*Official* Bangladesh in India 2019

[honestbharani]

Hardly gets going these days doesn't he ?

2 good shots will last till Feb.

 

[andruid]

After much dillying and dallying I come to ask, why did Bangladesh only use 3 bowlers

 

[Prince EWS]

After much dillying and dallying I come to ask, why did Bangladesh only use 3 bowlers

They didn't, Cricinfo is just glitchy because their fourth bowler was a concussion sub.

 

[Burgey]

What happened to Mahmudullah?

 

[Burner]

He retired hurt I think.

 

[honestbharani]

Apparently, he is gonna bat today. Hopefully ****ing Rahane can hold on to catches off Ashwin at least today.

 

[cnerd123]

M00minul Haque

 

[h_hurricane]

And now Umesh averaging better than Srinath.

 

[morgieb]

So 4 innings wins in a row for India. Wow.

 

[harsh.ag]

Hapless series for the Bangers. But they came in to it slightly handicapped.

The pacers didn't let anyone off the hook. Excellent.

Will be interesting to see what they will go with in NZ. Bumrah, Ishant, and Shami, I feel. Might be okay to go with a 4 man pace attack. Otherwise, Jadeja probably. Jadeja and Santner battle royale for the left arm all rounder crown.

 

[honestbharani]

m gonna say it again. Jadeja as the lone spinner in a 4 man attack is just asking for trouble. As a matter of fact, he seems to be concentrating more on his batting himself. It was instructive what Kohli said in the post match presentation - " Our spinners can take wickets overseas as well". I hope that line of thought stays.

 

[Spark]

I didn't realise until now that India are coming back here next summer. Normally I'd object to repeat tours so close together but man, given the trajectory of the two sides that is going to be some series.

 

[Senile Sentry]

India might play with 4 seamers and Jadeja in NZ. Harsh on Vihari.

 

[Teja.]

All of a sudden we have 7 perfectly good test bowlers including 2 world class spinners and one potentially ATG pacer. What is this sorcery.

 

[Senile Sentry]

And also ironically this is their weakest batting line up in a long time. (Two decades perhaps ?)

 

[morgieb]

All of a sudden we have 7 perfectly good test bowlers including 2 world class spinners and one potentially ATG pacer. What is this sorcery.

Yeah all of Bumrah, Shami, Sharma, BK, Umesh, Ashwin, Jadeja and Kuldeep are well and truly Test class. Has been a very long time since any side has bowling depth that deep.

 

[morgieb]

And also ironically this is their weakest batting line up in a long time. (Two decades perhaps ?)

Harsh IMO. Reckon the lineup from about 2011-2013 was weaker. A batting lineup of Agarwal, Sharma, Pujara, Kohli and Rahane stacks up pretty well, especially if Vihari and Pant play.

 

[vcs]

We need to play Vihari overseas. He'll be fine at 6 IMO. Rohit and Agarwal's techniques will be heavily challenged in New Zealand. NZ is even more of a finger-spinner's graveyard than Australia so I think we should go with Jadeja, whose good batting form gives him the edge over Ashwin. I just don't see a situation where a skilled spinner will have a chance to bowl us to a win over there, because the pitches just don't break up. We need a defensive spinner who can give the quicks a break and keep the runrate to a minimum.

Agarwal
Rohit
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
Vihari
Jadeja
Saha
Ishant
Shami
Bumrah

Umesh desperately unlucky to miss out, but what can you do.

 

[silentstriker]

I didn't realise until now that India are coming back here next summer. Normally I'd object to repeat tours so close together but man, given the trajectory of the two sides that is going to be some series.

India’s next three Test series are in NZ, in Aus, and at home with England. They all should be fantastic!

 

[Noumenon]

Too self congratulatory to label BK being test class. Strictly serviceable on favorable tracks.

The batting line-up still suspect as a unit in alien conditions. We'll see in NZ soon enough.