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  1. Apex Predator

    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Gimmicky spinners rarely work in long formats & Abrar never had any real mystery to work with. Pakistan experts seem to be of the opinion that he never wanted to play long form cricket.
  2. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    The 2021-23 Indian batting line up is collectively worst in last 3 decades of Indian history easily. Pant Sundar Axar Ashwin rescue acts saved us from some humiliating defeats. Kohli Pujara and Rahane all three were averaging in mid 20's together at some point lol.
  3. Apex Predator

    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Sajid had MoTM effort in BD and Nawaz offers more on a turning track than Shaheen &, he can bat. Also Sajid did bowl decently in Sydney test vs Australia.
  4. Apex Predator

    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Pakistan seam attack is in dire situation. There is no one in the country who can bowl 140+ consistently forget about reversing at 145k to blow away the opposition. What they do have is decent spinners who have won them tests in BD (Sajid Khan) SL (Noman) and vs SA at home. English spin attack...
  5. Apex Predator

    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Pakistan should make a raging Turner next game. Drop Abrar as he is a below average spinner. Bring Sajid Khan the off spinner and Noman Ali. Mohammad Nawaz over Shaheen. Tayyab Tahir and Kamran Ghulam in middle order. Both good players of spin by current Pakistani standards.
  6. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Pujara by 2021 was pretty much done as a good player of spin. He was averaging in mid 20's for a reason. Eng tour of India , NZ series and Mirpur test in BD BGT in India showed his decline was irreversible. Pre ACL tear Pujara was a different gravy with wide array of shot against spin. Dude's...
  7. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    In my opinion going into test series India didn't even had one left hander to tackle left arm spin that time. Dravid & TM had clearly messed up the playing XI wrt red soil Mumbai's raging Turner. Mayank is freakishly good player of spin if not for him we lose that test and series too.
  8. Apex Predator

    ***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

    Bumrah has pretty great average as a bowler everywhere too but notice he averages in mid 40's in NZ in 2 tests both Basin and Christchurch were green mambas for the most part. These are the conditions which a genuine tall swing bowler with higher release point works.
  9. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Latham also saying attacking cricket is the only way that works in India. Except the Southee part I agree with him. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ind-vs-nz-2024-25-take-it-to-them-how-latham-wants-new-zealand-to-tackle-india-1454800
  10. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    In Mumbai red soil Turner. I remember Indians had a shocking batting line up against spin back then. Finished Pujara Rahane Saha Kohli's struggle vs left arm spin are well documented. India didn't even have a left hander. Only 1 good player of spin in Mayank &, he basically won the test on his...
  11. Apex Predator

    ***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

    I remember we picked Pankaj Singh in England &, he was a seam bowler at best & wasn't impressive. Only Bhuvi as genuine swing bowler comes to mind who did well. Shami a out and out seam bowler who kinda beats the edge a lot with lesser success rate. Siraj with his wobble seam variation does well...
  12. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Not easy attacking Indian Pacers except Siraj these days but spinners can be taken down if you are willing to be positive. Defensive cricket will never work in India. NZ must dump Southee, don't play Henry & attack India with Ben Sears and O Rourke. They have a shocking spin attack to rest...
  13. Apex Predator

    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Windies need Motie fit and firing & another spinner even Roston Chase would work against this line up. That series in Feb could be tight.
  14. Apex Predator

    ***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

    One of those potential picks if we are looking at swing bowler specifically. Indians don't produce taller swing bowlers who bowl at good clip & hence we struggle in places like Eng and NZ. Seam bowlers are easier to find in Ranji circuit.
  15. Apex Predator

    *OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024

    Pitch will definitely break up on day 4-5. Pakistani pace attack has been disappointing. But Abrar takes the cake. As expected he has been c*p to say the least. Not international standard simply. Noman and Zahid Mehmood would have done better.
  16. Apex Predator

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    In my opinion NZ don't have a shot with safe batters. From what I have seen Chapman is good on both sets of sweep shots. That shot is always key to have in India. India likely won't prepare dust bowls as we saw vs England and Bangladesh. Play folks who can score at a decent clip. Ashwin and...
  17. Apex Predator

    ***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

    SA's recent form is poor but with Miller Klassen Rabada Nortje back it could be a thrilling series. They would be at full strength likely.
  18. Apex Predator

    ***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

    Vaibhav Arora is younger taller & twice the swing bowler Mukesh is. Mukesh is more of a short seam bowler. Wish he was 5-6,ks quicker. He would be real handful.
  19. Apex Predator

    ***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

    Billion people don't play cricket. Talent pool is bigger but it is region centric & I am sure Indian HDI indicates that cricket is still pretty much a luxury sport played by few. North East, North West & Eastern India don't think produce many players nor they have good infrastructure to play...
  20. Apex Predator

    Road to India in Australia 2024-25

    Sarfaraz maybe H Rana Dayal Mukesh can be picked for A series. There are 2 4 day games. Pretty sure Jaiswal Gill Jurel will play second one. The team playing vs BD in T20Is will be same against SA.

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