India's opening pair

[tooextracool]

Bad idea.
Neither are opening-batsmen.

yes and that was the point that i made in the other thread....yet you seemed ready to get rid of chopra on that occasion?

 

[Sudeep]

deep dasgupta has shown he can do the job opening...i dont know why he was dropped in the first place...

Because he's a horrible wicket-keeper, one of the worst ever to have played international cricket.

 

[Sudeep]

deep dasgupta has shown he can do the job opening...i dont know why he was dropped in the first place...it's obvious india are trying to breed patel into the opener job as well...i believe that for him to succeed at international level,he has to prove his batting AND keeping at domestic level first, or he won't be around for long...till then dasgupta should be the keeper and opening batsman with chopra

1) Chopra
2)Dasgupta
3) Dravid
4)VVS LAxman
5)Sachin Tendlukar
6)V.Sewhag
7) gangluy
4 5 and 6 could swap amongst each other

You're out of your mind to say 4, 5 and 6 could swap there. Sachin Tendulkar below number 4 would be an act of disrespect for his batting. On the other hand, the option of Ganguly batting at 7 is as ridiculous as it sounds.

 

[deeps]

if i had my way,ganguls wouldn't even be in the team...i had to squash him in there somewhere

 

[Craig]

You're out of your mind to say 4, 5 and 6 could swap there. Sachin Tendulkar below number 4 would be an act of disrespect for his batting. On the other hand, the option of Ganguly batting at 7 is as ridiculous as it sounds.

Well my middle order would be:

3 Dravid
4 Tendulkar
5 Laxman
6 Ganguly

I think Laxman is better of at 5.

 

[Craig]

Bad idea.
Neither are opening-batsmen.

Well there is no other way that they would fit into the side (both are good enough). I would prefer Chopra there myself, but Ganguly seems to want to give Chopra a go.

IMO India's batting line-up would be the hardest to crack into. That's including Australia's.

 

[Deja moo]

Well my middle order would be:

3 Dravid
4 Tendulkar
5 Laxman
6 Ganguly

I think Laxman is better of at 5.

There was a thinking t one point of time that Laxman should bat 3 at home and Dravid should bat 3 away .

 

[marc71178]

Well there is no other way that they would fit into the side (both are good enough).

If a player's good enough, then he will be picked in his right spot.

 

[Richard]

Well there is no other way that they would fit into the side (both are good enough). I would prefer Chopra there myself, but Ganguly seems to want to give Chopra a go.

IMO India's batting line-up would be the hardest to crack into. That's including Australia's.

Both are, we presume, good enough to play in the middle-order, but how do we know that both are good enough to play as openers?
Sehwag has been made to seem like he is thus far, I know.

 

[Richard]

Because he's a horrible wicket-keeper, one of the worst ever to have played international cricket.

Certainly was, but rumour has it he has improved his wicketkeeping.

 

[Richard]

There was a thinking t one point of time that Laxman should bat 3 at home and Dravid should bat 3 away .

Pointless if you ask me.
Dravid should bat three all the time and Laxman five all the time, simple as.

 

[Richard]

yes and that was the point that i made in the other thread....yet you seemed ready to get rid of chopra on that occasion?

Yes, because Chopra has IMO been proven clearly not good enough, not because I think Yuvraj Singh is!
I'd replace Chopra with Das or Sriram, Sriram's more than earnt his chance.

 

[deeps]

deep dasgupta has improved his keeping HEAPS...and come on, parthiv isn't that flash with the gloves either

 

[Sudeep]

deep dasgupta has improved his keeping HEAPS...and come on, parthiv isn't that flash with the gloves either

Mongia is IMO the best choice for India's keeper, even ATM. It's very sad that he's been ignored for so long now.

 

[ReallyCrazy]

Mongia is IMO the best choice for India's keeper, even ATM. It's very sad that he's been ignored for so long now.

mongia has been ignored because well he was crap! He could'nt score in the double digits.

 

[CrimeMasterGogo]

There's somehting about Mongia that the team management doesn't like..

Yuvraj-Sehwag or CHopra-Sehwag..

Chopra can do anything DD can do...except better..

and Yuvraj is one of the world's most promising batsmen...


for wickie position we have PP...who is starting to contribute very handy scores...

and we have Dinesh Karthik...who people say looked very very good in the U-19 WC

 

[marc71178]

and Yuvraj is one of the world's most promising batsmen...

in the middle order.

As an opener though?

 

[Sudeep]

There's somehting about Mongia that the team management doesn't like..

... or rather Ganguly doesn't like, eh?

 

[Sudeep]

in the middle order.

As an opener though?

I wouldn't call him the most promising either as an opener or a middle-order batsman in Tests; he's promising at best.

 

[Craig]

If a player's good enough, then he will be picked in his right spot.

In place of whom in the middle order?

India's middle order spots are as certain as Stephen Fleming's captaincy of New Zealand.