***Official*** Kitply Cup (India and Pakistan in Bangladesh)

[cricman]

No Aftab

 

[masterblaster]

Things the Indians can try out-

• Play Yusuf Pathan as the seventh batsman and specialist offie.
• Maintain the Sehwag-Gambhir partnership, possibly the best combination (if not the best openers alone) at hand.
• Give the Irfan-Sreesanth-Ishant-RP Singh combination an extended run- that's a reasonably strong combination, even with one less.
• Maybe give Ojha a game.
• A middle-order with Sharma and Raina, with Yuvraj and Dhoni in charge

Fairly good list of things to try and I think India would be wise to try all of these out. Yusuf Pathan has got to play with the type of form he's in. He has match winning quality about him and could be India's version of Andrew Symonds with his powerful lower order hitting and useful off spin.

I'd imagine Sehwag and Gambhir are the only people who are going to open for India, I doubt Uthappa would open although he could if Dhoni feels that Gambhir is best at number 3. Ojha I'd imagine should get a game at least, but Piyush should obviously be preferred due to experience and maturity.

 

[Richard]

Time for this to be topped and the IPL-match-thread to be un-topped?

The competition has acquired a title too - the Kitply Cup. Thread rename?

 

[Lambu]

Guys, just heard from a couple of Bangla friends that we may get one or two truncated games..

 

[Prince EWS]

Time for this to be topped and the IPL-match-thread to be un-topped?

The competition has acquired a title too - the Kitply Cup. Thread rename?

Don't reckon many people would recognise that, so I've left the teams involved in brackets.

 

[Richard]

Meh, can't remember whether the old NatWest and VB\CB Series threads had team-names in 'em.

They should IMO, FWIW.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Guys, just heard from a couple of Bangla friends that we may get one or two truncated games..

Hehe. Gotta love boards that schedule home series in their own rainy season...

 

[Prince EWS]

Meh, can't remember whether the old NatWest and VB\CB Series threads had team-names in 'em.

I don't think they did, but people generally knew what they were. As this series gets more coverage we can probably remove the team names, but I don't want people starting more threads on this in CC just because they don't recognise the name of the of tournament.

 

[Richard]

Don't disagree with you at all FTR - I actually think as I say that all tri-series threads should have the competing teams' names in them. As well as the season if they're recurring ones.

 

[Prince EWS]

Don't disagree with you at all FTR - I actually think as I say that all tri-series threads should have the competing teams' names in them. As well as the season if they're recurring ones.

Yeah, I tried to initiate putting seasons in titles. Someone didn't like it though and edited out my work though so I stopped doing it.

 

[ret]

my recommendation for the X1 for the first few games

1 to 3 ----> Sehwag, Gambhir and Rohit
4 to 7 ----> Yuvi, Dhoni, Yusuf, Irfan
8 to 11 ----> Praveen, Chawla, Ishant & Sree

12th man ----> Raina, who can be played if batting needs to be strengthened in place of Praveen or Sree but the above line up bats all the way down to #9 so ....

 

[Lambu]

my recommendation for the X1 for the first few games

1 to 3 ----> Sehwag, Gambhir and Rohit
4 to 7 ----> Yuvi, Dhoni, Yusuf, Irfan
8 to 11 ----> Praveen, Chawla, Ishant & Sree

12th man ----> Raina, who can be played if batting needs to be strengthened in place of Praveen or Sree but the above line up bats all the way down to #9 so ....

I would swap Yusuf for Raina...honestly Yusuf may be good for 20-20 but atm a good bouncer around his shoulder at 140 kph should do the trick.Also he can't cut the ball, well basically he has fantastic hitting ability in the "V" as they call it, but nothing more(you would have realised that if you had seen the IPL fnals,where he had play out for sometime before belting the ball).Besides Raina can do what he does with the ball and there is Sehwag.Really, i can't see how Yusuf gets in ahead of Raina.Anyway thats just me..But Raina is all class man and besides he is electric in the field, by far our best fielder.

