IND vs NZ 2019 - India Down Under NZ Tour

[Idassamed]

2 minutes ago, argadorn said:

VK gadiki Harman preet ki Baga Ballupuuu  full money full backing evadi mata avinatledhu veelu 

VK gaadu vaadi ego tho Series ni FASAK

[argadorn]

Just now, Idassamed said:

Series no FASAK

not yet fasak ... asalu ah agame lo mic lo comments entha galeez ga ...india lo galli lo kuda kodiga decent ga behave chestahru veelu mayra oru laga behaved in this match ...   rahul ni fsak cheyali 

[kr123]

VK captaincy lo worst... Known fact

Inni rojulu team lo dhoni unnadu kabatti nettukochadu

World Cup ki semifinal kuda doubtey naku

[JANASENA]

KL Rahul ki inka rest ivvachu oka 1 year 

[argadorn]

Just now, kr123 said:

VK captaincy lo worst... Known fact

Inni rojulu team lo dhoni unnadu kabatti nettukochadu

World Cup ki semifinal kuda doubtey naku

hes bad at captaincy atttide change avatledhu vadiki ... inter pass ayinavadu kuda baagney behave chetsharu .... better he should concentrate on team performance instead of individual performances...

[Kool_SRG]

Questions abound as Shastri reveals Jadeja's lack of fitness

Not many had questioned Ravindra Jadeja's exclusion from the playing XI for the Perth Test last week. Not many had even considered him as a viable selection, including Virat Kohli based on what he would say about his impressions of the pitch there. But coach Ravi Shastri's revelation on Sunday at the MCG about the left-arm spinner having been only "70-80 per cent fit" in the lead-up to that match has led to a number of uncomfortable questions for the team management a week later.

 

 

Was Jadeja fully fit to tour Australia in the first place? Why wasn't he being treated at the NCA for the stiff shoulder and cleared, instead of taking an injection while on tour? Why was an unfit Jadeja then named in the 13-man squad announced on the eve of the Test? Even worse, why was an unfit Jadeja then named 12th man and made to field for nearly 20 overs in Australia's first innings and then a few more in the second innings? Why or how was Jadeja, with a stiff shoulder which needed injections at the start of the tour, firing in throws from the boundary? Was he just prompting critics from back home to fire blanks?

 

 

The query to Shastri as he faced up to the media was about how some experts in India had felt playing Jadeja on the green Perth pitch, where Nathan Lyon walked away as man-of-the-match would have been a better option than a fourth seamer. After having taken a characteristic pot-shot at the team's perceived detractors, accusing them of "firing blanks" from "millions of miles away", coach Shastri revealed that Jadeja had been suffering from a stiff shoulder from the time he'd landed in Australia nearly a month back.

 

 

"Problem with Jaddu was that he had taken an injection four days into coming to Australia because of some stiffness in his shoulder and it took a while for that injection to settle down. So when you look at Perth, we felt he was about 70-80 per cent fit and we didn't want to risk that in Perth," said Shastri before adding, "If he is 80 per cent here (in Melbourne), he will play, that's the answer."

 

 

According to the head coach, Jadeja had originally felt the stiffness before playing his only domestic game of the season, a Ranji encounter against Railways in which he was incidentally the man-of-the-match in Rajkot. He scored over 200 runs across two innings without being dismissed and took 7 wickets in all. It was prior to this match that he took an injection for the first time.

 

 

"When he came here (to Australia), he felt some stiffness and he felt that in India as well but he played domestic cricket after that. Still felt stiff in the shoulder and he was injected again and it takes time to settle. It has taken longer than we expected and we wanted to be careful," said Shastri.

 

 

"Last thing you want is someone breaking down after 5-10 overs and then we are stuck for players to pick for Melbourne and Sydney," he added reiterating the reasons for Jadeja not being considered in the XI for Perth.

 

 

For the record, the Indian media on tour, who were not "a million miles away" and were very much in the "southern hemisphere" like the Indian team and their coaching staff, meanwhile, had been kept in the dark about Jadeja on the eve of the Perth Test. When captain Virat Kohli had been asked about the injury concerns for the visitors, he'd said, "We will be announcing the squad after the press conference so you will get the injury updates and everything as well, okay," Kohli had said pointing at the team spokesperson.

