Who can't even beat WI team without their top players like Gayle, Evin Lewis, Pollard, Narine, Russel. Imagine the thrashing this so called best team of 15-20 years would have had , if WI played their full team!! Is that drunkard listening?
Indian player having lack of killer instinct, these player drop their sword in many occasion. In England they lost the test series by narrow margin which they can easily make it 3to 1 instead of 1 to 3.
Though in the 3rd ODI WI played well and hence deserved to win, which has given excitement to the series, the WI team has yet to rise to the level of India because certainly they lack strategy, excitement and energy to win any match. Losing one match doesn't even count on India's performance or winning spree and in fact it is good that they lost 1 match so Virat and team will come back with a venom and straight away win the next two ODIs in a huge way. WI still do not have a bowler of calibre who can surely either stop free flow of runs or gurantee to take wickets. They rely on the mistake of Indian batsman and do not have the ability to put pressure on Indian batsman by tight bowling or fielding like the Indians do. And ODIs are not won only with batting. Again WI openers are very poor and never gives WI the rousing start which every team requires and which India has always been getting from the likes of Rohit, Virat etc. Anyway, good to see WI improved a little from earlier but Holder is not at all an aggressive captain and if one team's coach and captain is not aggressive they can never win matches on their own skills, they will have to be dependent on opponent's bad day to win matches which has happened with all of India's opponents lately since past 3 - 4 years. Thats the reason even ODIs are slowly losing its charm.
Infact I would have ashwin for chahal to make batting even more formidable. This way batting becomes formidable witth bhuvi at nine. Also in bowling we have 6 options. Not sure why ashwin is completely ignored by selectors/kohli.
(else hardik for one of ashwin or jaddu but he is injured)
Also why not let KL Rahul or parthiv shaw open and Rahit move to no.4 as he is falling early 3 out of 4 times in opening.
Re: Team with balance
by Ramdas Nayak on Oct 28, 2018 10:46 PM
In one day format we require very smart fielders in the team. Ashwin may be a good bowler in Tests but don't think he will be a success in ODI. He is a very slow mover in the field hence West Indies might take advantage of his poor fielding.
Re: Dont ignore Jadeja
by mandook raj on Oct 29, 2018 01:30 PM
I am inclined to agree. Incidentally, Sanjay Manjrekar is the worst commentator. So boring and disgusting.
