India's tour of Australia - January 2016

[AliB]

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[Rehan_24]

These sereis are not made based on past results. Australia toured India for just an ODI series, and India had yet to return the tour. When India toured India the bilateral ODI series hadn't happened, and instead the tri-series was held. So the return tour for ODIs was still pending and this is what is being held. Thus this series has been pencilled in for a long time and had to go through, regardless of what the result of the old series was.

Similarly the Test Series with Aus takes place seperately every two years. Aus toured in '13, India in '15, and Aus will return next year for it. These things are all already on the calendar and the results, whitewash or not, dont determine these things. Even Australia hosted India one year after they were whitewashed.

Fair enough, but who are deciding these tours on the calendars? both boards? I would rather prefer to have an involvement of ICC in the FTP. My point is that such short gap tours aren't good for competitive cricket for the fans to enjoy

 

[stefan]

Why was ashwin dropped for the last game?

While I thought he was poor in the first 2 games surely you don't drop your star after just 2 games?

 

[zwarrior]

Why was ashwin dropped for the last game?

While I thought he was poor in the first 2 games surely you don't drop your star after just 2 games?

Previous two pitch didn't offer any help for spinners. So, India kept only one spinner for third match. MSD chose Jadeja over Ashwin because Jadeja can bat too. And also MSD selected Mann for third match and he is a handy spinner too. I think Ashwin will be back for the next match. Hopefully.

 

[PokerAce]

Why was ashwin dropped for the last game?

While I thought he was poor in the first 2 games surely you don't drop your star after just 2 games?

Ashwin was actually quite good in the second game he really stifled the runs in the mid overs. The thinking could have been perhaps that neither spinner was going to get much help from the pitch so jadeja was picked ahead of ashwin as he could hit a few with the bat.

ashwin should have played ahead of Mann though.

 

[zwarrior]

Jasprit Bumrah in for injured Mohammad Shami for T20s.

I feel Irfan Pathan should have been given a chance.

 

[AliB]

Jasprit Bumrah in for injured Mohammad Shami for T20s.

I feel Irfan Pathan should have been given a chance.

Absolutely, you can't pick a guy who even can't control his arm while bowling. He bowls 140-145 kph.

 

[zwarrior]

Absolutely, you can't pick a guy who even can't control his arm while bowling. He bowls 140-145 kph.

Pathan has been great in the recent domestic season. With both bat and ball.

 

[AliB]

Pathan has been great in the recent domestic season. With both bat and ball.

I've not followed the domestic season this year, so pardon me for that. I know Pathan is a classy man, he had won us many games with both bat and ball. But Bumrah is a young guy who has consistantly bowled quick in IPL can also be picked.

 

[zwarrior]

I've not followed the domestic season this year, so pardon me for that. I know Pathan is a classy man, he had won us many games with both bat and ball. But Bumrah is a young guy who has consistantly bowled quick in IPL can also be picked.

Bumrah has been good in domestic season too but with Irfan, more experience and his batting will be an added advantage with WC nearing. But, let's see how he performs in Australia.
And if you are referring to Bumrah's IPL performance, then his performance was very very poor. In the 4 matches he played, his economy was 12+ and he picked up only 3 wickets. Only 'bowling quick' should not be the selection criteria. He has been picked from recent domestic season performance and not from IPL for your information.

 

[Targaryen]

Bumrah has been good in domestic season too but with Irfan, more experience and his batting will be an added advantage with WC nearing. But, let's see how he performs in Australia.
And if you are referring to Bumrah's IPL performance, then his performance was very very poor. In the 4 matches he played, his economy was 12+ and he picked up only 3 wickets. Only 'bowling quick' should not be the selection criteria. He has been picked from recent domestic season performance and not from IPL for your information.

Here, experience doesn't matter. What do you have to say about Ishant?. Doesn't he posses experience? Doesn't he have variety in his bowling? Obviously he does.

Jaspret can be a suspense factor. His bowling action is bit confusing and he may prove to be the star for India in his debut.

 

[AliB]

Only 'bowling quick' should not be the selection criteria. He has been picked from recent domestic season performance and not from IPL for your information.

Yes, what has he he done, as I previously mentioned I've not been following domestic cricket so I've made a search for that guy which resulted:
47 47 1043 1276 52 3/10 3/10 24.53 7.34 20.0 0 0 0
Seems like the selectors are disturbed.

 

[zwarrior]

Here, experience doesn't matter. What do you have to say about Ishant?. Doesn't he posses experience? Doesn't he have variety in his bowling? Obviously he does.

Jaspret can be a suspense factor. His bowling action is bit confusing and he may prove to be the star for India in his debut.

Ya, I agree with the suspense factor thing. His bowling action will be a bit confusing. But, if you compare their performance (Pathan and Bumrah) obviously Pathan is one step ahead of Bumrah. And don't forget about his batting. In t20 matches, we need all rounders. We saw glimpse of old Pathan in syed mushtaq ali trophy.

And also experience does matter especially in big tournaments.

On a side note, I highly doubt whether Shami will be picked for WC even if he is fit as he hasn't played any international cricket or even domestic cricket during past one year. He has hardly played 4-5 matches.

 

[Aalay]

Yeh pick Irfan Pathan over a 22 year old who was the highest wicket taker at recently concluded Vijay Hazare trophy. Irfan Pathan will come in and blow the Aussies away with his 120 KMH thunderbolts.

Positive selection this of Bumrah, a young man full of potential. He can be a bit wayward but he is very sharp and hits the deck hard. Hope he gets a chance to showcase his talent.

 

[namin96]

You are right that the Indian seamers are aweful right now, but you are underestimating the batting they are up against. Aus are just too good with the bat. Also the same seamers won India the CT in England, and India went to the SF of the WC in Aus. So I really don't agree with what you are trying to imply there.

Let's not forget that this Australian team is just really good in their backyard. Most of this team is yet to have been tested. I'm diving into another discussion but I would like to emphasize a few points here. These Australian commentators have really glorified Steve Smith's batting accomplishments and it's getting quite annoying at least for me to hear about his form against India. Now I'm not saying that smith isn't good but his runs have all came in non subcontinent conditions and mostly against a pathetic Indian bowling line up. So I really don't understand the amount of praise he keeps getting from these Australian commentators. To be honest it seems as if people think he's better than someone like kohli( which makes no sense).Some praise is alright but after all he has yet to be tested and he will be tested when he comes to India next year. Also aus are really good with the bat because of their depth. They've got basically 11 players who can contribute with the bat whereas India pretty much has like 4. And if you ask me I'll say India has the best top order batting(better than Aus as well) however stupid bowling ruins their performances. I will say this that if this Indian team plays to its full potential they could have thrashed this Australian side, but that hasn't happened. We've been asked to bat and chosen to bat first in each of the games and we've been at a disadvantage as well due to those two flat pitches on which the team batting second does have an advantage. Now speaking of those flat pitches I've got another point to relate to. How about we criticize those pitches for not producing and equal contenst between bat and ball like people started saying during the test series against SA in India when we were winning. Why aren't those two flat pitches getting any criticism? I don't think they were really good wickets all at all considering all the flak the Nagpur and Mohali pitch were getting for being too advantageous for bowling.