rkt.india Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 RKT Kohli will continue to be a part of our t20 side simply based on his ODI record. MSD has been a terrible t20 player all this while but has remained there based on his ODI exploits. Same would work for Kohli as well. Agree. Selectors here in India dont work on picking specialists for different formats like in SA, England, Aus, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Virat is still learning to make the adjustment. Frankly i don't care if he learns or not as long as he retains his ODI form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLICKR392 Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Bloke am not sure about block Who cares its just a slang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngindia Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Agree. Selectors here in India dont work on picking specialists for different formats like in SA' date=' England, Aus, etc.[/quote'] For the world cups steyn and morkel will most likely be there. it may not be feasible playing them all through the year. The axiom of the game is runs and wickets. The basics of the game is the same. batsmen who score huge runs and bowlers who take wickets. The style of the players and team combination may require tweak.Exceptional strikers like yuvraj may become more important in the shorter format.two anchors may/maynot not be affordable in t20. however the basics of runs and wickets does not change.A player with strong foundation is still important. only the player's style assumes improtance. you have seen that MI. have chosen somany called t20 specialists with little sucess from this group . they contribute too occasionally and struggle often without sachin .its a sachin or malinga who makes or breaks a game. t20 or ODI is no excuse to select players with mediocre/poor basics who only contribute cameos and occasional success AUS and ind have given young players an exposure in t20.that's for transition A key group of top notch players will play across all formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngindia Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Look at his IPL record, he has an SR of 119 which is not good enough in T20 cricket, especially when he bats on the biggest patta at Bangalore. He was in superb form just leading to IPL and suddenly in poor form. three years of inexperience and 1 yr of poor form cannot be reliable indicators. and he has been in prolonged golden epriod of form for too long. i will be surprised if he maintains such a phenemenal streak.not the other way around. he was pretty influential in last year's IPL and CL as well. i haven't seen any problem like sehwag has with the ODI version. again shotmaking and striking the ball is not exactly a young man's game.it gets better with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcastic Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 Scored a pretty good 84(49) and now his aggregate goes up to 467@42 and is in 3rd position in the table! Seems like some of the posters in this thread have to change their opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NareshK Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Come of age ? He is pushing 30, bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcastic Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 Come of age ? He is pushing 30' date=' bro.[/quote'] Well, he is only 26+ and has been a fringe player for years. This is the same age about when Gambhir flowered too.:icflove: If he is just performing well(like lot of other Indian players), it does not deserve so much attention. But he is performing extremely well that he is one of the top batsman in aggregate runs and certainly deserving of attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NareshK Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 His first class average is 45 which is very low for Indian batsmen standards and there are a ton of other batsmen who have done better than him. Its one thing to smash bowlers on patta wickets in T20 games and another thing to do well in ODIs against quality attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagalpanti Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 I wont have him in my T20 team. He is not a T20 batsman' date=' very good ODI batsman, but not T20. In ODIs, he takes his own time to settle and then plays shots which is not possible in T20s.[/quote'] His CLT20 stats (232 runs in 6 games @ 46 and a S/R of 145), you cant judge a player based on one tournament. He's just out of form right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saneindian Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Well done Dhawan. Over 500 runs in an IPL season is a wonderful effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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