***Official*** Indian Domestic Thread 2012/13

[Cevno]

That's the same Harmeet Singh who Ian Chappell said would make every team barring England after the U19 WC. Can't even make the Mumbai side this season.

 

[Prince EWS]

Gambhir hasn't scored a ton in like 3 years, pretty sure Jaffer can top that. Besides, anyone who grows that sort of beard is always a gun in my books.

Yeah, India should go back in time and select Jaffer ahead of Gambhir in those matches for sure. However, for future matches in which Gambhir's output is not yet known, Jaffer could and IMO probably would do worse.

 

[Cevno]

Mithun's selections is so ridiculous, btw. Even Sreesanth doesn't deserve a go here, but atleast there's some logic to it but Mithun just crops up everywhere just randomly.

Shami maybe being saved to face the Aussies in the BP11 match, but Sidarth Kaul, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohit Sharma and Pankaj Singh should be ahead of him. Don't know what the selectors see in him ?

And Dinda not being selected in all of the sides is a bit worrying too, as he maybe considered either a cert or out of contention.

 

[shankar]

He was mainly getting out caught behind and lbw actually, but it was just the simple fact that after hitting a double hundred on a featherbed against Pakistan he went on to average 16 in his next seven Tests. Gambhir destroyed worlds for a while upon replacing him anyway so it was hardly a bad call.

Ah, Manjrekar mentioned on commentary that getting bowled quite often off overpitched swinging balls around off-stump was his weakness as well.

 

[shankar]

Come on sree!

 

[Daemon]

Loving Sree's terribad bowling atm. Teja must be shattered.

 

[Cevno]

Both Sehwag and Gambhir are in terra bad form tbh. Don't think they are likely to do better than Jaffer in good form.

 

[Daemon]

I can't bring myself to drop Sehwag though, **** nearly scored a triple in a day. Too good.

 

[shankar]

Mithun's selections is so ridiculous, btw. Even Sreesanth doesn't deserve a go here, but atleast there's some logic to it but Mithun just crops up everywhere just randomly.

Shami maybe being saved to face the Aussies in the BP11 match, but Sidarth Kaul, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohit Sharma and Pankaj Singh should be ahead of him. Don't know what the selectors see in him ?

And Dinda not being selected in all of the sides is a bit worrying too, as he maybe considered either a cert or out of contention.

Averaged 32 in the Ranji. Got to be a quota pick. Can't think of any other reason. Don't know how Pankaj Singh hasn't thrown in the towel yet.

 

[Cevno]

Averaged 32 in the Ranji. Got to be a quota pick. Can't think of any other reason. Don't know how Pankaj Singh hasn't thrown in the towel yet.

Pankaj at least this year got a 150 K IPL contract. Hopefully he can impress there even though his game is more suited to Tests.

Unadkat got 625 K dollars.

 

[Cevno]

Jaffer playing some classy shots.

Rahane is out of form. Benchwarming has just meant him losing form.

 

[Daemon]

Commentators were right, think Ojha needs to get closer to the stumps, especially when the track isn't doing much for him. Just becomes way too easy to play him with that sort of angle. Pitches it on middle and off and it just straightens a little bit for him to get worked around easily on the legside. His arm ball and accuracy are pretty much the only things he has as a weapon on non turning tracks.

 

[Cevno]

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[shankar]

Even with his new action, he was still moving away at the last step and releasing the ball from wide of crease.

 

[Daemon]

****in Sreesanth.

Oh well, Sachin time

EDIT: guess not, just 7 overs left in the day

 

[Cevno]

Sreesanth gets Jaffer

 

[shankar]

Sree! Harbhajan had taken him off just when he was finding his length.

 

[Cevno]

****in Sreesanth.

Oh well, Sachin time

Or not.

 

[Cevno]

FFS Rahane falls for 84 to a wrong decision. Dartbhajan the bowler.

 

[Cevno]

And now Rohit gifts his wicket to Dartbhajan.