Great start to the ODI Series 376 a huge scorebut india off to a flyerZampa has just dropped a sitter - VK to cash in?
Yes that was a little premature. Great in that Aussies scored such a big score.Indians balance dont look right. Need a 6th option?
Am not sure - some of their dismissals today were tame. A few playing too many shots too soon. They got up to 308 without the top order contributing.
that's white ball for you. Players basically come off or they don't.. finch could easily have been caught out on the up for like 10 and run out for what... 51?? a lot of white ball is just luck on the day
Do you love it or hate it? I cant tell
India put a lot of chances down in the field. Bowling wise, Saini was poor and Bumrah was disappointing. Think it's a bit daft to suggest they are light on batting given their number 8 has an ODI average of over 30, just the batsman they had didn't bat well and their top order failed to contribute.
Their number 8 now has an ODI average of 82, from 3 innings. He has also never made a 50 in professional cricket so which of those stats is more representative to his batting?With Pandya not fit to bowl you could argue that they managed to be both a batsman and a bowler light!
Quite remarkable that none of India’s batsmen can bowl at all - Agarwal, Dhawan, Kohli or Iyer. Go back a few years the likes of Tendulkar, Ganguly, Sehwag, Yuvraj and Raina all bowled to a decent standard.
Read an article somewhere that the sidearm is the cause of more and more batsmen not bowling at all these days in nets after they are done with their batting practice. So they don't get any bowling practice at all unlike earlier days.