England Tour of India November 9 2016 - Feb 1 2017: 5 Tests, 3 ODIs, 3 T20s

[tweaker]

England have named an unchanged squad for their tour of India with their all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson not included in the initial 16-man list for the five-test series, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Tuesday.

 

Anderson, with 463 wickets in 119 matches, is recovering from a shoulder injury and has been left out of the squad for the opening test in Rajkot starting on Nov. 9 and is doubtful for the second test in Visakhapatnam.A recurrence of the injury forced the 34-year-old out of the current series against Bangladesh and his availability for the remaining four tests in India, the world's top-ranked side, will be left to medical staff.That means Jake Ball remains with the squad, which is unchanged from the two-test series in Bangladesh, after he was added to the party. England won the first test by 22 runs on Monday, with the second test beginning in Dhaka on Friday.

 

 

 

Squad: Alastair Cook (capt), Moeen Ali, Zafar Ansari, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jake Ball, Gary Ballance, Gareth Batty, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler (wk), Ben Duckett, Steven Finn, Haseeb Hameed, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes.

[ShebbySB]

Here is mine-

First XI:-Vijay,Rahul,Pujara,Kohli,Rahane,Rohit,Saha,Ashwin,Jadeja,BK/Mishra(based on the track),Shami.

Reserves:- Gambhir,Nair,BK/Mishra,Umesh.

No place for Shikhar,Ishant in this squad of 15.I'd bring in Kuldeep if another spinner is required for a cover.

[tweaker]

Rahul

Vijay

Pujara

Kohli

Rahane

Rohit

Ashwin

Saha

Jadeja

Yadav

Shami

 

Bhuvi

Mishra

Gambhir

Jayant

 

[Texan]

Vijay

Rahul

Pujara

Kohli

Rahane

Ashwin

Saha

Jadeja

Bhuvneshwar

Mishra

Shami

 

Reserves:

Umesh Yadav

Kuldeep

Deepak Hooda/ Ankit Bawne/ Abhinav Mukund - whoever is in form

Rishabh Pant (backup keeper)

Rohit Sharma

 

[philcric]

First we need to decide how many bowlers ..

If 4, I'd have Shami, Umesh/Bhuvi, Ash, Jaddu

If 5, I'd have Shami, Umesh/Bhuvi, Ash, Jaddu, Kuldeep. Why Kuldeep? Mishra isn't particularly good in longer format and he's not a long term solution to anything anyway. Eng has 5 lefties in their top 7, Kuldeep might be a handful against them.

Personally, I'd go with 5 bowlers. Not really weakening our batting by much but strengthening the bowling substantially.

 

Vijay

Rahul

Pujara

* Kohli

Rahane

Ashwin

+ Saha

Jadeja

Kuldeep

Bhuvi / Umesh

Shami

 

[Texan]

2 minutes ago, philcric said:

First we need to decide how many bowlers ..

If 4, I'd have Shami, Umesh/Bhuvi, Ash, Jaddu

If 5, I'd have Shami, Umesh/Bhuvi, Ash, Jaddu, Kuldeep. Why Kuldeep? Mishra isn't particularly good in longer format and he's not a long term solution to anything anyway. Eng has 5 lefties in their top 7, Kuldeep might be a handful against them.

Personally, I'd go with 5 bowlers. Not really weakening our batting by much but strengthening the bowling substantially.

 

Vijay

Rahul

Pujara

* Kohli

Rahane

Ashwin

+ Saha

Jadeja

Kuldeep

Bhuvi / Umesh

Shami

 

Good point on the lefties. Does give Kuldeep the edge. 

 

[rkt.india]

I do not see them picking Kuldeep. Jayant Yadav will probably be the extra off spinner to tackle left handers.

[express bowling]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

I do not see them picking Kuldeep. Jayant Yadav will probably be the extra off spinner to tackle left handers.

 

Yes.....In recent times, I think all our national team inclusions of uncapped and new  players have been via the A team  ( excluding Zim tour which is like an A tour these days ).

Edited October 31, 2016 by express bowling

[Laaloo]

When are the squads getting picked? Are Rahul and Bhuvi fit?

[Zero_Unit]

honestly, I rather have 3 test and 5 odis and maybe 5 T20 matches. Am not a big fan of test matches. 

[Lannister]

3 T20s? There's no need to play every damn format for each series. Just alternate between ODIs and T20s with Tests being a regular fixture. 

[Bigg Brother]

3 T20s? There's no need to play every damn format for each series. Just alternate between ODIs and T20s with Tests being a regular fixture. 

T20 are to forget the phainty we get in odis...Same happened in Australia earlier this year.

[Texan]

On 10/25/2016 at 11:17 AM, Austin 3:!6 said:

LOL...why so much hatred bruv? Eng players are not as bad as people perceive them to be. Definitely much better than Aussies in terms of behavior. Stokes is a tool agreed but Root/Cook etc are gentlemen.

You have no idea!

[Unleashed]

Kuldeep should be included in the squad, considering the number of left handers England usually play in their XI.

[Trichromatic]

You don't need 5 bowlers on Indian pitches. If Ashwin and Jadeja don't get wickets for you, then no one else will. It will be 4 bowlers team against Eng.

[tweaker]

Tommorow team will be selected for England series.

[maniac]

No T20 games in the Nzl series? We have never won a T20 match against Nzl....this would have been our golden oppurtunity

 

[mishra]

Thank You Laloo ji for opening this thread.

[cowboysfan]

5 tests!!. I am really hoping our openers are healthy.

[mishra]

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