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Pakistan Rise to Number 1

OverratedSanity

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Burgey said:
It's not really a road if it only seems like a road when one team bats on it.
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Loads of foreign batsmen have scored runs in Australia in the last 5 years or so. Your point would've been more valid if you'd framed it as "It's not really a road if it only seems like a road when one team bowls on it." because Australia usually find a way to get wickets.
 
marc71178

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OverratedSanity said:
India is probably the second best batting lineup in the world tbf. We have a pretty settled top 6, whle Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka all have some really big question marks over some spots.
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Such a settled top 6 that you're about to utilise your third different opening partnership in 3 Tests.
 
marc71178

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***** said:
Maybe we should force Lokesh or Dhawan out there on crutches instead?
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Be better then turning to Gambhir.

In all honesty though, is it that settled a top 6? Ashwin was in it a few games ago, Pujara seems to be in and out of it as well. Even before these injuries the openers seemed to be changing fairly frequently.
 
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marc71178 said:
Be better then turning to Gambhir.

In all honesty though, is it that settled a top 6? Ashwin was in it a few games ago, Pujara seems to be in and out of it as well. Even before these injuries the openers seemed to be changing fairly frequently.
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Pujara is a fair point. Although it's acknowledged his dropping (and Vijay's) was random and inexplicable. I think it's settled moving forward though. They're not dumb enough to drop them now and even Rohit got some genuinely good runs this series.
 
anil1405

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marc71178 said:
Be better then turning to Gambhir.

In all honesty though, is it that settled a top 6? Ashwin was in it a few games ago, Pujara seems to be in and out of it as well. Even before these injuries the openers seemed to be changing fairly frequently.
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Its not a settled batting unit yet imo.
 
Jono

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Vijay just didn't squeeze back into the team after injury right? I mean that's technically an omission, but rather just a strength of the depth in openers I'd have thought.

Eng vs. Ind batting is close, but not sure you can describe Indian batting as settled just yet.
 
harsh.ag

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marc71178 said:
In all honesty though, is it that settled a top 6? Ashwin was in it a few games ago, Pujara seems to be in and out of it as well. Even before these injuries the openers seemed to be changing fairly frequently.
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Well, it's settled in the sense they have a bunch of 8 players, all of whom have proven themselves (with Rohit and Dhawan the least convincing). That's a great place to be.
 
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Settled probably the wrong word to use, but the fact that we've had changes to the lineup is probably because a problem of plenty rather than a scarcity of potentially good batsmen tbh. I don't think we'd have had insane, schizophrenic decisions like Vijay and Pujara being dropped after one or two mediocre games if there weren't other decent options. And going forward, I don't expect too many crazy changes. England on the other hand, have given a comparatively long rope to their batsmen like Vince and Hales.

I prefer our batsmen over England's but I like the faith that they show in the young batsmen more.
 
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anil1405

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There were some unnecessary chopping and changing in the batting recently with Pujara and Vijay being dropped at times and the most bizarre being Kohli claiming out-of-the-box that he can be India's no.3 if needed. (nah mate you better stick to where you are). The less we see of Dhawan AND Rohit the better for India.
 
Jono

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OverratedSanity said:
Settled probably the wrong word to use, but the fact that we've had changes to the lineup is probably because a problem of plenty rather than a scarcity of potentially good batsmen tbh. I don't think we'd have had insane, schizophrenic decisions like Vijay and Pujara being dropped after one or two mediocre games if there weren't other decent options. And going forward, I don't expect too many crazy changes. England on the other hand, have given a comparatively long rope to their batsmen like Vince and Hales.

I prefer our batsmen over England's but I like the faith that they show in the young batsmen more.
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Yes it not settled because of a lot of players worthy of a place in the XI. Good problem to have. But should be settled now so long as Pujara doesn't get even uglier.
 
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