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His airy fairy cricket may suit one dayer with a bit of luck. But in tests with crowded slips he cannot take the same kind of risks. That is where his defense is found wanting. Often times he completely misreads the line.

I don't understand I thought he plays the ball late. For someone playing a ball late to miss the line is bad.

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His airy fairy cricket may suit one dayer with a bit of luck. But in tests with crowded slips he cannot take the same kind of risks. That is where his defense is found wanting. Often times he completely misreads the line.

Are you even watching the games? to construct an innings with calculated hitting and that too against an inform but top of the line bowling attack and you are still not impressed....Lol

Nothing risky or airy fairly with the way he placed his innings......You take on odd dismissal against a bowler considered best of this generation,to symbolize his entire career :facepalm:

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Yeah I watched them. I stand by my point. He is mindblowing in SC(minus Lanka), average to below average outside SC.

you havent said they were like SC, if you had watched them. They were a few of the toughest pitches I have seen to bat on., especially, in Trinidad carrying a lot of seam movement and uneven bounce and were rather unfavorable for openers. Apart from 2 big innings of 300, all other innings struggled to cross 200.

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:banghead: what he said is true.. This guy is so inconsistent :facepalm:

Guys, lets not let our expectations and emotions cloud judgement like little girls or green ghetto-ites.  Last 18 games, averaging 60+.  Last few scores are 171, 15, 0, 57*, 7, 64, 16, 137, 34....Looks pretty consistent - Can't expect him to score 100s everytime.  I would say he's made a strong case as the all-world ODI opener at the moment.  Show me an opener that has better numbers?  

 

Actually, checked out the stats myself -  

Top Openers (Home and away) - last 2 years

Top Openers (excluding home) - last 2 years

Rohit is right up there in both, Thirimane edges him with a fractionally better average in Away stats but daylight separates them in terms of batting ability and who you'd rather have opening for your team.  

For all of "talunt's" struggles in whites, he's really under-appreciated in ODIs.

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Edited stats to exclude UAE, Kenya, Canada etc
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Guys, lets not let our expectations and emotions cloud judgement like little girls or green ghetto-ites.  Last 18 games, averaging 60+.  Last few scores are 171, 15, 0, 57*, 7, 64, 16, 137, 34....Looks pretty consistent - Can't expect him to score 100s everytime.  I would say he's made a strong case as the all-world ODI opener at the moment.  Show me an opener that has better numbers?  

 

Actually, checked out the stats myself -  

Top Openers (Home and away) - last 2 years

Top Openers (excluding home) - last 2 years

Rohit is right up there in both, Thirimane edges him with a fractionally better average in Away stats but daylight separates them in terms of batting ability and who you'd rather have opening for your team.  

For all of "talunt's" struggles in whites, he's really under-appreciated in ODIs.

Yes, him and Virat are the best ODI batsmen at the moment in the Indian team.

Many people on this forum seem to lack perspective and unable to distinguish between formats.

Calling him leech in the T20/ODI context is ridiculous. Expecting the test team to bend over backwards to accomodate him is also ridiculous.

 

 

 

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Rohit has been the among the top3 Batsmen in the world alongside De Villiers and Smith for atleast 2 years .

Don't know what consistency people are harping on about .He has been super consistent ever since he started opening

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Rohit took years to get going in ODI's. So many people were giving him chit after 80 ODI innings averaged 28. 60 innings later career average is 42. In that phase it's alot higher. He took a while but eventually came good once he started opening. Maybe he can do something similar in tests.

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Rohit took years to get going in ODI's. So many people were giving him chit after 80 ODI innings averaged 28. 60 innings later career average is 42. In that phase it's alot higher. He took a while but eventually came good once he started opening. Maybe he can do something similar in tests.

yeah sure, he may have to play 100 tests to do that.

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Oh God..... Just when I have won the debate with the current generation as to how good rohit is.....I have to face the younger ignorant generation now who will pull stats and prove irrelevant stats as to how India lost when he performed and call him selfish :facepalm:

thanks dhoni

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Rohit took years to get going in ODI's. So many people were giving him chit after 80 ODI innings averaged 28. 60 innings later career average is 42. In that phase it's alot higher. He took a while but eventually came good once he started opening. Maybe he can do something similar in tests.

The change is not in Rohit , but rather his batting position . Hes still a 28 Avg player down the order .

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The change is not in Rohit , but rather his batting position . Hes still a 28 Avg player down the order .

wait so is that good or bad?

i don't get it.... So you are saying he would average 28 down the order but if he is averaging 50+ opening what seems to be the issue you are having?

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wait so is that good or bad?

i don't get it.... So you are saying he would average 28 down the order but if he is averaging 50+ opening what seems to be the issue you are having?

I dont have an issue as long as he dosent slow down when he gets to 90s , I just dont think its a big deal to average 50 for a opener these days . 

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