*Official* India in West indies 2023

[silentstriker]

I won’t be surprised if I’m SA, they go back to playing without Ashwin

 

[Beamer]

Would it be better to have an Under 23 side in First Class Cricket. Get the Academy playing some competitive games to enhanse their development

Exactly right. I think the academy are supposed to play in the next 4 day season and there has been talk of an under 23 league.

It's a clear problem. Look at T & Ts squad for example, it has noone under the age of 25 and people like Jason Mohammed are given contracts when they are in their mid late 30s averaging 28 in FC cricket.

It's also why Jacob Bethel chose to move to England, there is just no route for under 23s unless you are insanely gifted like a Seales or a Hety.

 

[silentstriker]

I've only been following the score and not able to watch the Test. Have the West Indies really produced a rank turner to play against India of all teams, or is the gulf in quality here just so depressingly chasmic that the pitch didn't really matter?

While definitely bit of both, if you had asked the Indian team what kind of pitch they wanted, they would have made this one - basically nullified WI advantages and accentuated the WI disadvantages. The Indian pace attack this year was new and inexperienced while the spin attack was world class. WI has a much better pace than spin attack. Yet they chose to let the Indian pacers off the hook and neutralize their own bowlers.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

180 overs spares india 1/0
My MOTM 2 youngster Alice Athanaze (75 runs /2 catches &1 Wkt)& Jaiswal

Most 10-wicket match-hauls for India
8 - Anil Kumble
8 - Ravichandran Ashwin
5 - Harbhajan Singh

7/71 and 12/131 are the best innings and match returns respectively for Ashwin in an away Test.

Ashwin Slaps MGMT of india regarding not let him to play in WTC final.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Most Test wins for India against a team
32 vs Australia
31 vs England
23 vs West Indies
22 vs New Zealand
22 vs Sri Lanka

Five-fors in both innings of a Test most often
11 - Muttiah Muralitharan
8 - Rangana Herath
6 - Sydney Barnes
6 - Ravichandran Ashwin

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Most wickets in India vs West Indies Tests
89 - Kapil Dev
76 - Malcolm Marshall
74 - Anil Kumble
72 - Ravichandran Ashwin
68 - Srinivas Venkataraghavan

Most five-fors in India vs West Indies Tests
6 - Malcolm Marshall
6 - Ravichandran Ashwin
5 - Harbhajan Singh

 

[G. S. Kohli]

India bowlers with five-fors in each innings of an away Test

Bishan Singh Bedi vs AUS, Perth, 1977

Bhagwath Chandrasekhar vs AUS, Melbourne, 1977

Venkatesh Prasad vs SA, Durban, 1996

Irfan Pathan vs BAN, Dhaka, 2004

Irfan Pathan vs ZIM, Harare, 2005

Ravichandran Ashwin vs WI, Roseau, 2023


BBM for India in an away Test

12/104 - Bhagwath Chandrasekhar vs AUS, Melbourne, 1977

12/126 - Irfan Pathan vs ZIM, Harare, 2005

12/131 - Ravichandran Ashwin vs WI, Roseau, 2023

12/279 - Anil Kumble vs AUS, Sydney, 2004

11/96 - Irfan Pathan vs BAN, Dhaka, 2004

 

[G. S. Kohli]

India’s innings-wins outside of Asia
By inns and 2 runs vs AUS, Sydney, 1978
By inns and 46 runs vs ENG, Headingley, 2002
By inns and 90 runs vs ZIM, Bulawayo, 2005
By inns and 92 runs vs WI, North Sound, 2016
By inns and 141 runs vs WI, Roseau, 2023

BBM in India vs West Indies Tests
16/136 - Narendra Hirwani, Chennai, 1988
12/121 - Andy Roberts, Chennai, 1975
12/131 - Ravichandran Ashwin, Roseau, 2023
11/89 - Malcolm Marshall, Port of Spain, 1989
11/126 - Wes Hall, Kanpur, 1958

 

[G. S. Kohli]

