India A team to play South Africa A: Pant captain

[Manucrick]

Sai is walking wicket at the moment jurel should play at 3

[test fan]

Timid Sai Failed yet again.  

 

I'll dropped him and Play Jurel as pure batsman .

 

KL 

Jaiswal 

Jurel

Gill

Pant 

Jadeja 

Axar 

Washi / Nitish 

Kuldeep 

BUMRAH 

Siraj 

 

 

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

1 minute ago, Sooda said:

Easwaran 

 

Let's himself down unfortunately when he needs a big score 

This could be his last chance. 

Last 10 innings for the A side + Irani Trophy

vs Aus A in Aus: 7 & 12, 0&17

vs Eng Lions in Eng: 8&68, 11 & 80

vs Aus A in India: 44

vs SA A in India : 0

In between played Irani Trophy as well. Scored 52&17.

10 innings, 316 runs, 3 50s, avg of 31.6. 

 

 

[tweaker]

India A 114/5

[ShoonyaSifar]

Looked at the live feed. Have never seen so much of grass on a pitch in India.

 

Good thinking on the A side TM to go for such pitches.

[Vickydev]

Sai and Padikkal are not it for me. Need to back Jurel up the order at 3 and maybe bring Badoni at 4

[ShoonyaSifar]

An excellent 50 from Jurel on a tough pitch, plenty of grass on the pitch with seam movement. Showing his technical prowess once again. 

[Sooda]

58 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

This could be his last chance. 

Last 10 innings for the A side + Irani Trophy

vs Aus A in Aus: 7 & 12, 0&17

vs Eng Lions in Eng: 8&68, 11 & 80

vs Aus A in India: 44

vs SA A in India : 0

In between played Irani Trophy as well. Scored 52&17.

10 innings, 316 runs, 3 50s, avg of 31.6. 

 

 

 

Mixed but not disastrous some good knocks on there. But competition is so high 

 

And to be fair to him today looks like a tough wicket and a good pace attack , anything can happen Vs new ball first up

 

I thought It was odd that he wasn't in the first match squad. Why was 18 year old Mhatre for all his promise isn't coming off great form himself 

 

 

 

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

Excellent fighting knock from Jurel, showing his class again. Kuldeep also shows he can stick around in FC/test cricket, may not have the ability to play shots but can hold one end for long.

[cowboysfan]

Dhruv is a gamer,i still don't think we need 2 WK  in 11  but I would 100% play him over Sai.

[ShoonyaSifar]

2 hours ago, Sooda said:

 

Mixed but not disastrous some good knocks on there. But competition is so high 

 

And to be fair to him today looks like a tough wicket and a good pace attack , anything can happen Vs new ball first up

 

I thought It was odd that he wasn't in the first match squad. Why was 18 year old Mhatre for all his promise isn't coming off great form himself 

 

 

 

 

Disastrous from his perspective because of two reasons 1. No standout knocks in a level above Ranji 2. In each of those matches his peers did better than him - Sai, Paddikal and Jurel in Aus, Karun and Jurel in England, Sai, Paddikal and Jurel vs Aus A in India, Jurel again here. 

 

Not going to be easy for Easwaran if he fails again in 2nd innings.

[ShoonyaSifar]

One this that I don't like about this track is the low bounce. Some more bounce along with the amount of grass would have made this a perfect simulation of SENA tracks 

[vvvslaxman]

What kind of a pitch they are playing on? A bunch of nobodies from SA are going toe to toe with our A team which has a lot of main team players.  I think Sai is not scoring anything big at no.3 He has to score 150, 200. Not 30, 40.   It is inevitable Jurel will replace him. Bu t i don't want Jurel at 3. India should experiment with Washi or Jadeja at 3 atleast at home. Jurel is better off against older ball which is where he can control things better. New ball can get him

[Lone Wolf]

3 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

What kind of a pitch they are playing on? A bunch of nobodies from SA are going toe to toe with our A team which has a lot of main team players.  I think Sai is not scoring anything big at no.3 He has to score 150, 200. Not 30, 40.   It is inevitable Jurel will replace him. Bu t i don't want Jurel at 3. India should experiment with Washi or Jadeja at 3 atleast at home. Jurel is better off against older ball which is where he can control things better. New ball can get him

They are next crop of SA.  Hermann was taken out and flown to Pak.  He is their best batter in domestics.

 

Ackerman is technically very solid.  Indians struggle against left handers is a age old problem.

 

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

Golden pair for Easwaran. Will be unfortunate, but this is likely the end of his India ambitions. Simply hasn't stepped up during these A ganes in last 12 months. Dinesh Malewar, Ayush Pandey, if they have another good FC season will be strong candidates. Angriksh Raghuvanshi and Musheer Khan, both opening for Mumbai could be the dark horses. As Musheer can bowl SLA quite decently, will be good to see how he does this season after his injury setback.

 

Sai and Paddikal have failed in this series as well but they both did well in Aus A series both in Australia last year and in India prior to this. But with Jurel breathing down their neck, Sai is on notice. Had done well vs WI in the last test, so will get likely play the first test but 4 back tj back failures in grassy pitches has exposed him a bit.

[Lone Wolf]

15 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Golden pair for Easwaran. Will be unfortunate, but this is likely the end of his India ambitions. Simply hasn't stepped up during these A ganes in last 12 months. Dinesh Malewar, Ayush Pandey, if they have another good FC season will be strong candidates. Angriksh Raghuvanshi and Musheer Khan, both opening for Mumbai could be the dark horses. As Musheer can bowl SLA quite decently, will be good to see how he does this season after his injury setback.

 

Sai and Paddikal have failed in this series as well but they both did well in Aus A series both in Australia last year and in India prior to this. But with Jurel breathing down their neck, Sai is on notice. Had done well vs WI in the last test, so will get likely play the first test but 4 back tj back failures in grassy pitches has exposed him a bit.

Really like Raghuvanshi.. he is technically gifted far more than even Musheer.

I hope he has a temperament like Jurel with that technique.

 

Needs some big runs to get into the reckoning.  Once he enters the big stage.. he will also ace the India A level like Dhruv.

[ShoonyaSifar]

5 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Really like Raghuvanshi.. he is technically gifted far more than even Musheer.

I hope he has a temperament like Jurel with that technique.

 

Needs some big runs to get into the reckoning.  Once he enters the big stage.. he will also ace the India A level like Dhruv.

Unfortunately he isn't Mumbai's first choice opener yet. Ayush Mhatre and Musheer have been the first choice. Mhatre was even made the captain of Mumbai squad for the pre-season Buchi Babu Tournament.

 

Raghuvanshi has his opportunities while Mhatre is busy with U-19 duties. Needs to cash in as you said.

[nitinbwj]

Ackerman smacked Siraj for 24 runs 

[vvvslaxman]

3 hours ago, nitinbwj said:

Ackerman smacked Siraj for 24 runs 

That guy is bit like Sehwag looking at his first class strike rate. It is 78. Someone playing in SA averaging 40 plus with that strikerate must be good.

[diga]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

That guy is bit like Sehwag looking at his first class strike rate. It is 78. Someone playing in SA averaging 40 plus with that strikerate must be good.

Ackerman will not find a place in the squad with race politics , where a Buvama will get more chances to prove himself