India in England Jun-Sept 2014

[lion100lion]

Some "spicy" bowling in the last 5 overs

Even the pitch is spicy for pace bowling.

 

[abhi_jacko]

Even the pitch is spicy for pace bowling.

Fielding is spiced up too. Dhawan, Rahane, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja make a great inner circle

 

[aditya123]

I have nothing against Mohit but to be successful in the WC, we need two out of three bowlers who can hurry the batsmen on those Aussie wickets. Yadav, Shami and Aaron have to be those enforcers. If we want to have the tempting option of Bhuvi`s wickettaking abilities with the new ball, we cannot afford another early 130s bowler in the lineup. My group of quick bowlers for the World Cup are Bhuvi, Aaron, Yadav, Shami and one from Mohit, Ishant or Ishwar Pandey.

It is safe to say that Ashwin and Jadeja will play more often than not and that India would feel comfortable with 3 seamers and 2 spinners to give them enough variety. My WC squad would look something like this.

Batsmen
Dhawan
Nohit ??
Kohli
Rahane
Raina
Yuvraj Singh/Uthappa

Wicket Keeper
Dhoni, Sanju Samson

Spinners
Jadeja/Mishra, Ashwin

Seamers
Bhuvi, Aaron, Shami, Yadav, Ishant/Pandey/Zaheer

 

[abhi_jacko]

That was one of the straightest straight drives I have seen .. Eoin Morgan is delightful to watch

 

[PokerAce]

After 20 overs the par score for Eng is 129 if only three wickets are down. Ind are likely to be well ahead its safe to say come over 20.

 

[greymatter776]

Its all safe for India but we need Hales' wicket anyway to ensure it.

 

[PokerAce]

Its funny how the same lot that was a liability with slip fielding in tests are now assets fielding in the inner ring. A major difference between India having a poor test run and good ODI run

 

[greymatter776]

And Hales is gone !

 

[PokerAce]

Its all safe for India but we need Hales' wicket anyway to ensure it.

Could you not have typed that sooner

 

[PokerAce]

All the wise talking Eng pundits on twitter who were so full of themselves after the tests, have shut up and fked off on twitter. Not a bleep out of any one of them. Piers Morgan too is nowhere to be spotted.

I bet if Ind slip up even a little bit in the ODI series that mob would be out in full force. Warm weather hypocrites

 

[greymatter776]

With Butler also gone,India is much safe[DOUBLEPOST=1409155899][/DOUBLEPOST]Its all safe for India but we need Morgan's wicket anyway to ensure it. ()

 

[abhi_jacko]

Jadeja flourishes when the opposition is under pressure .. makes full use of such opportunities

 

[PokerAce]

Here is an interesting stat. Players involved most times in 300+ ODI totals

52 Tendulkar
50 Ponting
50 Dhoni today!
48 Yuvraj
44 Gilchrist
43 Sehwag
42 M Yousuf[DOUBLEPOST=1409156151][/DOUBLEPOST]And another. Pairs with Highest avg in ODIs (Min. 50 inns)

60.07 Raina-Dhoni
52.58 Greenidge-Haynes
52.44 Hayden-Ponting
51.98 D Martyn-Ponting

 

[PokerAce]

Looks like we may be done with the match, the rain that was predicted has arrived ... or has it?

 

[abhi_jacko]

Whats up with us taking catches