G. S. Kohli
International Vice-Captain
Under 3000 in First class cricket wih 6 Century/ 16 scores of 50 (91 catches / 11 stumping in 83 innings) ( 215 best)Slippy is it you ?
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Under 3000 in First class cricket wih 6 Century/ 16 scores of 50 (91 catches / 11 stumping in 83 innings) ( 215 best)Slippy is it you ?
Bharat has already played in a warmup in England and has been the regular in India A, makes zero sense to give him all that practice as backup and not play him when there is a needI do not think india dare to try Bharat/ Jitesh sharma or someone from Domestic cricket.
Rahul is okayed even with his some Limitation of Level 1 keeping.
Saha also best keeper but i do not know if he is active or not.
Naaaah wat?Really looking forward to this series, really could go either way.
Only downside is its not on the box in the UK.
Haven't been this hyped about a test series in a while itbtReally looking forward to this series, really could go either way.
Only downside is its not on the box in the UK.
Yeah I would have thought he’d be the obvious back upIf we wanted a reserve keeper while also letting Inglis get some FC games in why not pick Pierson? He's been making runs consistently at shield level for a while and made 230+ runs across two innings without being dismissed to drag AUS A to a win vs Sri Lanka when we toured earlier in the year.
Ehh pierson's performed at A level and made shield runs recently while inglis hasn't strung together cosistent FC games in 2 years and when he has appeared he's been dreadful. Still think inglis has the higher cieling and is a better keeper, but any rational person would have Pierson ahead.Yeah Pierson over Inglis for me too but I don't think that's the pecking order atm
He is the better bowler by a mile. The issue is he is turning it as the same direction as LyonFeels like they will pick Agar, when I would prefer Murphy.
Cummins, Haze, Lyon, Murphy with Green and Head as the 5th/6th options.
Is what I would go with:
Warner
Khawaja
Labuschagne
Smith
Head
Carey
Green
Cummins
Lyon
Hazlewood
Murphy
Yeah, and it's not even just that - he's such a similar bowler to Lyon in general.He is the better bowler by a mile. The issue is he is turning it as the same direction as Lyon
Kuldeep turns it the same way as Ashwin anyway tbf.if india had to pick two spinners and their choices were ashwin, a labclone of ashwin and kuldeep yadav, they're taking the ashwin clone every day of the week and twice on sundays imho
Murphy turns it more and gets more drift than Lyon.Yeah, and it's not even just that - he's such a similar bowler to Lyon in general.
The Ashes squad should only have two spinners in it and I'd just take Lyon and Murphy in that case because there's no way you'd even want to play two at once in England, but I can see the argument for Agar/Swepson ahead of Murphy as a second spinner as opposed to a backup one.
yep i got kuldeep mixed up with the man the myth the legend the great karn sharmaKuldeep turns it the same way as Ashwin anyway tbf.
If their choices were Ashwin, a labclone of Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Murali Kartik I reckon they'd pick Mishra or Kartik. Good spinners can bowl super long spells anyway so there's not that much point picking two extremely similar ones - just don't take Lyon off if that's what's working.
Bumrah has ring rust!? Sounds painful.They're trying to get him match fit but you'd think there'd be a fair bit of ring rust there