Road to 2019 World Cup (India)

[Pratters]

Hope to see

Rohit
Dhawan
KL
Kohli
Jadhav
Pant
Hardik
Spinner, maybe Kuldeep
Bhuvi
Umesh
Shami

for the World Cup.

The problem with having a bowling attack based on containment is it won't work against a team which is hell bent on winning. To win a big tourney, you need wicket takers. Bumrah, Ashwin, Jadeja have to go imo.

You are sold on Jadhav? I am not that sure.

Bumrah can be a specialist middle overs pace bowler tbf. Bhuvi and Shami should be our opening bowlers and Umesh should be the backup. We also need a decent leggie in the XI.

Rohit
Dhawan
Kohli
Lokesh
Pant
Hardik
Jadeja
Kuldeep
Bhuvi
Shami
Bumrah

Umesh
Kedar
Axar
Kishan

Should be the 15 man WC squad we should build towards.

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[spit]

Fill the team with Pandas

 

[indiaholic]

I still rate Bumrah. Think he can do the job.

 

[Pratters]

Yeah Bumrah is awesome. Bowled really well through the tournament.

 

[Niall]

Krunal, Pant, Samson and Kuldeep are the ones that deserve a look in the next year or so.

 

[Adders]

Why is this a thread?

 

[Pratters]

Why not? Makes it good for Indian fans to track the team and squad discussions on the road to the world cup.

 

[Adders]

So we'll end up with 10 of them when every **** decides they want a thread for their team?

 

[cnerd123]

I mean we have the Indian Tea Lounge too so I don't see why we couldn't just discuss this in there

 

[Daemon]

Does it really matter? Are you all really so concerned about the copious amounts of data one extra thread will occupy on CW's servers or the absolute mayhem it's going to cause by cluttering the CC?

 

[Adders]

Does it really matter? Are you all really so concerned about the copious amounts of data one extra thread will occupy on CW's servers or the absolute mayhem it's going to cause by cluttering the CC?

Could be worse, i could have started a thread asking why we need this one.

 

[cnerd123]

Does it really matter? Are you all really so concerned about the copious amounts of data one extra thread will occupy on CW's servers or the absolute mayhem it's going to cause by cluttering the CC?

Yes

 

[Daemon]

Yes

Very well then, I also request that this thread be locked or merged.

In the spirit of saving CW a quarter of a Zimbabwean Dollar, i also propose we take down unnecessary threads, starting with the Finger Spin Megathread and Ask *****.

 

[Pratters]

I mean we have the Indian Tea Lounge too so I don't see why we couldn't just discuss this in there

Because we discuss other things there.

 

[Furball]

Hope the team bus doesn't rock up in India for the World Cup tbh. Might struggle to get a game.

 

[honestbharani]

As far as India is concerned, they do not become a bad side overnight. There is a lot to dissect from a performance like this and there are various talking points across the board. But to me, the biggest concern here is Bumrah and his temperament. He got Fakhar out and it was a no ball. Big deal. It happens in cricket. He then bowled a good follow up for the free hit delivery and then bowled another good length ball at pace outside off. Fakhar threw his bat, french cut it for four. And then it seemed Bumrah just burst. Wides, no balls, balls either side of the wicket, no planned length or line and it continued throughout the match. You got one man in on the leg side at square leg and you bowl a leg stump half volley. It was Umesh Yadav stuff. And Bumrah is supposed to be that rare breed in cricket, the intelligent fast bowler. He definitely crumbled under the pressure yesterday and I just do not get it. They were 9/0 after 3 overs and maybe it was something like 16/0 after 3.2 and then he just combusted. That is not a good sign. For a man who is a bit of a death overs specialist, you would expect him to keep his head a bit more under such circumstances.

Ashwin has to decide if he is going to be a wicket taking spinner or not. If he is going to try and be another Harbhajan, he is not needed in this side. Its a waste of time now and the management need to have a serious chat with him and his bowling plans as far as LO cricket goes. I am not gonna blame our batting too much coz collapses happen, esp. in a big final facing a steep target. They just outplayed us and that is that. It happens in cricket, it has happened to better teams than us in the past and it will happen in the future too.

My worry about India is that this is a decidedly stronger side than the one we put out in the CT in 2013 or the WC in 2015. And yet, there is a template and a pace these guys are comfortable with. And to be fair to them, it does work 90% of the time. But the 10% that it does not work, esp. in KO games, we just look lost. We aim to be the Australia of the 2000s and yet we are still only the South Africa of the late 90s. Need to figure out if Yuvi and MSD are the best long term options. MSD should bat up the order against the Windies as he seems to have totally lost his knack of keeping the strike rotating within the fielding restriction overs. He used to do it well with some well timed aggression mixed with sharp rotation of the strike in his early years and he needs to get it back. You cannot be a world beating side if you can't have folks at #4 and #5 who can't bat through the innings.

 

[indiaholic]

Did you post the same thing in the match thread?

 

[honestbharani]

Just cut the relevant part and posted it here. I posted on both teams in the other thread. Seemed appropriate to repeat what I posted on India and their future LO side here.

 

[fredfertang]

Despite what yesterday's result suggests the match could easily have gone the other way - India would win nine times out of ten

 

[vcs]

Pakistan played brilliantly but the margin of defeat is concerning me.

India seem to be getting in a position where they go into every big tournament quite well prepared, put in some promising performances, but the bowling attack always has that one bad day that ruins everything. Happened in the WC '15 SF, WT20 '16 and yesterday.