Banz
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We were once asked to follow on and Dravid and Laxman batted the entire 4th day to set up a win for us. These days the entire team gets bowled out twice within a day.
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Not that drastic of a change. Rahane at 3, Pujara at 4, Dhoni at 5, Virat at 6 and then Ashwin and Binny. There is nothing to lose anyways. Ganguly used to push Laxman to no. 3 at times and it usually worked. Rahane is a natural number 3 so he wont have many problems.
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Our women's team is playing so much better right now.
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Lol man. But no, the way Dhoni is playing it seems that we can get up to 250 in this innings.
Haha you never know. England have a habit of goofing up when they have the advantage. They were ahead at some point in each of the Ashes Tests but they f**ked up every single time. 150-160 would give us a fighting chance here.
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He may not have the technique but he is the only one to have shown application.
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Anderson and Broad are very good, but Jordan and Woakes are only fairly decent.
I wonder how these batsmen are going to face Australia who have got 5-6 proper fast bowlers and a real spinner. Johnson, Harris, Pattinson, Starc, Cummins bowl with real pace. Our batsmen have not even faced anyone who can bowl this fast (with the exception of Morkel).
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What's the best broadband service in Pune? I want an unlimited connection at 1 or 2 Mbps.
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The newspapers are calling Sri Lanka's 261/8 yesterday as a collapse and even Cricinfo reports Pakistan's 244/6 as one. I wonder what they'll call 8/4 and 36/5.
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That was a great over from Broad to Pujara.
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That was a great over from Broad to Pujara.
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Gambhir ... Somehow left hand openers don't work for India..
Nevertheless he is still the best left handed opener we've ever had. His time is pretty much over now though and I don't expect him to last beyond the Australia tour.
LOL where are all the GG fans who were barracking for him to be brought back???
there was a reason people like him , sehwag, chuna, yuvi were discarded from tests. still u have people wanting over the hill sehwag, zak etc back.. geez
Sehwag's game was built on hand eye co-ordination. At this age it won't be possible for him to play like that at this level. He's even struggling for Delhi.
Raina and Yuvraj have been big flops in Tests. They should never ever be considered for Tests.
Zaheer was brought back for mentoring the younger bowlers and he did his job fairly well while also picking up some wickets. It was stupid of Dhoni to have made him bowl extremely long spells in SA and NZ. They could have selected him as a squad member for England. He is also a great captain/leader and would have helped in setting up fields and chalking up strategies to bowl out the opposition.
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There is way too much instability in this side. Some players are being made to play every Test like it's their last.
Binny plays 2 Tests, gets dropped and is reselected after 2 Tests. Ashwin gets dropped out of the team for 6 Tests after having one bad Test. Jadeja is proclaimed as our frontline spinner in away Tests because of one good performance, and gets to play 5 more Tests after that. Rohit Sharma is picked for one Test and then dropped again. Pragyan Ojha has not even been considered for an away Test regardless of how well he plays at home. Kumar was dropped for 4 Tests before being picked at Trent Bridge. Gambhir will be dropped if he doesn't perform in the 2nd innings.
Had Rahane and Vijay not performed well here, they would have faced the axe too.
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I've also been watching Future Diary. Completed 20 episodes.
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Got bowled out twice within 90 overs.
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Vijay saved us in the first match and rahane in the 2nd.
Yeah it was pretty much down to individual performances. The first pitch was anyways too flat to give a result in 5 days. In the 2nd Test it was Ajinkya, Vijay and Ishant. Despite a decent performace on first 4 days, the match was very close and we only won the match in the last hour or so.
The turning point of the came in the 2nd innings of the Southampton Test when Vijay got run out. Needlessly threw away his wicket. Both openers were to blame for this.
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So far in this Test we have batted 78 overs and lost 16 wickets. Thats a wicket every 4.9 overs... bad even for an ODI.
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Good to see us back to our old self. I was wondering what went wrong in the first 2 Tests.
