Gurnoor Brar

[tweaker]

31 minutes ago, express bowling said:

Gurnoor was even more threatening in the 2nd innings. More accurate but with as much pace and bounce as the 1st innings. And consistent seam movement.

 

It would be criminal to drop him for the " experience" Prasidh 

[Sean Bradley]

On 7/6/2026 at 10:33 PM, rkt.india said:

 

 

Spell against SL A.

 

 

 

Score-card shows 3 wickets for Brar in the match, but this video shows more than 3 wickets, something is not adding up. Great bowling though !

[express bowling]

1 hour ago, Sean Bradley said:

 

Score-card shows 3 wickets for Brar in the match, but this video shows more than 3 wickets, something is not adding up. Great bowling though !

 

This video was for India A vs SL A a month back. 

 

Gurnoor picked 10 wickets.

 

 

[tweaker]

 Farveez Maharoof feels  Gurnoor Brar could be the 'X-Factor' in absence of Jasprit Bumrah and says he would be tempted to hand the 26-year-old his Test debut  against Sri Lanka.

 

Mahfooz said he would be "tempted" to give a debut to Brar especially for the fact that the tall pacer's raw pace, bounce and aggressive approach especially the way he gave body blows to several Test-squad batters during the warm-up match.

 

 

I really like Gurnoor Brar. I think he can be the X-factor. He has the bounce, the pace and the fighting spirit. He can be nasty," Maharoof said.

 

"If you watched the warm-up game, some of the deliveries he bowled to batters who are in the Test squad made them quite uneasy, and he even hit a couple of players on the body. "If I were in the Indian think tank, I would be tempted to give Gurnoor a go. I know he has only played white-ball cricket for India, but he brings that X-factor. In short, burst spells, when you want to break a batter's rhythm, he can be a lethal weapon."

[express bowling]

23 minutes ago, tweaker said:

 Farveez Maharoof feels  Gurnoor Brar could be the 'X-Factor' in absence of Jasprit Bumrah and says he would be tempted to hand the 26-year-old his Test debut  against Sri Lanka.

 

Mahfooz said he would be "tempted" to give a debut to Brar especially for the fact that the tall pacer's raw pace, bounce and aggressive approach especially the way he gave body blows to several Test-squad batters during the warm-up match.

 

 

I really like Gurnoor Brar. I think he can be the X-factor. He has the bounce, the pace and the fighting spirit. He can be nasty," Maharoof said.

 

"If you watched the warm-up game, some of the deliveries he bowled to batters who are in the Test squad made them quite uneasy, and he even hit a couple of players on the body. "If I were in the Indian think tank, I would be tempted to give Gurnoor a go. I know he has only played white-ball cricket for India, but he brings that X-factor. In short, burst spells, when you want to break a batter's rhythm, he can be a lethal weapon."

 

 

It's a no brainer for me.

 

Apart from the 3rd ODI in England, where he had issues with the Lord’s slope, Gurnoor has been almost impossible to handle by the batsmen in the 7 other matches we have seen him in since his ODI debut.

 

He would be the first bowler I would pick in the 11, not just among pacers.

Edited August 11 by express bowling

[Lone Wolf]

2 hours ago, tweaker said:

 Farveez Maharoof feels  Gurnoor Brar could be the 'X-Factor' in absence of Jasprit Bumrah and says he would be tempted to hand the 26-year-old his Test debut  against Sri Lanka.

 

Mahfooz said he would be "tempted" to give a debut to Brar especially for the fact that the tall pacer's raw pace, bounce and aggressive approach especially the way he gave body blows to several Test-squad batters during the warm-up match.

 

 

I really like Gurnoor Brar. I think he can be the X-factor. He has the bounce, the pace and the fighting spirit. He can be nasty," Maharoof said.

 

"If you watched the warm-up game, some of the deliveries he bowled to batters who are in the Test squad made them quite uneasy, and he even hit a couple of players on the body. "If I were in the Indian think tank, I would be tempted to give Gurnoor a go. I know he has only played white-ball cricket for India, but he brings that X-factor. In short, burst spells, when you want to break a batter's rhythm, he can be a lethal weapon."

Maharoof was really impressed with Gurnoor it was so good listening to him on commentary.

Added so much insight and repeatedly praised the pace and bounce Gurnoor generated.

 

Something for our Dehati commies to learn as well

[govinda]

40 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Maharoof was really impressed with Gurnoor it was so good listening to him on commentary.

Added so much insight and repeatedly praised the pace and bounce Gurnoor generated.

 

Something for our Dehati commies to learn as well

Our dehatis would drool over cumboj and his controol

[pramodk]

6 minutes ago, govinda said:

Our dehatis would drool over cumboj and his controol

Yes certainly, only in England his radar was not working ;-) but really how do our beautiful line length bowlers loose control on the international matches ?? Really wonder why ?? I had great expectations of Nabi.

