I think they will go:Would be fun if we played
Rahul
Vijay
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
Rohit/Dhawan
Saha
Ashwin
Bhuv
Mishra
Jadeja
Just for the lulz of batting till 11 and as a big **** you to Jadeja's test batting thus far
Tail would include Test match hundreds by Ashwin, 50s in England by Bhuvi, FC triple hundreds by Jadeja and an FC double by Mishra.
There is a game ftr. They're playing Mumbai at the Kotla from the 16th-18th.Also is cricinfo right that there is no warmup match for this series?
So first test is the warmup then.
Not this time, I'm positive they'll go in with the 3 seamers and 2 spinners (including Santner). Well they better **** do.wagner will miss out. it's always wagner who misses out, only to get the SOS in the 3rd test after NZs spinners get smashed and to the shock of the selectors will bowl well.
Yeah I was thinking Santner was like Goofy, in that it's hard to get people to come to a consensus on exactly what he is.Tbf he did explicitly say that they were thinking of playing two seamers, two spinners and a seam-bowling all-rounder, which surely does translate to Southee or Boult missing out.
Vettori was pretty much useless in that game IIRC, apart from a gifted LBW.NZ played Craig, Sodhi and Vettori in the same XI in the UAE. So just Santner for Vettori.
So Southee dropped and Wags 3rd seamer as usual, maybe?Neesham said on radio this morning that he might take the new ball...