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***official***Bangladesh tour of india - 19september -12 october 2024

honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
It kinda sucks to see Rohit, Gill and Virat get out like memes but hopefully its just long format rust and they are back at their best by the next dig.
 
centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
Greenish pitch with good bounce and most batters totally exposed. Good luck winning anything in Australia. And might even lose at home at this rate.
 
OverratedSanity

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Kohli's cover drive has to be the most overrated shot ever. He plays it with a vertical bat when it's on sixth stump. Absolutely ****ing stupid. Learn to play a square drive with a slightly angled bat like Pant does you imbecile. It's like kohli is more concerned about doing the high elbow pose with a straight bat for the cameras than he is about actually middling the ball.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Yeah the bat face has to move with the angle of the ball/direction of the stroke. He can play a good square drive and a good extra cover drive but he can't play the angle in between. And hence all those dismissals exactly to balls that need to be played there.


Or left alone.
 
Spark

Spark

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It's been a bit forgotten now but that square drive really isn't a natural shot for him, right? Even the true high elbow cover drive was a shot he really had to learn because of how bottom hand dominant he was early in his career. The true square drive just isn't a shot he likes to really play, and outside of his true peak years never really has.

Of course in the 10th over in overcast conditions on a seaming deck, the best shot to play to a ball like that is "nothing".
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
I think more than the drive, its the square cut that seems to be very tough for him as its really not a shot you can play off a wristy grip. But he was pretty good with the whippy drives between cover and point in his early years. I will try to find the youtube link of an India A game from 2008 when him and Rohit smashed the Aussie first choice attack around for fun.
 
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