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Rahul Dravid had a lot of problems settling into ODI cricket at the start of his career. He was considered to be a Test specialist and not capable of scoring runs fast enough in ODIs. But then he changed his role and found success in ODIs as a lower-middle order batsman.
Pujara has not been given a fair chance in ODIs even though his List A record is good. And now it might already be too late to consider him for the World Cup. They're doing to him what they did to Laxman.
Rahane was given quite a few chances in ODIs but for some reason he has not performed so far, while at the same time he has proved himself as one of our best batsmen in Test cricket. It's upto him to decide whether to spend time on the bench (and he will be benched if he continues to underperform) or focus on his Test career. I'd personally love if he won the Ranji trophy for Mumbai instead of just being a squad member in the World Cup.
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What an atrocious performance. Gave up without a fight.
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Patiently waiting for 16th August
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now i am going to say something that will make people term me a india hater but i am looking at things objectively -
it is not that India's batsmen are not 'firing' or 'out of form', its just that they are home/flat track bullies. i am a fan of virat & pujara but just look at their record objectively & play the 'devils advocate' -
both have made 100s only at home or on flat wickets outside SC.
even their 100s at home have been on the more batting friendly wickets. only pujara to an extent has been a successful on the slightly more bowler friendly wickets in mumbai & that challenging wicket in delhi (against Aus)
virat's 100s outside SC -
1. joburg (flat wicket where even on 5th day SA played out 130+ overs & made 450+)
2. adelaide (one of the most batting friendly wickets in Aus along with Sydney)
3. wellington (flat wicket where avg test player like B Mac made 300, also he was out early on but not given caught behind)
pujara 100's outside SC -
1. his record is even worse only the 150 in joburg so same disclaimer as above
now once again i'm just playing devils advocate here & hope they prove me wrong but as of now the high opinion we had of both needs to be tempered i feel. only rahane & vijay have truly proven themselves in testing conditions thus far.
That Johannesburg hundred was one of the best I've seen. Flat pitches don't make a difference to Dale Steyn. Virat came in at 24/2. After he got out we lost quick wickets again. He scored 119 out of the 280 runs we scored. He was very good in South Africa and New Zealand. He got starts in both the innings here. There's just that weakness outside the off stump that he needs to work on.
Pujara's innings of 150 was a very good one too. He knows how to build an innings. During the first 75 balls he faced in that innings, he made 10-15 runs. Then in the 3rd session of day 4 he got 96 runs alone. He can absorb lots of pressure. Always comes out with the mindset to play a long innings. He has been out to some very good balls this series, and there have been some mistakes on his part. But he has been consistent enough in getting those 30's. He needs to convert them into hundreds.
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Rahul Dravid and Deep Dasgupta batted almost the entire 5th day in South Africa in 2001 to save a Test. Deep Dasgupta was an extremely mediocre player even at the first class level. If he could do it then why not Rohit, Rahane and Dhoni?
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So only 90 overs to bat now.
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If they enforce follow on we should just go in ultra defensive mode. Just block everything bowled at stumps and leave everything outside.
The only problem with that is that it is the 3rd innings and there's 6 full sessions left. Let us say we bat very bravely for 5 sessions and get a small lead. England can chase that very easily. Or we may not even get the lead playing like that. The runs will keep playing on the batsmen's minds.
On the other hand if Cook chooses to bat, then he will take up 1.5 to 2 sessions setting up the target. We will then have to bat 4+ sessions which is much more easier.
Cook should forget about player burnout. Anderson is going to get banned and Broad needs to be rested next game anyways. The other 2 seamers won't have much problems and they can have Stokes and Plunkett back in the next match. Cook needs to win this match and he should go for the kill.
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He is contracted to the BCCI so obviously he will need their permission before playing elsewhere. Even for Saurashtra.
This doesn't apply to domestic players not contracted to the BCCI. They only need permission from their respective cricket associations, wherever they are contracted.