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Posted
3 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

who took wickets, it's not like he was keeping out the likes of starc and the wicket takers too often took wickets in the death rather than the 1st 35-40 overs to put opponent under pressure.i not a huge fan of his but he was usefull .

He was useful when conditions suited him. At home, he averaged 62 with an ER of 5.63. He last played for India in ODIs in 2012. Imagine if he was playing now, it would have been even worse. His overall ODI average is 36. All, I am saying is several people including likes of cricketics have a perception that PK was good while he was not. Just because he did well in 2 games in CB series in 2008, it does not make him. Even Ishant was unplayable in that series.

Posted
16 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

you have to basically see how he is bowling,anyone can check stats to see if he was taken wkts or has good economy

Agree . But you hear it all the time . He taken so many wickets deserves a chance 

 

no one deserves a chance . You play someone if you think it benefits Indian team 

Posted
7 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

come on he did well in more than just 2 games in cb series

 

 

Series averages
Series Mat Inns Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI AveAscending Econ SR 4 5 Start Date   Winner  
Commonwealth Bank Series (Australia, India, Sri Lanka in Australia), 2007/08
  4 4 40.0 5 175 10 4/31 17.50 4.37 24.0 2 0 19 Feb 2008   India view innings
ICC Champions Trophy (in South Africa), 2009/10
  2 2 17.0 3 56 3 3/22 18.66 3.29 34.0 0 0 28 Sep 2009   Australia view innings
India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008/09
  3 3 24.2 1 101 5 2/38 20.20 4.15 29.2 0 0 31 Jan 2009   India view innings
Sri Lanka Triangular Series (India, New Zealand, Sri Lanka), 2010
  5 5 42.0 8 213 9 3/34 23.66 5.07 28.0 0 0 10 Aug 2010   Sri Lanka view innings
India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008
  3 3 24.0 2 121 5 3/34 24.20 5.04 28.8 0 0 20 Aug 2008   India view innings
Kitply Cup (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan in Bangladesh), 2008
  3 3 29.0 4 122 5 4/53 24.40 4.20 34.8 1 0 10 Jun 2008   Pakistan view innings
Asia Cup (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka), 2010
  4 4 34.0 4 150 6 3/53 25.00 4.41 34.0 0 0 16 Jun 2010   India view innings
South Africa in India ODI Series, 2009/10
  2 2 13.0 0 77 3 2/46 25.66 5.92 26.0 0 0 21 Feb 2010   India

Did you read the comment of Cricketics I replied too? He is always bigging up pacers who are medium pace and I just replied to his comment that "even PK has won us CB series" while actually it was Ishant who did all the hard work till finals. I didn't  mean he only did well in 2 CB series matches.

Posted (edited)
34 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

. But you hear it all the time . He taken so many wickets deserves a chance 

 

no one deserves a chance . You play someone if you think it benefits Indian team 

Absolutely

 

It is a very impractical approach to pick players based on domestic performances alone.

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Posted
11 minutes ago, fineleg said:

They grabbed Ishant Sharma when he was young 19 :((

That was fine. He was picked rightly that time.

He was given enough time. He just did not develop himself much. That is more his fault than anyone elses.

 

Boult and other guys like Southee were picked earlier too but you can see who has worked harder and are better. Even when they come bowl in India, they look better than Ishant.

Posted (edited)

Yes but been a huge disappointment given num of Tests, ODIs, very poor returns.

I agree , if good pacer, develop them early, in general.

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Yes definitely- throw them straight in and let them gather experience at home and abroad rather than killing them on Ranji pattas. It's not as if we've traditionally had world class seamers and therefore taking a punt for indian quicks is justified. Same policy worked well for Pakistan during their golden era e.g. wasim and waqar

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So Cummins played one test back in 2011

 

been injured ages . And in return from injury plays only one fc game and straight in to Aussie test team in this game 

 

there not sitting there pouring over his fc stats . They see the pace and potential 

 

why can't we do same and pick aaron

Posted
4 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

So Cummins played one test back in 2011

 

been injured ages . And in return from injury plays only one fc game and straight in to Aussie test team in this game 

 

there not sitting there pouring over his fc stats . They see the pace and potential 

 

why can't we do same and pick aaron

Because Aaron's test bowling avg is more than Kohli's batting avg

 

 

Posted
4 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

So Cummins played one test back in 2011

 

been injured ages . And in return from injury plays only one fc game and straight in to Aussie test team in this game 

 

there not sitting there pouring over his fc stats . They see the pace and potential 

 

why can't we do same and pick aaron

 

To be fair, Cummins is a very skilled bowler along with being a pacy bowler.  He was regularly trying to set-up batsmen.

 

We too need to find pacers who combine pace / bounce with skills and ability to set-up batsmen..... irrespective of their FC stats.

 

I am not really sure how skilled Aaron is nowadays.

Posted
2 hours ago, express bowling said:

 

To be fair, Cummins is a very skilled bowler along with being a pacy bowler.  He was regularly trying to set-up batsmen.

 

We too need to find pacers who combine pace / bounce with skills and ability to set-up batsmen..... irrespective of their FC stats.

 

I am not really sure how skilled Aaron is nowadays.

This. Cummins is hardly just raw pace bowler. He swung the ball both ways on dead pitch and he was fairly accurate too. He was trying to set up the batsmen with bouncers and swing and not just the pace. Aaron doesn't have half of those skills and it's not that Cummins has developed those skills in international cricket.

Posted
This. Cummins is hardly just raw pace bowler. He swung the ball both ways on dead pitch and he was fairly accurate too. He was trying to set up the batsmen with bouncers and swing and not just the pace. Aaron doesn't have half of those skills and it's not that Cummins has developed those skills in international cricket.

 

ROFL as if Cummins learnt those skills inside womb!! Cummins was quick but sprayed it around when he debut,he learnt the control aggression swing through his experience in internationals

Talking about varun Aaron he has all the ingredients in him, he is quite capable of setting up a batter and then cleaning him : just watch him clean bowling moeen Ali on youtube

Its luxury to have a bowler like him in queue but unfortunately initial part of his career is ruined by injury's and then dhoni acting as captain cool and mixing csks in team india

Posted

You always have to look at FC stats along with pace and skill.As no bowler has better his FC average by a long way in history of cricket.

Posted
 

ROFL as if Cummins learnt those skills inside womb!! Cummins was quick but sprayed it around when he debut,he learnt the control aggression swing through his experience in internationals

Talking about varun Aaron he has all the ingredients in him, he is quite capable of setting up a batter and then cleaning him : just watch him clean bowling moeen Ali on youtube

Its luxury to have a bowler like him in queue but unfortunately initial part of his career is ruined by injury's and then dhoni acting as captain cool and mixing csks in team india

 

Which CSK bowler did replace Aaron in the test team seriously :hysterical:

 

And Cummins played on test match in his career before that.He developed those skills in domestic cricket :facepalm:

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