Afghanistan v India | 2015 World Cup | Warm-up Match | 10th February, 2015 | Adelaide

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Dhoni looks done and dusted to me there is no passion left in his game i am noticing it from last 1 year

He has got enough cash in his bank accounts and is living on his past achievements. Players like dhoni, raina, dhawan, ashwin, jadeja should be nowhere near indian team outside asia.

 

[cricket geek]

Rahane cant reach his century.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

So Afghanistan needs 365 runs to win

 

[adnan yasin]

Well, Rohit did score 139 against Australia at MCG..

Thats the only one he scored on the whole tour . test and one dayers ... he really needs to prove and need to improve his away average of 31 against top teams.

 

[adarsh_bang]

165 allout on cards for Afghans. and a false sense of feelgood for us.

 

[Electron]

Pointless match. Jadeja didn't get enough match-practice.

 

[IndianWillow]

Rohit is an all-or-nothing guy. This is not a problem per se, but he needs to improve his game against big opponents.

 

[Swanny]

What a joke of a team. No-hit is our best bat nghead:

 

[adnan yasin]

Afghanistan plays aggressive cricket and they will try and chase the target.... lets see how far they go

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Pointless match. Jadeja didn't get enough match-practice.

Jadeja has to bowl well.

Him even scoring a 100 is not of that use (just like Ashwin).

Right Jaddu's bowling looks like he will concede minimum 70 runs in 10 overs.

When our 5 bowlers have to bowl 50 overs, that's a huge deal.

Maybe its injury but his bowling looks bad.

Let's see if shows any improvement today.

 

[Electron]

Jadeja has to bowl well.

Him even scoring a 100 is not of that use (just like Ashwin).

Right Jaddu's bowling looks like he will concede minimum 70 runs in 10 overs.

When our 5 bowlers have to bowl 50 overs, that's a huge deal.

Maybe its injury but his bowling looks bad.

Let's see if shows any improvement today.

Jadeja the batsman needed some good practice. Rahane could have retired after his fifty, Rohit should have done the same after his hundred.

 

[Justcrazy]

Afghans need to bat all 50 overs here and get practice. They should look to score 275 here.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

What a joke of a team. No-hit is our best bat nghead:

Bro after the Melbourne century on a good track, we have to admit, No hit is one of our better bats in ODI.

He is all or nothing guy but still one of the better bats when we consider the likes of Rayudu, Dhawan, over the hill Dhoni, doubtful Raina.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Jadeja the batsman needed some good practice. Rahane could have retired after his fifty, Rohit should have done the same after his hundred.

I think our batsmen needed that runs for confidence more than Jaddu.

Our strength batting is down the toilets and if someone scores a big century, that's good for us cos the batsman will play the WC.

Jaddu, Ashwin, Axar and Binny - no one knows who will be in the starting XI as of now.

 

[Strike Rate]

18 in first 2 overs good start

 

[Strike Rate]

Javed Ahmadi is a very fine talent

 

[adnan yasin]

19/0 in 2 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

19 / 0

2 overs

 

[ScotRaz]

Heard this saying from my aunt once and it suits AFG playing style "Jo durte hai vo murteh hai" (those that are scared die first), but sounds better in urdu/punjabi

 

[adnan yasin]

0......4.......0

 

[Justcrazy]

Good start by Afghans , they need to get full practice here.

 

[Justcrazy]

Afghanistan need more rotation of strike , they just looking for boundaries

 

[Electron]

I think our batsmen needed that runs for confidence more than Jaddu.

Our strength batting is down the toilets and if someone scores a big century, that's good for us cos the batsman will play the WC.

Jaddu, Ashwin, Axar and Binny - no one knows who will be in the starting XI as of now.

Axar should sit out imo. Makes our tail too long. Jaddu can be the impact big-hitter.

As for Binny Vs Ashwin, I am a little undecided on that. What bowling line-up would you go for?

 

[adnan yasin]

too many dot balls

 

[Justcrazy]

30 . 0

Resonable start , spinners would be key.

 

[Justcrazy]

Yadav strikes.

First blood .

 

[NZcricketfan]

Adding ghani to the monobrow xi

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Axar should sit out imo. Makes our tail too long. Jaddu can be the impact big-hitter.

As for Binny Vs Ashwin, I am a little undecided on that. What bowling line-up would you go for?

Jaddu can play as long as his bowling is not sub par. Cos our pacers...you know about them.

Our spinners play an important role and if Jaddu bowls filth (which he did in the 2 games he played) we could be in trouble.

Same goes for Ashwin.

I have a gut feeling, our bowling lineup would be

Umesh,
Shami
Binny/Mohit
Axar/Jaddu
Ashwin

Just my gut feeling.

If Jaddu and Ashwin perform with the ball today, they both will make it pushing Axar out.

 

[hur rizvi]

Axar should sit out imo. Makes our tail too long. Jaddu can be the impact big-hitter.

As for Binny Vs Ashwin, I am a little undecided on that. What bowling line-up would you go for?

Binny will be your most effective bowler against us

 

[adnan yasin]

first blow for afghanistan

 

[hur rizvi]

Ghani is a very talented Batsman, i remember him playing agaisnt Pakistan U19s

 

[Justcrazy]

30 / 1

5 overs

 

[Enforcer]

Jaddu can play as long as his bowling is not sub par. Cos our pacers...you know about them.

Our spinners play an important role and if Jaddu bowls filth (which he did in the 2 games he played) we could be in trouble.

