Indian Discussion

[Jono]

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Preliminary squad: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma, Vinay Kumar, M Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Saurabh Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Parthiv Patel, R Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik, Shikhar Dhawan, Amit Mishra, Piyush Chawla, Cheteshwar Pujara, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar


No Irfan Pathan Career over for you buddy.

[benchmark00]

Parthiv Patel to get a start and set the world on fire.

[Cevno]

Seeing Ajinkya Rahane is a positive, though very very less chance he gets picked for the final squad.

[kingpin]

Ideal combination

Sehwag
SRT
Gauti
Yuvi
Raina
Dhoni
yusuf
ashwin
pk
zaheer
Ashish

[Jono]

Yusuf ahead of Kohli? Crazy talk.

Sure Yusuf Pathan was awesome in the 4th ODI vs. NZ, but his record is still relatively poor. Kohli can give it a whack anyway. Can bat at 3/4 or 6/7.

[Marcuss]

Allergic to 5?

[Jono]

Kohli isn't allergic to anything. Heard he's invincible. Tend to believe it too.

[kingpin]

Yusuf ahead of Kohli? Crazy talk.

Sure Yusuf Pathan was awesome in the 4th ODI vs. NZ, but his record is still relatively poor. Kohli can give it a whack anyway. Can bat at 3/4 or 6/7.

Well being a huge fan Kohli.... I can see no place for him in final XI yusuf on flat tracks can be usefull....as well as raina....Well I may just swap Raina with kohli...Wat will be ur final XI

[Jono]

Same as yours (I would play Ashwin ahead of Harbhajan like you are) except I'd have Kohli in ahead of Yusuf. So:

Sachin
Sehwag
Gambhir
Yuvraj
Kohli
Raina
Dhoni
Ashwin
Praveen
Zaheer
Nehra

If the pitches are turning then Harbhajan for Nehra.

[vcs]

Same as yours (I would play Ashwin ahead of Harbhajan like you are) except I'd have Kohli in ahead of Yusuf. So:

Sachin
Sehwag
Gambhir
Yuvraj
Kohli
Raina
Dhoni
Ashwin
Praveen
Zaheer
Nehra

If the pitches are turning then Harbhajan for Nehra.

Do you think Harbhajan will take kindly to being dropped for Ashwin? Or will the selectors be brave enough to take that call?

[Jono]

Neither.

It's just the team I'd play. But it won't happen.

[kingpin]

Ashwin such a gun..... Where in the world can u see a spinner being susses-full operating in PP's..

[Jono]

Ojha in T20s
Ashwin in ODIs
Harbhajan in tests.

Pretty simple I reckon. Wish the selectors will realise that you can have different premier spinners for different formats.

[kingpin]

Ojha in T20s
Ashwin in ODIs
Harbhajan in tests.

Pretty simple I reckon. Wish the selectors will realise that you can have different premier spinners for different formats.

Ashwin did pretty well in IPL and CLT20......may choose him over ojha tbh...for his variations

[Jono]

Ojha picked up the most wickets in the recent IPL. He's a T20 gun. People can't put him away.