Kohli's India vs Ganguly's India

[capt_Luffy]

Sam Cook? Really?

Definitely not!!!! Alaistar

 

[Thala_0710]

Yeah, I think you underestimate how inept this India can look to just decent vertical movement.

That's just Rohit and Kohli who would hopefully be dropped midway.

 

[Johan]

That's just Rohit and Kohli who would hopefully be dropped midway.

don't hate us when you lose 0-5

 

[Thala_0710]

Definitely not!!!! Alaistar

Would give them a better chance than Crawley, that's for sure.

 

[capt_Luffy]

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don't hate us when you lose 0-5

You mean when we win??? You remember the bet right????

 

[Johan]

Crawley might unironically go rampage on a flat wicket and break Bumrah, you never know.

 

[Johan]

You mean when we win??? You remember the bet right????

I remember the bet, sadly England is not ruthless enough to beat you 5-0, but we'd certainly win 3-1 or 4-1 or 4-0 at worst, sadly think dropping a single game to motely crews like Sri Lanka, West Indies and India has become common.

 

[Thala_0710]

Crawley might unironically go rampage on a flat wicket and break Bumrah, you never know.

You guys making flat wickets this summer?
I mean if Banton is making 300s then we should expect that ig.

 

[subshakerz]

On much worse pitches, and only NZ in 2024 actually won. I think if we're going to act like spinners get wickets for fun during Kohli's era, we can give credit to the team that generally dominated then regardless of what opposition bowlers managed. It's not like the past spinners were notably better outside of 2 names who both were bad on batting friendly pitches.

Why gives credit to Kohlis team for not doing well against poorer spinners?

And look at the figures of the Indian spinners on those series when Murali and Warne are clobbered to see if they were just beaten by batting wickets.

 

[Johan]

You guys making flat wickets this summer?

depends on how cold/hot the summer is, generally most wickets aid vertical movement and one flat wicket gets thrown here and there.

 

[govinda indian fan]

I remember the bet, sadly England is not ruthless enough to beat you 5-0, but we'd certainly win 3-1 or 4-1 or 4-0 at worst, sadly think dropping a single game to motely crews like Sri Lanka, West Indies and India has become common.

If we drop kohli and rohit series would be hard fought and england will win 3-2 but if kohli and rohit play England will trash us brutally

 

[Johan]

If we drop kohli and rohit series would be hard fought and england will win 3-2 but if kohli and rohit play England will trash us brutally

Kohli will play so 4-1

 

[capt_Luffy]

Tbh type of wicket hardly matters. Our batsmen will throw their wickets and Bumrah will clean England out for cheaper.

 

[vidiq]

I don't think any Indian pacer ever avgs < 30 upon removing minnows sadly (bar Bumrah and Bhuvi).

Which teams of this era you count as minnows?

 

[Johan]

Tbh type of wicket hardly matters. Our batsmen will throw their wickets and Bumrah will clean England out for cheaper.

Bumrah will bowl well in two games, then get thrased in two, dropped for last and you get the news he's severely injured.

 

[Thala_0710]

Which teams of this era you count as minnows?

I removed Ban, Zim and Wi

 

[Xix2565]

Why gives credit to Kohlis team for not doing well against poorer spinners?

And look at the figures of the Indian spinners on those series when Murali and Warne are clobbered to see if they were just beaten by batting wickets.

They did well enough to win consistently in a way the Ganguly side never managed.

Yeah and have you seen the difference between Ash/Jaddu and their opposition spinners? Clearly not if you want to keep up this pretension.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Bumrah will bowl well in two games, then get thrased in two, dropped for last and you get the news he's severely injured.

I fear Baz and Stokes will step down by the 3rd Test, 4th if you are lucky.

 

[Johan]

I fear Baz and Stokes will step down by the 3rd Test, 4th if you are lucky.

half your team will retire after the mauling they get in the first 2 tests, 2-0 in favour of England loading.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Tbh type of wicket hardly matters. Our batsmen will throw their wickets and Bumrah will clean England out for cheaper.

We need shami and prasidh ( who is doing well in ipl and bowled well in sydney) also akash deep bowling suits english pitches. Need to find space for thakur