India's Tour of South Africa Dec 21 - Jan 22

[wasteyouryouth]

The easiest thing to do in life is to do away with people. I am not in favour of doing away with Bhuvi. He is an absolute class act and he's priceless in pressure situations. Whatever he is going through is temporary and I think he will roar back to life sometime. Does that coincide with his and our World Cup ambitions? Time will tell. It's a bit like the fools shouting Kohli is done as a batter. He is a class class act. We need to back these guys in such times and instead of doing away with them the support staff needs to understand what exactly is up with them. I'm shocked there is no psychologist with the Indian team specially during Covid.

I keep saying this again and again. When we say we didn't have 'pace' bowlers it is true but we have always had a rich history of swing bowlers and we under estimate our own worth as a cricketing nation and run after things we don't have. Whether it was Prasad, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar or now Deepak Chahar we have always had this one guy that can run through teams with the new ball with swing bowling and we have moved away from that recently because of a pace obsession. Not playing that nibbler in India, England, SA and NZ is almost criminal in my opinion.

Bumrah aside, I would really look at Deepak Chahar in all formats because he can run through teams. It is a bit like Sehwag with the bat where the guy can win you a game in half an hour and even on his off days its not like he will get belted. There is also a couple of forgotten assets in Nagarkoti and Mavi. Mavi in particular can really dart it around with the new nut and unlike a lot of his peers, he's in his natural form an in swing bowler. Most batters these days have a pronounced back and across movement and shape up to play the ball going away or one that is back of a length on off. He can add a different variation and dimension and get a lot of LBW's.

Lastly, we need two proper spinners for the middle and if Jadeja cannot pick wickets then he is good enough to bat at 6. We need two spinners which in my opinion is Kuldeep and Bishnoi. Watch out for Kuldeep the batter. I am hearing in the domestic circles that he's working very hard on his batting and hitting them clean and hard.

Kuldeep needs to work on his bowling, he's been shite for three years.

 

[CooldiPargi]

Kuldeep needs to work on his bowling, he's been shite for three years.

I have been shite for my Whole life, Tf you talking about.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I have been shite for my Whole life, Tf you talking about.

Get in the nets

 

[harishankar]

Pant needs work on his keeping. Another missed chance

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Piss Poor Fielding to say the least.

Jayant Yadav deserves atleast two wickets, bowling superbly.

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Do any of the other 90's kids here get Anwar/Jayasuriya vibes from QdK whenever we play SA these days?

 

[Bigby Wolf]

With the amount of spin we are getting only if the field placements and fielding were better South Africa would have 5 down.

But yet again poor captaincy has let the game drift away.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Shreyas Iyer bowling

Edit - Well even he is extracting some turn on this wicket.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Watch out for Markram bowling some 10 overs 30 odd and picking 2 wickets atleast.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

And its Pant again.

Geez that is lazy Keeping.

He is that one bloke that needs a stick everytime to perform be his batting or keeping he always takes things for granted. The world knows his potential but if ain't gonna be serious about his game , Cricket itself will teach him a lesson which he will remember for a long long time.

 

[harishankar]

It’s a disgraceful display and fully deserves a 3-0 drubbing. Unfortunately I doubt if Indian cricket establishment will learn from it.

 

[Ashutosh.]

I would really look at Deepak Chahar in all formats because he can run through teams. It is a bit like Sehwag with the bat where the guy can win you a game in half an hour and even on his off days its not like he will get belted

Chahar is a good powerplay bowler but not a good death bowler.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Do any of the other 90's kids here get Anwar/Jayasuriya vibes from QdK whenever we play SA these days?

I am a late 90s kid, so for me this is Kumar Sangakkara/Nasir Jamshed in late 2000s & early 2010s. If only Sir Alastair played well in limited overs!

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Chahar is a good powerplay bowler but not a good death bowler.

He has improved massively as a death bowler over the years

 

[icyman]

South Africa 430 ish. Was actually gunning for De Cock 200. Guess RVD will hit a ton here.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

South Africa 430 ish. Was actually gunning for De Cock 200. Guess RVD will hit a ton here.

430? I bet on it they won't score 340!