India v West Indies

At home today and been watching the match. Shami looks a very good prospect.

This selection panel has been India's best ever, comfortably.

Dropped Gambhir, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Raina, Zaheer Khan and got in a lot of players on the basis of domestic performance in Dhawan, Jadeja, Bhuvaneshwar, Shami. Took a punt on Vijay. Almost everything has been phenomenally successful, and all this while overseeing the transition of Laxman, Dravid and now Sachin.
 
mmmmm what was the last over seas test we played? I don't even remember. We have always been strong at home bar an odd blip every 4-5 years. So pounding likes of Windies at home is no achievement.
 
Zak will be back. Our pace bowling attack should be Zak, Shami and Bhuvi or Umesh. Decent attack.
Meanwhile Zing you know about Baba Aparjith, been scoring heavily in the domestic.
 
Okay, I was replying here to KM's post when Shami's knocked Shillingford over. This is cracking stuff.
 
KM said:
Zak will be back. Our pace bowling attack should be Zak, Shami and Bhuvi or Umesh. Decent attack.
Meanwhile Zing you know about Baba Aparjith, been scoring heavily in the domestic.
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Yes, I think I've mentioned about Aparajith on here even before he made his 2 doubles and yesterday's century?

I was very, very impressed when I saw him in the u-19 world cup. I also was impressed by Prashanth Chopra. They seem to play the moving ball well and I've read a couple of interviews of Aparaijth's. He is very rational and extremely mature for a 19-20 year old. One's in Wisden India and the other was on local radio here.

He reminds me of Rahul Dravid in that manner.
 
Also, I don't believe Bhuvaneshwar should bowl in SA. He is straight as an arrow with the old ball(he will have help from the pitch and coditions there) but we won't have the luxury of 2 spinners there. I think Yadav, Shami and Zaheer ought to be our bowling there.

crappy, I think 1) it's the manner of the victory 2) our entire team barring Sachin and Dhoni has played about 100 matches. I'd say we can't expect them to be world beaters, definitely not in this point in their careers. This is definitely a team in transition by definition, but they're competing well.
 
Sachin might not even get to bat again. And they had prepared a ridiculous sounding plane to drop 199 KGs of rose petals for when he came out to bat.
 
Looking it up on Cricinfo:
Dhawan 2, Vijay 17, Pujara 14, Kohli 19, Rohit 1, Ashwin 17, Bhuvaneshwar 5, Shami 1, Ojha 23

That's 9 players for a combined 99 caps including this match.
 
Chanderpaul. Takes single off first ball.

Last ball asks tailender for single.

What on earth is he playing at? Records hound.
 
On Twitter that Pujara's already in the nets practising during the presesntation.
 
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Rohit Sharma being dissected on TV. Harsha Bhogle saying Rohit was constantly disappointing and hence had to wait for test cricket.

Sticking Rohit into ODIs on his first class/IPL record and judging his test credentials on the basis of ODIs was foolish.

Looking at first class records, Rohit averages 61 and so does Pujara. Kohli averages 50 in 48 matches while Jadeja averages 51 in the same number of matches.

Ajinkya Rahane and Badinath average 60.
 
Bhogle has always been annoyingly harsh on Rohit.

Also I get a bit annoyed that they don't credit Duncan Fletcher with anything. He's done a terrific job so far.
 
kps88 said:
Sachin might not even get to bat again. And they had prepared a ridiculous sounding plane to drop 199 KGs of rose petals for when he came out to bat.
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Really? Thankfeck he didn't come out to bat. Cringeworthy stuff.
 
I don't get all this misplaced confidence in Pujara. Virtually all of his runs have come at home and the only time he played away he got a good seeing to from Steyn, Morkel and co. Vijay, I am hoping has improved but don't really expect it. Not sure what to make of Dhawan, looks a very 'chancey' player and this might just be his lucky phase. I hope to god we don't play Jadeja at 7
 
I agree with you about Dhawan. Same with Vijay. I don't either would be long term test opener for us, happy to be proven wrong. Pujara's got the technique. Even likes of Dravid failed in their first overseas tours of Oz and SA. So let's not write off anyone too early. We need him, Kohli and Sharma to come good otherwise our test team would be in deep shit for some time to come.
 
There's no misplace confidence about Pujara. People don't expect the same from Vijay because he isn't good enough. Pujara on the other hand is a class act.
 
crappycraperson said:
I agree with you about Dhawan. Same with Vijay. I don't either would be long term test opener for us, happy to be proven wrong. Pujara's got the technique. Even likes of Dravid failed in their first overseas tours of Oz and SA. So let's not write off anyone too early. We need him, Kohli and Sharma to come good otherwise our test team would be in deep shit for some time to come.
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Not writing him of of course. But people expecting him to pile on the runs like he does at home are in for a surprise. I am not expecting much from him. It will take him one full away tour as an established player to really know how tough it is
 
Pujara, Kumar and Shami are probably the only players in this current team I genuinely want to see doing well.

Pujara is a solid player. He'll be a star in Tests for us.
 
Donaldo said:
Pujara, Kumar and Shami are probably the only players in this current team I genuinely want to see doing well.

Pujara is a solid player. He'll be a star in Tests for us.
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What? You don't want the rest of the players in the team to do well? Why?
 
I think a lot of us can understand what he means.

I can get behind India in the WC or Champions Trophy. In, say, a meaningless ODI series, I don't give a shit about runs scored by the likes of Kohli. Don't really enjoy watching those when the players representing the team are as classless as some of this lot.
 
NM said:
What? You don't want the rest of the players in the team to do well? Why?
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I think I'm done with cricket, unfortunately. The disillusionment crept in a few years ago and with Dravid and Sachin gone, there's no reason to follow it anymore.
 
I still get excited by new players. Till they turn out to be cnuts.
 
Donaldo said:
I think I'm done with cricket, unfortunately. The disillusionment crept in a few years ago and with Dravid and Sachin gone, there's no reason to follow it anymore.
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I rarely follow or watch cricket anymore. Time difference + I don't like the new batting friendly bullshit India does. My question still stands - why wouldn't you want other players playing for India to do well.
 
NM said:
I rarely follow or watch cricket anymore. Time difference + I don't like the new batting friendly bullshit India does. My question still stands - why wouldn't you want other players playing for India to do well.
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Nah that's just me being extreme.

I'd rather we focused on other sports, as opposed to giving every Yusuf Pathan, Murali Vijay, Dinda, Ishant, Sreesanth our time and money.
 
Donaldo said:
Nah that's just me being extreme.

I'd rather we focused on other sports, as opposed to giving every Yusuf Pathan, Murali Vijay, Dinda, Ishant, Sreesanth our time and money.
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I agree with focusing on other sports - we finally have good badminton players, decentish tennis players, and the world chess champ.. Still don't see why you wouldn't want cricketers to succeed, but to each his own.
 
That was horrendous. Not managed to watch much of this because of the time difference. Only bit of it I've seen is when India were 80odd for 5 and I felt a lift in spirits.
 
roseguy64 said:
That was horrendous. Not managed to watch much of this because of the time difference. Only bit of it I've seen is when India were 80odd for 5 and I felt a lift in spirits.
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Shillingford was very good... The rest of your team.. Not so much. The batting collapse was shocking. Spin didn't do you, it was fecking reverse swing!
 
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