***Official*** South Africa in India 2015

[Daemon]

Rabada seems like a top bloke. Acknowledged his drop on the boundary as well instead of giving excuses like not sighting the ball and all that ****.

 

[viriya]

Rahane should not be in the ODI team. Why is a guy who averages 31 @ 76 after 60 ODIs still playing? India's strength is supposed to be batting, and there has to be better options for #3.

 

[Contra]

Rahane's innings was perfectly fine. You dont blame the second highest scorer.

lol dude get real, Rahane got the best time to bat after a perfect start and the only reason that partnership looked legit is because Rohit managed to score big whenever it was required, even if Rahane had score 10 or so runs India woulda won the game.

 

[TheJediBrah]

haha, you're a ****ing terrible poster. you should join cricsim, reckon you'd fit in with most of the bogans there.

Stating facts you don't like = terrible poster?
Not wanting to find peer-reviewed evidence of my posts on a cricket forum = terrible poster?

lmao how many references do you want people to attach to their posts?

How seriously do you expect people to take this? Honestly one of the most pathetic things I've seen.

 

[Contra]

That didn't stop AB de GOATiers

Yeah he lucked out with Ashwin getting injured.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah Rahane's innings was most definitely not fine. When your SR is 75 odd in a 300 chase, you either make sure you stay there till the end and get the team home or go 7th gear and score your last 20 runs in 10 balls and go back to the dressing room.

 

[Jono]

yeah problem with Rahane's innings is he got out. But he's not solely to blame. Kohli and Raina were poop as well.

That's a bad loss really. Really bad.

 

[Daemon]

Rahane should not be in the ODI team. Why is a guy who averages 31 @ 76 after 60 ODIs still playing? India's strength is supposed to be batting, and there has to be better options for #3.

Rohit Sharma after 60 ODIs - 27.62 @ 76

 

[G.I.Joe]

It is

What I mean is there's a debate on what spot he should occupy, but AFAIC he shouldn't be in the lineup at all as long as Dhoni's there too.

 

[spit]

Stating facts you don't like = terrible poster?
Not wanting to find peer-reviewed evidence of my posts on a cricket forum = terrible poster?

lmao how many references do you want people to attach to their posts?

How seriously do you expect people to take this? Honestly one of the most pathetic things I've seen.

 

[test cricketer]

Jesus! Rabada's calmness under pressure and self confidence is unbelievable, take a bow son, take a bow ,also, i feel sorry for rohit, two briliant hundreds in the space of a week or so and his team lost both matches

 

[Jono]

AB 6 off last ball = wahhh

 

[Gnske]

Stating facts you don't like = terrible poster?
Not wanting to find peer-reviewed evidence of my posts on a cricket forum = terrible poster?

lmao how many references do you want people to attach to their posts?

How seriously do you expect people to take this? Honestly one of the most pathetic things I've seen.

You've clearly never seen a man eating his own chunder mixed with Bundaberg rum in a frying pan.

 

[cnerd123]

It is

What I mean is there's a debate on what spot he should occupy, but AFAIC he shouldn't be in the lineup at all as long as Dhoni's there too.

Who would we pick in the place of Rahane? Rayudu is no better, Kedar Jadhav and Uthappa could bat 6/7, but not at 4. Pujara might do slightly better, but he lacks a 4th gear too, and then there are the unproven young 'uns like Pandey, Iyer, Gurkeerat, etc.

Rahane is still comfortably one of the top 6 batsmen in India. He deserves a spot in the ODI side, He didn't play that awful an innings today. He supported Rohit, he set a platform, and he just got out when he was looking to push on. That happens. There are 4 other batsmen in that top 6 who didn't contribute. If you've only got two batsmen crossing 31 you aren't going to win many runchases.

Figuring out a number 7 is a more pressing issue, especially since MSD can't seem to find that top gear anymore. We need to either find a legit batsman who can contribute with the ball too, or get the part-timers working on their bowling and stick another big-hitting batsman in there. Axar/Binny aren't going to cut it.

 

[cnerd123]

Rahane should not be in the ODI team. Why is a guy who averages 31 @ 76 after 60 ODIs still playing? India's strength is supposed to be batting, and there has to be better options for #3.

Urgh such a terrible post. Go missing for the whole match, only pop up once India loses to push you anti-Rahane agenda with ****ty stats and no context/real analysis.

 

[viriya]

Rohit Sharma after 60 ODIs - 27.62 @ 76

But he had a better List A record that suggested he was a good ODI option. Rahane on the other hand is picked based off his Test accomplishments.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Rabada seems like a top bloke. Acknowledged his drop on the boundary as well instead of giving excuses like not sighting the ball and all that ****.

And also said that it wasn't he that won them the game but the entire team

 

[Daemon]

Stating facts you don't like = terrible poster?
Not wanting to find peer-reviewed evidence of my posts on a cricket forum = terrible poster?

lmao how many references do you want people to attach to their posts?

How seriously do you expect people to take this? Honestly one of the most pathetic things I've seen.

it's not just this instance where you've posted **** though. you've been posting tripe since you got here. now I would go back and find more examples, but

I'm not going to go ahead and spend my night going through archives

Do you really think I give two ****s whether you agree with me or not?

lol you kid

 

[Jono]

 

[Contra]

it's not just this instance where you've posted **** though. you've been posting tripe since you got here. now I would go back and find more examples, but

I'm not going to go ahead and spend my night going through archives

Do you really think I give two ****s whether you agree with me or not?

lol you kid