The Better Player: Ravi Ashwin vs. Shaun Pollock

[ma1978]

I also don’t think this batting is any worse than 2003/2004. Yes you had the big dogs but it really fell off from there and the opening batting was weaker with no real partner to Sehwag. I would take Sharma on present form over Sehwag in any case.

Ashwin, Jadeja and Pant at 6, 7 and 8 create an X factor the 2003/2004 team didn’t have.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I mean, how does that make it not a "patta" wicket? I think he has had good spells, not just 5fers, in our pattas. I agree the one spell was on a greentop though.

I'm just saying "blown away", "best batting lineup" and "patta" never coincided.

 

[honestbharani]

I'm just saying "blown away", "best batting lineup" and "patta" never coincided.

I seem to recall differently but either way, even if not blown away, he presented the greatest threat to our best batting line ups on pattas.

 

[Xix2565]

*Into your mums house, who I'm banging btw.

So Kohli's India smashes Punter's Aussies 4-0 easy then.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I also don’t think this batting is any worse than 2003/2004. Yes you had the big dogs but it really fell off from there and the opening batting was weaker with no real partner to Sehwag. I would take Sharma on present form over Sehwag in any case.

Ashwin, Jadeja and Pant at 6, 7 and 8 create an X factor the 2003/2004 team didn’t have.

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Sachin
Ganguly
Laxman

****s all over today's batting line-up

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Sachin
Ganguly
Laxman

****s all over today's batting line-up

In 2004 it was akash chopra who sucked. But the rest do indeed **** all over the current lineup.

 

[honestbharani]

They never played together in 2004.

 

[TheJediBrah]

In 2004 it was akash chopra who sucked. But the rest do indeed **** all over the current lineup.

Yeah i know I was just saying that was the premium crew around those years

 

[honestbharani]

In 2004 it was akash chopra who sucked. But the rest do indeed **** all over the current lineup.

*Yuvraj Singh

 

[OverratedSanity]

We might have won both 03/04 in Australia and drew in 04 in India if we'd just had a competent keeper. Parthiv was rubbish at pivotal points in Sydney and at Chennai.

 

[sunilz]

We might have won both 03/04 in Australia and drew in 04 in India if we'd just had a competent keeper. Parthiv was rubbish at pivotal points in Sydney and at Chennai.

I think BG Trophy should be renamed to Parthiv-Paine trophy

 

[ma1978]

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Sachin
Ganguly
Laxman

****s all over today's batting line-up

Batting isn’t just the top six.

I would argue the difference between 7, 8 and 9 today counteract /the difference between 2 and 6. And the presence of Pant, Ashwin and Jadeja and even Axar allow a India to play five bowlers which leads to more results

 

[ma1978]

Mid 2000s India were desperately missing an all rounder.

 

[ma1978]

Pathan maybe but it flickered off too quickly

 

[honestbharani]

FWIW, watching Sehwag, Pathan, Kaif and Parthiv smash Warney around was fun in the 2004 Chennai test. He bowled brilliantly to get that 6/150 or whatever and the record breaking wicket happened there too and he got a lovely standing ovation from the Knowledgeable Chennai Crowd ™ . We had a bunch of Aussies in our stand who said they had been in the same class as Warne in middle school and they took videos of his wicket. They also had a DVD of the Clarke 100 from the Bangalore test, which Slater walked over to collect from them. By that, I mean, we were in the first tier above the pavilion, and he walked around the boundary and asked them to throw the DVD case and caught it.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Mid 2000s India were desperately missing an all rounder.

Sanjay Bangar tbh

 

[h_hurricane]

I think BG Trophy should be renamed to Parthiv-Paine trophy

Or Paine without Pant trophy.

 

[Calm_profit]

This thread has turned into sh*t.

 

[_00_deathscar]

This thread has turned into sh*t.

The bigger question is was it ever not?

 

[h_hurricane]

And no one even talks about Shaun Pollock now