Asia Cup 2022 - Sri Lanka (UAE)

[Ahmad94]

Mumbai Indians Rohit isn’t but he always seems to play differently in Indian colours. He’s also become a lot more aggressive ever since Rahul started playing as his opening partner. Very curious case indeed.

KL Rahul has a very 90s approach to T20 - play out 10 or so balls get your eye in, rotate the strike around the middle, the occasional six over extra cover or off a short ball. Imagine Rohit playing his MI approach with that - India would be 40/0 at the end of 6!! The abuse he would get as a senior player so he plays his natural game of timing it ridiculously well.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

KL RAHUL HAS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bevab]

KL Rahul has a very 90s approach to T20 - play out 10 or so balls get your eye in, rotate the strike around the middle, the occasional six over extra cover or off a short ball. Imagine Rohit playing his MI approach with that - India would be 40/0 at the end of 6!! The abuse he would get as a senior player so he plays his natural game of timing it ridiculously well.

It is mystifying because Rahul was very much the antithesis of this not so long ago. He used to be a powerplay hitter who struggled to score aggressively after the powerplay got over because he lacked the shots and power for it. He did eventually transition to someone who was comfortable hitting in all phases but along the way seems to have lost his fearlessness barring the odd game. Was unlucky today with the dismissal but he isn’t getting dropped anyways so I doubt he will care. I still believe that it is him having to adapt to multiple formats with his technique that is the main issue as I don’t think there’s even been a phase where he has dominated all three formats at the same time.

 

[SaiSrini]

Bishnoi bowled well last game and to drop him for Ashwin is absurd! Chahal was the one who should've been dropped.

What a massive slipper shot would it be if India get knocked out in the Super 4! Very likely if we lose today. Sri Lanka are no pushovers and actually have a few batsmen who can tonk it hard and take them to victory. Especially the likes of Kushal Mendis, Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Dasun Shanaka.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Mumbai Indians Rohit isn’t but he always seems to play differently in Indian colours. He’s also become a lot more aggressive ever since Rahul started playing as his opening partner. Very curious case indeed.

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If only Sri Lanka had Chameera the legend to get rid of Rohit…

Yeah agree with that. Advantage of having aggressive players around him at Mumbai.

It's one reason I think the talk of 'Rohit's approach' is rubbish. I think Indian were trying to playing more aggressively anyway (I think it's one reason Kohli's form has been indifferent) because it was obvious they were getting left behind (they could win most matches but other teams had higher ceilings). Two big components were hampering it though, Suryakumar Yadav hadn't embedded himself in the team and Hardik was always injured.

Rahul is a weird player, he can play aggressively but I'd sooner have someone like Prithvi Shaw come in and be given license like Jason Roy - but I doubt he'd last three matches if he had a couple of low scoring innings.

Kohli, I think he should've binned off T20is. Joe Root's test form has gone through the roof since he was dropped from the T20 team I'd have liked to have seen at least a couple more years of Kohli's test team. Obviously that didn't work out either.

 

[Bevab]

Yeah agree with that. Advantage of having aggressive players around him at Mumbai.

It's one reason I think the talk of 'Rohit's approach' is rubbish. I think Indian were trying to playing more aggressively anyway (I think it's one reason Kohli's form has been indifferent) because it was obvious they were getting left behind (they could win most matches but other teams had higher ceilings). Two big components were hampering it though, Suryakumar Yadav hadn't embedded himself in the team and Hardik was always injured.

Rahul is a weird player, he can play aggressively but I'd sooner have someone like Prithvi Shaw come in and be given license like Jason Roy - but I doubt he'd last three matches if he had a couple of low scoring innings.

Kohli, I think he should've binned off T20is. Joe Root's test form has gone through the roof since he was dropped from the T20 team I'd have liked to have seen at least a couple more years of Kohli's test team. Obviously that didn't work out either.

With how fickle our fanbase is we’d have #ShawOut and calls for Gill/Kishan/Gaikwad come in after just three poor games of Shaw’s typical approach.

Agree on Kohli, it honestly is a miracle that he lasted as a three format player averaging fifty plus in all three being the best batsman in all of them alongside being a record breaking captain to boot for so long. People have very short memories of him in terms of rating him alongside other historical greats. If he does have a renaissance down the line I can easily see him being considered a lot more in such discussions post-retirement.

 

[Ahmad94]

Rahul is a weird player, he can play aggressively but I'd sooner have someone like Prithvi Shaw come in and be given license like Jason Roy - but I doubt he'd last three matches if he had a couple of low scoring innings.

