India Team Discussion

[Bigby Wolf]

Excited for this! I hope they keep the overly theatrical or Histrionic bollywood emotions away keep it simple.

 

[Targaryen]

So World Cup is round the corner and we are almost ready with our quality squad. I feel we should go with our most experienced lineup irrespective of the team we are facing. Our only concern would be the middle order. Not in a bad way but in good way. We have the players for middle order but are unsure who will make it to playing Xi. I personally will go with 2 lineup plan.

The first one would be, successful top order plan A and second would be sudden collapse plan B. If our top order scores enough runs, we should go with Dinesh Karthik at no.4 and if we see a sudden collapse, we can go with MSD at 4 and Jadav at 5 followed by Karthik as a finisher at 6. Jadeja should play at least few games since he is an effective fast bowler with spin . Our bowlers should be Bumrah, Shami (he is a wicket taking option), Chahal, Kuldeep/Jadeja, and all-rounder Pandya. Vijay Shanker has been the replacement player for the players in the squad like Bhuvi and Pandya. And since he lacks the experience, hence I've not named him in lineup. If you can't select player like Rishabh Pant just because he is not experienced enough, you got to get going with experience ahead of talent.

My lineup:
Rohit
Dhawan
Kohli
Karthik/Dhoni
Dhoni/Jadav
Jadav/Karthik
Pandya ^
Kuldeep ^
Chahal ^
Shami ^
Bumrah ^

 

[hammadahmed88]

India look really strong for this World Cup, as has already been opined everywhere. That's an almost perfect lineup. I'd probably prefer another seamer and opt with Kumar over Jadeja/Karthik. I'd bring in Jadeja for Bhuvneshwar on tracks that are clearly spin friendly. Otherwise, solid lineup. Pakistan's chances are not great, so I would love it if the trophy can stay in Asia, or goes to the Windies. Here's my lineup:

Rohit
Dhawan
Kohli
Dhoni
Jadav
Pandya
B. Kumar / Jadeja
Kuldeep
Chahal
Shami
Bumrah

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

I think we have our bases covered mostly

So far these places are confirmed in the squad for the playing XI

1. Rohit
2. Dhawan
3. Virat
4. ???
5. MS (I would want to see him at 4 though)
6. Jadhav
7. Hardik
8. Bhuvi / Shami
9. Kuldeep
10. Chahal
11. Bumrah

Options we have for no.4 are

MS- Can stay at the crease for long and could act as an anchor, but his strike at this position is a bit low (it's somewhere around 68-69) and hasn't done anything worthy at this position since 2015 WC

DK- I remember he batted at this position for us in 2013 Champions Trophy, though he didn't get much runs but looked decent enough and I also remember that we along with Dhawan had saved us back in 2013 Zimbabwe tour where we lost both Kohli and Rohit at a very low score. But past is past, he was given an opportunity to bat at this position once again in 2018 England tour and he looked a bit uncomfortable and tried to hit every ball for a 4 or a 6 and in the process lost his wicket and India lost the series 2-1

Hardik- He did well during the Australia series at home back in 2017 but after that he failed to do anything noteworthy at this position

Kedar- Hmmm.... Quite interesting. He has batted at 4 in IPL this season and always looked in decent touch but isn't able to convert his starts into big scores

Vijay Shankar- If he bats at this position it would be a bold move from the team and with his stroke play he looks capable enough to bat at this position but I don't expect him to score more than 60-70 as that's the capacity he has. I don't see him getting a 100 or something at this position when we are chasing a big target and our top-order gets out early in the innings

And for Shami/Bhuvi dilemma I think going by the form Shami is the best option. But I'm a bit worried regarding his consistency with the ball because there are days where he has proved to be very expensive in conceding runs but if we select Bhuvi then we are playing a waiting game as he isn't a wicket taking bowler with the white-ball but has a very good economy, but it is something that you don't rely on when other bowlers are going for plenty

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Yet another instance of BCCI's arrogance

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Yet another instance of BCCI's arrogance

