Your team for Gabba, Brisbane test

[Tridibans_16]

Umesh was our best bowler becoz Dhoni game him chance. Only under Dhoni we play 2 90mph bowlers in our test team.We never had a single bowler like that before .

Only under dhoni we have a 1-13 record outside sub continent. Even Azhar was not this bad :hysterical: You can't blame our defeats to playing 2 90mph bowlers.

[Tridibans_16]

Might not be a bad idea going with both Jaddu and Ashwin for Sydney IMO.Looking at the way it was detiorating in Adelaide

Yeah . In Sydney , Ashwin is a must. Hew is a good batsman against spin too, which could be useful. Also, Jaddu can be effective only in SCG and nowhere else in Australia.

[BeautifulGame]

Only under dhoni we have a 1-13 record outside sub continent. Even Azhar was not this bad :hysterical: You can't blame our defeats to playing 2 90mph bowlers.

How many test series did we win outside sub continent under Ganguly and Azhar apart from Zimbabwe ? Dhoni has 2 and drawn series against a full strength SA.

[pindxb]

I assume Ashwin might come in place of Karn. And Dhoni back of course.. I just pray that Dhoni doesnt come up with some stupid strategy of going in with two spinners (Ash n Jaddu) on a spiteful Gabba pitch. And with MSD's captaincy, Aaron and Umesh are just 1 mistake away from being chucked out of the team.

[Pagalpanti]

MS in - Saha out Yadav in - Karn Sharma out Rohit and Vijay have done a decent job and I doubt Ashwin can contribute anymore than these 2 have. If we're to make a game out of the Brisbane test, we need to attack. We're not going to draw there, so why play safe.

[Straight Drive]

After all the hype of leggie being more useful in Australia, offie Lyon gets 12 for 286 whereas leggie Karn gets 4 for 238.

[rkt.india]

Might not be a bad idea going with both Jaddu and Ashwin for Sydney IMO.Looking at the way it was detiorating in Adelaide

Sydney will not be anywhere close to Adelaide. It will have grass.

[brendan07]

You do realise in Brisbane leg spinners are EXTREMELY successful rght?

[rkt.india]

After all the hype of leggie being more useful in Australia' date=' offie Lyon gets 12 for 286 whereas leggie Karn gets 4 for 238.[/quote'] This must be the best performance by an off spinner in Aus. Even Murli never did anything. Indians dug their own grave by bowling round the stumps and created huge rough for Lyon to exploit. They bowled 130 balls round the stumps to Warner alone in 1st innings.

[mancalledsting]

My team for next test: Dhawan Vijay Pujara Kohli Rahane Saha Ashwin Shami Ishant Aaron Umesh I feel as always we were one bowler light this match. Aaron and Umesh should be given a license to go for it with short and aggressive spells. Aaron looked dangerous second innings. Ashwin to play as a batsmen/all rounder.

[brendan07]

You have to be absolutely INSANE to play 5 specialist bowlers (yes I know Ashwin is handy with the bat) in Australia. Johnson will make that lineup look awfully silly!

[Lord]

You have to be absolutely INSANE to play 5 specialist bowlers (yes I know Ashwin is handy with the bat) in Australia. Johnson will make that lineup look awfully silly!

The problem is our 6th specialist bat options are terrible and Ashwin is likely to do better going by previous records.So we gotta do with what we have:((

[Cricket_Hacker]

Got a gut feeling Raina will be picked over Rohit.After all Ravi was the one who wanted him

[Austin 3:!6]

Dhawan Vijay Pujara Kohli Rahane Raina Dhoni Ashwin Umesh Aaron Ishant

[Austin 3:!6]

You do realise in Brisbane leg spinners are EXTREMELY successful rght?

Lets not fall into this trap and play mediocre spinners like Karn. Ashwin is a must in Gabba.

[pindxb]

Dhawan Vijay Pujara Kohli Rahane Raina Dhoni Ashwin Umesh Aaron Ishant

That would be my choice too. Maybe one more try with Rohit instead of Raina.

[MK55]

Dhawan (need an attacking opener or a replacement of similar type) Vijay Pujara Kohli Rahane Rohit (struggled against spin but looked OK in first innings) Dhoni Ashwin Umesh Aaron Ishant But I've got a feeling Dhoni may end up playing Shami instead of Aaron. I reckon Aaron should be brought first change. Also, no point including him in the Squad if he is not allowed to play at Gabba.

[rkt.india]

Lets not fall into this trap and play mediocre spinners like Karn. Ashwin is a must in Gabba.

Ashwin is mediocre too. Whoever doesn't play becomes great suddenly. :giggle:

[Straight Drive]

This must be the best performance by an off spinner in Aus. Even Murli never did anything. Indians dug their own grave by bowling round the stumps and created huge rough for Lyon to exploit. They bowled 130 balls round the stumps to Warner alone in 1st innings.

It's just that our spinner did not bowl even half well like Lyon and ended up with less than half the wickets Lyon got.

[Austin 3:!6]

That would be my choice too. Maybe one more try with Rohit instead of Raina.

No no no no no.... Raina must replace Rohit next game. Enough of chances to Nohit Sharma. As I said before, Rohit is a batsman only and if he is not doing that well, he is a liability in the team. Raina brings more complete package. A very underrated off spinner, superb slip fielder and a great team man. In terms of batting, even if he fails he will bring more to the team overall than Rohit. Also, its woth moving Rahane to no.3 and push Pujara to 5 who is clearly struggling. Karn Sharma might have played his last test so he is out of question. Its a close fight between Ashwin and Jadeja. Ideally I would have liked Amit Mishra but dumb selectors thought otherwise.