India [203/5] defeat South Africa [175/9] by 28 runs in the 1st T20I

[Sam99]

Gavaskar is dumb and too biased for kohli.

 

[asadee]

Dhawan was out but keeper bowler.never appealed

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

Kohli

Any target < 200 should be easy for SA. Good luck

 

[Hasan123]

Pandey gets a chance now.

 

[DeadBall]

Kohli wastes the review.

 

[Oligochaetes]

Now, lets see what Pandey can do

 

[Sam99]

Kohli wastes the review.

Well he has one review secured for himself everytime he is out/not out.

 

[Hasan123]

50 for Dhwaan, he's in unstoppable form.

 

[Hasan123]

Dhwaans placement is brilliant. SA do not seem to have an answer .

 

[Syed1]

Wow India reselected Raina... I thought his career was done and dusted. Seems like India are having a hard time filling the numbers 4-6 spots.

 

[Hasan123]

Pandey seems rusty.

 

[asadee]

Whr r the Rabadas and Morkels..why is this C grade team playing,

 

[DeadBall]

Whr r the Rabadas and Morkels..why is this C grade team playing,

Resting for the AUS series.

 

[Hasan123]

Soft dismissal . But SA chance to get back into the game.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Wow India reselected Raina... I thought his career was done and dusted. Seems like India are having a hard time filling the numbers 4-6 spots.

Yuvraj would have been better

 

[Kaptan]

Wow India reselected Raina... I thought his career was done and dusted. Seems like India are having a hard time filling the numbers 4-6 spots.

He is still a better T20 player than Iyer and Jadhav.

 

[Syed1]

Lmao SA put out some real gully mohallah team. Hardly recognize any name out there. Well if you are gonna lose might as well lose with young talent. Not a bad strategy.

 

[Syed1]

Who is this Pandey.... team run rate is over 10 and he is barely batting at a SR of 100.

 

[Hasan123]

The onus is on Pandey to accelerate as he has faced a lot of balls.

 

[babajee]

Lmao SA put out some real gully mohallah team. Hardly recognize any name out there. Well if you are gonna lose might as well lose with young talent. Not a bad strategy.

These youngster beauties are in their late 20s

 

[babajee]

LOL India are trusting Dhoni on his last legs to accelerate instead of ATG all rounder.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Lmao SA put out some real gully mohallah team. Hardly recognize any name out there. Well if you are gonna lose might as well lose with young talent. Not a bad strategy.

SA got humiliated / annihilated with few of the regulars in ODI series, so can understand desperation of SA with T20i

 

[Deewana Mastana]

India won't get 250 unless Morris goes for 50 off his last 2 overs.

 

[Syed1]

These youngster beauties are in their late 20s

Idk if you watched cricket in the late 90s and early 2000s but I remember Pakistan was the one that always threw players as young as 18-21 in the deep end and all these "experts" on TV used to say that we should follow the SA/Aus model who only debut a player when he is 25+ and has gained plenty of experience in domestic cricket. Our team performance plummeted when we started debuting oldies.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

another dropped catch

 

[WengerOut]

India won't get 250 unless Morris goes for 50 off his last 2 overs.

Are you ok dude?

 

[Oligochaetes]

These two batsman seem so boring compared to the ones who came before...zzzzzzzzz

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Singles won't do much India

 

[Deewana Mastana]

These last 7 overs have been so dud

 

[Syed1]

You can take a Pakistani out of Pakistan, but you can't take Pakistan out of a Pakistani..... Shamsi drops a catch )

 

[BreadPakoda]

Rubbish batting by Pandey and Dhoni. 2 worst batsmen to be playing in T20s. Raina should be slotted in middle order. Pandya should be promoted.

 

[Oligochaetes]

boring batting

 

[Syed1]

This Pandey guy is so dud.... no wonder he was warming the bench

 

[asadee]

Dare I say Pak seems to be a better fielding side than SA

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Are you ok dude?

