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***Official*** India in South Africa
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Turbinator
Cricketer Of The Year
Karthik, imo, should open instead of, well, obviously Sehwag.
Dravid
International Captain
Drop Sehwag. Gambhir needs to be given a shot against WI and SL, Karthik and Dhoni should be tried out in alternative series to see who to go with in the World Cup
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I mean for test cricket.
Dravid
International Captain
Never back Sehwag again. I can't believe he didn't do anything big and robbed Gambhir of his place.
Dravid
International Captain
Drop Sehwag, teach Munaf to field, keep Ganguly despite him not being able to face the short ball, keep Karthik, and maybe switch up between Yuvraj and Dhoni in tests. Kartikh does not deserve to be dropped.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I think it ties in. Running between the wickets was so shoddy from some of the batsmen, the fielding even more so. I don't personally see how you can drop Karthik after this performance, flat pitch or not. He was the only one, other than Ganguly who was remotely positive.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
We have a whole middle order that needs a tune up. Karthik might help, but we need better players all the way through from opening to #4-#6.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Hasn't bowled as well as he'd like. Plus they are looking to see him off and score off the other guys.
Dravid
International Captain
Kumble has been bowling great, just unlucky. I remember there was a ball, to Kallis I believe, a ball that was pitched on off, Kallis expected leg break, turned out to be a wrong urn, Kallis left the ball, and it just barely missed the stumps...I mean just barely.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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Tendulkar needs to shape up and justify his selection. He needs more than "form is temporary, class is permanent" given how long he's been mediocre for. Dare I say, he needs to prove he can still score runs in domestic cricket of some sort. India can do better than a 33 average surely.
The opening partnership needs to be sorted. Jaffer looked pretty reasonable in this series, but he really had very little support, bar Karthik. Whether or not Karthik is the man to slot into the opening role, we shall see, but I very much doubt it.
Sort Sehwag out. Some of the shots he's gotten out to in this series have been positively Read-like.
Laxman needs to put a greater price on his wicket. He's only been dismissed in single figures twice in his last 10 Tests - for ducks - and yet has only crossed 50 five times in that period. And his only hundred in that time came against the West Indies on a pitch where the average per wicket was 47.1.
The opening partnership needs to be sorted. Jaffer looked pretty reasonable in this series, but he really had very little support, bar Karthik. Whether or not Karthik is the man to slot into the opening role, we shall see, but I very much doubt it.
Sort Sehwag out. Some of the shots he's gotten out to in this series have been positively Read-like.
Laxman needs to put a greater price on his wicket. He's only been dismissed in single figures twice in his last 10 Tests - for ducks - and yet has only crossed 50 five times in that period. And his only hundred in that time came against the West Indies on a pitch where the average per wicket was 47.1.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Yup.
Yup. Gambhir and Jaffer, or someone else.
Drop him. Let him prove himself from the ground up again.
Laxman has always had that problem. His average should have been a lot higher than it is, but bar Australia, he just rarely seems to show up. I have no idea why because watching him against Australia is almost like watching a different player.
Dravid
International Captain
This would be my lineup
1) Gambhir
2) Jaffer
3) Dravid
4) Tendulkar
5) Ganguly
6) Laxman
7) Kartikh
Dravid
International Captain
So two scores in 60 and one 44 are not enough for some one to be in the team?
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Aaaand the bowling...
In Sreesanth and Munaf Patel, India seem to have unearthed a couple of very talented bowlers. They should be the basis of a pretty good attack in the next year or two. Zaheer Khan looks generally useless without the new ball, and that surely is a bit of a concern.
Kumble is too much of a centrepiece to the attack still. Given that he's 36 (and yes, spinners can go one for ages) India should be looking toward the future post-Kumble and it doesn't look incredibly promising. By no means should they drop Kumble though.
In Sreesanth and Munaf Patel, India seem to have unearthed a couple of very talented bowlers. They should be the basis of a pretty good attack in the next year or two. Zaheer Khan looks generally useless without the new ball, and that surely is a bit of a concern.
Kumble is too much of a centrepiece to the attack still. Given that he's 36 (and yes, spinners can go one for ages) India should be looking toward the future post-Kumble and it doesn't look incredibly promising. By no means should they drop Kumble though.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
So only one change from this order? That's going to do anything? Our middle order reeks of incompetence. One change at the top of the order would be irrelevant.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
No. It is not.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Yea, before this test Kumble averaged 17.22 in the series. Problem is, Harbhjan is certainly not a replacement (God, I hope not, plus he is a fingerspinner, so is Powar). Chawla is the only other leg spinner I can think of, and he has years to go, at least.