Irani Trophy: Vidharbha VS Rest of India

[tweaker]

Vidarbha have won the toss on a hot and sunny morning and have elected to bat.

[tweaker]

Rest of India playing 11 

 

Eashwaran 

Dhull

Gaekwad

Pattidar

Juyal

Kishan

Suthar

Akashdeep 

Brar

Kamboj

Saransh 

 

For RoI, Shaik Rasheed, Tanush Kotian and Khaleel Ahmed do not make the cut

[Lone Wolf]

30 minutes ago, tweaker said:

Rest of India playing 11 

 

Eashwaran 

Dhull

Gaekwad

Pattidar

Juyal

Kishan

Suthar

Akashdeep 

Brar

Kamboj

Saransh 

 

For RoI, Shaik Rasheed, Tanush Kotian and Khaleel Ahmed do not make the cut

RoI is going pace heavy.  Gurnoor Brar had an impressive India A outing on some flat decks.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Trundler Kamboj cannot be trusted with new ball.

Absolute halwa bowler.  No backspin at all in his seam up deliveries.

 

[tweaker]

Vidharbha 105/3

 

[Sooda]

I hope Wadkar has a great match. It is criminal how he has been ignored for A teams

[Sooda]

Interesting that RoI have picked Saransh instead of Tanush, clearly the former is more of a bowler. He may not get into a test squad, and is the wrong side of 30, but Saransh has been consistent performer for a while and handy lower order bat too

 

Had the Duleep and A team series been better planned, that could have been the change that India A could have made for the second match too. 

[vvvslaxman]

This Yash Rathod is bit of a clutch. WHenever his team needed he stepped up. Averaging 55 in 21 games

[BacktoCricaddict]

3 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

This Yash Rathod is bit of a clutch. WHenever his team needed he stepped up. Averaging 55 in 21 games

To many Yashs. Rathod, Thakur, Dhull ...

 

For a while we had a bunch of Shubams and Shivams. And then to add to the confusion, a Shubman.

[tweaker]

Vidharbha 330/7

 

Taide 135*

[tweaker]

Vidharbha 342 all out 

[tweaker]

ROI 148/6

[singhvivek141]

Aryan Juyal need to make these matches count.

He is just 23-24, solid technique for an opener and as KL is on its last legs. We would need a solid opener who can be part of the Test XI for next 7-8 years.

 

No hopes anyway from Gaikwad, Easwaran etc they close to 30 or 30 plus. Not much time left for them. Gaikwad could have easily been replaced by Tilak.

[Nikhil_cric]

23 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

Aryan Juyal need to make these matches count.

He is just 23-24, solid technique for an opener and as KL is on its last legs. We would need a solid opener who can be part of the Test XI for next 7-8 years.

 

No hopes anyway from Gaikwad, Easwaran etc they close to 30 or 30 plus. Not much time left for them. Gaikwad could have easily been replaced by Tilak.

KL can play for another 3 years I guess.    

On 10/1/2025 at 10:15 AM, Lone Wolf said:

Trundler Kamboj cannot be trusted with new ball.

Absolute halwa bowler.  No backspin at all in his seam up deliveries.

 

What speeds did Gurnoor clock?

[singhvivek141]

1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said:

KL can play for another 3 years I guess.    

What speeds did Gurnoor clock?

Mostly at 138-141 range.
Quickest was around 143k

Edited October 3, 2025 by singhvivek141

[Nikhil_cric]

5 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

Mostly at 138-141 range.
Quickest was around 143k

 

Speeds are OKish.  He is pretty tall.  Hopefully they have measured the backspin revs he gets at the Centre of Excellence.   

 

If he is getting that to rev high, that pace and height are good enough to do well even at international level. 

Edited October 3, 2025 by Nikhil_cric

[tweaker]

ROI 214 allout

 

4 wickets for Yash Thakur 

[vvvslaxman]

Assembled teams generally struggle compared to set teams who play together for long period.

[govinda]

Yash thakur looking sharp. Get him &gurnoor into test team instead of gamboj and zaleel

[express bowling]

7 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

 

Speeds are OKish.  He is pretty tall.  Hopefully they have measured the backspin revs he gets at the Centre of Excellence.   

 

If he is getting that to rev high, that pace and height are good enough to do well even at international level. 

 

 

Gurnoor has bowled 132 k to 143 k in both innings.

 

Gets good bounce from time to time. 

 

Does not spray the ball 

 

But does not bowl in wicket-taking areas either.

 

Needs to move the ball more.

 

Can be a tall Work horse pacer after playing 7 or 8 more FC games. 

 

But not a ready product yet.