Gurnoor Brar

[Lord]

On 5/24/2026 at 2:23 AM, express bowling said:

 

GURNOOR BRAR    6'5" pacer

 

Steep bounce at 137 k to 147 k 

 

 

 

 

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His action doesnt look good though I am a layman in this

[Ultimate_Game]

9 hours ago, Suhaan said:

Iyer is already part of odi side,has been in the contention since 2018

 

Same with Sarfaraz. He's in contention as well and same with Jaiswal. But they're the first ones to be criticized and given the boot. But likes of Gill and SKY get a long rope and chances which they shouldn't have got in the first place. How can Gill be brought back into T20s before Asia Cup and not Jaiswal or Iyer? Jaiswal had better stats but still couldn't earn a recall. Or how did SKY make it to ODI and Test team? Why has Sarfaraz been perennially pushed to the sidelines and dropped at the drop of a hat or Jaiswal not given chances in ODIs? Can you imagine Iyer, Jaiswal or Sarfaraz carried in the side the way SKY has been in T20s for the last 2 years? Or would any of these players get a recall or backed the way Gill was in T20s?

 

There're clear double  standards at play here and it's clear there're some players who're more equal than others. Aquib has joined that unfortunate club.

[bsriharsha]

1 hour ago, Lord said:

His action doesnt look good though I am a layman in this

Slightly chest on. 

 

Could do with a bit more jump during his delivery , to potentially extract more bounce. 

 

But if his action works for him , then it's fine. As long as the action is repeatable, his body is used to it , there's no good and bad action. 

 

From a purist point of view I would want him to be a bit more side on as that would work in his favour for the outswingers as well

[bsriharsha]

His action seems low intensity and that's good. There's no point in him bursting his body to bowl at 150. 

 

If it's working for him and he's getting good pace and bounce in the 145 range. There's really no reason for him to change it. 

 

Gets in close to the stumps. And gets some good bounce atleast as per the video I have seen. 

 

If he gets a proper outswinger going with his current action , he'll be a handful. He'll still need to be targetting the stumps and therefore remain chest on as well because it's working for him. 

 

 

[bsriharsha]

Ishant was 6'4 or thereabouts and chest on(relatively to when he finished) in the initial part of his career. He reworked his action a little bit. 

 

Primarily the jump. But ishant always had the outswinger with him , with him being more side on(became much more effective). Brar is primarily a chest on bowler and the outswinger might be restricted. 

Edited May 26 by bsriharsha

[bsriharsha]

And after seeing Bumrah's action , I think it was nehra who said , it's what you do in the last 5 steps that really matters. Bumrah is chest on fwiw too and he still has a very decent outswinger. 

 

So there's no hard and fast rule.

[Suhaan]

3 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Same with Sarfaraz. He's in contention as well and same with Jaiswal. But they're the first ones to be criticized and given the boot. But likes of Gill and SKY get a long rope and chances which they shouldn't have got in the first place. How can Gill be brought back into T20s before Asia Cup and not Jaiswal or Iyer? Jaiswal had better stats but still couldn't earn a recall. Or how did SKY make it to ODI and Test team? Why has Sarfaraz been perennially pushed to the sidelines and dropped at the drop of a hat or Jaiswal not given chances in ODIs? Can you imagine Iyer, Jaiswal or Sarfaraz carried in the side the way SKY has been in T20s for the last 2 years? Or would any of these players get a recall or backed the way Gill was in T20s?

 

There're clear double  standards at play here and it's clear there're some players who're more equal than others. Aquib has joined that unfortunate club.

Iyer was never a good T20 player,don't get deluded by his IPL exploits 

Him being not in the squad helped India win it convincingly 

[vvvslaxman]

5 hours ago, Lord said:

His action doesnt look good though I am a layman in this

Short strides much like Arjun Tendulkar. This is not ideal.

[vvvslaxman]

4 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Same with Sarfaraz. He's in contention as well and same with Jaiswal. But they're the first ones to be criticized and given the boot. But likes of Gill and SKY get a long rope and chances which they shouldn't have got in the first place. How can Gill be brought back into T20s before Asia Cup and not Jaiswal or Iyer? Jaiswal had better stats but still couldn't earn a recall. Or how did SKY make it to ODI and Test team? Why has Sarfaraz been perennially pushed to the sidelines and dropped at the drop of a hat or Jaiswal not given chances in ODIs? Can you imagine Iyer, Jaiswal or Sarfaraz carried in the side the way SKY has been in T20s for the last 2 years? Or would any of these players get a recall or backed the way Gill was in T20s?