Its a two edged sword for India. When you have so much talent lying around the ones in the XI have to perform. The only way Prithvi Shaw is going to be a future opener for India is if you give him a 10-15 game run with the license to be himself and he will find his feet. But you do that, and the abuse will start that there are better players that could have scored x.y.z runs in that period. Jason Roy didn't used to be as successful as he is at the top - and England gave him an extended run. Probably another reason that KL Rahul is happy to take this approach - hard to drop a guy that's scoring 50's consistently enough in 35/40 balls. Even if they drop him - you know he will be the first choice the minute things go a little wrong.

 

[Bevab]

Its a two edged sword for India. When you have so much talent lying around the ones in the XI have to perform. The only way Prithvi Shaw is going to be a future opener for India is if you give him a 10-15 game run with the license to be himself and he will find his feet. But you do that, and the abuse will start that there are better players that could have scored x.y.z runs in that period. Jason Roy didn't used to be as successful as he is at the top - and England gave him an extended run. Probably another reason that KL Rahul is happy to take this approach - hard to drop a guy that's scoring 50's consistently enough in 35/40 balls. Even if they drop him - you know he will be the first choice the minute things go a little wrong.

Form and perception plays a big part too. SKY has been anchoring and playing a sedate knock till that six but people aren’t going to criticise him because of how he’s played in the last few games and because he is a new name. Go back to 2018-19 and the rage was all about how the top three of Dhawan, Rohit and Kohli had this mentality of anchor and go big in the last five overs whilst Rahul was the cool kid on the block who maximised powerplays and took the game to the opposition with big scores and constant attacks. The recency bias with this Indian side is indeed strong.

(This is another reason why I’ve really grown to rate Rohit. He’s reinvented himself essentially overnight when the situation called for it and still appears to be Rohit the match-winner)

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Hasaranga desperately needs his Samson now.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

As soon I switched on to watch the match.

Rohit's gone.

Time to switch off again.

I watched 6 balls in Total out of which 3 wicket deliveries.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

I watched 6 balls in Total out of which 3 wicket deliveries.

Finally, a worthy opponent for @CerealKiller

Your battle will be legendary!

 

[Bevab]

Glad to see a big one from Rohit today, some of our more desperate lot on social media were criticising his quickfire 20s and 30s not being of much use so far.

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As soon I switched on to watch the match.

Rohit's gone.

Time to switch off again.

I watched 6 balls in Total out of which 3 wicket deliveries.

You shall only stick to jinxing duties henceforth.

 

[icyman]

With KL Rahul, the public has lost its patience. We cannot have a player like him who tends to stat-pad and stall the game for his own selfish needs. I do not remember any T20 game(even against minnows) that KLR has won single-handedly. KLR at present seems to be hogging the place in the side. He has been treated by the management as undroppable on account of him being tagged as a future captain.

I'd rather give an open license to Shaw, Gill, Kishan Hooda- the new boys who can take the game to greater heights. Playing an outdated version of cricket is why we lost quite a few crucial games in the past.

Form and perception plays a big part too. SKY has been anchoring and playing a sedate knock till that six but people aren’t going to criticise him because of how he’s played in the last few games and because he is a new name

Agree to an extent. But, SKY has shown that he can speed things up when needed. I havent come across any of his innings wherein he seems to be stat-padding or batting for personal glories.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

I swear if Pant does well AFTER I've dropped him from my fantasy team...

 

[Bevab]

With KL Rahul, the public has lost its patience. We cannot have a player like him who tends to stat-pad and stall the game for his own selfish needs. I do not remember any T20 game(even against minnows) that KLR has won single-handedly. KLR at present seems to be hogging the place in the side. He has been treated by the management as undroppable on account of him being tagged as a future captain.

I'd rather give an open license to Shaw, Gill, Kishan Hooda- the new boys who can take the game to greater heights. Playing an outdated version of cricket is why we lost quite a few crucial games in the past.



Agree to an extent. But, SKY has shown that he can speed things up when needed. I havent come across any of his innings wherein he seems to be stat-padding or batting for personal glories.

Rahul was SKY before we got SKY into the side though. Which has been my point all along. Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the best version of Rahul and we have a neutered version of him now along with Pant. Your point about bringing in a Gill is precisely what I refer to, it’s always replace the guy in doldrums with our fanbase. Gill for instance is even more stodgy than KLR. The only reason he’s under consideration now in the frame of things is because he performed well in a different format against weaker sides. Hooda did well against Ireland and now he’s being talked as the saviour. His technique is very loose IMO and will struggle against high quality consistent pace but the recency bias demands that he play.

 

[ahmedleo414]

I swear if Pant does well AFTER I've dropped him from my fantasy team...

I added virat and he gets out for a duck so...