Indian Cricket Dhaba

[cnerd123]

Tall Poppy Syndrome

 

[longranger]

Disappointed that Ashwin had a poor first ODI in Australia, just gives his detractors more ammo that he can only perform well on turners. He's a smart bowler though, so I back him to adapt and get better. What's weird though is that this ODI team doesn't look well balances. Yes, there are 5 bowlers who can all bowl their share of 10 overs, but there seem to be no alternatives in case one of them have an off-day. Suresh Raina was definitely useful to have..

 

[honestbharani]

None of our batsmen bowl and none of our bowlers really bat to any great level. This has been a problem for a long time now. Rohit seemed ok as a support bowler before he got all Sehwag about his back. Right now India can only hope the next set of emerging batsmen can all bowl reasonably in ODIs.

 

[cnerd123]

Manish Pandey got called for chucking at domestic level, so there is that lol.

The IPL has actually hurt us in an unexpected way - it basically caused all our best young batting talents to become top order batsmen, since the franchises would just sign foreigners like Pollard, Hodge, Miller, Morkel, Bravo, Symonds, etc etc to play the lower-order finisher role. The best batsmen already all bat top 4 at Ranji and other domestix due to the Sachin Theory, and they end up playing the same role in limited overs and IPL.

The nature of Ranji cricket pitches and schedules also mean all our all-rounders are fairly mediocre bowlers; and if they're good enough batsmen they eventually end up batting top order domestically and in the IPL (think Jadeja and Binny in RR). I don't know why none of our gun domestic batsmen bowl - Pandey, Jadhav, Rayudu, Agarwal, Iyer, Uthappa, S Tiwary

Manoj Tiwary and Ashok Menaria bowl, but one will be too old by 2019 and the other probably isnt good enough.

Then there are guys like Aparjith, Saxena and Rasool, but none of them are good enough to bat top order for India and their finisher credentials are questionable at best.

As a result we have a massive shortage of lower order finishers. At this point India needs to start identifying players who have the skills and start grooming them for the role - basically what they did for Jadeja. Prime contenders are probaby Gurkeerat, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, and possibly Rishi Dhawan (will be 29 by 2019). Get these guys working on their bowling and big-hitting in the nets, and hopefully they'll be up for playing at 7 come 2019.

 

[honestbharani]

I thought LR Shukla had massive potential in that kind of a role not that long ago. And Piyush Chawla can be an option too for LO games if his leg spin is in working order. That boy does hit big.

 

[Daemon]

so this will certainly help his cause in clinching that 'big hitter' role

Hardik Pandya slams 34 runs in an over | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Sudan was playing only his second game for Delhi, but was given the responsibility of bowling the 19th over. The first ball was dispatched over long-on. The second ball went for four byes but Pandya reckoned he had "nicked" it. Sudan followed up with a slower one, but Pandya tonked it over the cow corner. The next ball, a no-ball, went over midwicket for a third six. Then came a four through the same area and followed by a six over long-on. Sudan dug the final delivery in short and Pandya slapped it confidently over long-off to round off the most runs recorded in an over in T20 cricket. The previous record was 38, set by New Zealand's Scott Styris in July 2012.

 

[harsh.ag]

so this will certainly help his cause in clinching that 'big hitter' role

Hardik Pandya slams 34 runs in an over | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

39 in an over. Incredible really. Records tumbling everywhere.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea haha, that was a few days ago.

Definitely the player I'm most excited for. Just hoping he has the ability to make it at international level.

 

[Arjun]

This bloke has been chipping away plenty of limited-overs wickets, and is coming off a good OD tournament. In form, figures to back him, surely worth playing in ODIs? We're seeing Barinder Sran instead, picked from the same tournament in which he's been getting more. He's in the top three of the wickets tally, while Sran is not even in the top ten. I'm not so sure about his fitness and athleticism, though- that's what also (somehow) decides how fast someone can bowl.

 

[cnerd123]

Sid Kaul is another 120kmph swing bowler isn't he?

Sran clearly has been picked on potential more than anything else.

 

[OverratedSanity]

So Pankaj Singh is done now as far as international cricket is concerned?

 

[cnerd123]

So Pankaj Singh is done now as far as international cricket is concerned?

Seems like it

 

[OverratedSanity]

****ing travesty really. Wish he'd got that low decision and that **** (Dhawan or Jadeja forgot who) hadn't dropped a catch off him on debut.

 

[Daemon]

So mad at him for bowling tripe when he got the second chance to prove himself.

 

[OverratedSanity]

So mad at him for bowling tripe when he got the second chance to prove himself.

Yeah that was terrible. Still believe he deserved a few more gos though.

 

[cnerd123]

It was Jadeja. Sigh.

Tbf to the selectors, I can understand wanting to carry Yadav, Aaron and Bhuvi around with the Test squad given the way Ranji trophy is. They wont grow much playing on those pitches and will probably lose pace too.

We really need a domestic re-structure before anything can improve, but its easier said than done.

 

[Pratters]

The new Pune IPL team is coined Rising Pune SuperGiants after the owner and group initials RP Sanjiv Goenka. Dire stuff.

 

[indiaholic]

This is probably the biggest reason we need to save international cricket. Would be ashamed to tell anybody that I was a fan of Rising Pune SuperGiants.

 

[Daemon]

You're joking right? That's the worst sports team name of all time surely.

 

[Prince EWS]

This is probably the biggest reason we need to save international cricket. Would be ashamed to tell anybody that I was a fan of Rising Pune SuperGiants.

Just follow one of the other teams instead.