 

 

Though there was an email sent, it only included injury updates on Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin and Rohit Sharma. The only mention of Jadeja was in the 13-member squad "selected for the 2nd Test". It was also the first time India had named 13 players, ever since they began the practice of announcing their final 12 on the eve of every Test earlier this year.

 

 

That said, Jadeja couldn't have masked his injury better with the amount of time he was on the field substituting and especially with his bullet arm from the boundary on full display. So involved was he in the match that at one point he was wandering from mid-off to mid-on at the end of an over, blissfully unaware that Murali Vijay, the man he was standing in for, had already returned to the field.

 

 

His only other contribution during the Perth Test of course was adding fuel to the growing debate over the intrusiveness of the access given to and by the broadcasters during the course of a match by getting into a foul-mouthed tirade with teammate Ishant Sharma in the vicinity of the stump-camera with the Flying Fox - as the SpiderCam is called here - hovering not too far away.

 

 

You wonder whether Shastri was hinting at a possible call-up for the left-arm spinner by his admission about how an "80 per cent fit Jadeja" would have been picked at the MCG, especially having already revealed the concern over Ashwin's fitness. Jadeja did bowl a lengthy spell in the nets during India's practice session and even had a couple of the top-order batsmen in trouble. At one point, Indian physio Patrick Farhart walked up to him in the nets for a brief chat, which looked like an inquiry. Based on what Shastri would say around half hour later, you could assume it was about his fitness.

 

 

Shastri said that the management will "evaluate Ashwin" over the "next 48 hours". Ashwin only bowled at a pair of stumps on Sunday, and was closely monitored by strength conditioning coach Shankar Basu and Farhart. He did seem to struggle a little to finish his action completely-the characteristic pivot was missing-and once he was done with his solo spell, faced some throwdowns in the same net. Hardik Pandya too had a bowl, beating captain Kohli with only his second delivery, getting it to jump off a length and swerve away. But Shastri said that the team management would hold back before taking a call on the all-rounder, since they had to be "careful before we actually decide whether he plays or not".

 

 

The coach wasn't holding back though when it came to former cricketing greats like Sunil Gavaskar who criticized the selection calls made by the Indian team for the Perth Test. "We have to do what's best for the team, as simple as that. Question was asked about Jadeja which I answered and I don't think there was any other selection dilemma, if there was then not my problem." But as the Jadeja situation shows, there is perhaps a problem that the team management as a whole needs to look into, with how injuries are being managed and how they're affecting selection decisions.

[Kool_SRG]

India's worries ahead of Boxing Day

India have a 19-member squad in Australia right now, but one look at them and it doesn't feel like too many. Either out of poor injury management or through desperation, India are trying to cover too many bases. Some of the players they need to decide on in the coming two days.

R Ashwin

Missed Perth Test because of “left-sided” abdominal strain. Not yet fully fit, not yet sent back. Will be monitored over the coming two days. Bowled a few balls without a run-up, took throwdowns.

Ravindra Jadeja

Missed Perth Test, available for Melbourne. Captain Virat Kohli says conditions demanded four fast bowlers. Coach Ravi Shastri says Jadeja was not 100%. Been carrying a shoulder injury from India, has taken two injections. “Didn’t play in Perth because he was 70-80%, will play in Melbourne even if 80% fit,” says Shastri. The BCCI then issued a media release stating that while there was a recurrence of the shoulder injury ahead of the first Test. Bowling at the nets in Perth, his "intensity could have been higher", and hence wasn't considered for the 2nd Test.

Rohit Sharma

Missed Perth Test because of a “jarred back”. No further diagnosis. Looks better, according to Shastri, but not yet cleared for the Melbourne Test.

Back after a long injury layoff but might be undercooked. Has proved his fitness over only one first-class match. Won’t risk him unless entirely sure.

Mayank Agarwal 

New opener in Prithvi Shaw’s absence. Other openers out of form. Will be a big move if he gets a debut in Boxing Day Test. Took a blow on the hand from a short ball chucked at him by throwdown specialist R Raghavendra.

