skindia Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 India (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Robin Uthappa, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 R Ashwin, 10 Praveen Kumar, 11 Ashok Dinda source:cricinfo...............No yusuf pathan in playing 11??
Sachinism Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Sir Jadeja over YP. Obvious. Why obvious? YP had a pretty good tour last time we went SA
skindia Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Robin uthappa as opener?? I wonder why dumb pune management and ganguly wants him to play in middle order.They signed tamim iqbal,ryder,smith too many openers.
Stuge Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Indians in SA: Dhoni rules out fatigue factor ahead of IPL : After the battering it was subjected to during the tour of Australia and the Asia Cup, the Indian cricket team would look to make a fresh start before the IPL razzmatazz when it takes on an in-form South Africa in a one-off Twenty20 international here tomorrow. The match is being organised to commemorate 150 years of the settlement of the Indians in South Africa but its scheduling did raise a lot of eyebrows. The match is happening just after the Asia Cup, of which India was a part, and a few days after the Proteas hosted New Zealand for a long tour, involving T20s, ODIs and a Test series. AFP In a cramped international calendar, the game does seem like an oddity given that the Indians would be travelling all the way for just over four hours of slam bang action before getting busy with their respective IPL franchises. Only five days separate the match and the beginning of the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League. The long journey means that several players will miss initial practice camps with their respective franchises and that would certainly add to the physical strain. ]However, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has ruled out the fatigue factor. All happy. I don't think fatigue will be a real factor. We all enjoy playing the IPL thats... one format where you are not representing your country, and the span of the tournament is slightly longer so you play quite a few games, Dhoni said after arriving with the team. The Indians are not heading into the match in the best of form given their dismal performances over the past few months. As if the disastrous Australian tour was not enough, India failed to qualify for the recently-concluded Asia Cup final as well, thanks to a shock defeat against hosts Bangladesh. On the contrary, the Proteas are in good touch after an extremely successful tour against New Zealand. They won the Twenty20, One-Day and the Test series against the injury-ravaged Kiwis. The hosts though have retained only eight players from that tour in the Twenty20 squad. Almost all the seniors have been rested with the exception of all-rounder Jacques Kallis, who will be honoured after the match. India, though, are almost full strength, barring opener Virender Sehwag and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan as the duo has been rested. All the players, who were part of their Asia Cup campaign, are in the squad except for veteran Sachin Tendulkar, who does not play international T20s. He has been replaced by the hard-hitting Robin Uthappa. Since the highly-popular IPL is beginning exactly five days after the match, the game would help the players get into the slam-bang mode, although the conditions would be different from India. http://www.firstpost.com/sports/indians-in-sa-dhoni-rules-out-fatigue-factor-ahead-of-ipl-259458.html
akshayxyz Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 This is a must watch match, India wont be playing any international cricket for next 6 months! :obeyme:
saneindian Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Vinay Kumar was injured in the later part of CB series, was injured during the Asia Cup as well. His spot should ideally have gone to a younger seamer. Does our team management see Dinda and PK playing the t20 WC? If not then why are they even in this squad is beyond me. Also, is Jadeja going to be their choice ahead of YP in that WC? If not then let Yusuf play every t20 from here on.
GautiMaan Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 This is a must watch match, India wont be playing any international cricket for next 6 months! :obeyme: According to ftp india has an away tour in sl in jul-aug
diga Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 According to ftp india has an away tour in sl in jul-aug That means Ind is free till July & they get 2 months off after IPL (june /July). I hope some of the young turks vying for a place should play county ckt for atleast 1/2 months. BCCI should not block them from playing in county ckt as it has done in the past
Cricketics Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 some shyt bowling and fiellding is fine, but don't you all agree that we have the most fked up luck as a team??? I mean we hardly get lucky. We ahve been lucky really once in recent history when it rained and dhoni saved us during the lords test of 06 tour, but other than that, this shyt rain has cost us more games than won.
jairamesh Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Two test matches in West Indies come to mind. Should have won that series 3-0.
SLICKR392 Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 /\ In Both Home & Away. Thanks to the rain in the caribbean and thanks to Ahwin's fragile feet in India.
Jersey #10 Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 now it's luck that shall be considered at fault. Good thinking, I agree.
jairamesh Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 ^^ and Dhoni's miserable run with loosing tosses Such a tosser.
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 We didn't play well enough to blame luck. I can understand that we hardly win a toss which is a setback but on the whole we have hardly done much to blame luck.
SLICKR392 Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 We aren't gonna go anywhere unless we find a solid bowling pack! Umesh has to improve his length...Ishant has to get back to his old form. It's ODI and T20 bowling we have got to be worried about. Bunch of filth in our bowling line up!
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 We aren't gonna go anywhere unless we find a solid bowling pack! Umesh has to improve his length...Ishant has to get back to his old form. It's ODI and T20 bowling we have got to be worried about. Bunch of filth in our bowling line up! We have to be worried about our bowling. Period. Across all formats. I have given hope of ever seeing a good pace attack in Team India and my ask is only for the board to find a few chuckers like Murali and Ajmal, or bowlers with unusual action/bowling like Mendis/Narine.
yoda Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 you make your own luck. you suck in general and your luck starts drying up too.
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 you make your own luck. you suck in general and your luck starts drying up too. Well said. Other than losing 15 and 13 straight tosses on 2 separate occasions, India's performance had nothing to do with luck.
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