India in England Jun-Sept 2014

[War]

Also useless decision by ECB to keep Woakes, now that Stokes is fit again.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Wait, what ? This is for warmup or for the actual Test series

I said that cause dhoni wants to bat higher if i heard correctly and we need some stabalizing down the order if our top order fails

 

[Epic]

Dhoni is actually the reason why we can't play 4 specialist bowlers and an all-rounder outside the subcontinent, and when he starts pulling his weight with runs and proves he's first of good enough to bat at #7 in those countries, then we can talk about pushing him up to #6.

 

[lion100lion]

Dhawan
Vijay
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane/Sharma
Dhoni
Gambhir
Jadeja
Shami
Kumar
Pandey/Sharma
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I think the order should be :-
Dhawan
Gambhir
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
R Sharma
Dhoni
Jadeja
Shami
Kumar
Pandey/Ishant

I would like to go with Pandey instead of Ishant. Do we need a pathetic experienced bowler ?

 

[greymatter776]

Good News ! Shami is bowling in the second innings although he bowled none in the 1st innings due to some injury/strain.

 

[abhi_jacko]

I think the order should be :-
Dhawan
Gambhir
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
R Sharma
Dhoni
Jadeja
Shami
Kumar
Pandey/Ishant

I would like to go with Pandey instead of Ishant. Do we need a pathetic experienced bowler ?

I would change the bolded players to (in order):
Dhoni
Jadeja
Binny

PS: Yea .. I am including binny. Atleast the guy is getting some wickets !!

 

[IceAgeComing]

According to the guy from Cricinfo on the BBC Radio coverage of the tour game: India's team is likely to be this. Please note that this was said at lunch and I'm typing this at tea so I'm probably making a few mistakes.

1. Dhawan
2. Vijay
3. Pujara
4. Kohli
5. Rohit Sharma
6. Can't actually remember - its not Rahane though
7. Dhoni
8. Jadeja
9. Shami
10. ...Kumar?
11. Ishant Sharma

I definitely though that they don't think that Gambhir will play; that India will go for four bowlers and not pick Binny; that they're looking at Rohit Sharma over Rahane (although that might be wrong as he's batting in all three batting innings); that Ishant Sharma looks locked in and that they don't like Ashwin. The latter isn't that surprising: it took the BBC quite a while to realise that the person they thought was Ashwin bowling was actually Vijay which says a fair bit about how impressive Ashwin's bowling currently is...

 

[lion100lion]

PS: Yea .. I am including binny. Atleast the guy is getting some wickets !!

Jadeja and Binny, both have picked 2 wickets in this match but Jadeja has a better economy.
For me the equation is simple, i.e. if the pitch is too much seam friendly, go for Binny, and if not, go for Jadeja.

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1. Dhawan
2. Vijay Gambhir
3. Pujara
4. Kohli
5. Rohit Sharma
6. Can't actually remember - its not Rahane though
7. Dhoni
8. Jadeja
9. Shami
10. ...Kumar?
11. Ishant Sharma

Why go for Vijsy, when you have Gambhir ?

 

[IceAgeComing]

His argument was that Vijay has opened all three batting innings in the tour matches; while Gambhir only appeared down the order in one game and retired on 53. They're talking again about it now and are pretty much saying that its a question between playing that eleven or taking out the number six and playing Binny at eight (probably shuffling Jadeja to six). I'm not a dedicated follower of Indian cricket; so I can't get into a huge debate about this. Perhaps after this series, though!

 

[SaiSrini]

According to the guy from Cricinfo on the BBC Radio coverage of the tour game: India's team is likely to be this. Please note that this was said at lunch and I'm typing this at tea so I'm probably making a few mistakes.

1. Dhawan
2. Vijay
3. Pujara
4. Kohli
5. Rohit Sharma
6. Can't actually remember - its not Rahane though
7. Dhoni
8. Jadeja
9. Shami
10. ...Kumar?
11. Ishant Sharma

I definitely though that they don't think that Gambhir will play; that India will go for four bowlers and not pick Binny; that they're looking at Rohit Sharma over Rahane (although that might be wrong as he's batting in all three batting innings); that Ishant Sharma looks locked in and that they don't like Ashwin. The latter isn't that surprising: it took the BBC quite a while to realise that the person they thought was Ashwin bowling was actually Vijay which says a fair bit about how impressive Ashwin's bowling currently is...

Definitely sure that some random guy doesnt know what the Indian XI would be for the first test. I am sure even the team management must be thinking about it right now. This is what I believe the XI might be:

Vijay
Dhawan
Pujara
Kohli
Dhoni
Rahane
Jadeja
Ashwin
Kumar
Ishant
Shami

 

[lion100lion]

@SaiSrini
Reason for picking Ashwin over Jadeja/Binny ?

 

[abhi_jacko]

^^ Jadeja is there. I would pick Binny and Jadeja both. It gives Dhoni the confidence of batting deep and having 3 frontline bowlers + 2 bowling allrounders.

Jadeja can be swapped with Ashwin, but I would rather stick with Jaddu

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Just saw Ishant' second innings figures. 0/10 in 7 overs. I guess that books his place for the whole series, until he gets injured

 

[Epic]

Binny shouldn't have even been picked for this tour...

Definitely sure that some random guy doesnt know what the Indian XI would be for the first test. I am sure even the team management must be thinking about it right now. This is what I believe the XI might be:

Vijay
Dhawan
Pujara
Kohli
Dhoni
Rahane
Jadeja
Ashwin
Kumar
Ishant
Shami

My goodness, Dhoni is not good enough to bat at #5 lol.

 

[abhi_jacko]

Binny shouldn't have even been picked for this tour...

But he has been picked !

And he has actually done well against Derbyshire. Not to forget his BD tour performance. I would rather have not-so-talented, performing players in the team over talented, non-performing players

 

[Epic]

I'd rather just have an extra batsman...