Kuptaan's Foolhardy Bravado leads India into the abyss

[sandeep]

1. Foolish Avoidable mistake # 1 - benching your best test batsman to accomodate Rahul and Dhawan in the team. 
2. Doubling down on the first mistake by benching Pujara and bringing in the greatest wicket-thrower Indian team has ever seen.
3. Foolish Avoidable mistake - Risking himself to the new ball at the fall of the early wicket.  Sure credit to him for having the right "attitude" at the individual level.  But as a Captain, he has to primarily put his team and players in positions to succeed.  This was a mistake from that perspective.  

[sandeep]

You can give him a pass on the Karn Sharma fiasco as a newbie error, not today's.  Fact.

[express bowling]

Kohli's choice of batsmen, as well as batting order, were wrong today.

 

Dropping Vijay  was the worst of his decisions  and promoting himself to no.3 against the new ball, was unnecessary as he was doing so well at no.4.

 

What I would like to see is, whether he learns from these mistakes or not.

 

In an earlier series, most probably against SL, he had chosen Rohit over Pujara but  rectified this probably the next match after Pujara got a ton and Rohit failed.  I would like him to do the same thing in the next test and choose Vijay and Pujara replacing Dhawan and Rohit.

Edited August 9, 2016 by express bowling

[PBN]

27 minutes ago, express bowling said:

Kohli's choice of batsmen, as well as batting order, were wrong today.

 

Dropping Vijay  was the worst of his decisions  and promoting himself to no.3 against the new ball, was unnecessary as he was doing so well at no.4.

 

What I would like to see is, whether he learns from these mistakes or not.

 

In an earlier series, most probably against SL, he had chosen Rohit over Pujara but  rectified this probably the next match after Pujara got a ton and Rohit failed.  I would like him to do the same thing in the next test and choose Vijay and Pujara replacing Dhawan and Rohit.

Vijay was dropped or injured?  i thought he was injured and may not have fully recovered

[Scarface]

1 minute ago, PBN said:

Vijay was dropped or injured?  i thought he was injured and may not have fully recovered

Vijay was dropped

[Ankit_sharma03]

Absolute foolishness by kohli today. I have no issues with his love for taking things in hand and playing aggressively to control. But dhawan n rohit cant be ur weapons as they have misfired time n again. 

He needs to end his love for these 2 or nothing would change for our test cricket

 

[express bowling]

11 minutes ago, PBN said:

Vijay was dropped or injured?  i thought he was injured and may not have fully recovered

Some posters have confirmed that Kohli has said that Vijay is fit. That means he was  dropped.

[Laaloo]

I sort of understand why Pujara was replaced but baffled that Vijay wasnt played when he was fit. That is not explainable. Hope Kohli learns from this. And rohit sharma is a waste. Need to get rid of sharmas

[Scarface]

3 minutes ago, express bowling said:

Some posters have confirmed that Kohli has said that Vijay is fit. That means he was  dropped.

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/81936/murali-vijay-or-kl-rahul-virat-kohli-yet-to-take-a-call

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The good thing is Vijay has been in a good head-space. He's back to the nets and back to fielding. We'll take a call on that. We still have to discuss that.

 

[Bigg Brother]

http://circleofcricket.co/murali-vijay-fit-pick-two-three-says-kohli/

Thats what kohli said earlier today..Vijay was dropped.

http://m.rediff.com/cricket/report/3rd-test-kohli-likely-to-persist-with-rahul-ahead-of-vijay-west-indies-tour/20160809.htm

http://circleofcricket.co/murali-vijay-fit-pick-two-three-says-kohli/

Thats what kohli said earlier today..Vijay was dropped.

http://m.rediff.com/cricket/report/3rd-test-kohli-likely-to-persist-with-rahul-ahead-of-vijay-west-indies-tour/20160809.htm

[PBN]

20 minutes ago, Scarface said:

Vijay was dropped

hmm..really surprising if true.  has there been an official statement or just speculation from the fans. 

 

  Because if they were going to drop Pujara, then Vijay Dhawan would have opened and Rahul at #3 was the more logicial step than completely changing the batting order by including Rohit

Edited August 9, 2016 by PBN

[Vilander]

3 minutes ago, PBN said:

hmm..really surprising if true.  has there been an official statement or just speculation from the fans. 

 

  Because if they were going to drop Pujara, then Vijay Dhawan would have opened and Rahul at #3 was the more logicial step than completely changing the batting order by including Rohit

But Rohit is talented.

[BeautifulGame]

2 minutes ago, PBN said:

hmm..really surprising if true.  has there been an official statement or just speculation from the fans. 

From Kohli yesterday press conference

Quote

India captain Virat Kohli was quite cryptic about resolving the happy headache around the choice of openers, but he did suggest M Vijay was fit when he said the management would have to make the tough call after practice.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/west-indies-v-india-2016/content/story/1044087.html

[mishra]

We consistently scored over 500. Couldnt win last test because Bowlers couldnt take more than 2 wickets in 3 effin seasions. So we change the batting. Not to mention wundies have past where they have created tracks where nit a single wicket has fallen in 3 sessions

[velu]

vijay is injured..

dropping chepu is stupidity 

 

[BeautifulGame]

24 minutes ago, velu said:

vijay is injured..

dropping chepu is stupidity 

 

Vijay is not injured

[velu]

Just now, BeautifulGame said:

Vijay is not injured

[FischerTal]

pujara can be dropped for nonperformance but not his delhi teammate ishant. plus, who the * benches vijay for sharma?

 

for all those dhoni fans who thought we wouldn't criticize kohli, ur wrong. this is appalling captaincy. 

Edited August 10, 2016 by FischerTal

[G_B_]

What I want to know is to what extent is Kumble responsible for this? Ie Kohli is still a young captain. Surely this is where the coach steps in and makes the call

 

From what I remember when MSD was made captain in tests regularly Dravid Ganguly Laxman Kumble Sachin were involved in decision making along with Gary who was a huge influence.

 

 

 

Edited August 9, 2016 by G_B_

[Bleed-Blue]

Wait a min, wasnt Kohli the one who dropped Ashwin for Karn Sharma