*Official* India in West Indies 2019

[Cow Corner]

Indian XI is pretty interesting, lot of questions to answer.

1) Combination - 4 or 5 bowlers? After sticking to the 5 bowler theory for a long time, the team seems to have settled on 3 seamers and 1 spinner.
2) Which spinner? Ashwin, Jadeja or Kuldeep? Ashwin/Jadeja is a toss up depending on the number of right handers vs left handers, and Kuldeep I guess is for a more attacking option on flat tracks?
3) Which middle order batsmen should play out of Rahane, Rohit and Vihari?

Personally, I'd go with Rohit and or Vihari. Rahane will definitely play but it's a do or die series for him. He badly needs to score a 100. He was awesome for a long time but is now performing so terribly both in the international scene but also for Hampshire this county season after what looked like a good start with a 100 first up but then probably averaged 10 for the next 10 innings.

 

[Beamer]

Last minute injury problems for West Indies. Apparently both Keemo Paul and Shane Dowrich picked up injuries. Miguel Cummins and Jamar Hamilton have come in to replace them.

Now it's consistent and logical selection as those two have been in numerous A team squads and performed ok. It's just a shame that I don't rate either of them. Cummins bowls way too short and Hamilton's keeping has really nose dived.

I would honestly let Shai Hope keep for one match instead and bring in another batsman.

My lineup now:

Braithwaite
Campbell
Hope (wk)
Bravo
Hetmeyer
Chase
Brooks
Holder
Cornwall
Roach
Gabriel

 

[Beamer]

Feels like this is going to be a real test of our progress and resilience as a test team. Dowrich has been a key part of our progress with his solid lower order batting.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Last minute injury problems for West Indies. Apparently both Keemo Paul and Shane Dowrich picked up injuries. Miguel Cummins and Jamar Hamilton have come in to replace them.

Now it's consistent and logical selection as those two have been in numerous A team squads and performed ok. It's just a shame that I don't rate either of them. Cummins bowls way too short and Hamilton's keeping has really nose dived.

I would honestly let Shai Hope keep for one match instead and bring in another batsman.

My lineup now:

Braithwaite
Campbell
Hope (wk)
Bravo
Hetmeyer
Chase
Brooks
Holder
Cornwall
Roach
Gabriel

They are really missing something by not including Bramble...he can counterattack. Something he did for our Jaguars quite well.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Okay so we have won the toss...right thing to do, bowl first

Brooks makes his debuts. No Cornwall

 

[Cow Corner]

Ooh some interesting calls made by India. Jadeja has overtaken Ashwin as the team's primary spinner. Hmm...can't actually argue with Jadeja's performance off late.

And no place for Rohit Sharma even amongst 6 batsmen.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ooh some interesting calls made by India. Jadeja has overtaken Ashwin as the team's primary spinner. Hmm...can't actually argue with Jadeja's performance off late.

The fact that it is not a spinning wicket might the reason why

 

[Jarquis]

No Cornwall, no party.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Pitch it playing like the England game earlier this year

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Probing over from Roach, made the batsman play at every ball except the first

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Shannon hitting the bat hard

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ohhhh what a beauty!

Keep it there Shannon

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Half volley and four

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sonny G in da house asking for bouncers

 

[duffer]

Lol, the ****e umpiring is contagious

 

[StephenZA]

How was that not originally given?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Good that we got the early wicket...now the real challenge starts with Chepu

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Out!!!!!

Whoaaaa

Roach bites Chepu's edge

 

[duffer]

Oh boy, this isn't good

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

It gets even more challenging with Kohli in

Him coming in with a pretty new ball is a bonus