England's tour of India - 2021

I remember watching the IPL last year when Curran was opening the batting and thinking, just like England, what CSK need here is David Willey. Instead, they've got Sam Curran doing his best Neil Carter impression.
Couldn't agree more. Especially with the Neil Carter bit - that brings back memories of watching some random county game where Neil Carter was pinch-hitting against the Scottish Saltires, and ended up getting dropped at mid-off by Ian Stanger

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Truly peak cricket. But yeah, that was the time when Northants managed to provide discounted Sky Sports along with their memberships
 
I remember watching the IPL last year when Curran was opening the batting and thinking, just like England, what CSK need here is David Willey
And CSK actually had David Willey for a season.
 
I think India should rotate their players in home series rather than giving chances to a single player. Right now, we have too many cricketers who are ready to play at the international level.

Even after being the fastest Indian to score 1000 runs, Mayank Agarwal is dropped from the playing XI after few bad performances.

Kuldeep Yadav is becoming the next Amit Mishra. He has taken 22 wickets in his last 10 T20Is. Even after this decent performance, he was dropped from the playing XI because India needed an all-rounder (Jadeja) and now he is dropped from the T20 squad. He took 5 wickets in Austraila but didn't play a test match in the next two years.

Once Jadeja and Shami will return, Axar and Siraj will hardly get matches.

Shardul Thakur is also dropped from the test team after decent performance with both bat and ball in Australia.

ODIs/T20Is -

Openers - Rohit, Shikhar, Rahul, Agarwal, Gill
3 - Virat
4 - Iyer, SKY, Pandey
5 - Pant, Kishan, Samson
6 - Pandya
7 - Jadeja, Sundar, Tewatia, Axar
Fast Bowlers - Bumrah, Bhuvi, Shami, Natarajan, Shardul, Deepak
Spinners - Chahal, Kuldeep, Chakravarthy, Rahul Chahar, Ashwin (I don't know why Ashwin was dropped from the Limited over format. He is better bowler than Sundar.)

These all players are ready to play at the international level. But only 11 can play in a match. If the players will be rotated, everyone will get matches at a regular interval. Otherwise, many good players will sit on bench, and this will destroy their form and career.
 

Expect Anderson, Broad, Wood, Archer to all break their legs between now and the next match.
Jesus Christ - one of the players I was hoping might be recalled

I was hoping for something like:

:eng: :bat: Rory Burns
:eng: :bat: Dom Sibley
:eng: :bat: Zak Crawley
:eng: :ar: Joe Root
:eng: :ar: Ben Stokes
:eng: :bat: Dan Lawrence
:eng: :wk: Ben Foakes
:eng: :ar: Chris Woakes
:eng: :bwl: Jack Leach
:eng: :bwl: Ollie Stone or Mark Wood
:eng: :bwl: Matt Parkinson

No point in keeping Bairstow and Pope in the side. Also no point in risking Broad and Anderson now that this series is a dead rubber. And a leg-spinner would be fun.

So endeth my thesis
 
This was no dust bowl so why were the spectators dudded with only a two day game. The spin play from both sides was as bad as I have seen in recent times. As bad as Australia in Sri Lanka about five years ago. They needed to be nimble on their feet to either play back or forward.. not just plonk the front foot down the pitch and hope bat connects with ball. Woeful.
 
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Pune to host ODI series without spectators
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...d-without-spectators/articleshow/81247231.cms

Cant understand the logic of continuing to host the ODI series in Pune (Maharashtra) without spectators due to the COVID case spikes, when there are other cities in India that can easily host the ODI's with 50% crowds. There is Vizag, there is Dharmashala, there is Chennai, there is Bengaluru. Among these 4 mentioned venues, three of them are in running to host the IPL.

Maybe they're prepping for the scenario of hosting a full fledged IPL where Mumbai games will be played with no crowds? If this is not the case, hard to understand this move on the ODI series.
 

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