West Indies A tour of India, 2013

[kumar713]

Oh no! Why?

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/squad/669839.html

[rkt.india]

Oh no! Why?

a different team for last 2 matches.

[Sidhoni]

Well he was the only one getting some runs in this match so hopefully they will see that and retain him.

[Old guy]

juneja is turning out to be find of season... might solve our middle order problems

[vvvslaxman]

Our batting against spin has gone to the dogs. Permaul and Nikita :facepalm:

[Laaloo]

lol Pujara

[G_B_]

so much cricket going on Despite the loss is good that the BCCI are organising these events. Keeps everybody fit

[Square Drive]

[namasteji1]

WTh Dinda is doing in the team. :wall:

[Chandan]

Test 1 Day Three http://goo.gl/lE7bLD Permaul, Miller put West Indies A on top Wisden India staff | Mysore | 27 September 2013 File photo: Kieran Powell scored an 88-ball 68 to help put West Indies A on top on day three against India A. © Getty Images Pitch conditions that West Indies A exploited and India A couldn’t, coupled with the West Indians’ superior bowling and batting performances, meant the visitors ended the third day of their four-day game in Mysore with their noses well in front. India A were bowled out for 245, and leading by 184, West Indies reached 130 for 3 in their second innings at close of play. India A resumed Friday (September 27) on 124 for 3, a lot depending on how well Manpreet Juneja and Harshad Khadiwale, the overnight batsmen, handled the first session. They did well to start with, Khadiwale providing the steel and Juneja keeping the scoreboard moving on a pitch where the ball stopped a bit on pitching. There was much to like about Khadiwale’s innings, especially in how he was happy to be unglamorous, but when Juneja, a young man with immense talent, ability and hunger for runs, gets going, it’s difficult to focus on much else. Overnight 47, Juneja brought up his half-century soon enough and then started scoring at a fairly healthy clip. The going wasn’t easy and patience was the key to survival, but he still managed to find the boundaries – 11 of them – without appearing to try too hard. “The pitch has become slightly slow but it’s the unevenness that is the problem. It’s easier to play the pacers than the spinners,” said Juneja afterwards. With the pitch being the way it was and Delorn Johnson and Miguel Cummins, the tall pacers, getting little out of it, Veerasammy Permaul and Nikita Miller, the spinners, did most of the bowling. And though no batsman can claim to have dominated them, while Juneja was around, India A looked well placed. He also dented Miller a little when, after an angry exchange following him stopping Miller in his delivery stride, Juneja slog-swept the very next delivery over midwicket for four. Miller was understandably upset with the sequence of events. “When the bowler is ready, you should be ready,” he said. “He was doing it quite a few times. I was bowling so many overs, you don’t want such kind of incidents. I spoke to the umpire, the umpire spoke to him and he apologised and we moved on.” He looked good for many more than 84 when, just before lunch, Permaul had him lbw. It was a somewhat questionable decision, Juneja’s front foot well down the track as he attempted to defend, but Amiesh Saheba, the umpire, went with the vociferous appeal. “The only thing I was looking to do was to not let them settle down because then things could get dangerous,” said Juneja. “That’s what happened … once I got out, we didn’t actually score runs and they got on to us. When we were attacking them, it was easier to play. If I had played a little longer we would’ve been in much better position.” The score at that stage was 184 for 4, but the innings unravelled quickly after that. Juneja was dismissed in the 68th over, and by the 78th, India A were gasping for breath at 205 for 8, with Rajat Paliwal, Khadiwale (27), Parvez Rasool and Mohammad Shami all back in the hut. That they managed to reach 245 was mainly down to Rohit Motwani’s battling unbeaten 28 and a couple of lusty hits from Ishwar Pandey and Ashok Dinda right at the end. Permaul and Miller, who bowled 44.3 of the 53 overs in the Indian innings on the day, did all the damage. Permaul had impressive returns of 5 for 85 and Miller wasn’t far behind with 4 for 61. West Indies A had the option of enforcing the follow on, but probably not wanting to bat last on the crumbling pitch, they came out to bat on a second time. “Once a batsman gets in here, it’s very difficult to get him out. We didn’t want to give the Indians the upper hand. So we’re looking at getting some more runs on the board, get a decent lead and take it from there tomorrow,” said Miller about the plan for the fourth day. The force continued to stay with the West Indians, and bar Shami, none of the Indian bowlers troubled Kieran Powell and Kraigg Brathwaite, who looked as if they were batting on a completely different pitch. Even Rasool, expected to get help from the pitch, looked nowhere near as dangerous as Permaul and Miller. Shami managed to beat both batsmen around the off stump and found Powell’s edge too, but the chance went between Motwani, the wicketkeeper, and Cheteshwar Pujara at first slip, neither fielder going for the catch. Apart from that, it was mostly about Powell’s belligerence and Brathwaite’s patience. As Brathwaite was happy to rotate the strike, Powell made up for his first-innings duck by going after the pacemen first and then Rasool, who was introduced in the 16th over. The breakthrough finally came after a 112-run stand and it was courtesy