[express bowling]

17 minutes ago, pramodk said:

 but really how do our beautiful line length bowlers lose control on the international matches ?? Really wonder why ?? 

 

 

They don't lose control initially.

 

Medium pacers, who lack both pace and bounce, get hit by international batters even when they pitch it in supposed good areas. The same ball might have fetched a wicket against domestic batters.

 

And then they try something different and out of their comfort zone and actually lose control.

 

In the pre-T20 era, one of the biggest adages going around in cricket was .... the biggest difference between a higher level of cricket, compared to a lower level, is the extra pace and bounce.  State level has higher pace than Club level ... Zonal level has higher pacer than State level ... International level has higher pace and bounce than Zonal level ... Top International teams have higher pace and bounce than Ordinary international teams.

 

This has to be kept in mind while choosing Test and ODI level pacers. In T20s, any pace can work.

[Lone Wolf]

1 hour ago, pramodk said:

Yes certainly, only in England his radar was not working ;-) but really how do our beautiful line length bowlers loose control on the international matches ?? Really wonder why ?? I had great expectations of Nabi.

He probably only bowled poorly at the death..  but that was a uber flat pitch where pacers of both teams struggled bar chotu Curran in his second spell with his moonball and our inept batters simply lacking strokes to counter him.

 

Gurnoor was best pacer among both sides along with Archer in 1st and second ODI.

[Manucrick]

Hope they play gurnoor not runs machine prasidh 

[Lone Wolf]

2 hours ago, govinda said:

Our dehatis would drool over cumboj and his controol

Ret@rded fans and YouTubers were abusing GG Agarkar Gill Gurnoor after seeing Aquib Nabi not getting selected...

Now they are either underground or shocked after seeing how useless Nabi actually as and unfit af btw.

 

Some had declared him a mythical all rounder in the form of klusner... The kind of or privileges Trundlers have in India is otherworldly tbh

[Suhaan]

1 hour ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ret@rded fans and YouTubers were abusing GG Agarkar Gill Gurnoor after seeing Aquib Nabi not getting selected...

Now they are either underground or shocked after seeing how useless Nabi actually as and unfit af btw.

 

Some had declared him a mythical all rounder in the form of klusner... The kind of or privileges Trundlers have in India is otherworldly tbh

Soooing hai bhaiya uske pas sooooing,pseudo soooing

Bandar ka jaane soooing ka sawaad

 

[express bowling]

2 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

He probably only bowled poorly at the death..  but that was a uber flat pitch where pacers of both teams struggled bar chotu Curran in his second spell with his moonball and our inept batters simply lacking strokes to counter him.

 

Gurnoor was best pacer among both sides along with Archer in 1st and second ODI.

 

I think he was talking about Cum-bojh in England 2025 test.  

[singhvivek141]

11 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ret@rded fans and YouTubers were abusing GG Agarkar Gill Gurnoor after seeing Aquib Nabi not getting selected...

Now they are either underground or shocked after seeing how useless Nabi actually as and unfit af btw.

 

Some had declared him a mythical all rounder in the form of klusner... The kind of or privileges Trundlers have in India is otherworldly tbh

 

This cracked me up hard.

Aaqib Nabi and Klusener 

He at best is a "L" in Klusener

[Manucrick]

13 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ret@rded fans and YouTubers were abusing GG Agarkar Gill Gurnoor after seeing Aquib Nabi not getting selected...

Now they are either underground or shocked after seeing how useless Nabi actually as and unfit af btw.

 

Some had declared him a mythical all rounder in the form of klusner... The kind of or privileges Trundlers have in India is otherworldly tbh

I used to be a huge supporter of Auqib Nabi and kept screaming that he deserved a debut  But after watching him bowl for India A and in the practice games  he's definitely not international material running in and bowling like a 42  year old Shardul Thakur.

[express bowling]

53 minutes ago, Manucrick said:

I used to be a huge supporter of Auqib Nabi and kept screaming that he deserved a debut  But after watching him bowl for India A and in the practice games  he's definitely not international material running in and bowling like a 42  year old Shardul Thakur.

 

 

Which is why, I feel, we should watch entire spells by bowlers or entire innings by batters, before we want or not want anyone in Team India.

 

 

[Malcolm Merlyn]

16 hours ago, govinda said:

Our dehatis would drool over cumboj and his controol

He is poora bojh not kam bojh

[Manucrick]

9 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

 

Which is why, I feel, we should watch entire spells by bowlers or entire innings by batters, before we want or not want anyone in Team India.

 

 

I was really impressed watching him in Ranji  but seeing how comfortably the Sri Lanka A batters handled him made me realize how poor Ranji's overall quality actually is  Ranji batters were treating him like Jimmy Anderson on a cloudy day at Lord's 

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Logical thinking says Gurnoor should play but gota isn’t a logical guy.