 

There're clear double  standards at play here and it's clear there're some players who're more equal than others. Aquib has joined that unfortunate club.

They just go by contract and select. Technically Kohli and Rohit should be in Grade C as they retired from 2 formats.  A fast exctinct format is the only format they represent. 

 

Grade A
Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja

Grade B
Washington Sundar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer

Grade C
Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad
 

 

 

[Ultimate_Game]

7 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

They just go by contract and select. Technically Kohli and Rohit should be in Grade C as they retired from 2 formats.  A fast exctinct format is the only format they represent. 

 

Grade A
Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja

Grade B
Washington Sundar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer

Grade C
Axar Patel, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Sai Sudharsan, Ravi Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad
 

 

 

 

The very fact Gill and Jadeja are in Grade A is shocking. Jaiswal should be there in place of Gill and Jadeja doesn't deserve that spot as well.

[Ultimate_Game]

8 hours ago, Suhaan said:

Iyer was never a good T20 player,don't get deluded by his IPL exploits 

Him being not in the squad helped India win it convincingly 

 

Would've won easily with Iyer.

[Suhaan]

1 minute ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Would've won easily with Iyer.

It's easier said than done

[vishalvirsingh]

On 5/22/2026 at 12:18 AM, express bowling said:

 

Most people writing such articles probably haven't seen a single over by Gurnoor in a real game. 

@express bowling @rkt.india @Suhaan @tapandrun

 

I cant figure out as to why Mr. Gill has not played him in the GT 11, even 1 match.

 

Holder has been OK . had Brar played he would have got steep bounce and got similiar number of wickets if not more....

i am quite sure Gurnoor is a faster and more promising bowler than Holder. yes his batting is weak but he can be replaced by a batsmen ( picked as impact player)

i m kinda angry on this point, gurnoor is picked ahead of many fast bowlers for INDIA and Gill has not given him even one game.

Edited May 27 by vishalvirsingh

[Manucrick]

9 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Would've won easily with Iyer.

i am still not convinced iyer can match the indian t20 teams new intent because he takes too long to settle and his struggle against high pace doesn't fit the current aggressive style 

[tapandrun]

6 hours ago, vishalvirsingh said:

@express bowling @rkt.india @Suhaan @tapandrun

 

I cant figure out as to why Mr. Gill has not played him in the GT 11, even 1 match.

 

Holder has been OK . had Brar played he would have got steep bounce and got similiar number of wickets if not more....

i am quite sure Gurnoor is a faster and more promising bowler than Holder. yes his batting is weak but he can be replaced by a batsmen ( picked as impact player)

i m kinda angry on this point, gurnoor is picked ahead of many fast bowlers for INDIA and Gill has not given him even one game.

The issue is GT batting line-up, they are working on v.thin balance. They got just 1 proper t20 batters.

 

Have to look gt from their perspective they just got Gill/Sai/Jos , now try construct the team with their squad. With such batting line-up and to do well overall in the tournament you want these 3 batters to do bulk of the run scoring meaning they will play at their own pace and taking as many balls they want and other batters needs to slog from 1 ball and bowling has to be high performing. So they need high performing bowling line-up but would also need bowlers who can hit 4/6 go give them much needed impetus.

 

[bsriharsha]

Not sure Holder is needed, Who are the other overseas options for GT?

[tapandrun]

10 minutes ago, bsriharsha said:

Not sure Holder is needed, Who are the other overseas options for GT?

Holder is best they got-- Can bat and bowl provide the much needed balance in the side.

The other options are Cornnor (top order batter) and glen phillips

[vvvslaxman]

11 hours ago, bsriharsha said:

Not sure Holder is needed, Who are the other overseas options for GT?

Holder is one of the best overseas. One of the few bowlers who ho under 8

[Sandz]

On 5/27/2026 at 4:20 AM, vvvslaxman said:

Short strides much like Arjun Tendulkar. This is not ideal.

Bumrah also has short strides, so did Patterson, Malinga, Malcolm Marshall and a few others. You can't automatically assume it to be a downside, maybe it works for him.