India do not wants to bat last here so they bats according to Rahul Dravids Plan B after. Loosing toss

 

[The Sean]

India bowlers with five-fors in each innings of an away Test

Bishan Singh Bedi vs AUS, Perth, 1977

Bhagwath Chandrasekhar vs AUS, Melbourne, 1977

Venkatesh Prasad vs SA, Durban, 1996

Irfan Pathan vs BAN, Dhaka, 2004

Irfan Pathan vs ZIM, Harare, 2005

Ravichandran Ashwin vs WI, Roseau, 2023


BBM for India in an away Test

12/104 - Bhagwath Chandrasekhar vs AUS, Melbourne, 1977

12/126 - Irfan Pathan vs ZIM, Harare, 2005

12/131 - Ravichandran Ashwin vs WI, Roseau, 2023

12/279 - Anil Kumble vs AUS, Sydney, 2004

11/96 - Irfan Pathan vs BAN, Dhaka, 2004

Irfan Pathan greatness confirmed, as if we didn't already know.

 

[halba]

180 overs spares india 1/0
My MOTM 2 youngster Alice Athanaze (75 runs /2 catches &1 Wkt)& Jaiswal

Most 10-wicket match-hauls for India
8 - Anil Kumble
8 - Ravichandran Ashwin
5 - Harbhajan Singh

7/71 and 12/131 are the best innings and match returns respectively for Ashwin in an away Test.

Ashwin Slaps MGMT of india regarding not let him to play in WTC final.

Ashwin now the greatest cricketer India has produced

 

[honestbharani]

Yes, it was...such a feeling of pride as a West Indian.

My two countrymen, Sarwan and Chanderpaul made 100s

watched the full game. Star even got Shastri and a studio analyst which they never do for non-India games.

 

[trundler]

Ashwin now the greatest cricketer India has produced

Least overreactionary Halba post

 

[Kirkut]

Ashwin is breaching the Hadlee level statistical awesomeness.

 

[The Sean]

I love the paradox that Ashwin is a more locked-in selection for India's All Time XI than he is for the current Test team.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

One more....

Youngest debutant with 150 or more

Miandad( pak) -19 yr. & 119 D.163 vs nz

A. Jackson ( aus)-19 yr & 149 D. 164 vs eng

D. Walters (aus)19 yr. 354 D. 155
Vs eng

G. Hadlee -(WI)20 yr. 226 D. 176
Vs eng

Y. Jaiswal- ind 21 yr. 196 D 171
Vs WI


Yr year
D days

Jee so far 25 players scored 150 or more on test Debut 6 of them are Australian

Jaiswal selected in indian team ( T20) for Asian ( 19th) games for men indian cricket team i wonder if he ready to play under Ruturaj Gaikwad Now?

First time india will sends their Men & women cricket team in Asian games (019th Asian games in Chaina (28 Sep - 08 Oct. 2023.)

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Irfan Pathan greatness confirmed, as if we didn't already know.

Irfan Pathan was on headline on many indian newspaper when he took test Hattrick in very 1st over of Karachi test
( Still world record no bowler took Hattrick in First over of test match -- 1st >3 ball of the test)

1st ball Opener Butt out -0
2nd ball Yunis khan out-0
3rd ball Mohd. Yusuf out -0

 

[Qlder]

One more....

Youngest debutant with 150 or more

Miandad( pak) -19 yr. & 119 D.163 vs nz

A. Jackson ( aus)-19 yr & 149 D. 164 vs eng

D. Walters (aus)19 yr. 354 D. 155
Vs eng

G. Hadlee -(WI)20 yr. 226 D. 176
Vs eng

Y. Jaiswal- ind 21 yr. 196 D 171
Vs WI

That would be the great George Headley, not Hadlee

 

[BigBeefy]

Really sad to see a great Test nation like the Windies in the doldrums like this. It’s sad for the whole game.

 

[honestbharani]

I love the paradox that Ashwin is a more locked-in selection for India's All Time XI than he is for the current Test team.

Its really not a paradox. Its just the idiocy of the team management.