Indian squad for Test series in SL announced

[govinda]

47 minutes ago, Suhaan said:

Shaw had huge technical issues,huge gap between batpad was wired organically with his style,some people are born with abilities and weaknesses,he had that weakness of mid air front foot that delayed his weight transfer and caused not enough power shift,and offcourse the stationary front foot(Samson had some sort of near same difficulty for brief period just before T20 WC,but that wasnt natural he made certain adjustments which created that new problem)which would have troubled him anyway,it's a delusion that he had a solid backfoot game,it was all over the place

Ayush doesn't have that but needs to curb his natural instinct 

[Lone Wolf]

1 hour ago, Suhaan said:

Shaw had huge technical issues,huge gap between batpad was wired organically with his style,some people are born with abilities and weaknesses,he had that weakness of mid air front foot that delayed his weight transfer and caused not enough power shift,and offcourse the stationary front foot(Samson had some sort of near same difficulty for brief period just before T20 WC,but that wasnt natural he made certain adjustments which created that new problem)which would have troubled him anyway,it's a delusion that he had a solid backfoot game,it was all over the place

Ayush too has issues with incoming deliveries... It is less pronounced yet coz he hasn't played elite fast bowling in pacy conditions.  It was seen at U19 level as well.

Shaw probably had more strokes in his armory than Mhatre but his poor discipline and no willingness to work on his technique was his major downfall 

Edited August 2 by Lone Wolf

[Suhaan]

1 hour ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ayush too has issues with incoming deliveries... It is less pronounced yet coz he hasn't played elite fast bowling in pacy conditions.  It was seen at U19 level as well.

Shaw probably had more strokes in his armory than Mhatre but his poor discipline and no willingness to work on his technique was his major downfall 

Ayush has not been put on a pedestal by fans the way Shaw was

He has similar issues to the ones Kohli or Rohit had such as chasing the ball outside the offstump and people have already accepted that he will likely struggle in red ball cricket

[vvvslaxman]

5 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ayush too has issues with incoming deliveries... It is less pronounced yet coz he hasn't played elite fast bowling in pacy conditions.  It was seen at U19 level as well.

Shaw probably had more strokes in his armory than Mhatre but his poor discipline and no willingness to work on his technique was his major downfall 

Ayush is a lot more balanced. Prithvi shaw reminds me of Uthappa when it comes to onside shots. His thighs clasped together. Ayush mhatre has a much better leg side backfoot game. He is much closer to Rohit than Shaw. In the Youth Test against a decent ENglshh side  80(90) & 126(80) . He almost pulled off a 355 4th innings chase with that cnetury.

 

He made 122, 32, 80, 126 in that test series in  England
Vaibhav made  14,56, 20, 0.

[vvvslaxman]

4 hours ago, Suhaan said:

Ayush has not been put on a pedestal by fans the way Shaw was

He has similar issues to the ones Kohli or Rohit had such as chasing the ball outside the offstump and people have already accepted that he will likely struggle in red ball cricket

Deepak chahar troubled him a lot with his outswing. He got dismissed by Chahar 6 times in IPL at an average of 15.0. Ayush forever has to live under the shadow of Vaibhav. 2026 batch has a lot of good batsmen. ABhigyan Kundu is another future Pant. Vihaan gives me padikkal vibes. He looks malnourished although can play shots. Same with Vedant trivedi who is a bit more like mahela.  Samson clone Aaron has shown a lot of promise as well. 

 

If you put your mind to it you can rse thrugh ranks rapidly. 2018 star players were   Shaw, Mavi, Gill, Nagarkoti, Porel. Manjot kalra. Out of the 6 only 1 made it. But couple of other guys who played very low key role in the same batch have made tremendous progress. Abhishek and Arshdeep.

[Lord]

On 7/28/2026 at 4:05 AM, Adamant said:

Why is there an asterisk next to Bumrahs name?

 

Now we know

[Chaos]

Lost hope in this dumb team. Getting white washed in india by teams is shameful. This lodu gg should be effin belt slapped every day for this. Even st our worst we never got white washed like this 

[tweaker]

The Selection Committee has named Sarfaraz Khan as a replacement for Sai Sudharsan for the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka. 

[vvvslaxman]

India lacks balance because of one-dimensional players. Batsmen can't roll their arm over.Bowlers can't bat that well. All rounders are very weak in one department .