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[Art Vandelay_]

 

[RPCB]

If management want to teach Pant a lesson for playing irresponsible shots by dropping him, then shouldn’t half of the team be dropped for bad decision making? Start with Jaiswal who clearly wasn’t focused when India were fielding.

 

[glenferry23]

Jaiswal is a fantastic batsman, their next superstar and the one who fought tooth and nail in that 4th innings to save the match. His dropped catches were immensely costly for them however his position is surely under no question mark.

Some of his senior teammates however should be the ones to make way. Rohit shouldn’t be in and that’s kind of the elephant in the room for Indian cricket at the moment. Dhruv Jurel is a very good batsman too however that’s massive if they drop Pant. Just him being back playing international cricket at this level is a phenomenal outcome after that car crash. He’s fortunate to be here really.

Dropping him would be wild, unless he’s injured like Deep is (sore back I read).

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

If management want to teach Pant a lesson for playing irresponsible shots by dropping him, then shouldn’t half of the team be dropped for bad decision making? Start with Jaiswal who clearly wasn’t focused when India were fielding.

Why would India drop their best performing batsman? I hope they do, because that would gift Australia the series.

Sharma first, Lyon made more in his second innings than Sharma has in the whole series.

 

[RPCB]

Ffs guys, my Jaiswal comment was tongue in cheek if India are going to start dropping players for making errors.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Ffs guys, my Jaiswal comment was tongue in cheek if India are going to start dropping players for making errors.

That's not always easy to tell.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Pant is averaging just 22 for the series with HS of 37. Irresponsible shot for one so experienced. Can understand them dropping him

 

[RPCB]

That's not always easy to tell.

In fairness, Jaiswal is going to give Australia trouble for years to come. So the responses were warranted.

 

[eth-dog]

Dropping Deep is crazy. He's better than Siraj

 

[glenferry23]

It’s a back injury for Deep, he isn’t dropped.

 

[Planet14]

Interesting twist.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

More like "pushed out".

 

[Bradesmaen]

India's David Warner, gone on too long but he's the captain. Averages 24.38 in Australia with just 3 50s.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Tough calendar year for openers. Only 1 player with 10+ innings averaged above 36. Yashasvi Jaiswal at 54.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Tough calendar year for openers. Only 1 player with 10+ innings averaged above 36. Yashasvi Jaiswal at 54.

I assume you mean Jaiswal and one person cause Duckett averaged 37.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

I assume you mean Jaiswal and one person cause Duckett averaged 37.

Incorrect to the statement I made. Correct overall.

Parameters set to innings batting at opener and Duckett was 35.5

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[Bojan KantKick]

Dropping Pant is very funny. Genuine match winners are hard to find. This only helps Australia.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Incorrect to the statement I made. Correct overall.

Parameters set to innings batting at opener and Duckett was 35.5

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stats.espncricinfo.com

I was looking at this for Duckett, didn't realise one of his games he batted at 4.

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[glenferry23]

Interesting twist.

This is classical politics, posturing over the usage of words. He’s clearly dropped or not selected or so on. However “opting out” or “rested” saves face and allows a great of the game a level of respect soften the impact. That press conference though, sheesh. The opening minute or so when he dismissed the questions about Rohit playing today was tense and odd. All is not right in their camp clearly.

Dropping Pant would be idiotic. Remains to be seen if that’s true.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

India batting.
Have stuck with Pant. Probably wise with Sharma out.

Gill for Sharma and Krishna for Deep.

 

[glenferry23]

Krishna looked very lively from what I saw in the highlights of the warm up matches, he was amongst the wickets if I recall correctly.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Gee that looked out to me, Smith had his fingers underneath.

 

[Loonerty]

all my homies hate Joel Wilson

 

[glenferry23]

It was that momentary still where it seemed the ball was touching the ground partially whilst the rest of it was grasped in his fingers, that was sufficient doubt it seemed from what the third umpire was saying.

 

[eth-dog]

It was that momentary still where it seemed the ball was touching the ground partially whilst the rest of it was grasped in his fingers, that was sufficient doubt it seemed from what the third umpire was saying.

This. I agree with the call tbh