KL Rahul and M Vijay

Out of form, under pressure. Vijay has 49 runs from four innings, Rahul 48.

 

[Kool_SRG]

Arey Jaddu gaadu half fit ante entuku teesuku poyaaru , ra idi sangathi perth vaanni adichaka potaaniki 

[Kool_SRG]

MS Dhoni returns to India's T20I squad for New Zealand tour

MS Dhoni is back in India's T20I squad. He hadn't found a place in India's two most recent T20I squads, against West Indies at home and in Australia, but he has returned as one of three wicketkeeper-batsmen for the three-match T20I series in New Zealand in early February.

In more spinning of the wicketkeeping carousel, Dinesh Karthik is back in the ODI squads for Australia and New Zealand, replacing Rishabh Pant. Pant played three of the five ODIs against West Indies, as a specialist batsman, and scored 17 and 24.

Pant is currently playing the Test series in Australia. According to the BCCI's selection release, he will return home after the Tests to play for India A in a five-match one-day series against England Lions.

Among the middle-order batsmen, Manish Pandey has missed out on both squads. Pandey was on the bench for all five ODIs against West Indies, and didn't get a chance in the T20I series in Australia. In the T20Is against West Indies, he batted twice, scoring 19 and 4*.

Kedar Jadhav, who has been an ODI regular but wasn't part of the recent T20Is, is back in favour in the shortest format. Hardik Pandya, the seam-bowling allrounder, is back as expected after recovering from the back injury that he sustained during the Asia Cup in September.

With Jadhav and Hardik returning to the T20I squad, batsman Shreyas Iyer and the spin-bowling allrounder Washington Sundar have missed out.

Fast bowler Umesh Yadav finds himself out of both the ODI and T20I squads. The selectors have gone with Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Khaleel Ahmed as the four frontline quicks in the ODI squad, and Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar and Khaleel as a trio for the T20Is.

 

[Kool_SRG]

[timmy]

3 hours ago, Kool_SRG said:

Arey Jaddu gaadu half fit ante entuku teesuku poyaaru , ra idi sangathi perth vaanni adichaka potaaniki 

comedy enti antey he fielded as 12th man at perth shoulder injury tho unnavadini fielding cheyinchi risk chesthaara?? they should have sent kuldeep instead of jaddu. idhi covering lo part emo moreover if jaddu is not fit why dont they give a chance to kuldeep on perth pitch ?? also better batsmen than umesh yadav.

ravi shastri gaadu pressmeet lo cheppina answers ki okkati peekalanipinchid..

[Kool_SRG]

17 minutes ago, timmy said:

comedy enti antey he fielded as 12th man at perth shoulder injury tho unnavadini fielding cheyinchi risk chesthaara?? they should have sent kuldeep instead of jaddu. idhi covering lo part emo moreover if jaddu is not fit why dont they give a chance to kuldeep on perth pitch ?? also better batsmen than umesh yadav.

ravi shastri gaadu pressmeet lo cheppina answers ki okkati peekalanipinchid..

+1

Pitcha reasons vaadunu malli telling even if he is 80% fit will play in Melbourne if required ata  peeki paadadhobaali 

[shaw183]

edi thread pin cheyandi kodiga...vethukune badapodi

[timmy]

 

What's been India's biggest selection blunder of the year?

4:48 PM

• ESPNcricinfo staff

On their tours of South Africa, England and Australia in 2018, India have made several debatable selections in their playing XIs. Virat Kohli, the captain, and Ravi Shastri, the coach, have tried to pick sides for specific conditions and have given importance to recent form over reputation, but their choices have not always paid off. Which of these decisions do you think was the biggest mistake?

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Two spinners on a green-top

 

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Kuldeep Yadav had troubled England's batsmen with his left-arm wristspin in the limited-overs leg of the tour, and after R Ashwin took seven wickets in the first Test, India decided to go in to the second with two spinners. But they had completely misread the conditions at Lord's, where cloudy skies and a green pitch assisted swing and seam. England's spinner, Adil Rashid, did not need to bowl a single over in the Test, as their four-man seam attack knocked over India twice. India, meanwhile, had to make do with just two frontline quicks and allrounder Hardik Pandya's seam bowling. Neither spinner took a wicket, and India lost by an innings and 159 runs, by far their biggest defeat of the year.