Paliwal, the back-up spinner. Powell, who had hit nine fours and two sixes in his 89-ball 68 couldn’t get enough elevation as he went for one big hit too many, and found Paliwal diving across to grab the caught and bowled chance, going down with non-striker Brathwaite in the process. One spot of success led to another and in the very next over, Rasool trapped Brathwaite (34) plumb in front with one that stayed low. It got somewhat better for the Indians when Rasool beat Narsingh Deonarine’s (9) defence to hit timber off what turned out to be the last ball of the day. But the lead had been stretched to 314 by then with Kirk Edwards (9) holding fort. -------------------------------------------------------- Test 1 Day Four http://goo.gl/SbxzIN Miller spins West Indies A to big win Wisden India staff | Mysore | 28 September 2013 Manpreet Juneja's fighting knock of 70 went in vain as West Indies A beat India A by 162 runs. © BCCI The fourth and final day of the India A v West Indies A match started with the West Indians declaring their second innings at their overnight score of 130 for 3, setting the Indians a target of 315 from a minimum of 90 overs at the Gangothri Glades stadium in Mysore on Saturday (September 28). Chasing that target on a pitch that was aiding spinners was never really in question, and, in the end, the Indians sank to a 162-run loss an hour after tea, Manprit Juneja’s battling 70 well overshadowed by the West Indian spinners led by Nikita Miller, who had astounding returns of 5 for 40 from 36.4 overs. The West Indians went on the offensive straightaway, opening the bowling with Miller, the left-arm spinner, and Miguel Cummins, and putting men in catching positions all around the bat. The approach of KL Rahul and Jiwanjot Singh, the Indian openers, suggested that the first objective was to see out at least the first hour, or even the first session, and get into a secure position before deciding on the next step. The plan might have worked better had both batsmen not thrown their wickets away. Rahul went first after scoring nine, guiding a short, harmless looking delivery from Miller to Leon Johnson at first slip. Then, 19 for 1 became 46 for 2 when Jiwanjot (24) was too early on a drive off Veerasammy Permaul and offered an easy catch to Kirk Edwards at short cover. Juneja walked in and was dropped when on two by Chadwick Walton off Permaul, the wicketkeeper failing to latch on to a regulation chance. But at the other end, Miller had the measure of Cheteshwar Pujara, beating his forward prod to catch him plumb in front. Pujara was dismissed for 17, his second failure of the match, and India A had slipped to 62 for 3 at lunch. With Pujara’s dismissal, even the slim possibility of India A going after the target had to be ruled out and it became a matter of the Indians prodding and the West Indian bowlers probing. Appeals came thick and fast and Juneja and Miller, who had a war of words in India A’s first innings, had another not-too friendly exchange, more fielders came close to the bat with the spinners in operation and it seemed that the next wicket could fall any moment. Rohit Motwani, who walked in at Pujara’s wicket, was clearly out of his depth. He tried to hit his way out of trouble, edged a boundary to third man, but was out lbw to the part-time offspin of Narsingh Deonarine and India A were four down for 84. Soon after, it was 90 for 5 when Harshad Khadiwale followed Motwani’s example of trying to hit out, failed to get on top of the ball, and gave an easy return catch to Deonarine for his second wicket. Despite the mayhem, Juneja stood out, much like he in the first innings when he scored 84 glorious runs. The chatter increased with Juneja having more than one eyeball to eyeball confrontation with the opposition players; he swept Deonarine for a six to bring up the team’s hundred, then pulled his hamstring, got up and immediately waded into another scrap – this time with Powell – all along inching closer towards another half-century. The milestone came up with a late cut off Miller, but the story didn’t change at the other end. Rajat Paliwal was the next to go, caught at gully by Kraigg Brathwaite off Miller. Parveez Rasool came, hit two boundaries, and went back quickly enough under somewhat unfortunate circumstances when Permaul bowled him with one that rolled along the ground after pitching. Mohammad Shami scratched around for a bit before miscuing a slog to Edwards at short cover off Miller. If the Indians managed to take the game into the last hour, it was entirely because of Juneja’s enterprise. The runs came at a trickle, but he managed to keep Ishwar Pandey from the strike for a while. Smart, because when Permaul got a chance to have a go at Pandey, he was out second ball, caught at forward short-leg by Brathwaite. Juneja was the last man to go, trapped in front after his 195-minute vigil, and Miller had completed match figures of 9 for 101 with his five-for. Permaul had 2 for 53 for the innings and Deonarine 2 for 29, while the pacemen – Cummins and Delorn Johnson – were involved in only nine of the 85.4 overs and had little to show for their efforts. ---------------------------------------------------- All in all this was the most disappointing effort from India A, right from selection, decision to bowl after toss and then performance of bowlers, batsmen as well as fielders. Juneja was the only bright spot who stood out in the tough condition and difficult situation in batting, Rasool tried his best in bowling as did Pandey and Shami, though not with much success. Pujara's loss of form is most worrying.

