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    *Official* England in New Zealand 2019

    Latham, Taylor, Williamson, Santner, and Boult are shoo-ins into the England XI, and right now BJ Watling for sure over Buttler. The England shoo-ins would be Root, Stokes, and Anderson while all the rest are debateable. A three-way tie between Wagner, Archer and Broad depending on conditions...
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    *Official* South Africa in India, Sep/Oct 2019

    Lol, as if India is going to not provide spin friendly pitches because the opposition has Keshav Maharaj? I mean, he's a pretty decent bowler and he'll probably do pretty well but he's going to be a non-factor in India's preparation. Rightly or wrongly. Also against England and Australia at...
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    4th Test at Old Trafford, Manchester

    As a neutral, I think Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Starc are probably the best players in this XI after Smith, Warner, Cummins, and Lyon. Khawaja looks a class apart from the likes of Wade and Travis Head imo, and one of those two should have made way for him if they wanted to bring more right...
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    *Official* India in West Indies 2019

    Interesting question: who is India's no.2 test bowler right now if they play two fast bowlers and two spinners. Does Shami play ahead of Ishant?
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    Official Jasprit Bumrah fanboying thread

    This is peak fanboying with both us taking that screenshot and posting at the same point!!
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    Official Jasprit Bumrah fanboying thread

    Interesting graphic showing Bumrah's release point being 50cm ahead of others such as Kemar Roach in this example, another aspect of his unique action which makes it harder for the batsmen facing him.
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    Official Jasprit Bumrah fanboying thread

    Well Umesh played all through the 2016/17 home season while the rest got great averages playing in South Africa, England Australia West Indies against relatively weak batting line ups and spicy pitches. Coming back to Bumrah -> what's differentiating him in this series is his boomerang swing...
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    4th Test at Old Trafford, Manchester

    Big blow with Anderson ruled out of the Ashes. With all the Archer hype, we shouldn't forget that Anderson has been England's greatest threat at home for the past decade and has been in great form in the past 2-3 home seasons. Especially with the weather around + the weak batting techniques off...
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    *Official* India in West Indies 2019

    Not quite. He used to bowl 140, maybe 145 at best and now bowls 130 for Hampshire. Still a very good bowler though.
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    What is fast bowling mostly about?

    Same as any other athletic sport. Starts with the right genetics -> fast twitch fibres, body dimensions (height/width), flexibility of your joints, strength through legs/back/shoulders/chest etc. You then use technique to make sure that there is minimal kinetic loss and that all the power in...
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    Official Jasprit Bumrah fanboying thread

    Same, his control of swing is incredible. Bhuvi used to to be the only one in the Indian team who could swing it both ways at will. He has a searing inswinger, outswinger, yorker, bouncer and slower ball. Jeez. Still remember this slower ball yorker to Shaun Marsh...
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    *Official* India in West Indies 2019

    Wowiee...I shouldn't be surprised, but yet I am surprised. Thank god they went with a long batting line up. Need to post at least 250 year first up to be competitive I feel...
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    *Official* India in West Indies 2019

    Ooh some interesting calls made by India. Jadeja has overtaken Ashwin as the team's primary spinner. Hmm...can't actually argue with Jadeja's performance off late. And no place for Rohit Sharma even amongst 6 batsmen.
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    *Official* India in West Indies 2019

    Indian XI is pretty interesting, lot of questions to answer. 1) Combination - 4 or 5 bowlers? After sticking to the 5 bowler theory for a long time, the team seems to have settled on 3 seamers and 1 spinner. 2) Which spinner? Ashwin, Jadeja or Kuldeep? Ashwin/Jadeja is a toss up depending on...
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    1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

    There was only one chink in India's armour, which was if the top order failed, and they came against the best new ball bowling attack in the world, so perhaps NZ were always India's biggest threat??? The last time India's top order failed was against NZ in the warm up, where incidentally Jadeja...
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    Indian Cricket Dhaba

    I don't think Pant has played any ODI innings of note in his career? Or indeed T20I (for India).
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    Indian Cricket Dhaba

    World Cup squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Rohit Sharma (vice capt), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Vijay Shankar, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami. Think this is an excellent...
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    How do Tahir and Ajmal stack up in ODIs

    What the hell guys, where's Murali on all your lists. >500 wickets at an average of 23 with 10 five wkt hauls and 14 four wicket hauls.
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    *Official* IPL 2019

    Mumbai have a good chance imo.
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    *Official* IPL 2019

    Bumrah magic beating De Villiers magic. I've been loving watching Bumrah bowl over the past year....he's really quite something.

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