*Official* West Indies Tour of India 2018

[Prince EWS]

Yeah Pant's an awesome young cricketer but he definitely needs to work on his wicket keeping before he's worth a place ahead of Saha, especially at home.

In terms of "current form", Pant's wicket keeping form is gash.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Guess a lot depends how long it will be till Saha is fit and ready though. Can hardly put him straight back into the side if he has only had one game, after such a layoff might need more than a months cricket to get going again and that may mean he isn't ready for Australia anyway. Can hardly blame Shastri for saying what he said when nobody seems to know when Saha will return.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

keep supporting #pant

 

[morgieb]

Yeah Pant's an awesome young cricketer but he definitely needs to work on his wicket keeping before he's worth a place ahead of Saha, especially at home.

In terms of "current form", Pant's wicket keeping form is gash.

Mind you if I was picking a side to play Australia (their next series) I'd probably have Pant over Saha. You need 5 bowlers here given none of India's best 6 batsmen can really bowl and I think that the keeping gap will be less relevant when you're using the quickies to take the majority of your wickets.

 

[vcs]

Can't be too harsh on the West Indies given that they've recently been beating the teams they should be beating. Still lots of improvement needed before they can challenge the top 5.

 

[Starfighter]

They didn't beat Sri Lanka on pitches where they definitely should have.

 

[vcs]

Yeah, that's true I guess. Still think they were hard done by because of the time wasted in the Chandimal ball tampering thing. Then they lost a close match in the next one.

 

[Starfighter]

It's odds on they would have lost the Chandimal match. 5/147 chasing 296.

 

[vcs]

WI lost the momentum a bit after that break in play. I thought it was a bit absurd that Sri Lanka basically refused to play for a while and got away with it. They did the same in India last year, though it was more understandable on that occasion with their players being unable to breathe properly.

There should have been a harsher penalty for holding up play like that. What if WI had eventually ended up 20 short with plenty of wickets in hand?

 

[Borges]

West Indies would have run India close (or caused an upset) if they had played Kemar Roach in place of Bishoo.

 

[ImpatientLime]

if hetmyer is the future of your batting then your batting sucks

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

ok

 

[ImpatientLime]

he looks an absolutely atrocious cricketer with absolutely zero idea about how to play the situation in front of him.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

ok

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Why are you ranting btw? your team won. be a man

 

[Starfighter]

Why are you ranting btw? your team won. be a man

Whose team? Last time I checked ImpatientLIme was English. And not ranting (for once).

The fact is Hetmeyer has looked completely out of his depth at international level so far.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

ok

 

[Starfighter]

ok

If you want to give your glib responses rather than stepping out into reality go for it.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Are your feathers 'ruffled'?

 

[Starfighter]

Are your feathers 'ruffled'?

It seems yours certainly are.