I am, are you?

 

[Hasan123]

India struggling to get to 200

 

[Oligochaetes]

This Pandey guy is so dud.... no wonder he was warming the bench

Now he is warming the pitch

 

[BreadPakoda]

Playing cute shots coz they don't have power to hit big shots.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

South Africa bowling unit now can possibly keep them under 200 if They bowl the lines and lengths

 

[Syed1]

Even an old and finished Dhoni is better than ATG alrounder )

 

[BreadPakoda]

Sad to see the new Dhoni. Just can't hit sixes which he used to hit so effortlessly in his days.

Pandey is useless for t20s.

 

[Syed1]

Oh God Pandey sahab is nudging it around in the 18th over

 

[BreadPakoda]

Pandey, Rahane, Rayadu etc. should be nowhere near the t20 side.

 

[BreadPakoda]

Oh God Pandey sahab is nudging it around in the 18th over

He should just hit out or get out.

 

[Hasan123]

Morris gets Dhoni.

 

[babajee]

India is blessed with batting talent, no?

These guys like Iyer and Pandey are turning out to be trash.

 

[IndianFan2018]

To much love / hate on Hardhik Pandya from many folks here. Looks like more than Indian fans everyone else is following his performance more

 

[BreadPakoda]

Gone.

Again, trying to hit a cute shot coz there is no power in him to hit big.

 

[Syed1]

This makes you wonder if you get Rohit, Dhawan and Kohli out cheaply, there isn't much the rest of the bats are going to do. Not good signs for India, they definitely need another bat in the lower order if they want to win 2019WC.

 

[Syed1]

India is blessed with batting talent, no?

These guys like Iyer and Pandey are turning out to be trash.

What fans need to realize is that India have a batting culture which nourish ATG batsmen

 

[DeadBall]

This makes you wonder if you get Rohit, Dhawan and Kohli out cheaply, there isn't much the rest of the bats are going to do. Not good signs for India, they definitely need another bat in the lower order if they want to win 2019WC.

Thats exactly what happened in the CT final. Teams should try to go all out and get the top three and the game is basically theirs to lose.

 

[babajee]

What fans need to realize is that India have a batting culture which nourish ATG batsmen

Even a 3 year old Indian baby is better than any batsman from Pakistan.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Mike Haysman annoying to hear, stop being cheerleader of SA, be a neutral commentator for god's sake man

 

[CanadianG00se]

Dala what a name )

I see what you did there )
I laughed so hard )

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

This makes you wonder if you get Rohit, Dhawan and Kohli out cheaply, there isn't much the rest of the bats are going to do. Not good signs for India, they definitely need another bat in the lower order if they want to win 2019WC.

This is why we lost CT final.

 

[Hasan123]

Hardik should have batted ahead of Pandey

 

[CanadianG00se]

Even a 3 year old Indian baby is better than any batsman from Pakistan.

Our batting talent was displayed in U19 WC which you may have missed it

 

[Hasan123]

Pandey innings could be match losing.

 

[DeadBall]

Even SA C team bowlers reaching 145+

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Mike Haysman annoying to hear, stop being cheerleader of SA, be a neutral commentator for god's sake man

He is South Africa's very own Ravi Shastri.

 

[babajee]

Our batting talent was displayed in U19 WC which you may have missed it

You guys used to hype up guys like Samson and Chand from U19 WC. Now they are nowhere to be seen.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Pandey is not a T20 batsman, he is more suitable for Odis. Yet again we have wrong players for wrong format.

1st Rohit in Test
Then Rahane in odis
And now, Pandey in T20Is.

 

[Hasan123]

India should have got more runs . South Africa will be confident of chasing this down.

 

[BlueDoritos]

What a garbage knock by Manish Pandey. At one point it looked like Indian would score 230.

 

[IndianFan2018]

20 runs short for India ...hope it is enough for our bowlers

 

[DeadBall]

India 20-30 short of what they should have gotten after the start they had.

