the-team-but-virat-kohli-flew-in-prithvi-shaw-indias-comeback-man-told-bat-at-no-4-in-england-101748496404831.html

 

 

Edited May 30, 2025 by diga

[nitinbwj]

4 minutes ago, diga said:

have heard murmurs of bad blood between Karun Nair & Kohli ... any truth to it?

hindustantimes.com/cricket/karun-nair-was-in-the-team-but-virat-kohli-flew-in-prithvi-shaw-indias-comeback-man-told-bat-at-no-4-in-england-101748496404831.html

 

 

Lolhi can fukkk off forever 

[Lone Wolf]

Good god Jurel played some sublime strokes against both spin and pace.  Looks untroubled so far.  Extremely strong on the cut...love this 

 

It's between him and Nair for that spot in playing XI.

Assuming 

 

Jaiswal 

Rahul

Sai

Gill

Nair/Jurel

Pant 

Jadeja

 

 

Edited May 30, 2025 by Lone Wolf

[vishalvirsingh]

Karun 186 not out..i guess he has nailed his position in the 11 with this innings.

 

dhruv 82 not out..show casing that he could also be picked ahead of rishabh and if he is picked we will get a better keeper and a batsmen who could be better than rishabh too.

sarfaraz proving he is a champion test batsmen 92 out caught by keeper.

 

Jaiswal scored 24 and keeper caught but yes he did well too.

 

again, Eswaran losing it...he was a wrong pick; something is wrong with his batting OR his temperament. no point backing him specially when india has at least 15 very good batsmen even for TESTS.

 

[test fan]

56 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Good god Jurel played some sublime strokes against both spin and pace.  Looks untroubled so far.  Extremely strong on the cut...love this 

 

It's between him and Nair for that spot in playing XI.

Assuming 

 

Jaiswal 

Rahul

Sai

Gill

Nair/Jurel

Pant 

Jadeja

 

 

 

India can play this eleven 

 

KL 

Jaiswal

Karun 

Gill

Pant

Jurel/Sai 

 

All depends on Two Indian A games and a Intra squad matches between Indian players .

 

 

 

 

[vvvslaxman]

Karun Nair an example of hardwork

[lemsip]

A reasonable start. To be fair it was a minor county standard attack on a sunny day in England so much tougher tests ahead.

On the teams suggested above, my feeling is Sai Sudarshan gets into the XI. He has the technique to do well in tests in England. Karun Nair also is a lock after this and recent performances.  The new look lineup inspires more confidence in me than the walking wickets of RoKo off late.

I don't think Jurel can get into the side as a pure batter as others have stronger cases there. He has to bide his time for the keeper/batsman slot to open up which looks unlikely at the moment.

[vishalvirsingh]

2 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Good god Jurel played some sublime strokes against both spin and pace.  Looks untroubled so far.  Extremely strong on the cut...love this 

 

It's between him and Nair for that spot in playing XI.

Assuming 

 

Jaiswal 

Rahul

Sai

Gill

Nair/Jurel

Pant 

Jadeja

 

 

Selecting 11 is Gambhir's job but I feel he will select these in the first test

Jaiswal

KLRAHUL

Sai

Gill

Karun nair

Pant or Dhruv...in first test Pant will play if he flops dhruv may get a chance.

Jaddu Or Washington

Shardul ahead of NKR

BOOM

Prasidh ahead of arshdeep

Siraj 

 

 

[vishalvirsingh]

58 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Karun Nair an example of hardwork

he has scored 186 and still batting.

indicates he is damn serious to get into the 11 and succeed big time else in a practice match he could have gifted his wicket away after scoring a 100.

i knew he and sarfaraz will try his best to perform well in the practice matches to get into the 11

Easwaran was also supposed to do well but he got LBW...can we see the highlights some where

[deathmonger]

1 hour ago, lemsip said:

A reasonable start. To be fair it was a minor county standard attack on a sunny day in England so much tougher tests ahead.

On the teams suggested above, my feeling is Sai Sudarshan gets into the XI. He has the technique to do well in tests in England. Karun Nair also is a lock after this and recent performances.  The new look lineup inspires more confidence in me than the walking wickets of RoKo off late.

I don't think Jurel can get into the side as a pure batter as others have stronger cases there. He has to bide his time for the keeper/batsman slot to open up which looks unlikely at the moment.

Always good to have backups as injuries are part and parcel. It's not just 11 good players but a pool of 20-30 good ones should be the aim.

 

We had KS Bharat lol.

[neel roy]

3 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Good god Jurel played some sublime strokes against both spin and pace.  Looks untroubled so far.  Extremely strong on the cut...love this 

 

It's between him and Nair for that spot in playing XI.

Assuming 

 

Jaiswal 

Rahul

Sai

Gill

Nair/Jurel

Pant 

Jadeja

 

 

His cuts were his downfall in Australia but thats his strength. Its his cuts ane forward defence which won india that test against england at home. In England the bounce will not be as pronounced as Australia so he can defend well as well as play his strokes. At no 6/7 he will be coming with ball old or maybe to face new ball after 80 overs   I think he has the temperament . Karun cant play forever. He is 33. Jurel for me should be the long term no 5 / 6 option 

Edited May 30, 2025 by neel roy

[deathmonger]

14 minutes ago, neel roy said:

His cuts were his downfall in Australia but thats his strength. Its his cuts ane forward defence which won india that test against england at home. In England the bounce will not be as pronounced as Australia so he can defend well as well as play his strokes. At no 6/7 he will be coming with ball old or maybe to face new ball after 80 overs   I think he has the temperament . Karun cant play forever. He is 33. Jurel for me should be the long term no 5 / 6 option 

Yup Karun and KL are 33 and basically an in between gen.

 

The others are all super young.

 

Jaiswal - 23

Jurel - 24

Pant - 27

Gill - 25

Sai - 23

 

The ones among them who kick on will be playing 10 years from now.

[neel roy]

1 hour ago, deathmonger said:

Yup Karun and KL are 33 and basically an in between gen.

 

The others are all super young.

 

Jaiswal - 23

Jurel - 24

Pant - 27

Gill - 25

Sai - 23

 

The ones among them who kick on will be playing 10 years from now.

Followed by younger ones like

 

Shaikh Rasheed

Ayush Mhatre

Pradosh Paul 24 and Yash Rathod 25 is also not bad. 

 

 

[BacktoCricaddict]

4 hours ago, neel roy said:

His cuts were his downfall in Australia but thats his strength. Its his cuts ane forward defence which won india that test against england at home. In England the bounce will not be as pronounced as Australia so he can defend well as well as play his strokes. At no 6/7 he will be coming with ball old or maybe to face new ball after 80 overs   I think he has the temperament . Karun cant play forever. He is 33. Jurel for me should be the long term no 5 / 6 option 

Hopefully he will not be typecast as a wk/bat only there to back up Pant, but as a pure bat. 

[Gollum]

On merit, Gill shouldn't make it to the XI. Unfair if likes of Sarfu and Nair are kept out to accommodate this clown. Even Sai, Jurel deserve chances.

[tweaker]

For the second test ,Sai,Gill,Rahul will be back and most probably Sarfaraz, Jurel will have to make way for them.

As Eashwaran is captain ,he will play else ,Sai should have tried as opener

[test fan]

My only worry is that we will compromise on our bowling by playing two allrounders which is not good. We need proper four Pacers along with Jaddu. 

[test fan]

24 minutes ago, Ravi_Shastri said:

people talking about Sarfaraz being in the playing xi 

he is not even in the Indian squad for England tests. He is only playing the A games

He can be included after Good performance for India A and most likely he will be stay with the Senior team during the test series.