Test Matches - Sir Jadeja or Ojha ?

[Old guy]

he scored a very good 40 odd at a square turner in Delhi IIRC in Aus series. anyway as I said hes not had enough chances to judge yet imo. no other 9 players all have not come in recent past.only Hussey and Pujara.both are good too. If Jaddu can provide that extra batting cushion,then whats the problem.Its not like Ojha got wickets and Jaddu got smashed.He just didnt play v WI,we can never say how he'd have done.

did i say drop jaddu now ? see the topic of thread and my response was pick on form.. all i said was when deciding just decide upon bowling cos that is primary reason of picking team and then comes batting .. if and i said "if" jaddu is not bowling well and ojha is do not pick jaddu cos he can bat..:winky: hope i am clear !

[Lord]

did i say drop jaddu now ? see the topic of thread and my response was pick on form.. all i said was when deciding just decide upon bowling cos that is primary reason of picking team and then comes batting .. if and i said "if" jaddu is not bowling well and ojha is do not pick jaddu cos he can bat..:winky: hope i am clear !

Oh okay,thats fair enough.but if the difference in bowling form is not too much,batting can be considered,right?:--D

[Old guy]

Oh okay' date='thats fair enough.but if the difference in bowling form is not too much,batting can be considered,right?:--D[/quote'] if ojha is bowling better then he should be picked think about it man we play 4 bowlers at home with 2 fast bowlers who are not effective most of times so 2 spinners do majority of work ..so just pick spinners based on bowling alone IMO ..if its 5th bowling spot than pick jaddu

[Lord]

if ojha is bowling better then he should be picked think about it man we play 4 bowlers at home with 2 fast bowlers who are not effective most of times so 2 spinners do majority of work ..so just pick spinners based on bowling alone IMO ..if its 5th bowling spot than pick jaddu

thats why I said if bowling form is similar.dont forget we have young batting lineup and regularly need lower order contribution,specially if we keep playing on turners like we have done recently

[Old guy]

thats why I said if bowling form is similar.dont forget we have young batting lineup and regularly need lower order contribution' date='specially if we keep playing on turners like we have done recently[/quote'] if top 7 also ashwin fail i do not see how jaddu will do anything and form is never this similar if its totally same and so is ashwin then pick jaddu.. but attitude should be to first pick 4 bowlers and after that think about batting ability otherwise in test cricket you will lose the plot england make same mistake between finn and bresnan and paid heavily against south africa and west indies have sammy with same attitude and look how much its helping them..

[Lord]

if top 7 also ashwin fail i do not see how jaddu will do anything and form is never this similar if its totally same and so is ashwin then pick jaddu.. but attitude should be to first pick 4 bowlers and after that think about batting ability otherwise in test cricket you will lose the plot england make same mistake between finn and bresnan and paid heavily against south africa and west indies have sammy with same attitude and look how much its helping them..

thats not the right way to go about it,sometimes top order fails and lower contributes. I mean sometimes all 3 are bowling well but one is unlucky to not pick wickets,like Ojha was in Kolkata. Sammy is neither here not there.totally different case.doesnt bowl his overs and bats at 8 :facepalm:

[Old guy]

thats not the right way to go about it,sometimes top order fails and lower contributes. I mean sometimes all 3 are bowling well but one is unlucky to not pick wickets,like Ojha was in Kolkata. Sammy is neither here not there.totally different case.doesnt bowl his overs and bats at 8 :facepalm:

i had england series in mind while thinking baout sammy he scored some runs but windies were a bowler short in test cricket you need 20 wickets first so 4 best bowlers in you country should play even if they cannot bat now if they can bat its luxury more than necessity ..if jaddu can perform as well as ojha great.. if he cannot pick wickets like him then he should only play as 5th bowler

[Soorma_Bhopali]

^ way to brave Dhoni and jadeja could be walking wickets Bits and pieces players get you no were in test cricket

Dhoni ,Jadeja or even ashwin are not bits and pieces players by any stretch of imagination

[Temujin Khaghan]

while jadeja is a threat to ojha, its not the same in reverse... ashwin is the threat to jadeja, not ojha... since we now have a genuine Test allrounder in ashwin, we dont need a odi allrounder like jadeja... so the more ashwin scores off his bat, the less we need jadeja's batting so jadeja will be fighting for a spot in a five man bowling unit with ojha primarily as a bowler...

[GoldenSun]

Jadeja still needs to make more of a significant impact with the bat for me to completely trust him.

[Gunner]

Jadeja. I don't like Ojha because he chucks.

[Soorma_Bhopali]

Jadeja. I don't like Ojha because he chucks.

no ..it's optical illusion due to the angles he create ..no way is he a chucker

[jf1gp_1]

If tests are played at home, subcontinent or even WI then there is place for both; dont see any reason why we need 3 seamers. Remaining place where you dont need 3 spinner it by default becomes Jaddu given he and ashwin make up for 6th specialist batsman. There could actually be some instances when even playing 2 spinners wont make sense then on those rare occasion we might even play a 6th specialist batsman over both Jaddu or Ojha

[Texan]

Still Jadeja. Ojha loves the Wankhede pitch and has always performed well there. Need to see him bowl well elsewhere. Also, batting-wise, there is a difference of ocean-like proportions between Jadeja and Ojha.

[wanted_desi]

I would Play Jajeja and play four seamers, I dont think we have good 6th batsman to make much difference anyways. Jadeja and Rahane are pretty much going to average same with bat anyways. lol

[jf1gp_1]

I would Play Jajeja and play four seamers' date=' I dont think we have good 6th batsman to make much difference anyways. Jadeja and Rahane are pretty much going to average same with bat anyways. lol[/quote'] Bhai we struggle to put 2 quality seamers , where will the remaining 2 come from.

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Bhai we struggle to put 2 quality seamers ' date=' where will the remaining 2 come from.[/quote']

[Detonator]

Bhai we struggle to put 2 quality seamers ' date=' where will the remaining 2 come from.[/quote'] :haha:

[rkt.india]

Bhai we struggle to put 2 quality seamers ' date=' where will the remaining 2 come from.[/quote'] We certainly have 4 quality seamers right now for SA conditions in Zak, BK, Shami, and Umesh. All 4 can make use of those conditions.

[Soorma_Bhopali]

I would Play Jajeja and play four seamers' date=' I dont think we have good 6th batsman to make much difference anyways. Jadeja and Rahane are pretty much going to average same with bat anyways. lol[/quote'] 4 seamers are not effective on even PERTH or South Africa pitches nowadays .too one-dimensional an attack and most of the time, such an attack with struggle to finish 90 overs a day .Remeber 2007-2008 when Aussies got four man pace attack against us but still lost by 93 runs.if Dhoni wants to get banned for tests, then only he can adopt this strategy .:hysterical: I can understand if any team has a WI 1970's like 4-man pace attack of Roberts,Garner,Marshall and Holding but for Team India , no way !!!!!!!:hitler: