Where are Indian batsmen?

[Trichromatic]

After Jaiswal and Kela, India doesn't has backup for 3rd batsman in the team?

[Lord]

Sai is allegedly a batsman

[tweaker]

1 minute ago, Trichromatic said:

India doesn't has backup for 3rd batsman in the team?

Thanks to Gambhir, for selecting allrounders over batsman. 

 

For not selecting Sarfaraz, Eashwaran. 

[cowboysfan]

IPL has ruined everybody,almost all  indian batsmen can't play spin now  .

[Trichromatic]

14 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

IPL has ruined everybody,almost all  indian batsmen can't play spin now  .

 

When was the last time they could?

 

Did you miss them surrendering to Clarke and Nathan Hauritz on turners?

[Suhaan]

Siddhu,Azhar era we had better spin batters

[vvvslaxman]

We are not picking batsmen anymore if they can't bowl. SO we end up with  guys like Reddy, Axar

[Prabhdeep Singh]

The following 3 need to be looked at asap:

 

Tilkak Verma

Sarfaraz Khan

Rinku Singh 

 

[putrevus]

No idiot coach is hell bent on filling the side with pseudo allrounders.
 

 

[R!TTER]

3 hours ago, Trichromatic said:

 

Did you miss them surrendering to Clarke and Nathan Hauritz on turners?

Did you miss the end result of those games, assuming you're about Mumbai 2004 & what about Hauritz where did he go great?

[rkt.india]

4 hours ago, Suhaan said:

Siddhu,Azhar era we had better spin batters

Opposition hardly had good spinners then.

[nevada]

26 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Opposition hardly had good spinners then.

Sidhu and makeshift opener Laxman thrashed Shane Warne like a club bowler in the '98 home series. He had already bowled the ball of the century by then and was a world class bowler. 

[Trichromatic]

22 minutes ago, nevada said:

Sidhu and makeshift opener Laxman thrashed Shane Warne like a club bowler in the '98 home series. He had already bowled the ball of the century by then and was a world class bowler. 

All on Pattas, never on rank turners.

[zen]

I like that the 11 is not be played based on a formula or one that appears good on paper but looking at various factors including grittiness, multiple skills, maybe current form, potential, playing conditions, etc. 
 

 

 

[Gollum]

12 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

All on Pattas, never on rank turners.

98 series was played on turners. Check videos from that series, how Warne would get the ball to explode even on day 1., with puffs of dust coming. 

 

Kumble was unplayable for those great Aussie batsmen. 

Edited November 22, 2025 by Gollum

[nevada]

21 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

All on Pattas, never on rank turners.

Fair enough. But somehow, our batsmen used to do well but the opposition used to collapse against our spin bowling. I do remember rank turners during Azhar - Ajit Wadekar era where Kambli scored double century and the English fell like pins. 

[nevada]

Indian batsmen of yesteryear certainly had the skill and patience to deal with spin even on challenging tracks. Our present generation has lost this art and makes spinning tracks look much, much worse than they actually are. Look at this particular match to understand that the skill was very much real and not a myth. The present generation has made a habit of surrendering meekly on any pitch that is not a patta. 

 

On a treacherous track at Cuttack, Dilip Vengsarkar batted with phenomenal ease as he notched up his career-best score of 166. And Kapil Dev captured his 300th wicket as Sri Lanka surrendered meekly to lose by an innings.                              It was like a beautiful girl with a cancerous c**t”, was how Sir Lankan manager Abu Fuard remembered the pitch at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack.                          Dilip Vengsarkar batted as if it was a shirtfront wicket, diligently pressed and laid out for his exclusive use.  He sort of specialised in unplayable conditions. The previous summer he had rattled up scores of 61 and 102 not out with the ball darting around at Headingley, where the next highest in the match had been 36. 

[Sooda]

6 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Opposition hardly had good spinners then.

 

They were good against warne and Murali too

 

Back then it is More that they bowled different too flight and drift. In current drs era with finger spinners firing it in batsmen can't skip down and hit spinners

[Sooda]

11 hours ago, cowboysfan said:

IPL has ruined everybody,almost all  indian batsmen can't play spin now  .

 

That and many Ranji pitches are green tops with low bounce. 125k medium pacers do well. 

[R!TTER]

10 minutes ago, Sooda said:

Back then it is More that they bowled different too flight and drift. In current drs era with finger spinners firing it in batsmen can't skip down and hit spinners

Yes but for that we have sweeps, conventional/reverse or slog/paddle as well, so why the * aren't our batters using it more? It's like Modi or Junior Shah banned this shot from the test squad, it's so beyond stupid now that anyone with one brain cell would be able to see it!