Which team will win the series in India?

[Fuller Pilch]

Haha this decade. 5 matches.

Has had some really soft games in that time as well.

Admittedly in pretty bad batting conditions (especially early on though).

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

World XI to play in India:
Karunaratne
Latham
Williamson (c)
Smith
Root
Rizwan (wk)
Stokes
Cummins
Wagner
Yasir Shah
Lyon



Or possibly drop Cummins for Babar Azam and stack the batting, although I don't know how Stokes would feel about batting at 8.

Would want to fit Shakib in there somewhere maybe?

 

[Daemon]

Would want to fit Shakib in there somewhere maybe?

Yeah 2nd player picked after Smith imo

 

[Noumenon]

As good as India are, they aren't good enough to overcome a world XI. But they'd still win a randomly organized test/series because the opposition would struggle to play as a team.

 

[CodeOfWisden]

Sri Lanka. They produced 2 of the 3 top cricketers of the 21st century (including the greatest spinner of all time) and they do random things even with weak teams (series wins in England and South Africa as evidence).

You know na that they have never won a single test in India? Not even one.....

 

[ParwazHaiJunoon]

Only one Team can win a Test series in India atm.
But hosts are too terrified to invite that team.

 

[ParwazHaiJunoon]

Whether match is played at Modi or at Amit Shah Wankhede, this Team would beat India in India.

Azhar
Karunaratne
Labuschange
Smith
Fawad Alam
Shakib
Rizwan (wk) (c)
Cummins (v.c)
Hasan Ali
Yasir Shah
Embuldeniya

 

[sunilz]

Whether match is played at Modi or at Amit Shah Wankhede, this Team would beat India in India.

Azhar
Karunaratne
Labuschange
Smith
Fawad Alam
Shakib
Rizwan (wk) (c)
Cummins (v.c)
Hasan Ali
Yasir Shah
Embuldeniya

Bowling is extremely rubbish except Cummins. This team isn't winning anything in India unless, Smith has a monstrous series

 

[Gob]

I cant think of any put together current team winning in India so let's expand it for the last 20 years

Cook
Hayden
Amla
Kallis
Smith
Martyn
Gilchrist
Warne
Steyn
Muralidaran
McGrath

Yeah both Warne and Murali have been meh in India but I'd still take my chances with them

 

[karan_fromthestands]

My money is on Bangladesh.

Same here, they have spinners who can deliver in these conditions. Taijul is a weird one, bowls too slow. But other than that, they have spinners who can bowl Axar's pace with accuracy and make life hell for the batsmen on turners. Their batsmen are also decent against spin. If SL and Ban stop playing musical chairs in team selection, they can be a serious threat.

 

[ParwazHaiJunoon]

Bowling is extremely rubbish except Cummins. This team isn't winning anything in India unless, Smith has a monstrous series

Cummins, Yasir, Shakib, Embuldenia SLA is a very good attack in SC. Hasan Ali is Umesh like skiddy bowler who also gets reverse swing.

 

[sunilz]

Cummins, Yasir, Shakib, Embuldenia SLA is a very good attack in SC. Hasan Ali is Umesh like skiddy bowler who also gets reverse swing.

Which attack is better in Asian condition ?

Umesh
Shami
Axar
Jadeja
Ashwin

Vs

Cummins
Shakib
Yasir
Hasan
Embuldenia

Check their average in Asian conditions.

 

[Chrish]

Only one Team can win a Test series in India atm.
But hosts are too terrified to invite that team.

Serious question how good is current Pak team? It's difficult to gauge the quality as they have barley played Cricket recently and when they did, it was against the teams that aren't that strong in these conditions.

 

[Chrish]

Which team would have been harder to beat? 2000s Indian team or current team? That team had ATG batting line-up while this one is a bowling juggernaut. Looking by results only it's current team but we don't have any equivalent of that SA or Aus side atm.

 

[Kirkut]

We do not have Dravid and Laxman this time, so any team with a good spin attack stands a chance to beat us.

 

[Victor Ian]

Australia and England also have the financial and institutional resources to spend months if not years preparing the side for the conditions with A tours, preparatory camps in the subcontinent, national training centres where they could put in dustbowl pitches, all the video and data analysis money can buy etc etc.

England wouldn't have won in 2012 and we wouldn't have gotten as close as we did in 2017 without extensive preparation - preparation that, unfortunately, isn't particularly accessible for most Test nations.

That is all true, but is it enough? I feel the only way a non asian country learns to play spin there is to have players play seasons there. At least one!
Australia really needs to add a dustbowl into the shield. Or create an All Stars shield game at end of season up at Darwin.

 

[Shri]

Karunaratne
Latham
Williamson
Root
Smith
Stokes
Shakib
Rizwan
Cummins
Shah
Anderson

 

[_00_deathscar]

Whether match is played at Modi or at Amit Shah Wankhede, this Team would beat India in India.

Azhar
Karunaratne
Labuschange
Smith
Fawad Alam
Shakib
Rizwan (wk) (c)
Cummins (v.c)
Hasan Ali
Yasir Shah
Embuldeniya

I mean they might win A test or something...but they aren't winning any series.

 

[srbhkshk]

Shah would go 200/1 in India and the one wicket would be Pant trying to slog him to Pakistan, it's better to select finger spinners in Indian conditions.

 

[Daemon]

Shah would do pretty well and so would Lyon I imagine. The former is a brilliant non-SENA bowler while the latter seems to have figured out his subcontinent game since ~2017. If Leach is troubling us then Embuldeniya will too if he can crack the side.

Shakib is also obviously good.

Our batting is quite poor atm don't forget. I think the series outcome would rest heavily on Smith's performance.