By Indian Cricket Fever
October 27 2018
The Selectors have picked many players for the various upcoming Series. On the one hand it is heartening to see the depth of talent available, and also to see that the BCCI is providing great certainty by picking the various squads so early. But as the selection of FORTY odd players for the various series in England last summer demonstrated...just picking a lot of talent... but having poor planning in scheduling warm up games and also being a bit too rigid in later selection means that even with a potential bench of FORTY plus India still came out on the short end in both the ODIs and Tests... only managing to win the T20I series. The same mistake must not be repeated. In a late breaking news it is now learned that the selectors have added Kedar Jadhav to the squad for the last 2 ODIs versus West Indies. I guess his loud squawking about his being left out had the desired effect... though to be honest why he was not included in the squad in the first place defied logic. Also, a bit sad to see that Varun Aaron has not found a place in any of the squads... He did a stellar job for Jharkhand who reached the semi-finals of the Hazare Trophy, and it would have been useful to have a bowler with serious pace.(150kmph+) available for Australia in case the pace bowling needed to be beefed up.
India’s squad for T20I series against Windies: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem
India’s squad for T20I series against Australia: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed
India’s Test squad for series against Australia: Virat Kohli (captain), M Vijay, KL Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Parthiv Patel (wicket-keeper), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
India A squad for 1st four-day game against New Zealand A: Ajinkya Rahane (Captain), M Vijay, Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel (wicket-keeper), K Gowtham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Rajneesh Gurbani, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wicket-keeper)
India A squad for 2nd and 3rd four-day game against New Zealand A: Karun Nair (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, R Samarth, Ankit Bawne, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), K Gowtham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Rajneesh Gurbani
India A squad for three one-day games against New Zealand A: Manish Pandey (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Krunal Pandya, Siddharth Kaul, Deepak Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed
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Dhoni not being in the T20 squad is not a big deal... he wasn't doing a whole lot in that format lately anyway...
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Dhoni not being in the T20 squad is not a big deal... he wasn't doing a whole lot in that format lately anyway...
Batting wise no. But captaincy and wicket-keeping wise he was helping Kohli.
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Dhoni not being in the T20 squad is not a big deal... he wasn't doing a whole lot in that format lately anyway...
Batting wise no. But captaincy and wicket-keeping wise he was helping Kohli.
If Kohli needs help with Captaincy after so many games... then maybe he shouldn't be the Captain...
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Even if India win ODI World cup - it won't be because of Kohli's tactical genius. Dhoni is passing all the instructions while Kohli is fielding at boundary.
I find that embarrassing. It seems Dhoni is going to help till world cup and then retire. Team management is also playing along because there is no choice.
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Even if India win ODI World cup - it won't be because of Kohli's tactical genius. Dhoni is passing all the instructions while Kohli is fielding at boundary.
I find that embarrassing. It seems Dhoni is going to help till world cup and then retire. Team management is also playing along because there is no choice.
So you are suggesting a World Cup winning captain (assuming he leads India to title) will then be stripped of captaincy?... NOT HAPPENING...
But actually chances are high that India won't win this time... they are among the top 3 but I think England and SA have a better shot and bigger favorites