Not sold on deploying Arshdeep at Test, but he does offer some left arm variety. Rana for Prasidh maybe? Paddikal is another close name. Re Washington, I think he is in BCCI's long term plans; and if Jadeja fails hard can see value in him.
Prasidh has been bowling very recently, looked in very good rhythm in both red and white ball matches I've seen him play. I would pick him ahead of the other 2.
The Kiwis did it, that 3-0 at home for India has proven disastrous, it's New Zealand's greatest achievement in this sport, they saved Cricket.
Just trying to mimic West Indies appointing Roston Chase as their captain, heh?Imagine Mitch Marsh as Australian Test captain or Jason Roy as England test captainthis is what we have done
there'd always be something in the wickets for skilled seamers, Woakes in the 2023 Ashes, Fernando in the Sri Lanka series and so forth. I'd prefer if we make flat pitches when Bumrah is playing and green ones when Bumrah isn't though, if there's a way of knowing.Why is harshit rana not picked? Why useless arshdeepanyway hopefully england will give green pitches( would give us 50% chance) rather then roads
Siraj averaged sub 30 in Australia as well. He wasn't much Good, but he wasn't particularly poor either. A perfectly average pacer. And it's not like our non-Bumrah pacers are tearing through opposition right now.
Too much pressure tbh. He and Bumrah are our talisman players. Better they focus on their main skillsets. Just hope Gill doesn't run Bumrah into the ground and utilizes the other workhorses in the attack.
I actually really liked Bumrah's captaincy as much I have seen. Smart field placement, Good bowling changes, does neither overbowl nor underbowl himself like so many bowler captains tends to.
Feel pressure must have come from the top to make gill captain. Bcci care more about pr then about skills. Bcci will be major reason we will never dominate at test cricket like wi and aus
Don't flatter yourself.
India are in transition. Dont be too happy in 2-3 years we will be back in contention for best team in world
Yeah that is definitely relevant to what I said.India are in transition. Dont be too happy in 2-3 years we will be back in contention for best team in world
We have talent. But bcci never gives chances to proven domestic contenders rather gives chances to ipl wonders. If we have competent borad which isnt greedy about money and cares about test cricket with our population and talent on streets we would be dominant in test cricket but only if bcci stops selecting ipl hacks for test but goes for proven red ball specialists like England
Bcci are clueless morans who want gill to be all format superstar(regeradless of fact he cant buy a run) but good names like karun nair and sai sudarshan who would do well
Been making loads of domestic runs the last few years, did ok in County (albeit in div 2) and did this in the Vijay Hazare trophy a few months ago.
