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India ATG Team- Open Voting

kyear2

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kyear2

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Watson seems a bit busy, so lets get started with the Indian ATG XI. Openers seems a good place to start.
Kindly select any two of the following

Sunil Gavaskar
Vijay Merchant
Virender Sehwag
Navjot Sidhu
Gautham Gambhir
 
kyear2

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Sunil Gavaskar
Vijay Merchant

Sehwag just seems like a walking wicket againts these high quality attacks.
 
Daemon

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kyear2 said:
Sunil Gavaskar
Vijay Merchant

Sehwag just seems like a walking wicket againts these high quality attacks.
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Agreed.

As much as I love the man, I find it hard to see him fare better than Merchant against an ATG attack. Merchant's record in England also helps.
 
Coronis

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Gavaskar, Merchant.

The best non-english opener, and an Indian great with an excellent record, especially in first class. Looks like Sehwag might get picked over him though =/

Fry on Merchant (soon after Sutcliffe retired):

`Let us paint him white and take him with us to Australia as an opener.'
 
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kyear2

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Daemon said:
Agreed.

As much as I love the man, I find it hard to see him fare better than Merchant against an ATG attack. Merchant's record in England also helps.
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Is that an offcial vote and if it is I assume he is to be paired with Gavaskar?
 
watson

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I'm not going to be biased by Sehwag's rather crappy last 2-3 years and vote......

Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
 
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watson

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Been a hectic last 2 weeks but things are much quieter now. So I'm happy to take over from here kyear if you like. Up to you, just let me know.
 
NUFAN

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How the hell did Latif get the Pakistani keeping gig? Overrated.

Gavaskar, Sunil
Merchant, Vijay
 
Cevno

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Daemon said:
Agreed.

As much as I love the man, I find it hard to see him fare better than Merchant against an ATG attack. Merchant's record in England also helps.
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Think it more depends on the conditions, rather than the attack. He's smacked Mcgrath, Steyn and almost every decent too good attack on non seaming wickets (and these weren't necessarily flat wickets.) And then also smacked all the spinners on helpful conditions.

People getting a bit carried away by his last 1 and a half years where he has been out of sorts.

But having said that Merchant was quality too, so it's a tough pick.

I'll go with Sunil Gavaskar and Virendra Sehwag because of the way in which Sehwag can hurt the opposition, almost force a result and also put psychological pressure in certain situations. Plus he'll have quality batting in and around him so a bit of leeway in certain situations can be taken.
 
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Hurricane

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8ankitj said:
Gavaskar, Merchant.
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This for me as well.

However I want to comment on Virender

Sehwag should not have been an opener nor do I think he really wanted to be. Kept talking about preferring to bat number 4 and I think he could have been devastating in that position.

However an opener he was and he changed the game forever with impressionable young bats like Tamim trying and failing to emulate him.

There will always be a place now for run a ball openers - and having grown up in a different generation I think I appreciate openers with a SR of 40 more than those with a SR of 90. (personal preference).
 
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