I would not call it arrogance. Read BCCI's insistence on CA honoring a touring commitment to play men's ODIs in India in January next year. CA had committed BCCI to play men's ODIs in India. They are now refusing because of broadcasters, BBL, etc. If the bank promises to give you the money you have deposited whenever you want and refuses, you will change your bank. That is not called arrogance. With anything BCCI does, people think it as arrogance or showing too much power without thinking the root cause of the situation.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

But you just can't say that no Australians will be part of IPL exhibition just because of that reason. It's upon the players decision that whether they want to play or not, backed by the NOC of the respective board. These things can be actually solved by peaceful negotiations rather than taking an immediate action

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

But you just can't say that no Australians will be part of IPL exhibition just because of that reason. It's upon the players decision that whether they want to play or not, backed by the NOC of the respective board. These things can be actually solved by peaceful negotiations rather than taking an immediate action

In sports, the management decides the player's faith. This is similar to you saying hey I want to come to your house and me saying NO I do not want you to come to my house. You cannot barge in as it is my decision not to let you in, similarly if BCCI sees that someone promised on something, now they are not fulfilling that promise... I want to take some action. Yes it can be solved peacefully but hey everything can be solved peacefully. It is a sporting business and everyone is out there to make money. Also remember, players have no say whatsoever which is for good or else players will make decision which is only in their interest. The reason Indian players do not play in any other T20 leagues is this...

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

In sports, the management decides the player's faith. This is similar to you saying hey I want to come to your house and me saying NO I do not want you to come to my house. You cannot barge in as it is my decision not to let you in, similarly if BCCI sees that someone promised on something, now they are not fulfilling that promise... I want to take some action. Yes it can be solved peacefully but hey everything can be solved peacefully. It is a sporting business and everyone is out there to make money. Also remember, players have no say whatsoever which is for good or else players will make decision which is only in their interest. The reason Indian players do not play in any other T20 leagues is this...

But then why it only happens when BCCI is involved ? It shows that they always have a problem with something. Be it UDRS, be it day & night Tests, be it warm-up matches before a Test series or be it even deciding the venues where they would like to play in Overseas Countries. At times they go too far ahead with their ambiguous decisions. Which is not right in a Sport. And what if there is a situation where BCCI agrees for a series with some other board and for some reason they have to prepone the IPL. Won't they come up with an objection ?

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

But then why it only happens when BCCI is involved ? It shows that they always have a problem with something. Be it UDRS, be it day & night Tests, be it warm-up matches before a Test series or be it even deciding the venues where they would like to play in Overseas Countries. At times they go too far ahead with their ambiguous decisions. Which is not right in a Sport. And what if there is a situation where BCCI agrees for a series with some other board and for some reason they have to prepone the IPL. Won't they come up with an objection ?

Again why it only happens with BCCI is not the question. I just answered that its not arrogance to your original post. What you have mentioned is completely different meat all together.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Again why it only happens with BCCI is not the question.

It talks a lot about their arrogant character though. And I don't think we should discuss about it further as it's not under our control.

 

[SaiSrini]

I wish somewhere soon, BCCI step down from their arrogant stance and let Indian players (especially the non-contracted ones) to participate in worldwide T20 leagues. Our players are going to get huge experience and now that the world knows a lot of the players from Indian domestic cricket through the IPL, its time they are allowed to participate in BBL/CPL/BPL/etc (no PSL though for India; that's a political thing yes and India shouldn't go there).

IPL won't get diluted because of this. The IPL will always get the best audience because India is the biggest cricket playing nation (due to the population; China doesn't play cricket professionally) and are cricket crazy.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Superb Episode that! Also amazes the fact how people are open to Gaurav Kapur almost every cricketer in his series has spoken their heart out.

 

[SaiSrini]

I just love how Sachin is handling this whole 'conflict of interest' controversy. He has thrown the gauntlet back on the BCCI and has explicitly blamed them for this whole fiasco. And he is perfectly right in doing it. He has been Mumbai's mentor since 2013 whereas he was appointed as CAC member in 2015. Why was this controversy not brought up then?

Its rubbish that BCCI has dragged Sachin's name in the mud on this.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

So Kedar Jadhav injured himself, he is mostly out of the remaining IPL games, if he does not go the WC Raydu to replace... hmmmm