Indian Cricket Dhaba

[cnerd123]

Yeee Dravid

Would be the perfect foil to Kohli's overly macho, in your face, 4 slips to Aaron bowling over the wicket to Warner, #intent style of cricket.

 

[vcs]

Yeee Dravid

Would be the perfect foil to Kohli's overly macho, in your face, 4 slips to Aaron bowling over the wicket to Warner, #intent style of cricket.

Please let this happen.

 

[Pratters]

Dravid expressed a few months back that he liked the under 19 and A job as it lets him work part time and devote time with his family as well. I am not sure how up he would be for a job as hectic as Indian coach right now. I can see it happening eventually in a few years but am skeptical it will happen right now.

 

[longranger]

Not a fan of this - for the current time. I wanted Dravid to spend a few years with the 'A' team to really revolutionize and professionalize the set-up. And then step up and take the India job. I worry if the India job turns out to be too stressful (which it will be if/when India lose), he will be tempted to quit the profession and India would lose a great coach.

I'm fine with continuing with Shastri for now. Good Test performances, Asia Cup winners and WT20 semi-finalists is par for the course.

 

[Pratters]

Yeah, Shastri seems to have a good tuning with Kohli. If ain't broken, don't fix it. Would prefer that they have a batting and bowling coach as well tbh.

 

[Jono]

Rahul will hate it. He obviously didn't like captaincy (or at least the BS that comes with being Indian captain), considering he quit in 2007 despite the historic England test series win a month or so earlier. I know he's older and wiser now almost a decade later, but surely he'll hate the crap that comes with being Indian coach too.

 

[doesitmatter]

My only worry is with his text book approach I hope he does not curtail the natural flair that most of the Indian players have..At the u19 level he is a great mentor/coach to have..Having this great player explain the technical , psychological and mental aspect of the game to young wards , nothing like it but him being a coach for the Indian team i am not sure, hopefully the team will not become too defensive..One thing for sure he will bring a certain class to the Indian setup and the non-Indians might start liking the Indian team

 

[Pratters]

Rahul will hate it. He obviously didn't like captaincy (or at least the BS that comes with being Indian captain), considering he quit in 2007 despite the historic England test series win a month or so earlier. I know he's older and wiser now almost a decade later, but surely he'll hate the crap that comes with being Indian coach too.

Dravid as captain is an interesting one. He mentioned to Bhogle on the Cricket Legends show how a lot of people correlate captaincy with ODI cricket in India. He won a series in England and WI. He also mentioned how he thought it was necessary to try new things in ODI cricket as they didn't do as well in the 18 months prior to him taking over as captain. Every one blames Chappell for the failure but I think Dravid was at least trying to lead the team in his own way. Chappell obviously had a great influence as well in it.

 

[vcs]

ODI results were mixed under Dravid I think, we won a series in Pakistan 4-1 chasing in all the games (the rise of the Dhoni-Yuvraj combo), but lost the Test series (the infamous Pathan hattrick game ), then did poorly in the Champions Trophy and World Cup.

 

[Pratters]

ODIs we definitely failed. Did too many experiments even months before the world cup and had no real stability.

 

[longranger]

So its off-season for the Indian national team for the next 3 months? The FTP has us touring Zimbabwe for a Test and 3 ODIs (don't see the Test happening, and the ODIs will probably just be a glorified India A tour) and then to the Caribbean for 4 tests. Looking forward to Kohli winning us another away series and our players getting valuable away runs and wickets.

That's all the excursion for 2016-17 it seems. We have a mammoth home season - Bangladesh (1 Test), New Zealand (3 Tests, 5 ODIs), England (5 Tests, 5 ODIs, 1 T20I) and Australia (4 Tests).

I expect Virat Kohli's Test batting average to be 50+ by the time the season ends.

 

[Arjun]

So now India play just one T20I this year. I wonder what to make of it, since they play very little T20I cricket in comparison to their NZ/WI counterparts.

Ranji Trophy will be a pool to dip into, since we're now seeing consistent performances over the past 3 years. Plenty of Mumbai/Karnataka players may be in the running for both Tests and ODIs. Robin Uthappa, Rahul Lokesh and Surya Yadav should be contenders for places in the XI depending on the format, though Shreyas Iyer may be too raw and young for the national side. One bloke we'd like to see bowl in ODIs for India is Sid Kaul. With a strike rate so impressive, he can be useful to the side.

 

[Pratters]

Reason we don't play lots of T20 Arjun is that ODIs give more ad time and hence more revenue. Been so from the time of Dalmiya and why India never encouraged T20 in the first place till it started to explode.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

So now India play just one T20I this year. I wonder what to make of it, since they play very little T20I cricket in comparison to their NZ/WI counterparts.

In between the world cups, 2014 and 2016,

India played 16 t20s
NZ played 13 t20s
WI played 8 t20s

 

[SkyBlue]

ODIs we definitely failed. Did too many experiments even months before the world cup and had no real stability.

I think the Ganguly saga dint actually help either.

That was the time when Chappell was breeding in some young talent and giving them more chances.
But Ganguly scored some runs in first class cricket and there was this sudden movement to include him back in the thick of things.When you look back at it,it was a mistake to bring him back.

 

[G.I.Joe]

FMD, the Supreme court is such a joke.

>Wants BCCI to enact the Lodha Committee recommendations, one of which is banning politicians from the body
>The BCCI claims the Lodha committee recommendations are undesirable and not well thought out
>In the face of BCCI opposition, the Supreme court subtly threatens to enforce the recommendations by handing over the functioning of the BCCI to.......politicians

Can't government carry out BCCI's public functions, asks Supreme Court | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

You know that guy you meet who seems so intelligent and well meaning; you like his ideas and support them, but then he falls in love with the sound of his own voice, doesn't know when to stop talking and eventually leaks out one idea too many that makes you now wonder if he really wasn't an idiot all along?

 

[honestbharani]

yeah well, the BCCI is run by idiots too... so its just an overdose of idiocy at the moment in these hearings..

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

'India to host day-night Test against New Zealand' | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[weldone]

'India to host day-night Test against New Zealand' | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

yay

 

[G.I.Joe]

'India to host day-night Test against New Zealand' | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

I'm no weather expert, but I reckon the venue has to be an inland one to avoid humidity (dew) and it's got to be winter?