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  1. Arjun

    Semi Final 2 - West Indies v India (31st March)

    Last year's IPL, strike rate of 135. Ever since, he's struggled in all of the T20Is he has played- six games with a poor strike rate of 105.
  2. Arjun

    Semi Final 2 - West Indies v India (31st March)

    For Rahane to be relevant, the curator will have to prepare a Test match-style pitch, with plenty in it for the bowlers. I can't imagine him being very useful on a belter, at a time when only Kohli and maybe Dhoni can actually score quickly.
  3. Arjun

    19th Match - India v Australia (27th March)

    Only six fours and one six in this innings. Makes me wonder. Do Indians play much T20 cricket? And are they playing for places in the Test XI? Look at the tournament strike rates. Then the career strike rates.
  4. Arjun

    19th Match - India v Australia (27th March)

    Role reversal in the Indian side too. SiD playing far better than his average, RoSh struggling.
  5. Arjun

    19th Match - India v Australia (27th March)

    Anthony Stewart, who had a hat-trick once. The other bloke was a batsman who could bowl a bit of medium-pace for England.
  6. Arjun

    7th Match - India v Pakistan (19th March)

    Raina's T20 batting has gone down the drain. Disappointing, because he's more or less one of India's preferred T20 players, with an impressive track record.
  7. Arjun

    7th Match - India v Pakistan (19th March)

    Enough of Shikhar Dhawan in T20Is. He does not fit into this format, even if he wears a form-fitting uniform. Why does India continue to persist with a non-performer with a terrible strike rate at the top of the order?
  8. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    Mumbai eventually win the Ranji Trophy. A bit outdated, but there's been a lot less action here. Unsurprisingly, it's happened on the back of great performances by Shreyas Iyer, Surya Yadav and a few contributions by other batsmen. Their bowling, though, has been below average. Yet, in today's...
  9. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    The Deodhar Trophy has been reduced to a Challenger Trophy in all but name. Disappointing. Not many individual performances that are noteworthy, except for Chand's two fifties and an explosive 91* by Kedar Jadhav against Hazare Trophy champions Gujarat. Young Nathu Singh getting plenty of...
  10. Arjun

    Indian Cricket Dhaba

    This bloke has been chipping away plenty of limited-overs wickets, and is coming off a good OD tournament. In form, figures to back him, surely worth playing in ODIs? We're seeing Barinder Sran instead, picked from the same tournament in which he's been getting more. He's in the top three of the...
  11. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    For all practical purposes, the top order of a SMA T20 XI will have Unmukt Chand, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana and Jitesh Sharma. Not sure about Ekalavya Dwivedi, who's still young, or Deepak Hooda, who's had a very quiet season. This season wasn't good for Mayank Agarwal, possibly...
  12. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    Hardik Pandya, Pawan Negi and Nitish Rana are getting plenty of very quick runs in the SMA Trophy, over many games. Hopefully IPL franchises will give them enough time in the middle, like they would a Glenn Maxwell or Corey Anderson. Going by so many comments about how India lack a strong...
  13. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is at the bottom of the whole domestic season hierarchy, so we'll have to wait till the group phase ends for some clear results. Has-beens RP Singh and Irfan Pathan are having a great time, chipping away many wickets. A surprise success is Hardik Pandya, famous for...
  14. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    It was Chennai (TN) vs Gujarat and Delhi vs HP in the semis. Neither of TN and Delhi were even in the same group. The TN/Guj game, though, did go down to the wire, unlike the final. What more can you tell us about Navdeep Saini- how much seam and swing, what pace? Meanwhile, Ishant Sharma was...
  15. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    It's been long since I posted here, and the Vijay Hazare Trophy has ended, with a few matches shown on TV. Gujarat won the trophy, with contributions from Axar Patel, RP Singh, and in the final, Parthiv Patel (first OD century) and Jazz Bumrah. That they defeated Delhi by 139 runs, though, was a...
  16. Arjun

    Indian Cricket Dhaba

    Fair selections, though they're on thin ice with Rishi Dhawan, who's had a poor season with the ball. He's made it because his team, a known bunch of under-performers, made the quarters of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, which is no mean feat this time. His bowling doesn't add much- he's much the same...
  17. Arjun

    ***Official*** South Africa in India 2015

    Meanwhile, Ishant's new-found form beginning with the New Zealand tour seems to have reversed- in three Tests he's played in this series, he's taken only one wicket, so suddenly, his figures beyond 2013 don't look so good. Could the BCCI's excessive emphasis on spin-friendly wickets have caused...
  18. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    MP's stalwart Jalaj Saxena took 8 wickets in both innings to crush Railways into relegation, besides a few handy contributions with the bat. He's just missed 400 runs in 5 games, but with a healthy average of 55 and 29 wickets at a healthy strike rate, he's been MP's most valuable player. The...
  19. Arjun

    Indian Cricket Dhaba

    Umesh Yadav, Pankaj Singh and Ishwar Pandey should be India's top three seamers, and should figure in every squad. Since Pankaj is injured and Ishant in good form, you may make a swap here. The decision to drop Umesh is questionable. He's been the team's best performing seam bowler over the...
  20. Arjun

    Indian Domestic Season 2015-16

    This round, in terms of results, was disappointing. Besides Saurashtra defeating Hyderabad after getting dented heavily (unlike the clinical crushing of Jharkhand and Tripura), Gujarat crushing Railways, Uttar Pradesh punching back hard to defeat Andhra, and Vidarbha spinning Assam out of a...

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