Kohli and his handling of Spinners

[BCCI]

Virat's handling of spinners was illogical.Should have used them in tandem and hopefully makes amends post lunch.And no easy singles on offer for new batsmen.

 

Regards

Virat Kohli Fan

[Trichromatic]

19 minutes ago, rahulrulezz said:

No I am not talking about him not giving a ball to Jadeja, I am talking about Bandwagoners criticizing his every step. All was well when we went 19 matches without loss 

 

it's not as if he got a part timer bowling. He had Ashwin who is ranked 1 bowler bowl from one end and had Umesh bowl reverse swing from other end. Dropped catches didn't help. 

Please share the long list of steps that have been criticized?

 

It's not about pacers bowling. It's about your no 2 bowler not bowling at all. 38 overs - 13 by Ashwin, 10 by Jadeja and 6 by Ishant and 8 by Yadav would have still been much better option.

[sscomp32]

28 minutes ago, BeautifulGame said:

Oh not bowling Jadeja on a turner is aggressive captaincy

Not worth it. This guy is the biggest jadeja hater on ICF i have seen since i am posting here. 

Search his old posts you will find a lot of hate.  

[Trichromatic]

Now pacers have bowled more than both spinners.

 

Ishant 16

Umesh 13

Ashwin 22

and Jadeja 4

 

Pacers - 29 overs for 58 runs and 0 wickets.

Spinners - 26 overs.for 46 runs and 2 wickets.

 

What is going on here? VK is trying hard not to dismiss aussies.

[Sidhoni]

To be fair Umesh bowled well but giving Ishant all those overs is baffling.

[Trichromatic]

Starc and Hazlewood bowled 15 and 11 overs respectively. This is bizzare.

[BCCI]

1 minute ago, Trichromatic said:

Now pacers have bowled more than both spinners.

 

Ishant 16

Umesh 13

Ashwin 22

and Jadeja 4

 

Pacers - 29 overs

Spinners - 26 overs.

 

What is going on here?

My god,is he insane or what. Seamers bowling more overs than spinners,what is he trying to prove.

[Lord]

4 overs in 57 so far.Got the biggest wicket Smith 

 

 

[Sidhoni]

60 overs up. Jadeja still at 4.

[Shunya]

Some weird stubborn logic from Kohli there. 

[Trichromatic]

Again from cricinfo

 

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Also about conceding under 200 yesterday, on the surface it looks like a very good day in the field in the face of adversity, but was it really? Let's look at some aspects. It was clear Ashwin was going to get the Pavilion End because of the rough. if Jadeja bowled from there, he would have taken the ball further away. That also explains why Ashwin bowled over the wicket so often. In fact I thought he didn't try that angle enough. He didn't trouble a single batsman from round the wicket

Also you could see there was great help for the fast bowlers from the BEML End. So it was understandable that India started off with that, but once Australia batsmen showed they were giving them nothing, there was no Plan B. There should have been a time when Kohli should have looked at the numbers and gone to Jadeja from one of the ends. He was underbowled. In fact he was taken off as soon as he took Renshaw's wicket

 

[rkt.india]

Ashwin bowled 49 overs, so, there's nothing wrong in his handling of spinners but Australia having so many left handers dictated Ashwin bowled more being an off spinner. I think keeping pacers in the play is good thing. It will force them pick wickets and be more responsible. Good for their development. Not a short-sighted tactic. And if all the catches had been taken. Shaun Marsh's review was taken, pacers would have had 5 wickets between them on the second day and AUSTRALIA wouldn't have gotten that big a lead. So, captaincy was not that bad apart from over-bowling Ashwin  and under-bowling Jaddu but fielding and Drs tactics let us down.

[express bowling]

9 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Ashwin bowled 49 overs, so, there's nothing wrong in his handling of spinners but Australia having so many left handers dictated Ashwin bowled more being an off spinner. I think keeping pacers in the play is good thing. It will force them pick wickets and be more responsible. Good for their development. Not a short-sighted tactic. And if all the catches had been taken. Shaun Marsh's review was taken, pacers would have had 5 wickets between them on the second day and AUSTRALIA wouldn't have gotten that big a lead.

Yes.... the pacers looked threatening throughout the day,     picked up 2 wickets,     a catch off Umesh gloved by the batsman not given,    2 dropped catches off the pacers    and  3 or 4 edges not carrying to the slips.   In addition, they were economical too and always kept the pressure up from their ends. 

 

We are seeing the pacers taking more responsibility  nowadays and hopefully, this will help us do well overseas.

 

9 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

 

So, captaincy was not that bad apart from over-bowling Ashwin  and under-bowling Jaddu but fielding and Drs tactics let us down.

 

Agree.   Apart from under-bowling  Jadeja,  captaincy looked decent.

[CG]

Jadeja is always gun bowler on these type of tracks and Kohli messed up due to thinking left-handers will play him well.