• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Indian Cricket Dhaba

Best thread name

  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .
CricAddict

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
karan_fromthestands said:
I am afraid IPL will mess up his technique. This might sound weird, but BCCI should pay good money to 4-5 test specialists and ensure that they don't play the shorter formats. Agarwal adjusted his technique for T20s and it badly affected his game in the longer format. He looked rubbish in Australia. These kind of things can't be prevented unless players are provided an incentive to keep their focus on the on the longest format.
Click to expand...
This can sound like a meme excuse but I think it definitely applies for Rahul.. Rahul was a very good test player and meh odi player when he started.. Before he transformed to an awesome t20 player in ipl and cannot find a place in test team now.
 
ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Rahul doesn't know what he is doing in the Indian cricket team anymore. Opener? Middle order bat? WK-batsman? Has donned so many hats. Really feel bad that an obvious talent like him is getting somewhat wasted. Can't remember when he last played a test .
 
Senile Sentry

Senile Sentry

International Debutant
CricAddict said:
This can sound like a meme excuse but I think it definitely applies for Rahul.. Rahul was a very good test player and meh odi player when he started.. Before he transformed to an awesome t20 player in ipl and cannot find a place in test team now.
Click to expand...
He was given a long rope in tests and hasn't proved himself to be test quality.
 
ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Oh man, his bowling really sucks in LOI. We can't possibly play him to boost batting when we have Hardik Pandya.
 
cnerd123

cnerd123

likes this
So 5-0 in England coming up? We'll be there in August/September, which should be towards the end of the English season, so hopefully the pitches take some turn. But no one (Rohit aside) seems to be able to score runs anymore. A glut of white-ball domestic stuff + the IPL in the build up to this tour too. It's going to be ugly.
 
Niall

Niall

International Coach
Think it will be very hard for India in England.

You look at the two most difficult series for England they hosted and it was Pakistan in 2016 (i think) with the likes of Younis, Misbah, Azhar, Shafiq (stop laughing) and a gun bowling attack with a few friendly pitches doing really well to hold them to a 2-2 draw.

Australia also drew 2-2 a few years ago with Smith in monster form along with a really good bowling line up.

I don't think the seamers will be an issue for England, but do worry that those 2 batting line ups who did so well are at a higher level than current India batting.

Rahane will have one gorgeous innings and nine failures.
 
Niall

Niall

International Coach
Maybe another 4-1 to England, a couple of batterings and India to lose one test due to some trolling lower order runs from England while India collapse from 175-5 chasing 230 to to 211 all out.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
We were very far away from our best in 2018 and we were still a Sam Curran away from winning the series IMO. I expect us to play much much better. Its too early to make any firm predictions but I do think we will play better than we did in 2018.
 
sunilz

sunilz

International Regular
honestbharani said:
We were very far away from our best in 2018 and we were still a Sam Curran away from winning the series IMO. I expect us to play much much better. Its too early to make any firm predictions but I do think we will play better than we did in 2018.
Click to expand...
Kohli was at his best in 2018 though. Can't see him repeating his heroics this time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top