England tour of India (5 Tests)

[icyman]

How to show how out of touch you are. We don’t care that they might backfire, if you are thinking about how your plans could fail, then you will never fully commit and when you don’t go in 100%, then you will definitely will fail. So why bother. That is Bazball. Get with the times and open you eyes

Well mate, I disagree. I do believe that your feelings stem from the fact cause the so-called 'Bazball' has worked in your favour until now. There's a very fine line between being carefree and being careless. I needn't mention where Bazball sits tbh.

As for planning going awry- it bemuses me that you wouldn't go in with a Plan B. Even if you are fully committed to Plan A+200%, things may not go your way. That's the circle of life!

I view Stokes' decision making akin to that of an arrogant person- he is lucky that India are poor right now and have crumbled in the 1st Test, else the scenario would have been different.

 

[Aislabie]

Might Jaiswal be the best Test batter in the world right now? It's very early days, but watching him bat just reminds me of watching Lara or Tendulkar at their very peak

 

[icyman]

Might Jaiswal be the best Test batter in the world right now? It's very early days, but watching him bat just reminds me of watching Lara or Tendulkar at their very peak

Too early! Let him prove himself versus good opposition in SENA. From what I saw of him in SA, I didn't feel so. But then again, as you said- too early perhaps.

 

[Aislabie]

Loving that story of Sehwag playing county cricket.

"Viru, it's reverse swinging. How do I play it?"

"There's an off-spinner at the other end. Get me on strike."

... and then Viru hits it out of Grace Road so that the ball is lost.

 

[Bevab]

Loving that story of Sehwag playing county cricket.

"Viru, it's reverse swinging. How do I play it?"

"There's an off-spinner at the other end. Get me on strike."

... and then Viru hits it out of Grace Road so that the ball is lost.

 

[icyman]

Moving to Patidar- decent fellow? Do we like what we see of him?

 

[Supreme General]

Moving to Patidar- decent fellow? Do we like what we see of him?

Well…

 

[icyman]

I shouldn't move onto players....

 

[Bevab]

Moving to Patidar- decent fellow? Do we like what we see of him?

Good jinx.

But yes, he’s been decent. I don’t think he’ll amount to anything special though.

 

[icyman]

Good jinx.

But yes, he’s been decent. I don’t think he’ll amount to anything special though.

Another Hanuma Vihari in the making perhaps....

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Axar Patel! This is what I despise from Dravid- Rohit- the constant chop chop chop...

 

[Bigby Wolf]

I can smell a collapse coming.

 

[Bevab]

Another Hanuma Vihari in the making perhaps....

He hasn’t shown any notable weakness like Vihari did but to be fair to Vihari the latter was only playing in pace friendly conditions.

I’m happy to sacrifice Patidar’s wicket if that means the commentators shut up about KP’s blue hair.

 

[icyman]

I can smell a collapse coming.

Come on, our best batsman is yet to come. Ashwin Anna!

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Come on, our best batsman is yet to come. Ashwin Anna!

Be careful you already jinxed one lol.

 

[Bevab]

I like the confidence they have with Axar at six, we could have had that during our peak when Jadeja was being unfairly dropped or played at eight because they didn’t trust his batting over the number six batter.

Axar is not the man for that job though.