India to play five bowlers in must-win match - Dhoni

[Dinx - the Jinx]

India have chosen the tough option for their do-or-die battle against Australia tomorrow. They will play five bowlers, and ask their depleted batting order to stand up. http://www.cricinfo.com/iccct2009/content/story/426943.html Is there a need for 5 bowlers? I dont think so. Drop both Ishant and RP. Get Mishy and PK in their place.. Drop YKP to bring AN... Ask God to get some bowling practice.. Fill the 5th bowler's slot with Kohli, Raina and Sachin...

[Sachinism]

The weak part of the team is still there :hmmmm:

[Celeste]

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[davidcooper]

India have chosen the tough option for their do-or-die battle against Australia tomorrow. They will play five bowlers, and ask their depleted batting order to stand up. http://www.cricinfo.com/iccct2009/content/story/426943.html Is there a need for 5 bowlers? I dont think so. Drop both Ishant and RP. Get Mishy and PK in their place.. Drop YKP to bring AN... Ask God to get some bowling practice.. Fill the 5th bowler's slot with Kohli, Raina and Sachin...

lol pressure is getting to dhobi 6 batsmen which is really only 5[if you take out an overrated kohli] is a joke

[champ]

lol pressure is getting to dhobi 6 batsmen which is really only 5[if you take out an overrated kohli] is a joke

pressure will be there for anyone in international arena.. handling it is what he does best.. its just not possible for u mere mortals..

[Gambit]

An idiotic move which will appear to be even more idiotic if we end up chasing. Just drop RP,bring in Mishra.

[Cricketics]

Yaar man.. Even if you play 7 bowlers, still we going to give away this many runs. Don't know why the Dhoni is thinking of playing 5 bowlers..

[cowboysfan]

have you seen the aussies play against spin recently?.its a good move ,hope it works.

[davidcooper]

have you seen the aussies play against spin recently?.its a good move ' date='hope it works.[/quote'] have u seen our batting with 7 batsmen vs. pak last night and ur still comfortable for this batting line up to have one batsman short [plus without sehwag and yuvi]?? :two_thumbs_up:

[cowboysfan]

have u seen our batting with 7 batsmen vs. pak last night and ur still comfortable for this batting line up to have one batsman short [plus without sehwag and yuvi]?? :two_thumbs_up:

yes,yusuf pathan is a great no 7 who will be dearly missed.

[Cricketics]

Recently Ponting and co have improved a lot against spin. Pointing is waiting for the ball and taking his time. He has realised and improved on the facing doosras and stuff. I hope he gets out soon tomorrow else he will be the key man. I would want to play Praveen Kumar

[Dinx - the Jinx]

have you seen the aussies play against spin recently?.its a good move ' date='hope it works.[/quote'] i'm all for 2 spinners. so go in with 2 spinners and 2 pacers. why 5?

[davidcooper]

i'm all for 2 spinners. so go in with 2 spinners and 2 pacers. why 5?

not a bad idea

[ViruRulez]

i'm all for 2 spinners. so go in with 2 spinners and 2 pacers. why 5?

:dito: 2 spinners and 2 pacers is ok.... drop RP and Yusuf and bring in Mishra and Nayar

[ViruRulez]

Abhishek Nayar, whom Dhoni described as a batting allrounder, is of unproven mettle

I am a bit surprised at this statement.. so is Kohli and Yusuf of proved mettle :hehe:

[The Outsider]

Recently Ponting and co have improved a lot against spin. Pointing is waiting for the ball and taking his time. He has realised and improved on the facing doosras and stuff. I hope he gets out soon tomorrow else he will be the key man. I would want to play Praveen Kumar

South Africa, Pakistan and New Zealand regularly choked the Aussies in the middle overs with spinners earlier this year.

[WeStMiDz]

Playing five bowlers when three of them have as limited batting ability as Ishant, RP and Nehra do is simply a daft move. Simple solution as many have said is bring in Nayar for Yusuf and Mishra for RP.

[Texy]

we're still missing the quality All rounder to take no. 7 spot that we once saw a glimpse in Irfan

[Texy]

we need to drop Bhajji and bring in Mishra, also take out RP and bring in PK

[jusarrived]

I am a bit surprised at this statement.. so is Kohli and Yusuf of proved mettle :hehe:

the problem is , you can pick 2 n00bs in your top 7 ...Pathan was picked on the last game only cos he had relatively more experience. Dhoni has not much of a choice here, though am not a big fan of playing 5 bowlers in ODI' ...better than Pathan at no7 imo