I know, it's a shame selectors are such a notoriously conservative bunch. Mishy's the better bet for success, but if Harbs gets picked and looks blunt (which happens often in non-SC matches) they'll get nowhere near the flak they'd get if Mishy got picked and looked blunt.
AWTA. But again, Mishy is a totally unknown quantity outside India. And for a series where we have struggled always, better to go with safe than sorry approach,
Unlikely considering Zak and Ish are much better than any pace duo ever to tour NZ from Ind, and they can hence afford to get in a third seamer.
Not that being an unknown quantity is in any remote way a bad thing for a leg-spinner. Nor is picking the player who has already failed against New Zealand the "safe" approach. But yeah it's understandable thinking.
uhh...where is Yusuf?
What's with the Mishra love? He's a decent prospect, nothing more.
On assisting tracks tbh. But still an achievement. UC's love for Mishy is like the love some CWers have for O Brien, Jeetan, Watson etc. It just cannot be explained why, it's like falling in love. It's blind.
Nah, he's awesome. He's very accurate, gives the ball a massive rip, bowls subtle googlies and top-spinners, can both flight the ball and push it through and does well under pressure. And he was more responsible than anyone (bar, perhaps, Dhoni) for the stuffing of Australia. What's not to love?
rohit in and yusuf out.lol
Hardly an assisting track, really, he just turned the ball on it. Leg-spinners do that on most tracks. I don't think I've ever seen you undersell an Indian performance before, what's going on?
PR pressures. See OT.Hardly an assisting track, really, he just turned the ball on it. Leg-spinners do that on most tracks. I don't think I've ever seen you undersell an Indian performance before, what's going on?
Ehm, well in fairness, he suffered at the hands of players he should have already had. Ishant Sharma dropped a dolly off Michael Clarke (who went on to hit a century) in the third test off his bowling, and MS Dhoni's poor positioning to spinners gave Andrew Strauss a second innings century against England. Collingwood edged him through the slip fielder's legs too on his way to a century. In both series, at times he bowled badly, and at times he bowled well without reward. Other times he chipped in with the odd one here and there. The debut innings was the only time when everything really came together, but he still came out of his first five tests with an average of 29, so it's not like he didn't do anything else. Especially when you consider the bashing pretty much every other bowler got during those two series.PR pressures. See OT.
Nah, other than that, Mohali indeed was a reasonably good surface to bowl spin in. And yes, the novelty factor, seeing a genuinely gifted wristie looping it out gently and yet getting ripping turn confounded the Aussies. It should not be forgotten that in the next two matches, Mishy was reasonably well dealt with by the same opposition. Also, he was lukewarm at the best against England, who imho have the worst players of wrist spin perhaps.
Haha yeah so would I but there's absolutely no way McIntosh is going to be dropped.
These are the NZ selectors, you never know.
Yeah, Elliott will probably open with Mills.
Yusuf Pathan is a better T20 batsman than Rohit Sharma, anywhere in the order.
