Our best new ball bowler for a number of years now has been Ashwin.
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I suspect Root will bowl more than Stokes in this game.
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I think they will in a very similar way to how Gilchrist and McGrath combined did.
England have an excellent attack for these conditions IMO. Even if it turns a lot, Broad is a much better bet to get wickets than Bess at this point. Root is hard to score off too but seems the more he bowls the less effective he is with the bat, which is a win for India. England's bowling will challenge us for sure, but I feel their batting may not be upto the task here.
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You may well be right but it gives them the option if it does swing under lights, in which case the pitch doesn't matter so much. If it spins big, 1 spinner might look 1 spinner too few but they are playing to their strengths. I had just kind of presumed India would go with 3 seamers and 2 spinners with Bumrah for Kuldeep. Axar and Ashwin can still thrive as spinners but if it does swing under lights its not a case of giving each seamer 4 or 5 overs with the ball and then not having another option really.
Thing is, even if the ball and the night overhead conditions help swing, if the pitch is helping spin, it will still help spin. I am not sure how well the visibility is against the spinner either. Maybe some of those straight forward variations become harder to spot?
Shardul is not a #7 and Pandya is not yet a 3rd seamer given his injury lay off. I assume that must be why they got Sundar in. I feel if everyone was fully fit, we would have gone with Pandya.
