Note to Kohli - Pick Ashwin as your first bowler no what pitch condition or venue. Even if you think he gonna suck - you pick him. Even if he misfires for a few games - you continue to pick him. He is a champion -he will always bounce back. Drop someone at random if you are struggling with this.
With that said, never request a DRS is Ashwin is the only one asking for it. Just tell him no. Thats his only weakness as far I can tell. Hopefully Ashwin can work on that next now that he mastered the other aspects of cricket.
250 lead is way more that enough. India will win even without Ashwin at this point.
Runs is no longer a concern for India. They just want to ruin the pitch even more by batting as long as they can.
Should always stick with first instinct. No second guessing first instincts. Hard to see any indian bat in double figures the way it is going.
Foakes is dammmmn good keeper. How can they play Butler over this guy!!!!
I am second guessing myself here.
Now I think India bats all day or almost all day after seeing how Woakes was able to hang and the promising start by India. The pitch is bad, but may not be entirely demonic at this point?
If India pull it off (bat all day), India will also show they would’ve won irrespective of the toss.
I have a fairly strong dislike of the bcci. Its a poorly run org due to so many politicians involved due to the money gravy train. And the supreme court reforms went nowhere. Looks like they gave up fixing bcci.
anyway, why do i bring this up?
the bcci is like a fine-oiled japanese car factory compared to the bcb that is the shoddy oil change place around the corner.
the bcb chief sounds like a misbehaving 4-year child whose parents have already given up on disciplining him: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ban-vs-wi-2nd-test-nazmul-hassan-slams-mominul-haque-and-russell-domingo-after-west-indies-series-defeat-1251780
what an embarrassment. Dont see bangladesh making any progress this decade if this guy is in charge. Even if they remove him today (which they won’t; cuz he is probably a powerful guy), he has probably inflicted enough damage to the bcb for the next many years.
Ok this is the right team now. For sure.
washington sundar is not of the same class as these 3. . Yes, i know this Is a more helpful pitch, but sundar is better bat than a bowler imo.
these 3 are clearly better, wicket-taking bowlers. thats why he was a net bowler.
Openers are a prized commodity right now!
pretty much all teams have opener problems right now. India is actually looking pretty good with respect to openers - and thats not even counting Mayank