SA Footy

India squad: MS Dhoni (c ), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha, Zaheer Khan (subject to fitness).

Singh has not been selected and Khan is sunject to his recover from injury.

Sharma to lead there pace attack with Kumar if Khan does not get up.

With there batting, no surpirses, Tendulkar, Laxman and Dravid.

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Kohli/Rahane
Dhoni
Sharma
Ashwin
Ojha
Yadav/Khan (if fit)

How the hell are we gonna bowl these guys out?

bloods08 wrote:How the hell are we gonna bowl these guys out?

We need to produce 4 greentops.
The Indians hate bouncy pitches, we should be doing everything to make the 4 venues have pitches like concrete.
Need to get the WACA back to its old self and then replicate it elsewhere

bloods08 wrote:How the hell are we gonna bowl these guys out?

Had the same discussion with my brother a few weeks back. They have blokes who are top 10 scorers Aust vs India of all time, and most of their runs were made with Warne & McGrath led bowling line up. Going to be some long days in the field this summer!!

Jim05 wrote:

bloods08 wrote:How the hell are we gonna bowl these guys out?

We need to produce 4 greentops.
The Indians hate bouncy pitches, we should be doing everything to make the 4 venues have pitches like concrete.
Need to get the WACA back to its old self and then replicate it elsewhere

Nice thought but green tops at Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide might be a bridge to far. Wouldn't be too concerned after the windies bowled well and got some results with a lessee attack then australia's on flatter pitches.

None of their top 6 are still at their peak except maybe Gambhir and apart from Sharma i dont see a huge threat in their attack. Im sure there is gonna be a test where they dig in and accumulate a massive score but i think we will win the test series 2-1

wristwatcher wrote:None of their top 6 are still at their peak except maybe Gambhir and apart from Sharma i dont see a huge threat in their attack. Im sure there is gonna be a test where they dig in and accumulate a massive score but i think we will win the test series 2-1

Gambhir is far from his peak - he is nearly out the side. He is the only other batsmen (besides Ponting) in the world to average less then 30 in their last 26 test innings

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Kohli (back up Sharma)
Dhoni
Kumar
Sharma
Aaron
Ojha

CoverKing wrote:Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Kohli (back up Sharma)
Dhoni
Kumar
Sharma
Aaron
Ojha

It has been a bloody long time since India have played three seamers... Aaron is a terrible bowler.

People forget India away are no good.

Media Park wrote:

CoverKing wrote:Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Kohli (back up Sharma)
Dhoni
Kumar
Sharma
Aaron
Ojha

It has been a bloody long time since India have played three seamers... Aaron is a terrible bowler.

They'll play 3 quicks here and use sehwag as the second spinner

bloods08 wrote:How the hell are we gonna bowl these guys out?

How the hell are they gonna bowl us out?

With Ojha and Ashwin...

Media Park wrote:With Ojha and Ashwin...

rofl

make greentops the same way they would produce dustbowls

stampy wrote:make greentops the same way they would produce dustbowls

Exactly.
Then we can play 4 quicks and inflict pain on them

Jim05 wrote:

stampy wrote:make greentops the same way they would produce dustbowls

Exactly.
Then we can play 4 quicks and inflict pain on them

Agree.

If we produce batting wickets there there will be a mountain of runs made by both sides.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v ... 43754.html

Irfan Pathan or Vinay Kumar loom as the likely replacement to Praveen Kumar, who has been ruled out of the Indian squad.

The official replacement is supposed to be named today.

Vinay Kumar, the Karnataka fast bowler, has been picked as a replacement for the injured Varun Aaron in India's Test squad to Australia. Aaron's injury was detected on Thursday evening, making him India's second first-choice fast bowler to pull out of the squad due to injury. Praveen Kumar had been ruled of the Australia tour late last month after suffering a rib injury.