If I was the team Manager/Coach

[Midfielder]

1) Not really a bad idea but need more facts Can someone point out to match wining spells from Pankaj and Aaron?? (Intl) or even above average?? I am confused- Which Sharma are you talking about?? I keep hearing about Aaron's speed but don't see results 2) Binny has to go; at this point I would play Sunny Leone instead of Binny; better butt and motivation/relaxation for our players vs. waste of 11th player. Whether its Ashwin (batting & bowling), Pankaj/Aaron (bowling support) or Saha (challenge Dhoni) anything is an upgrade 3) Not happening; Dhoni doesn't belong as a test batsman; I can easily see Saha/Kartik or a wkt keeper batsman replacing him if they can show better wit keeping skills than him; Dhoni may not be the best wit keeper at the moment but are others good or better?? Regardless this is not going to happen but BCCI seriously needs to start thinking whether his captaincy/wkt keeping warrants a spot anymore 4) Dhawan needs to realize he is running out of chances; trying to replicate Viru is not good enough unless you can play some knocks like Viru; GG I thought would be in the team next 7 yrs and GG at his best in test with Vijay now would have been an absolute delight for India but current GG is too iffy so I agree not sure about this one 5) No benching of Kohli; Kohi is our best hope for a legendary batsman in the long run - he can deliver and has the talent but my concern is that he is getting too distracted with Bollywood, girlfriend, ads etc.... it will be a tragedy if he doesn't end up as someone who replicates careers of our "fabs" in cricket but thats a choice he has got to make Finally dude- everything is not about imitating US; that is just pure moronic; how many baseball games are played in a season and these are totally different sports

(1) My bad, I mean Pandey. The other one is down under. (2) Binny playing is criminal. Rajat was ahead of him. (3) Agreed. He has to be kicked out. (4) Vijay is very impressive. He is the one who really is keeping it together. (5) Kohli is in slump. He needs to be benched. This in my mind is a no brainer. Agreed everything should not be imitated from US and let us not turn this into baseball vs cricket, but there is nothing wrong in learning from US. Just remember even the German soccer team physical conditioning was all done by US based experts, they are so far ahead of rest of the world. Nothing wrong in learning from the best.

[Midfielder]

there is a reason why the baseball game is not popular beyond Amrika.. :winky:

Please no baseball vs cricket anymore.

[Midfielder]

Also replace Kohli with Rohit ? On what basis exactly?

Kohli has had a terrible IPL. Did not do well exactly in the warm up games and has been sucking wind in the last two matches. How does he justify playing the next match. In the words of Boycott what he said about Cook is that he needs to play county and get atleast 40 runs before coming back.

[Midfielder]

And when the new set of players fail, replace them again , rinse and repeat? An even more radical idea is to have a lottery and decide who should be in the 11. Will be lot more fun, no science or logic required. And lastly a recall for Bhajji will be the best confidence booster this team needs :P

You need to play the ones who are peaking at the right time. Definitely not play people who are low on confidence. I am saying to discard them. As far as Bhajji is concerned he should come back for T20/ ODI.

[Midfielder]

U r right about gambhir as he recently had some county experience albeit a bad one.If Kohli is benched and saha is taken, who will captain?:hmmm: Why rest Kumar when he is doing well, do u wanna commit a harakiri? We have not won the series yet,remember.

Just to give him a break. He cam comeback for the next two. He was tired in the second inning.

[Crookbond]

There is test 4 and 5 plus the drop off for India will not be that great.

We aren't talking about Test 4, ATM - we are talking about Test 3.

[beetle]

Captaincy is overrated. It is the coaches job to send in the game plan over by over.

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[SLICKR392]

Please no baseball vs cricket anymore.

Then stop comparing such obnoxious and absurd Baseball logic with Cricket. Drop Kohli. Replace all your seam bowlers. FFS! This is not some B-Grade sport like Baseball played by 10-11 obese players.

[Crookbond]

:blink::blink::blink::blink:

He's now confusing field hockey with cricket.

[Laaloo]

there is a reason why the baseball game is not popular beyond Amrika.. :winky:

Actually baseball is pretty popular in Japan and most south american countries. It even has some good following in Australia. The opening games of the season were played at SCG this year.

[Midfielder]

Actually baseball is pretty popular in Japan and most south american countries. It even has some good following in Australia. The opening games of the season were played at SCG this year.

Don't say that over here. Some people cannot handle it.

[Midfielder]

Then stop comparing such obnoxious and absurd Baseball logic with Cricket. Drop Kohli. Replace all your seam bowlers. FFS! This is not some B-Grade sport like Baseball played by 10-11 obese players.

OK

[Midfielder]

We aren't talking about Test 4' date=' ATM - we are talking about Test 3.[/quote'] test 3 is rest, come back for 4 and 5. In perfect world it should be one on/one off.