An Ageing Indian Side

[Uppercut]

Even in the subcontinent I've seen Raina struggle against the short ball badly, which makes me doubt his test credentials. Rohit has better all round technique but Raina does have an awesome cover drive.

Regarding the ageing Indians, loved seeing Tendulkar, Dravid and Kumble put in the best performances in the IPL today, especially Dravid, he should have flipped off the selectors when he got the MoM award.

Tendulkar was an interesting one. I didn't see the match, but the way it was being talked about i thought he'd smashed a hundred, but from the scorecard it was just a fairly-useful knock. I imagine it was indescribably beautiful, but it doesn't convince me that players like Tendulkar are in the top tier of T20 cricketers. When he succeeds you get a reasonable 60 or 70 with a strike rate of 120-odd and when he fails (when Hayden holds his catches) you get a quite damaging 3 off 11.

That said, maybe new ball tactics will be different this time round because it's in South Africa. Technically correct players could find their place in a lot more games.

 

[Pratters]

Harbhajan is the one who has replaced Kumble. Whoever the ,and did a much better job in NZ than Anil would have (with all due respect to his bowling). Whoever is the new spinner has to fill the space vaccated by Bhajji .

AWTA. z

 

[Pratters]

I like the looks of Rohit Sharma as a long term prospect for the team. He can be the player who replaces Tendulkar at no. 4 and while he can't do as good a job as Tendulkar (a similar case occured with Bradman's replacement who was good but was never given due credit), I believe that he can play the role of a number 4 very well. He has the makings of a very good player from whatever I have seen of him.

 

[honestbharani]

I would have him at 6,tbh... If and when the trinity retire, I would like to see Yuvraj at 4, Badri at 5 and Rohit at 6...

 

[Cricket_God]

Haha stop talking crap!! Your posts reek of your ignorance..time and again.The guy got 4 runs in 3 balls that he played in the entire series and you claim to have found him struggling against the bouncing ball.Good in subcontinent?? Did you see what he just did in NZ? And the guy has played 10 innings outside the subcontinent!! This is ignorance at its peak..though maybe not by your standards going by your other posts on this board.

If you say raina does not struggle agianst the short ball then either you are blind or do not
watch cricket.

 

[Arjun]

I would have him at 6,tbh... If and when the trinity retire, I would like to see Yuvraj at 4, Badri at 5 and Rohit at 6...

The team will struggle to take 20 wickets if all of them play together.

 

[Cricket_God]

I would have him at 6,tbh... If and when the trinity retire, I would like to see Yuvraj at 4, Badri at 5 and Rohit at 6...

Rohit at 4,raina at 5,yuvraj at 6 would be a better bet.

 

[honestbharani]

still not confident about Raina.. With Rohit, it seems more a temperamental issue than any big technical one.. Raina, with the way he grips the bat, really worries about playing the short quick stuff... Not just real short, juz anything at above waist high at decent pace...

 

[Cricket_God]

still not confident about Raina.. With Rohit, it seems more a temperamental issue than any big technical one.. Raina, with the way he grips the bat, really worries about playing the short quick stuff... Not just real short, juz anything at above waist high at decent pace...

He plays the ball which is up to his chest well as he gets under the ball and pulls it,his problem is when the ball is over head ,but that is the case with many young batsman
but his driving both of backfoot,frontfoot and timing is pleasure to watch.