India's tour of Australia - December/January 2015

[SaiSrini]

That's an immature response, poking your nose in between..

Don't worry... I take that comment from Epic as "complimentary".

Thanks for your comment. I know I tend to write a lot because I like to put all my thoughts together even if it takes more time. When I was in college, I used to write movie reviews on a website for certain Indian films. I enjoyed doing it! (I know how funny it sounds now).

 

[Epic]

That's an immature response, poking your nose in between..

Clearly you don't know what I was referring to in my "article".

Don't worry... I take that comment from Epic as "complimentary".

Thanks for your comment. I know I tend to write a lot because I like to put all my thoughts together even if it takes more time. When I was in college, I used to write movie reviews on a website for certain Indian films. I enjoyed doing it! (I know how funny it sounds now).

I don't know if you remember, but I think it was the IPL 2014 thread, someone was giving you stick for the length of your posts, calling them essays, that's what I was referring to, I by no means was calling your posts essays or poking fun at you...

 

[SaiSrini]

Clearly you don't know what I was referring to in my "article".

I don't know if you remember, but I think it was the IPL 2014 thread, someone was giving you stick for the length of your posts, calling them essays, that's what I was referring to, I by no means was calling your posts essays or poking fun at you...

I know... I believe I understood your sarcasm smiley the way you intended it to.

 

[lion100lion]

Indian team for Australia Test series to be picked on November 4

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Mumbai: The Indian squad for the upcoming four-Test series in Australia will be selected here on November 4, according to BCCI sources.

"The selection meeting will be held at 1:30 pm at the Cricket Centre", they informed.

The Indian team is set to depart for Australia on November 21, the sources added.

India and Australia will be playing the Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy from December 4, 2014 to January 7, 2015.

The Test matches are scheduled at Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

Indian team for Australia Test series to be picked on November 4

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[greymatter776]

Waiting for it however I am sure it would be something like
Murali Vijay,Shikhar Dhawan,Gautam Gambhir,Rohit Sharma,Cheteshwar Pujara,Virat Kohli,Ajinkya Rahane,M S Dhoni,W Saha,R Ashwin,R Jadeja,Bhuvaneshwar Kumar,Mohammad Shami,Umesh Yadav,Varun Aaron,Ishant Sharma,Stuart Binny.

Not too sure about Gambhir and Binny.I would select Binny just as an option if things go wrong.Gambhir is not in his old touches,yes,but his performance in Duleep Trophy may attract the eyes of selectors plus he got experience and did perform well in the ODI series in the 2012 tour.

 

[Yuvi.]

 

[PokerAce]

Ideal Squad for Aus -

Openers
M Vijay
S Dhawan
K Rahul

Mid-Order
C Pujara
V Kohli
A Rahane
R Sharma

Wicket Keepers
MS Dhoni
N Ojha

Spinners
R Ashwin
A Mishra

Seamers
Bhuvaneshwar Kr
I Sharma
V Aaron
U Yadav

Names in italics in the starting XI. And yes no R Jadeja

 

[Aalay]

Looks like KL Rahul will be our backup opener with the kind of performance he has put in the final.

 

[Yuvi.]

Many other contenders like Uthappa , Gambhir are in the game 2!

 

[greymatter776]

Ideal Squad for Aus -

Openers
M Vijay
S Dhawan
K Rahul

Mid-Order
C Pujara
V Kohli
A Rahane
R Sharma

Wicket Keepers
MS Dhoni
N Ojha

Spinners
R Ashwin
A Mishra

Seamers
Bhuvaneshwar Kr
I Sharma
V Aaron
U Yadav

Names in italics in the starting XI. And yes no R Jadeja

Good thing you selected Rahul.He is do a good opener.
Disagrees with you on not selecting Jadeja,he has got experience in these conditions and I think still the best alongside Ashwin.Also why is Shami not picked?He is one good seamer we got and sees no reason for dropping him.

 

[grkrama]

i dont think jadu's magic bits n pieces prowess will work in aus, mishra is a much better bet.

 

[PokerAce]

Good thing you selected Rahul.He is do a good opener.
Disagrees with you on not selecting Jadeja,he has got experience in these conditions and I think still the best alongside Ashwin.Also why is Shami not picked?He is one good seamer we got and sees no reason for dropping him.

Well to be honest if we have to play two spinners, I would rather we didn't go at it half way with a bits and pieces player. Mishra is a leggie and a much better bowler than Jadeja.

As for Shami, he was terrible in the tests in England. He seems to enjoy the ODIs, but in tests he has been a bit of a let down off late.

 

[greymatter776]

Well to be honest if we have to play two spinners, I would rather we didn't go at it half way with a bits and pieces player. Mishra is a leggie and a much better bowler than Jadeja.

As for Shami, he was terrible in the tests in England. He seems to enjoy the ODIs, but in tests he has been a bit of a let down off late.

Ok with Jadeja but Shami?I am sure we should give him some experience on the Australian pitches with the WC coming.

 

[SaiSrini]

I would also take KL Rahul to Australia as the backup opener. I have no faith whatsoever in Gambhir or Sehwag being our backup openers. We need to find good backup openers for our test side. Maybe KL Rahul can even become a frontline opener ahead of one of our current guys - Vijay and Dhawan.

Hope they take Yadav this time instead of Pankaj Singh. A bowling attack of Shami, Yadav, Aaron, Ishant and Bhuvi sounds pretty good. Frankly Bhuvi should play less in Australia because here conditions are not expected to suit him as much as it did in England. Ishant should play most games, followed by Shami and one of either Yadav or Aaron.

 

[grkrama]

Bhuvi should play less in Australia because here conditions are not expected to suit him as much as it did in England

yet i feel he may end up as pick of our pacers.