 

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No Pujara at Edgbaston

 

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Cheteshwar Pujara signed with Yorkshire in early 2018 with the intention of preparing for India's tour of England later in the year. But his poor run of form in the County Championship got him dropped from the XI. M Vijay and KL Rahul both got fifties in India's warm-up game against Essex, perhaps an explanation for their inclusion, and Shikhar Dhawan was included despite getting a pair in that game, probably because India wanted a left-hander in their line-up. All three failed at Edgbaston. Pujara returned for the rest of the series and got a fifty in India's win at Trent Bridge and a century in Southampton. By the end of the year, Pujara was back to being a fixture in India's XI. Dhawan was dropped, and Vijay and Rahul have been struggling to keep their place in the team.

 

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Rohit over Rahane in South Africa

 

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Ajinkya Rahane had been India's most consistent performer overseas alongside Virat Kohli before the tour of South Africa, with an average of 48.59 in the SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) countries. So, despite a slump in form, it was expected he'd be a certainty in the XI for the first Test, in Cape Town. However, India decided to go with Rohit Sharma instead, with Virat Kohli citing recent form as the reason. Rohit played the second Test too, but was dropped after scores of 11, 10, 10 and 47. Rahane played the third Test, in Johannesburg, and made a crucial second-innings 48 on a treacherous pitch.

 

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Four seamers at Perth

 

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India have gone into a Test without a frontline spinner just three times in their history, and two of those occurrences have been under Virat Kohli's captaincy. After a five-seamer strategy worked in Johannesburg, Kohli chose to go with four frontline quicks and no spinner on what looked like a green pitch at the new Optus Stadium in Perth, seemingly ignoring forecasts that the pitch may crack up later. R Ashwin was ruled out with injury, but there were conflicting reasons cited for why Ravindra Jadeja was not involved. Kohli said the team felt the pitch would suit four seamers while India coach Ravi Shastri later said Jadeja was not 100% fit. Kuldeep Yadav was also in the squad, but not considered. What made the XI for the Test even more debatable was that Umesh Yadav was selected as the fourth seamer ahead of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, whose away record is stellar. The decision left India with a long tail, with no one from No.8 down averaging more than 12 in Tests. The tail crumbled in both innings, Umesh was expensive and Australia's spinner, Nathan Lyon, took eight wickets in the match, leaving Kohli to face plenty of questions on selection after India's loss.

 

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Bhuvneshwar left out at Centurion

 

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Bhuvneshwar Kumar had been India's best bowler in the first Test of the South Africa tour, taking three wickets within his first three overs on the first morning. But on a dry pitch in Centurion, he was left out for Ishant Sharma. Virat Kohli's explanation was that he expected inconsistent bounce and felt Ishant's height would be an advantage. Jasprit Bumrah, just one-Test old, and Mohammed Shami, who had been a bit erratic in Cape Town, were the other two frontline seamers. India lost the Test and went down 0-2 in the series. Bhuvneshwar returned for the third Test, at the Wanderers, and was Man of the Match in India's win.

 

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Half a spinner on a turner

 

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After going down 0-2 in their five-match Test series in England, India won at Trent Bridge, getting them back into the series. The fourth Test was at the Rose Bowl, one of England's friendliest venues for spinners, and with R Ashwin having picked up a hip injury in the third Test, many expected India to field Ravindra Jadeja alongside him. Virat Kohli himself predicted spin, particularly out of the footmarks, would play a major role in the Test, and when England named Moeen Ali as a second spinner in their XI, speculation grew that India would go down the same route. However, Virat Kohli decided to go in with an unchanged XI for the first time in 39 Tests, meaning a hampered Ashwin had to bowl 37 overs in England's second innings. He was not at his best and took just thee wickets in the game. Moeen, meanwhile, took nine wickets in the game and was Man of the Match.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25607107/india-biggest-selection-blunder-year

 

@Kool_SRG see the vote pattern  in the link above. over 70% of people think India will get the selection wrong (8000+ voted till now)

[perugu_vada]

@timmy uncle, nenu bhi NO ki vote vesa