 

[CanadianG00se]

You guys used to hype up guys like Samson and Chand from U19 WC. Now they are nowhere to be seen.

Samson is doing pretty good in Domestics, so is Pant. It just dumb selectors and Dumb captain have his favourites playing ahead of more deserving players.

KL Rahul should’ve played ahead of Dhoni. But we are obssesses with useless seniors and their trash batting

 

[WengerOut]

You guys used to hype up guys like Samson and Chand from U19 WC. Now they are nowhere to be seen.

Same with Sohail Khan, Mohammad Talha , Mohammad Sami , Anwar Ali from you guys.

 

[CanadianG00se]

20 runs short for India ...hope it is enough for our bowlers :

I hope we lose so we could get rid off Dhoni.

Cant believe I went from being his biggest fan in 2013 to his biggest hater in 2017-18.

 

[WengerOut]

I hope we lose so we could get rid off Dhoni.

Cant believe I went from being his biggest fan in 2013 to his biggest hater in 2017-18.

Same here.

 

[BreadPakoda]

Pandey is not a T20 batsman, he is more suitable for Odis. Yet again we have wrong players for wrong format.

1st Rohit in Test
Then Rahane in odis
And now, Pandey in T20Is.

Knowing Kohli/Dhoni, don't be surprised if Rahane replaces Pandey in T20Is.

 

[WengerOut]

Sensing a Yuvi comeback.

 

[King Kong]

This is why we lost CT final.

No, the reason was bowling. Even the great Australian team wouldn't have chased 340 in a tournament final.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Same here.

Look at Aussies, they got rid off all dead weight in T20s and added all power hitters in their lineup

Short
Warner
Maxi
Finch
Lynn
Stonis
Thats one scary line up

Now look at our line up

Sharma
Dhawan
Kohli
Tailenders

 

[BreadPakoda]

Samson is doing pretty good in Domestics, so is Pant. It just dumb selectors and Dumb captain have his favourites playing ahead of more deserving players.

KL Rahul should’ve played ahead of Dhoni. But we are obssesses with useless seniors and their trash batting

Dhoni is a hypocrite. Didn't let Sehwag/Gambhir stay one extra day in ODIs/T20Is once he thought they were replaceable due to their age (Gambhir is almost as old as Dhoni though). These days, he himself has limited agility, can't hit big at all, lazes around for a while and gets out....still doesn't want to leave.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Knowing Kohli/Dhoni, don't be surprised if Rahane replaces Pandey in T20Is.

If that happens then I swear ill give up on Indian team and will cherish every defeat of theirs. Seriously, cant take this pathetic selection anymore. Even a 5 year old kid in suburbs of Mumbai knows that Dhoni is well past his sell by date yet our selectors and coach thinks otherwise.

 

[Abhilash93]

Give that guy KL Rahul a chance ! You made him travel all the way to SA from India to warm the bench.

He averages 50 @ around 150 SR in T20Is.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Dhoni is a hypocrite. Didn't let Sehwag/Gambhir stay one extra day in ODIs/T20Is once he thought they were replaceable due to their age (Gambhir is almost as old as Dhoni though). These days, he himself has limited agility, can't hit big at all, lazes around for a while and gets out....still doesn't want to leave.

Now a days all those ugly heaves and helicopter shot couldnt even clear 30 yards circle let alone boundary line. His helicopter shots crashes far too often these days.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Knowing Kohli/Dhoni, don't be surprised if Rahane replaces Pandey in T20Is.

Dumb coach hope we still had Kumble as coach !

 

[CanadianG00se]

Give that guy KL Rahul a chance ! You made him travel all the way to SA from India to warm the bench.

He averages 50 @ around 150 SR in T20Is.

KL Rahul may have done something to selectors and/or to Kohli. There is just no explanation as to why he is being benched and Pandey who is not a T20 batsman given chance.