India the only team to play 6 frontline bowlers?

[Malcolm Merlyn]

6 front line bowlers.3 pacers 3 spinners.

What wonderful team selection!!!!

Who selects the playing 11?Monkeys?Donkeys?

[express bowling]

Don't see the point of selecting only 5 batsmen, one of them being Rahane 

 

A couple of quick wickets can put us under a lot of pressure.

[beautifulgame]

Mishra is probably a better bat than Binny and he definitely has made a big impact so far

[bowl_out]

Maybe with the bowling generally being shitty, you never really know which one of them is going to bowl trash on a given day.. So have a backup 

 

Can't give any other reasoning for this... Or maybe Lahori logic that India conceded 245 in a T20 match, so get an additional bowler to cut the flow of runs 

[beautifulgame]

Maybe with the bowling generally being shitty, you never really know which one of them is going to bowl trash on a given day.. So have a backup 

 

Can't give any other reasoning for this... Or maybe Lahori logic that India conceded 245 in a T20 match, so get an additional bowler to cut the flow of runs 

There are two perfectly logical reasons

West Indies batting is insanely deep and powerful .They have Russel at 7 Bravo 8 and Braithwaite at 9 .

So play more bowlers and more vareity to counter that as picking wickets is the only way to restrict them .

Then another factor is west bowler is pretty poor compared with their batting .We only lost 2 wkts in the Semi and 3 yesterday probably felt bowling depth is more important against a team like WIndies than batting depth.

[rkt.india]

12 hours ago, beautifulgame said:

Mishra is probably a better bat than Binny and he definitely has made a big impact so far

not in T20s.

[Sandeep99]

I think it's alright for T20s.. hope they don't do it for ODIs... with Dhoni we never know..

[Asim]

Yeh 6 Binny k ilawa hain or he too included in those 'frontline' bowlers?

[G_B_]

shows lack of allrounders.....

 

I dont think Ash qualifies as one in the limited overs.

[express bowling]

25 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

shows lack of allrounders.....

 

I dont think Ash qualifies as one in the limited overs.

There are rookie all-rounders but they have not been chosen.  They would have been better than Binny.

[youngindia]

The problem is with the mediocre level of top tier thinking in players like gavaskar and dhoni...

 

they want options...but the options only make sense if they are  competitive internationally ...

 

they have been making this mistake not just once but almost hundreds  times and more.

 

all one can conclude is these guys will never learn. 

[youngindia]

16 hours ago, beautifulgame said:

 

Then another factor is west bowler is pretty poor compared with their batting .We only lost 2 wkts in the Semi and 3 yesterday probably felt bowling depth is more important against a team like WIndies than batting depth.

you have problem understanding one basic aspect of cricket...its the top 4 bowler which defines everything.

 

other bowlers make no difference to overall level.

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, Asim said:

Yeh 6 Binny k ilawa hain or he too included in those 'frontline' bowlers?

binny dropped for Mishra who played as a 6th bowler.

[beautifulgame]

you have problem understanding one basic aspect of cricket...its the top 4 bowler which defines everything.

 

other bowlers make no difference to overall level.

That's just ur assumption and a stupid one at that .

[express bowling]

In ODIs and T20s....there is a limitation on the number of overs one can bowl.

 

10 overs out of 50 in ODIs and  4  overs out of 20 in T20s.

 

Atleast 5 bowlers become mandatory for that purpose.

 

It is childish to assume that only 4 bowlers would do in  ODIs and T20s.

 

The problem is reduction of the number of batsmen if  5 specialist bowlers are selected....which is why good all-rounders are needed for the 5th bowler's slot.

 

A really low quality 5th bowler or bowlers often lose a limited overs match as he or they  have to be bowled the full quota by law.

 

6 specialist bowlers is again too much as the number of batsmen get seriously reduced.

Edited August 29, 2016 by express bowling

[rkt.india]

12 minutes ago, beautifulgame said:

That's just ur assumption and a stupid one at that .

he is right. 

[beautifulgame]

he is right. 

No he isn't .

As the above post mentioned the 5th bowler makes a significant difference to the attack .

[rkt.india]

6 minutes ago, beautifulgame said:

No he isn't .

As the above post mentioned the 5th bowler makes a significant difference to the attack .

only if your first 4 bowlers are good and bowl well.  Here we are talking about playing not just 5th but 6th bowler. The theory he  is talking about suites more to  test cricket.

[youngindia]

20 minutes ago, beautifulgame said:

That's just ur assumption and a stupid one at that .

you are the stupid ignoramus here..where did you get the highly stupid idea that extra bowlers necessarily mean extra strength?

 

how can an inferior bowler mean extra strength? is there any logic here????

 

I only speak from solid experience.dont even try

[express bowling]

8 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

he is right. 

1/5 th of the total quota of overs by bits and pieces bowlers don't work in modern LOIs.

 

There was a time in the '80s and '90s when these bowlers could be hidden in the middle overs when batsmen did not try to score that many and did not have the modern bats to score runs without taking too many risks.

 

Batters these days can afford to go for big shots even in the middle overs with the super bats they have.

 

The only answer is a couple of good all-rounders in LOIs.