[Vijy]

Rassool's stats may not look great, but he has a good amount of talent, and should serve as a backup spinner. Juneja's development is excellent so far. However, we lack good spinners, pacers and all-rounders at the domestic level. One can only hope some of the U19 talent manages to make a successful transition to FC and international level.

[Chandan]

Shimoga braces up for the big boys Wisden India staff | Shimoga | 30 September 2013 Cheteshwar Pujara was the most prominent face on the first day of nets at the Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering cricket ground in Shimoga. Pujara was the most prominent face on the first day of nets at the Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering cricket ground. © Getty Images Almost two years ago, in mid December 2011, first-class cricket returned to Shimoga after a gap of 32 years, when Uttar Pradesh travelled to the city in central Karnataka for a Ranji Trophy tie. Fortunately, the wait for the next such fixture has been a reasonably short one, and the game at hand, if anything is a higher profile one. While the city of Shimoga itself is all hustle and bustle, the Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering cricket ground, where West Indies A will take on a strong India A team in a four-day match starting on Wednesday (October 2), is an oasis of calm. Set in the large college campus, the ground is ringed by trees – not the areca nut the region is famous for, but swaying eucalyptus mostly. The pavilion, built at a cost of a little over a crore of rupees, is not overly imposing, like you would find in concrete structures of grounds in bigger cities, but suits the purpose perfectly. The college, one of 40 educational institutions run by the National Education Society, boasts five turf strips on the main square, and several more practice pitches towards one end of the outfield. It was these practice pitches that were the hub of all activity on Monday, when first the West Indies A team, and then the bulk of the India A team, hit the nets. While there was excitement in the morning session, when the West Indians went about their business, students from the college really created an atmosphere in the second half of the day, when India A spent some time getting used to the conditions. Cheteshwar Pujara was the most recognisable face – with the likes of Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir missing from the session as they were only set to reach the city later in the day – and when he had a short fielding session on the outfield, or knocked in the nets, the cell-phone cameras from the stands worked overtime. Ishwar Pandey, the Madhya Pradesh medium pacer who is making a name for himself with consistent wicket-taking performances, was a surprise draw for the crowd, but perhaps this had more to do with his rusty-brown hair-dye rather than the steep bounce he generated. Lalchand Rajput, the coach, presided over the afternoon session which lasted nearly three hours, and the absence of a full squad meant that batsmen could spend as long as they pleased in the nets. Mohammad Kaif made the most of the chance, having a leisurely hit after he had rolled his arm over. Kaif, who last played for India back in 2006, has once again forced himself back into the reckoning. Kaif first took on the spinners, and when he’d had enough of working the ball around, moved to the net where the quick men were operating to play some crisp drives. For some other batsmen on the fringes, such as Saurashtra’s Sheldon Jackson and Kerala’s VA Jagadeesh, the opportunity to be involved in the India A set up itself was a big step up. Paras Dogra, the middle-order batsman from Himachal Pradesh, has over a decade of Ranji Trophy experience under his belt and being part of the A team will afford him a chance to watch players of the calibre of Pujara, Gambhir and Sehwag from close quarters. The practice session on Monday, however, was merely a taste of things to come. If the tone had been fairly muted, and the reasonable contingent of policemen present at the ground had to resort merely to words to keep the crowd in check, things might change when the big stars roll in. Along with flashing blades, there’s every chance that the lathi could come into play if a member of the crowd lets his enthusiasm get the better of him. -------------------------------------- Hope this match is shown live so that we can see the if Zaheer, Gambhir and Sehwag can play for test team or not.

[India-KXIP fan]

They're batting first again :wall: Bhatt took a wicket. Big 2 games for Uday Kaul :cheer: Took alot of catches last Ranji hope he hangs on to his chances, and then scores runs. Ishwar Pandey, Kulkarni not playing and in batting Kaif is playing :haha:

[India-KXIP fan]

6 overs none for 11 for Zaheer so far Well done Pujara for leaving out trundlers like Ishwar :hatsoff: Can't make A team and is supposed to challenge Ishant

[India-KXIP fan]

Uday Kaul gets a stumping!!! :yay: And Bhatt who has played with KXIP last 2 seasons has 2 wickets now. Well done :clap:

[FischerTal]

6 overs none for 11 for Zaheer so far Well done Pujara for leaving out trundlers like Ishwar :hatsoff: Can't make A team and is supposed to challenge Ishant

We all saw how pishant was carted around by McCullum Faltu bowler :hehe: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

[India-KXIP fan]

Zaheer has struck :clap: Gets Deonarine lbw

[namasteji1]

Fuddu comes in and starts attacking!

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Is this live?on what channel? Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk 2

[rkt.india]

Shami expensive.