Australia v India - pre series discussion

[Hamingja]

in favour of a sacrificial, journeyman type opener getting to shoot his shot with a handful of years ahead of him. comes off, good. doesn't come off, the guy quietly slinks back to shield. happy to wait for a dead rubber but australia tends not to use dead rubbers to blood players.

would rob quiney answer an SOS?

That's Harris. India eat him alive and at least we don't have to hear people calling for him to be picked again.

 

[akkaps]

One thing about this Indian side - you can never underestimate them even with some new names in the squad. We all know what happened last time when their new players played with such freedom.

Kohli loves playing in Australia and I feel like he’s due to make some big scores. Young Jaiswal is a scary prospect too.

Do you think they’d opt for an extra batter to potentially squeeze out one of Ashwin or Jadeja if conditions suited faster bowling?

	Age	Mat		Inns	Wkts	Ave	Econ	SR	5w	10w		Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100s	50s
Harshit Rana	23	9		16	36	24.75	3.90	38.00	1	1		13	410	122*	41.00	85.95	1	1
Nitish Kumar Reddy	21	21		38	55	26.01	3.31	47.00	2	-		35	708	159	21.45	55.57	1	2
Washington Sundar	25	31		52	65	29.92	2.90	61.70	3	1		48	1,398	159	33.28	48.27	2	8
Tanush Kotian	26	32		57	100	25.00	3.28	45.60	3	-		45	1,481	120*	42.31	60.82	2	13
Manav Kotian	22	20		35	85	27.02	2.99	54.00	4	2		31	656	96*	27.33	43.04	-	4

I'd expect us to rotate through the bowlers to give them some rest from the long series.

Ashwin is getting on and needs to retire and start coaching, so we'd bet looking for a replacement there. I thought Axar Patel was the answer but I don't know now that Washington was brought into the side and has done well
The above table are the three all rounders brought into the side. Harshit and Nitish bowl mediums, whilst Washington bowls his offies.

The other two names are choice for the replacements, and would like them to play for India ASAP. They were both selected in the India A side though

 

[Cmarsh]

A 37 yo past prime, out of form Rohit Sharma opening the batting is probably a plus for Australia.