Placing our bets on "Test Cricket's Young Fab Four"

[Gob]

Would replace TPC with Pujara/Rahane/Bravo

Bravo hahaha

Eat a dick

 

[Gob]

Is Pant up for discussion?

If we are doing a fat four, sure

 

[Coronis]

Root is going to smash this series, 550 runs at an average of 100+

Impressive stuff against that attack.

 

[ankitj]

Gill would be one of them I assume.
Is Pant up for discussion?

Gill is going to implode in England, NZ and even SA.

 

[Victor Ian]

Gill is going to implode in England, NZ and even SA.

I wasn't sold on Gill becoming the world's premier batsman. Only because he has played so few games. But if fans are going to gambhir him from the start, it is only a matter of time.

 

[ankitj]

I wasn't sold on Gill becoming the world's premier batsman. Only because he has played so few games. But if fans are going to gambhir him from the start, it is only a matter of time.

Everyone I thought wasn't good enough turned out very good (Pandya, Jadeja, Thakur), so it's like I have a formula now.

 

[Daemon]

Everyone I thought wasn't good enough turned out very good (Pandya, Jadeja, Thakur), so it's like I have a formula now.

This plus not watching the game has made ankit the MVP for Indian cricket

 

[_00_deathscar]

This plus not watching the game has made ankit the MVP for Indian cricket

Shashtri, Kohli, even Rahane and Pujara and Ashwin and Jadeja and co can get ****ed. We all know the REAL reason we won the series.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

It's the massive state-sponsored doping program

 

[Bahnz]

Bravo hahaha

Eat a dick

It's really sad how Bravo has fallen away. Played some really sparkling innings in his first few years of international cricket, fully believe he had the potential to be at least a high 40's averaging batsman. Looked a shadow of his former self when WI toured this summer though.

 

[Flem274*]

a shadow is underselling it. he was a mess. looked like an associate batsman.

 

[OverratedSanity]

So Smith and Root both lost series in pretty embarrassing fashion at home while Kane and Kohli's teams ran away mid tour and their teams won without them. Are we even sure the four of them are any good at all? Devon Conway and Washington Sundar the GOATs imo.

 

[_00_deathscar]

The real question is 20 years from now, who will be the FLAB four?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Kohli
Smith
Root
Williamson

 

[Gob]

Fat hoe

 

[TheJediBrah]

Smith and Kohli will get fat
Williamson might get a bit chubby, like a hobbit
Root will be a cadaverous old man

 

[Gob]

Smith and Kohli will get fat
Williamson might get a bit chubby, like a hobbit
Root will be a cadaverous old man

Look to the past and you will see the future

 

[honestbharani]

FWIW, I have been guilty of under rating Smith a lot as well. Not that I did not recognize how good he was but like Zinzan said, maybe his technique made me rate him lesser than I ever should have. But in my defence, I have been singing that he will be a good test bat since late 2012 and esp. since his first two innings against India in India in that 2013 tour. I do not want to get into details of what weakness dogs which of these 4 but ultimately batsmen are rated on their output. Smith can only perform against the attacks and on the pitches he is playing and he has done that better than anybody. He is like a superior model of Sehwag and God knows how high I rate Sehwag inspite of the holes in his resume. Smith is easily the best batsman currently going based on output so far. I do not give a damn as to what Root and KW did in more "difficult" conditions when the fact remains that Smith still would have faced much better bowling that is suited to those conditions than those two gentlemen do, given their home games are in England and NZ respectively. All 4 have the potential to retire as ATG batsmen and I expect there to be some merry go rounds on who is #1 at a particular time. But it is absolutely silly to think Smith is not the clear #1 now.

Still stand by this tbh. But funnily enough Smith has never let that #1 slot get away from him in tests. Maybe it will happen now.

 

[Gob]

Still stand by this tbh. But funnily enough Smith has never let that #1 slot get away from him in tests. Maybe it will happen now.

If it happens, i feel like it will be for some one new not from the 3 in this question. Kohli has been missing out a lot, Williamson has a big asterisk in front his name at away performances which i doubt will get any better and Root remains to be the equivalent of Greg from mind hunter

 

[Fuller Pilch]

If it happens, i feel like it will be for some one new not from the 3 in this question.

Mr Conway perhaps