Left Handers

[tweaker]

Fot the squad selected for the SA test series, there are many left handed batsman and bowlers.

 

Jaiswal 

Sai

Paddikal 

Pant

Jadeja 

Axar

Sundar 

Kuldeep 

 

 

This may be first time that so many lefties are playing in 11 or there in squad 

[nevada]

2 hours ago, tweaker said:

Fot the squad selected for the SA test series, there are many left handed batsman and bowlers.

 

Jaiswal 

Sai

Paddikal 

Pant

Jadeja 

Axar

Sundar 

Kuldeep 

 

 

This may be first time that so many lefties are playing in 11 or there in squad 

Six left handers in the X1 today! This must be a record for India and perhaps a world record too. 

[iroman]

I love this. I remember in 80s and early 90s, there were practically  no lefties in Ind team.  Kambli, Ganguly and Robin Singh changed that. Since then we had 1 or 2 regulars in the 11. Yuvraj, Raina, Gabhir...

There were some ODI or T20I recently where we had 8 lefties in the 11. Loved it.

[bowl_out]

4 hours ago, nevada said:

Six left handers in the X1 today! This must be a record for India and perhaps a world record too. 

 

I remember SL had a lot of lefties in the 90s. Jayasuriya, Ranatunga, Tilakaratne and some more. Was thinking why we don't have many. Now, we can make a lefties XI

[tweaker]

Some right handers should be added to squad

[tweaker]

Right handers  Virat and Ruturaj scored 100 s 

[tweaker]

Many left handers are selected in the team for Afghanistan test series.

 

Jaiswal 

Sai

Paddikal 

Pant

Sundar 

Kuldeep 

Harsh Dubey 

Manav Suthar

Gurnoor Brar 

 

[Lone Wolf]

6 hours ago, tweaker said:

Many left handers are selected in the team for Afghanistan test series.

 

Jaiswal 

Sai

Paddikal 

Pant

Sundar 

Kuldeep 

Harsh Dubey 

Manav Suthar

Gurnoor Brar 

 

Gurnoor bowls right handed but bats left handed

[tweaker]

10 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Gurnoor bowls right handed but bats left handed

Yes

[bsriharsha]

Not too long ago , we had a deficit of left handed batsmen. After yuvi / Raina retired , for a long time we had only jadeja as a left handed batsman. 

 

Now it seems that every batsman being picked is a left handed one. 

[Lone Wolf]

4 hours ago, bsriharsha said:

Not too long ago , we had a deficit of left handed batsmen. After yuvi / Raina retired , for a long time we had only jadeja as a left handed batsman. 

 

Now it seems that every batsman being picked is a left handed one. 

No wonder our white ball fortunes have shifted..

2019 WC we had plethora of right handers at the top once Dhawan got injured and it came back to bite us.

2023 WC final another example

 

Edited May 25 by Lone Wolf

[Ultimate_Game]

16 hours ago, bsriharsha said:

Not too long ago , we had a deficit of left handed batsmen. After yuvi / Raina retired , for a long time we had only jadeja as a left handed batsman. 

 

Now it seems that every batsman being picked is a left handed one. 

 

11 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

No wonder our white ball fortunes have shifted..

2019 WC we had plethora of right handers at the top once Dhawan got injured and it came back to bite us.

2023 WC final another example

 

 

We're still making the same mistake in ODIs and that's the reason why our ODI team isn't as good as the T20 team. Our ODI lineup is all right-handers... Gill, Rohit Sharma, Kohli, Iyer, KL Rahul, Pandya. Jadeja is the lone left hander and he himself is useless in white-ball cricket. Half of this team shouldn't be there in 2027 but here we are.

 

We need likes of Sai, Ishan, Jaiswal added ASAP as it makes it more difficult for bowlers to nail line & length, and also helps in managing matchups with a left-right combo in the middle. Our selectors really haven't really learned anything. Selectors don't have the balls to take tough decisions and BCCI babus don't care. 2027 will go the same was the previous 3 WCs coz of our apathy. We have the talent but our decision makers are useless and don't want to shake the boat.