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4th Test (Old Trafford, Manchester) - 23rd to 27th of July

CricAddict

International Coach
I won't drop Sundar after his bowling last test. Jaddu and Sundar combo is working just fine as spin bowling batsmen. Just pick Kamboj Siraj and Bumrah as the 3 pacers. With England going with 11 batsmen With Archer or Carse at 11, it will be good if India has more batting depth as well. I'll give Nair one more test. So Jurel and Kamboj for Reddy and Deep will be my only changes.
 

govinda indian fan

International Debutant
I won't drop Sundar after his bowling last test. Jaddu and Sundar combo is working just fine as spin bowling batsmen. Just pick Kamboj Siraj and Bumrah as the 3 pacers. With England going with 11 batsmen With Archer or Carse at 11, it will be good if India has more batting depth as well. I'll give Nair one more test. So Jurel and Kamboj for Reddy and Deep will be my only changes.
Na nair needs to be dropped
 

LangleyburyCCPlayer

State Captain
I won't drop Sundar after his bowling last test. Jaddu and Sundar combo is working just fine as spin bowling batsmen. Just pick Kamboj Siraj and Bumrah as the 3 pacers. With England going with 11 batsmen With Archer or Carse at 11, it will be good if India has more batting depth as well. I'll give Nair one more test. So Jurel and Kamboj for Reddy and Deep will be my only changes.
England are picking out and out bowlers who happen to be able to bat though, it’s not like it’s a deliberate policy to pick all-rounders (without injuries we’d still have Bashir who is a proper number 11), so India shouldn’t just pick batting depth for the sake of it, though Kamboj would definitely offer that
 

cnerd123

likes this
If Pant is fit enough to bat without pain then he should be fit enough to keep? Fielding without gloves with the way England's batters hit the ball might be riskier, especially since he's not particularly good at fielding anyways.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
If Pant is fit enough to bat without pain then he should be fit enough to keep? Fielding without gloves with the way England's batters hit the ball might be riskier, especially since he's not particularly good at fielding anyways.
Jurel should be keeping in every game anyway IMO, I'm not even factoring Pant's injury into it.
 

LangleyburyCCPlayer

State Captain
If Pant is fit enough to bat without pain then he should be fit enough to keep? Fielding without gloves with the way England's batters hit the ball might be riskier, especially since he's not particularly good at fielding anyways.
Didn’t look fit enough to bat for me at Lord’s
 

Xix2565

International Regular
I won't drop Sundar after his bowling last test. Jaddu and Sundar combo is working just fine as spin bowling batsmen. Just pick Kamboj Siraj and Bumrah as the 3 pacers. With England going with 11 batsmen With Archer or Carse at 11, it will be good if India has more batting depth as well. I'll give Nair one more test. So Jurel and Kamboj for Reddy and Deep will be my only changes.
I'll never get the advocacy for a strategy that's not worked often. The Jaddu/Sundar bowling combo hasn't really held up so far, and England's had a much better 4th option after the main 3 pacers in Stokes compared to the Indian combination. England's had much better bowling depth, and people for some bizarre reason think India should avoid trying to match that and instead pick teams to lose/draw gracefully.
 

Molehill

International Coach
Jadeja has so far taken 3 wickets at 110 (Bashir for all his crapness has 10 at 54), if he wasn't making runs with the bat he should be dropped. But he clearly cannot be the lone spinner now and is not even a 4th bowling option.
 

chris.hinton

International Captain
Jadeja has so far taken 3 wickets at 110 (Bashir for all his crapness has 10 at 54), if he wasn't making runs with the bat he should be dropped. But he clearly cannot be the lone spinner now and is not even a 4th bowling option.
He averages 37 away from home, and 21 in asia. So he wasn't going to be that great. Better off as a batsman IMO
 

govinda indian fan

International Debutant
Jadeja has so far taken 3 wickets at 110 (Bashir for all his crapness has 10 at 54), if he wasn't making runs with the bat he should be dropped. But he clearly cannot be the lone spinner now and is not even a 4th bowling option.
Bashir got wickets because batsmen over attacked him. Jadeja atlest kept things thight
 

govinda indian fan

International Debutant
Only half a run per over difference. One of them also bowled a match winning delivery.

Jadeja's only use when bowling is helping to avoid an over rate penalty.
That match winning delivery was pure luck. It bounced from nowhere to stumps. Anway jadeja has been usless with this series i agree with you
 

mackembhoy

International Regular
Looking like England will play
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith
Dawson
Atkinson
Carse
Archer

How will India manage to fit a fourth seamer into their side?

Reading very much like Jurel will have to come into side to keep and Kuldeep will play.

So if I'm not mistaken your side will be.

Rahul
Jaiswal
Nair
Gill
Pant
Jadeja
Jurel
Kuldeep
Kamboj/Krishna
Bumrah
Siraj
 

govinda indian fan

International Debutant
Looking like England will play
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith
Dawson
Atkinson
Carse
Archer

How will India manage to fit a fourth seamer into their side?

Reading very much like Jurel will have to come into side to keep and Kuldeep will play.

So if I'm not mistaken your side will be.

Rahul
Jaiswal
Nair
Gill
Pant
Jadeja
Jurel
Kuldeep
Kamboj/Krishna
Bumrah
Siraj
Nair will be dropped. Sudharshan will come or idiot gambhir might pick thakur as Fourth pacer🤦‍♂️
 

mackembhoy

International Regular
Nair will be dropped. Sudharshan will come or idiot gambhir might pick thakur as Fourth pacer🤦‍♂️
Stupid to flip flop between Sudharsan and Nair at 3 mind. Makes very little difference who you have as they are under pressure regardless and unlikely to lead to good results.

As much as we've been too loyal to our players at least they've had decent effect in certain series due to an extended run.
 

FBU

International Debutant
Looking like England will play
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith
Dawson
Atkinson
Carse
Archer

How will India manage to fit a fourth seamer into their side?

Reading very much like Jurel will have to come into side to keep and Kuldeep will play.

So if I'm not mistaken your side will be.

Rahul
Jaiswal
Nair
Gill
Pant
Jadeja
Jurel
Kuldeep
Kamboj/Krishna
Bumrah
Siraj

England usually name their team two days before the Test. Wonder why they haven't so far. Is one of the bowlers injured?
 

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