*Official* Bangladesh v India 2022/23

[Prince EWS]

There was this and some moaning about his daughter threatening to block him prior to this.

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Haha I knew this had happened but I didn't know he was the one who announced it. That's definitely the dumbest part of this saga - it seems like she wanted to keep it private but he was determined to let everyone know he was a total dick.

 

[cricman]

Fielding is an attitude. When the team was absolutely hot garbage in the early 2000's could at least hold in to the fact we had a good fielding unit.

Prior to this match Bangladesh dropped something like 35 catches/stumpings this calendar year.

Let's see how Tamim / Zakir opening pair works in 2023. Too much dead weight on this team and I don't know why.

 

[Anil]

It’s worse, his two personalities are trying to outgambhir each other…

 

[OverratedSanity]

Awww athar actually looks heartbroken

 

[honestbharani]

The problem with Virat is all the shots he had that he seems to have just given up on from around 2018. He seems to go on the front foot to every ball againnst every type of bowling irrespective of length. And its not even like a tentative half forward press, it is a full fledged front foot movement as if he can cover drive every ****ing ball from every ****ing length.

And absolutely no shots square of the wicket against spin on the leg side and against fast bowlers on the off side. He has to learn to keep his options open and he will get better as I dont think his overall hand-eye has gone or anything.

 

[Prince EWS]

Fielding is an attitude.

I think this perspective is kind of a myth tbh. Maybe it holds some weight in white ball cricket, but in Tests catching is a skill, not an attitude. You have to prioritise it, train for it and select teams at least partly based on it. Thinking you can fix bad catching by concentrating more on the field and being enthusiastic is part of the problem I think - no, you have to actually get good at catching instead.

 

[Arachnodouche]

The problem with Virat is all the shots he had that he seems to have just given up on from around 2018. He seems to go on the front foot to every ball againnst every type of bowling irrespective of length. And its not even like a tentative half forward press, it is a full fledged front foot movement as if he can cover drive every ****ing ball from every ****ing length.

And absolutely no shots square of the wicket against spin on the leg side and against fast bowlers on the off side. He has to learn to keep his options open and he will get better as I dont think his overall hand-eye has gone or anything.

Where is Dravid in all this? India's third best batsman ever is our coach and he can't give this **** a few pointers evident to the rest of us?

 

[Sunil1z]

This match was a battle of which Team chokes harder .
Pretty ordinary stuff from both sides.

 

[srbhkshk]

Yeah I don't know what Kohli's plan is, but trying to out-pujara the pujaraest Pujara seems to be a terrible one.

 

[Shri]

ashwin

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah I don't know what Kohli's plan is, but trying to out-pujara the pujaraest Pujara seems to be a terrible one.

Yeah he has been batting this way since 2018, we just noticed it less when he was actually making runs but at some point, bowlers figure you out, or your reflexes slow down and you need to add options.

Virat can go either the Sachin way or the Lara way. Smith seems to have gone the Sachin way and is basically a batting pragmatist in that he is always trying to figure out ways to score runs while minimizing risk. Lara trusted himself to bat like himself and made sure he made his starts count even though the number of single figure scores kept going up as he grew older.

Virat has to figure out what he wants to do but either way, he has to change how he bats for sure.

 

[honestbharani]

Pujara MOTS has to be a joke. I thought Shreyas Iyer deserves it more.

 

[duffer]

This match was a battle of which Team chokes harder .
Pretty ordinary stuff from both sides.

Except Ashwin. Beautiful, beautiful Ravi Ashwin

 

[anil1405]

Where is Dravid in all this? India's third best batsman ever is our coach and he can't give this **** a few pointers evident to the rest of us?

There can't be a better coach for the U19s than Dravid and there will be very few who would be worse than Dravid when it comes to coaching a senior side.

Also needless to say that when one guy tried to tell Kohli how things need to be done he was soon shown the door.

 

[Prince EWS]

ashwin

haha well earned

 

[Nintendo]

Bangladesh bowling vs the tail lost them this match aswell as the last, just seem to lose the plot if anything goes wrong, no matter how dominant a position there in before the opposition counter attacks.

Saying that, there still a quality side at home. Batting down to 8, proven test bats in liton+mushy, shakibs Allround ability, and Zakir Hussain looks like a quality addition.

 

[honestbharani]

There can't be a better coach for the U19s than Dravid and there will be very few who would be worse than Dravid when it comes to coaching a senior side.

Also needless to say that when one guy tried to tell Kohli how things need to be done he was soon shown the door.

That one guy has been shown the door by various franchise sides too. And if we are playing that game, our best coach since Wright has been a vocal supporter of Virat.

 

[honestbharani]

AshWINning = ATGWINning

 

[Arachnodouche]

Except Ashwin. Beautiful, beautiful Ravi Ashwin

Two relative positives from this series is both Ashwin and Pujara seem to have been inspired by bazball or whatever spin you want to put on that school. Seen them both make conscious attempts at breaking out and it seems to have freshened up their batting.

 

[Shri]