India vs South Africa | 2nd T20i | Dec 11, 2025 | 7 pm IST | Mullanpur Stadium | Chandigarh

[BacktoCricaddict]

18 minutes ago, nitinbwj said:

Why do our players don't retire gracefully when they know it's over. Everyone wants to leech some more. SKY ...fukkk off besharam

More to the point - why don't selectors drop them as soon as it becomes clear that it's over? No sportsperson will admit defeat and quit - they will always feel like they are one innings away from breaking through. Selectors must give them the reality check. 

[nitinbwj]

Someone please post what SKY said here. Utter chewtiyapa. Saale still taking about learning. He is a puppet now in the hands of GG. Says that Axar did well. We have seen him do well at no 3. KAHAN DEKHA braindead moron MC  

 

I got to take it deep. I'm sure you are taking it deeeep from GG  It's a learning process....hey bhagwaan...isko nikalo yaar  we wanted Axar to bat well not his day but he batted well. Complete nonsense is is saying. Used the word learn 3-4 times. It's ok. Shubhman got out first ball. 

 

[IndianRenegade]

6 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Axar patel batted well in longer format at the top order so we thought he would paly well -.. NOte this.. He said "We". He included Gambhir lol

 

By the way when did Axar bat at no.3 in any format? He has never batted at 3 in any format. lol WHy did SKY think it was a great idea.

ODI & current T20 (not the one played 5-10 yrs ago) are fundementaly deifferent. The concept of an accumlator in T20 has been rendered obsolete, Axar even if he plays well, he is at best an accumulator, totatlly a contradiction to the brand of fearless cricket Rohit wanted India to play, the approach that won WC. 

[The Realist]

37 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Bumrah is embarrassing himself by playing in this bilateral. 

 

Yet happily skipped the test decider in Eng

[vvvslaxman]

Big overs for 2025

 

Samson 22 runs vs England

Abhishek 18 runs vs England

Abhishek 17 runs vs England

Tilak varma 17 runs vs England

Sundar 17 runs vs Australia

Abhishek 16 runs vs England

Abhishek 16 runs vs BD

Abhishek 16 runs vs Oman

Samson 16 runs vs England

Gill 16 runs vs Australia

ABhishek 15 runs vs Pakistan

Abhishek 15 runs vs Bangladesh.

Abhishek 15 runs vs England

ABhsihek 15 runs vs Bangladesh

 

 

Basically India has no big over guys besides Abhishek.

 

Big overs in 2024

 

Samson 30 runs vs Bangladesh

Rohit  28 runs vs Australia

Abhishek 26 runs vs Zimb

Nitis Reddy 24 runs vs Bangladesh

Abhishek 22 runs vs SA

Pandya 21 runs vs BD

Tilak 20 runs vs SA

 

 

 

[nitinbwj]

There is a whole lot of wrong going around in our cricket system and i think we will soon be reduced to just an IPL tamasha fixed league nation.We ain't winning jack. Huge respect for Starc to leave out IPL to win games for country. Bumrah ..lol.

[Andy]

We have beaten SA in SA, pretty much the same team or even better playing without Bumrah, Gill. My blood boils when I see Gill in the lineup, just as I thoight we got rid of KL, a new phattu player is forced into the side. 

[pkmmamks]

Yeh Sky kyun hai team mein.

 

Tauliya sar pe rakhne ke liye

[Lone Wolf]

27 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Needed 80 runs in PP at least. With 2 duds at the top and baffling decision to send Axar in PP we *ed ourselves good and proper. 

80 runs in PP were only possible unless Abhishek was there.. even that's unlikely as there was lot of help for their tall Pacers

 

Our Pacers lost us the game.  It was 180 track at best.

[Lord]

2 hours ago, maniac said:

Arshdeep’s Parents usually travel for every tour of his so it can’t be family pressure. Maybe gf/fiancee watching today. @Lord any tea?

 

nah unless you believe Reddit

[The Realist]

40 minutes ago, nitinbwj said:

Bumrah isn't all that lethal now. Goes off radar when attacked. He used to bowl 5-6 yorkers an over when on song. The end is near

 

 

Think Bumrah has passed his peak and now on the decline curve. 

 

Unlikely will be hitting Starc levels at 35.

[Lord]

Bad loss

 

Couldn't get the point of Hardik's knock. Bro was happy rotating strike

[putrevus]

Abhishek plays high risk game and him failing in important matches is more than him succeeding.So team needs to have plan if he scores nothing.

[IndianRenegade]

11 minutes ago, nitinbwj said:

There is a whole lot of wrong going around in our cricket system and i think we will soon be reduced to just an IPL tamasha fixed league nation.We ain't winning jack. Huge respect for Starc to leave out IPL to win games for country. Bumrah ..lol.

our entire stratergy across all formats revolves around IPL, that is our first sin. IPL should be yardstick to select T20 & nothing else. We have started selecting ODI & Test teams from IPL, we have ended up selcting a coach based on IPL. 

 

IPL has also made some of players lazy, there is no hunger to improve in other aspects of the game. The new breed of batters don't seem to improve in batting, or fielding, bowlers don't want to improve their batting or fielding. They have a financial safety net in IPL.

[Frustrated]

1 hour ago, Chaos said:

@Frustrated @singhvivek141 truck rdy? We got indian players and @Tillu and @badmash aka @vvvslaxman to pick up

Gill is asking for ICU.  Not van.   He has written a letter to bcci stating that he wishes to play 2 balls in every match before eventually spending remaining time inside the ICU which is his favorite place.  

[putrevus]

10 minutes ago, IndianRenegade said:

our entire stratergy across all formats revolves around IPL, that is our first sin. IPL should be yardstick to select T20 & nothing else. We have started selecting ODI & Test teams from IPL, we have ended up selcting a coach based on IPL. 

 

IPL has also made some of players lazy, there is no hunger to improve in other aspects of the game. The new breed of batters don't seem to improve in batting, or fielding, bowlers don't want to improve their batting or fielding. They have a financial safety net in IPL.

I think it is selectors who are to be blamed along with coaches, they are the ones who are selecting players based on IPL.

 

Pandya has set an example of being in lime light even though he just plays t20 and IPL.I don't blame players, coaches and selectors should know better, why is this idiot Agarkar travelling with team in Australia.

 

Should he not be doing the scouting in local matches and unearthing talent.

[aditya19]

Gill, shunya, dubey, jitesh need to be kicked. Jaiswal, parag, iyer, rinku need to be there. Suryavanshi still has lot of time. This will fix the batting.

[deepdynamo]

Have to admit, GG has messed up things in T20 as well.

 

Gill is a massive problem. Samson can do what Gill does and also WK.

SKY is out of form. Big worry. Iyer is a massive upgrade.
Jitesh at No.7/8 doesn't look part. Bring back Rinku or Parag.

We have the players that can make this team almost invincible.
 

[cricketfan28]

1 hour ago, IndianRenegade said:

you can't chase with your opener consistantly failing (Gill), your supposed no. 3 (SKY) hidding behind Axar who wasts balls. You can't expect rear guard action to save you all the time.

Hard factos.

[Lord]

This match will be used to drop Arshdeep forever now