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*Official* Australia in India 2023

Xix2565

International Regular
Think most of you are about Thakur's size without his ability or brains. Hence all the comments about luck and what not or the idea of making Shami bat at 8.
 

Andyhere

International 12th Man
Think most of you are about Thakur's size without his ability or brains. Hence all the comments about luck and what not or the idea of making Shami bat at 8.
Not sure which ability and brains you are talking about here? If he has both brains and ability he is yet to show it.
Size does matter when you play sports, agility is thing for sports and your can't be agile if you are overweight.
 

Xix2565

International Regular
Not sure which ability and brains you are talking about here? If he has both brains and ability he is yet to show it.
Size does matter when you play sports, agility is thing for sports and your can't be agile if you are overweight.
He has been taking a lot of wickets in ODIs in recent times even though his ER is terrible, and he's a better batter in comparison to the rest of the Indian pace attack apart from Hardik. Only way he hasn't shown it is if you're blind to be honest. Is he perfect, hell no, but he's not exactly useless if you're not memeing.
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
he averages 9 with the bat over the last 3-4 years. if his batting is why he is being picked it is ****ing stupid tstl

bet shami and bumrah could average the same and do his job as good as he does with the bat

we have shami, siraj and bumrah plus kuldeep to bowl 40 overs every match. we have hardik and jaddu to bowl 10 between them. what we could ideally use is a batting all rounder who can bowl 2-4 overs if someone is getting tonked and not a bowling allrounder like shardul

i say this as someone who loves the heart that shardul brings into the team
 

Xix2565

International Regular
Shami and Bumrah are not batters. To believe otherwise is being idiotic. And India have for a while now pursued more batting depth over bowling depth, since it provides more stability for the top order to go after the bowling early on.

I mean come on, this isn't just luck, surely you have to give some credit for his ability:


 

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Australia win the toss and choose to field. 1 David Warner, 2 Matt Short, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Marnus Labuschagne, 5 Josh Inglis, 6 Alex Carey (wk), 7 Cameron Green, 8 Sean Abbott, 9 Adam Zampa, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Spencer Johnson is the XI. Like the look of this alot more than the first game. If short and inglis make some runs in their respective spots in the next two games i'de even think of not playing green. His bowling's not good enough yet and his strike rotation in the middle overs isn't all their yet, still very block and bash, which isn't great for a #5 when you've got smith and marnus at 3 and 4.
 

Andyhere

International 12th Man
He has been taking a lot of wickets in ODIs in recent times even though his ER is terrible, and he's a better batter in comparison to the rest of the Indian pace attack apart from Hardik. Only way he hasn't shown it is if you're blind to be honest. Is he perfect, hell no, but he's not exactly useless if you're not memeing.
Oh you must have a microscope in your eyes. You see the 'what' but failed to see 'how'. When you are getting tonked all the time every one is going after you (look at his economy rate, its T20 economy in ODI), batsman tend to give their wicket away. If you have an out and out genuine fast bowler instead, you don't have to worry about scoring those extra runs that he is guaranteed to concede.
 
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Andyhere

International 12th Man
Not sure both siraj and bumrah should've been rested at the same time. Siraj after a break last game should've been playing today.
 
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