***Official*** India in Sri Lanka 2015

[weldone]

Come on Pujara...bat and bat...just do not get out

Pujara can do it.

 

[Burner]

FFS.. Why do they not rate Pujara? Isn't he a much better prospect than Sharma. Actaully he is, every way you look at it, he's even got the age factor in his favour.

 

[weldone]

FFS.. Why do they not rate Pujara? Isn't he a much better prospect than Sharma. Actaully he is, every way you look at it, he's even got the age factor in his favour.

Kohli has allergy to batsmen who don't try to hit a boundary every over.

 

[honestbharani]

I am honestly running out of cricket reasons for why Harbhajan and Rohit keep getting selected...

 

[honestbharani]

Kohli has allergy against batsmen who don't try to hit a boundary every over.

yeah... his words about Karun Nair was pretty much the same too.. "expressive player"... it is the new #intent..

 

[OverratedSanity]

Have a very nasty feeling Pujara is going to fail and he'll never manage to get picked again and Rohit will enjoy himself to a FTB-ing downhill-skiing Ian Bell-ing career.

 

[honestbharani]

I would rather Nohit be our Ian Bell than our Twatto, given that he seems to be Kohli's Ravindra Jadeja..

 

[Contra]

Even if he scores a 100,if Nohit scores even a 30 he will be in. Check out the full interview by Virat. He basically said Pujara will be out of the team once the regular openers come back. Now if Rahul also scores big runs, THEN he would be in a soup to play Nohit as well as his favorite 5 bowlers...

I did watch that interview lol, which is exactly why I said what I said, I want him to go big and then laugh at them when they go "oh Pujara knows he has to do whats best for the team, we don't have space cuz our regular openers are back etc" by the time the SA series comes around.

 

[hendrix]

tbf, Pujara was a let down just as much as Rohit has been overseas in the last couple of years. One decent series against SA IIRC, and then nothing since.

 

[Contra]

tbf, Pujara was a let down just as much as Rohit has been overseas in the last couple of years. One decent series against SA IIRC, and then nothing since.

LOL nah, Rohit was much much worse despite Pujara's failures. Pujara batted @ 3 in England so he was almost always in early on the toughest conditions, then in Australia he played reasonably well despite not having the runs to show for it, being sawn off after the ball hit his helmet and then getting a ripper from Johnson which no one can really do anything about.

Also decent against SA? He was the top scorer on either side, after which Steyn said " I'll remember the wicket of Pujara for a while, he's a good batsman as well."

 

[Shady Slim]

Kohli has allergy to batsmen who don't try to hit a boundary every over.

rohit's got that intent in that once he reaches 30 he tries to accelerate and does something stupid to get out.

but why would you want a player who hits a century in a boring way when you have #intent

 

[Spark]

LOL nah, Rohit was much much worse despite Pujara's failures. Pujara batted @ 3 in England so he was almost always in early on the toughest conditions, then in Australia he played reasonably well despite not having the runs to show for it, being sawn off after the ball hit his helmet and then getting a ripper from Johnson which no one can really do anything about.

Also decent against SA? He was the top scorer on either side, after which Steyn said " I'll remember the wicket of Pujara for a while, he's a good batsman as well."

He didn't play that well in Australia tbh. That he scored as many runs as he did is a testament to his temperament; at no stage did he look especially fluent.

 

[Pratters]

Even if he scores a 100,if Nohit scores even a 30 he will be in. Check out the full interview by Virat. He basically said Pujara will be out of the team once the regular openers come back. Now if Rahul also scores big runs, THEN he would be in a soup to play Nohit as well as his favorite 5 bowlers...

Ultimately, the five bowler strategy will be dropped if Binny doesn't bat well. Also, don't bank on Rohit too long in the test team any way. Karun Nair is knocking on the doors.

 

[Pratters]

So good to have a test win abroad. Liked how Mishra was given the ball along with Umesh at the start of the day. Ashwin is terrific.

 

[Contra]

He didn't play that well in Australia tbh. That he scored as many runs as he did is a testament to his temperament; at no stage did he look especially fluent.

The point is that he didn't exactly shame himself in those 6 innings he had in Australia, out of which 1 was a wrong decision and one was Johnson bowling the ball of the series to him. Quite frankly I'm not very big on who looks better or more technically correct and fluent, for me it's about run scoring and Pujara didn't look nearly as bad as Kohli did in England. India's previous #3 was never the most fluent player either.

Pujara IMO will always be better in slow and low conditions as a result of his "play with the softest hands at all times" approach, which is better suited to the subcontinental conditions, backed up by his incredible record in India, but that doesn't mean he can't play overseas.

 

[Daemon]

He was crucial in the Lords win as well

 

[Contra]

He was crucial in the Lords win as well

Yeah mentioned this earlier too, but it was Pujara who made sure we didn't collapse on a seaming greentop in the first session which allowed Rahane to capitalize afterwards.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's exactly what so many people fail to realise. Rohit was a complete and utter failure overseas, but Pujara while sub=par, always made things easier for the guys later on because he consumed plenty of new ball deliveries.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

It took two openers to get injured for Pujara to get a ticket. It's going to be extremely tough for him to get into the team in future if he fails this Test. Unfair.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Have no idea how Rohit suddenly became the incumbent. So weird.