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One thing that comes to my mind is the hover cover at English grounds. It takes 2 minutes for the hover cover to slide over the pitch as opposed to 10 minutes that it takes for the groundsmen to scamper across the pitch and cover it up with those blue covers. For a country that has arguably the richest Cricket board, I don't know why we don't have it here! | |
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| ![]() The team selected for T20s is abysmal for a start. Why are we not building for the next World T20? Surely Dhoni won't be there till then, what's the point picking him? Dhawan and Pandey are not T20 players either. We need proper hacks in this format. Where is Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shardul Thakur? This was a time to give youngsters their chance and sadly MSK Prasad and co have disappointed. |
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| ![]() Ashish Nehra will play his last international match on November 1 at the Ferozshah Kotla stadium in New Delhi, reports espncricinfo.com. Quote:
The following photo is old and has been widely circulated on social media. Still, I couldn't help but post it here once again, just to give the news some context. ![]() Two important takeaways: 1.Strange are ways of the world. 2.Cricket is indeed a game of glorious uncertainties. | |
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Pant seems to have lost favour with the selectors! He had his opportunities in WI but failed to deliver. Let him & the others grind out in domestic cricket & A tours. | |||
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![]() I repeat, the only person I see hitting from ball in this team 1 is probably Pandya and so far he hasn't been put through the hard yards. He has not come in a situation where the team needed 50 off 3 overs when the best opposition bowlers has overs up their sleeve. So far, I have seen him hit the spinners (and he is amazing with that). He is probably among the most cleanest hitters going around now but still too early to be relaxed about that. I will say this, if there is 10 overs to go, I would rather have MSD in at that stage. Everyone scores runs when you are in the top 3/4, once you can do that at 5/6/7/8 then I truly tip my hat off to them, and boy MSD and Yuvi have been champions in that respect. But I agree with the general direction, we should keep trying out new players in the T20s. But where is the scope of them actually batting when your top 3 plays out most of the overs? They are almost doomed from the word go. I will be pure luck if they succeed. My suggestion, rest 2 of the top 3 consistently in T20s. Last edited by pratyush6 : 12th October 2017 at 13:28. | ||||
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| ![]() For T-20s, I think that KL Rahul should open and keep wickets after Dhoni. I get the feeling that Raina may make it back to the T20 squad if he does well in the ongoing Ranji trophy. |
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I don't like Dhawan. He will fail when the going is tough. He likes to hit his way out of trouble. As long as it works, I am fine with him though. Quote:
Raina - Not sure anymore. He will bat below 4 and he won't ever get a decent run or a decent hit. But yeah, I would like to see him a long run at 3 (which isn't possible, unless Kohli opens). Karthik - Very underrated batsman, I like him a lot. Pant - Very clean hitting but needs to be given time to prove in A tours, which he hasn't so far. No harm in trying him though. Uthapa- No, no, no way! He neither has the numbers nor the talent. Quote:
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The difference that I see with a player like Rohit/Dhawan/Kohli/Rahul and Yuvi/MSD/Raina/DK/others is that the first lot are given the first choices in the batting slots, while the rest for some time have been slaving away 'according to the team's interests'. Especially MSD & Yuvi have been demoting themselves so that others flourish and it has come to bite them in the past few years. Imagine for a moment, Kohli/Rohit being asked to bat at 5/6/7 - would they even be 50% of the players they are now? I remember the discussions; in case of Kohli and Rohit, they were as follows,"where are they most likely to succeed?", while for MSD and Yuvi it was "they will bat where it's best for the team". I have always maintained had MSD/Yuvi batted at 3/4 in their careers their records would be something else. Example - MSD's average of 50 in 300 matches is actually the highest at 3/4, same for Yuvi. I seriously think, if MSD has to play, he has to more than ever, bat at 4, period. He is the best we have at that number (ODIs specially). Else, lets give the man a proper exit. He has done more for Indian cricket than a lot of the legends. | |||
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Then we could add the fact that any ground in England is likelier to see rain than any ground in India. What could really be the cause is that the BCCI would like to grant or withdraw any budgetary allocation overnight to any ground depending on how that state association votes or supports/ resists its other hare brained ideas ![]() | |
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Completely agree with you about the position of MSD. In T20 whoever is likely to create maximum impact should bat in the top 5. I feel there is too much emphasis on giving youngsters a chance in T20, likes of Jadhav & Pandey have already had a bit of exposure in ODI's. Shuffling the batting order as seen in ODI's makes Dhoni bat in a position where he isn't that effective! Though, about Dhoni i personally feel he should retire from T20's & concentrate only on ODI's. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Great discussion going on. Will pour in my thoughts. Let's take it position wise. For T20 Rahul is a better opener than dhawan but dhawan has been in great form off late so he will continue along with Rohit. No.3 is kohli monopoly. Period. No.4 should be Dhoni if he is in the team. Cos he needs a couple of overs to settle and then he is the best analyst of how to build the match in our favor. Make no mistake he can still hit big sixes, but to do that he needs time to assess the conditions. No.5 Pandey simply doesn't cut it. He isn't a big six hitter. He won't do a 20 ball 40runs innings which is needed at that position. So, it should be Pandya. Manish is better suited to Odis where he has the time and temperament to build an innings. No.6 Jadhav. If Pandya fails then Jadhav can do the hitting duty. Personally I will play Pant at this position. Let's be honest. MSD isn't going to be here for long. We need another attacking keeper batsman. And pant is the best suited to finish the innings. All he needs is more exposure to international cricket. And MSD can guide him well during this period. At least for 2 successive series we need to try him. Also , chahal and kuldeep should be given more chances. Any day they are better than jadeja/ashwin combo. |
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| ![]() I hope I am wrong, but I think Pant is very overrated. This is based on what I've seen of him in the IPL. His hitting technique is such that he will be sorted by international bowlers soon. Same goes for Ishan Kishan. KL Rahul should keep in T20s. Edit: Washington Sundar looks promising Last edited by Eddy : 13th October 2017 at 21:02. |
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| ![]() ABD never ceases to entertain his fans. Yesterday he scored his career best ODI score 176 of 104 balls with 15 fours and 7 sixes. Another 500+ runs and he will join the 10000 club. ![]() |
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