Same goes for Ashwin.

I have a gut feeling, our bowling lineup would be

Umesh,
Shami
Binny/Mohit
Axar/Jaddu
Ashwin

Just my gut feeling.

If Jaddu and Ashwin perform with the ball today, they both will make it pushing Axar out.

Pick any one , all would be rubbish!

 

[NZcricketfan]

Ghani is a very talented Batsman, i remember him playing agaisnt Pakistan U19s

do you reckon he is a real 18 or a subcontinent 18?

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Pick any one , all would be rubbish!

Yes.

With Indian bowling, its always about who is the least rubbish.

My vote goes for:

Umesh
Shami
Mohit
Axar (cos Jaddu looks bad these days but we will see in today's game)
Ashwin

 

[Justcrazy]

Things under control now for India

37 / 1

7 overs

 

[vandokkum]

What is margin for moral victory today for india? to restrict afghans to less than 300 ?

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

So aaron is sitting at home and Mr CSK Sharma is playing instead.

 

[hur rizvi]

do you reckon he is a real 18 or a subcontinent 18?

Dont know what his actual age is, but normally Pathans do look older than their age so i would give him benefit of the doubt...

Just look at Afridi when he debuted he looked like a 22-23 year old and was around 17-18 at most

 

[adarsh_bang]

Can we bowl anyone from the 15? Since this is a practice game?

 

[Dr_Bassim]

Afghan top order plays faster than Pakistan top order

 

[Justcrazy]

when will Binny bowl

 

[hur rizvi]

do you reckon he is a real 18 or a subcontinent 18?

If i am not wrong Ghani has a century against Mills and Maclenaghan??

 

[Justcrazy]

Can we bowl anyone from the 15? Since this is a practice game?

I think so.

 

[hur rizvi]

Can we bowl anyone from the 15? Since this is a practice game?

yes you can

 

[Strike Rate]

do you reckon he is a real 18 or a subcontinent 18?

my neighbor is an afghan and at the age of 18 he got 2 kids. Afghan/Pakhtuns get mature early and looks older than their actual age

 

[adnan yasin]

momentum of the innings was very very short.. just for 2 overs.. now they have lost it

 

[Sakss]

like Afghanistan's attitude here..

 

[adnan yasin]

Can we bowl anyone from the 15? Since this is a practice game?

yeah any one from the 15

 

[vandokkum]

Afghan top order plays faster than Pakistan top order

also lost less wickets

 

[Justcrazy]

49 / 1

10 over

 

[adnan yasin]

 

[Justcrazy]

53 / 1

11 overs

 

[adnan yasin]

typical pakistani batting by afghanistan... only dealing in boundaries thats it

 

[adnan yasin]

 

[adarsh_bang]

Think we should give Jadeja few overs. He needs all the practice he can get. Main man.
Really missing Yuvraj here.

 

[adarsh_bang]

Man... Jaddu getting beaten here... We can't even get the Afghans out

 

[Justcrazy]

Spin introduced , Jadeja on

 

[adarsh_bang]

A confidence building exercise shouldn't turn into a massive confidence losing one.

 

[adnan yasin]

53 dot balls so far

 

[Dr_Bassim]

If Pakistan struggles against this Indian attack, they should quit cricket.

 

[Justcrazy]

65/ 1

13 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

If Pakistan struggles against this Indian attack, they should quit cricket.

Depends what do you mean by struggling .....

 

[ali2220]

Afghan top order plays faster than Pakistan top order

They need our captain to understand the tuk tuk phenomenon.

 

[adarsh_bang]

If Pakistan struggles against this Indian attack, they should quit cricket.

Dr sa'ab, i think March 15th will be about which team bats better.
It is like, your batting is bat, but not bad enough to fail against our bowling. Obviously.

Our bowling, on the other hand.... cannot make up for our batting.

 

[adarsh_bang]

I mean, our batting probably cannot make up for our bowling.
I think we should chase.

 

[adnan yasin]

 

[Justcrazy]

76 / 1

15 overs

 

[AFG_Brit]

one good thing about afghanistan since their last ODI against a top is that they are trying to stay at the wicket. They are not trying to hit out at every ball. however, they must still improve on strike rotation.

 

[desi_launda]

 

[ali2220]

I think Afghans are better bats than Pak.

 

[adnan yasin]

maiden over

 

[Saurav]

Even by Indian standards,this is a pathetic bowling lineup

and people thing they'll beat Pakistan

 

[adnan yasin]

MM Sharma to Nawroz Mangal, SIX, wow. That was a length ball on off stump, by no means a bad ball, and Mangal merely cleared his front leg and swung that away, baseball-style, over the wide long-on boundary

 

[adnan yasin]

single after hitting a six... thats what missing

 

[Justcrazy]

Afghanistan should aim to get 300 here.

 

[Laal]

Some of these Afghan players have clear potential. Only need some grooming to realize it. If England can poach Irish cricketers, why can't Pakistan.

 

[Saurav]

Yes.

With Indian bowling, its always about who is the least rubbish.

My vote goes for:

Umesh
Shami
Mohit
Axar (cos Jaddu looks bad these days but we will see in today's game)
Ashwin

Why Shami over Bhuvi?(seeing current form)
Ashwin vs Jaddu is close.Can pick whoever,though I will chose Binny as 4th pacer

 

[adnan yasin]

43 dot balls out of 59 with 4 fours and a six for usman ghani

is he the fan of misbah

 

[Justcrazy]

84 / 1

17 overs