 

[Lambu]

Also isn't RP>>>Praveen??

Well, might worth it to play Praveen against Ban and play RP against Pak?

 

[ret]

Also isn't RP>>>Praveen??

Well, might worth it to play Praveen against Ban and play RP against Pak?

depends upon the combination, if RP is played in place of Praveen, who is also a little bit of an all-rounder then you need to play a specialist batsman like Raina / Uthappa in the X1

like in my X1, if you are playing Yusuf at 6, Irfan at 7 and Praveen at 8, along with Chalwa who can bat too at #9, then you can not only leverage on the extended bowling options [which is what is needed on flat tracks] but also get some useful runs out with the chances of at least one or two of the 4 firing on flat tracks, which compensates of an additional batsman

 

[Prince EWS]

Also isn't RP>>>Praveen??

Not in one day cricket, no. Not by a long shot.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Time to give my boys a bit of a look-in...

Squad: Mohammad Ashraful (c), Tamim Iqbal, Shahriar Nafees, Nazimuddin, Raqibul Hasan, Mehrab Hossain, Mahmudullah, Alok Kapali, Farhad Reza, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mashrafe Mortaza (vc), Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Dolar Mahmud.


1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Shahriar Nafees, 3 Nazimuddin, 4 Mohammad Ashraful (c), 5 Mehrab Hossain jnr, 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 7 Mahmudullah, 8 Mashrafe Mortaza, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Dolar Mahmud , 11 Shahadat Hossain

That's what I'd go for, but with no Saqibul Hasan or Aftab Ahmed the side lacks balance. Nazimuddin is still relatively unproven, Ashraful is enigmatic at best, Mehrab and Mushfiqur are both coming back into the side and Mahmudullah isn't really international class with either bat or ball; he's more there for balance and a third spin option than anything else. I'd prefer Kapali there, but he's only just been added to the squad because Aftab is injured.

I'm not confident here at all. Two 230+ scores would be a good start; a win is near unthinkable.

 

[Efaz]

I don't think Nazimuddin will get any chance in this series. Raqibul Hasan, who scored two fifties in practice matches, has better chances to get a top order position.

BD team that is likely to be fielded:

Tamim Iqbal
Shahriar Nafees
Mohammad Ashraful
Raqibul Hasan
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mehrab Hossain
Mahmudullah Riyad
Farhad Reza
Mashrafe Mortaza
Abdur Razzak
Shahadat Hossain

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

I don't think Nazimuddin will get any chance in this series. Raqibul Hasan, who scored two fifties in practice matches, has better chances to get a top order position.

BD team that is likely to be fielded:

Tamim Iqbal
Shahriar Nafees
Mohammad Ashraful
Raqibul Hasan
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mehrab Hossain
Mahmudullah Riyad
Farhad Reza
Mashrafe Mortaza
Abdur Razzak
Shahadat Hossain

The batting looks shockingly weak there though (mind you, not much stronger in that side I put down). Plus Farhad Reza is never ever going to be a reliable option in one-day cricket and batting at eight means that Dolar Mahmud may as well play.

We need Saqibul Hasan back and on top form, desperately. The presence of Junaid Siddique (in-form, obviously) would be a huge bonus as well, then Shahriar Nafees could bat three and it would look a bit more substantial.

 

[Efaz]

Farhad Reza is never ever going to be a reliable option in one-day cricket and batting at eight means that Dolar Mahmud may as well play.

Even only as a bowler, I rate Farhad higher than Dollar. Dollar is still very young, immature, and inconsistent. Also, he is probably slower than Farhad is.

Dollar is a medium fast seam/swing bowler. I don't think it will be a smart idea to throw him in front of Indians and Pakistanis on flat tracks of Mirpur.

 

[SJS]

KITPLY CUP ??

Gawd help us !