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India [493/6d] beat Bangladesh [150 & 213] by an inns and 130 runs in the 1st Test, lead series 1-0

India well in control. Mayank continues to prove his worth at the top. Turning out to be an excellent player for us but he will have to maintain this outside Asia as well.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Agarwal shows the importance of first class slogging. Those who come up through ranks value their wicket more than these falshy players.
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whats strange is that Mayank has higher internation test cricket average than domestic first class average
 
Kohli signalling Mayank to score 200 when he reached 150.
 
Varun said:
Kohli signalling Mayank to score 200 when he reached 150.
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So if Kohli didn't signal that, Mayank wouldn't have tried to score 200? I think credit here should completely go to Mayank on the way he is batting, incredible talent for India!
 
Shoaib88 said:
So if Kohli didn't signal that, Mayank wouldn't have tried to score 200? I think credit here should completely go to Mayank on the way he is batting, incredible talent for India!
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??

I'm just pointing out what I saw.
 
So ebadat hossain now has an average of 256... although an economical bowler, I am sure bangladesh has much better bowlers than him for test cricket. As I have said before, economy rate doesn't matter much in test cricket at all, its the average that matters.
 
Virat surely knows how to play to the gallery. Yesterday with Shami and today Agarwal.
 
Day 2: Tea Break - India lead by 153 runs

BAN - 150
IND - 303/3 (84.0 Ovs)

CRR: 3.61
 
Bel_Homme said:
Home like conditions, plays spin better, got decent seamers, pressure game etc.

Not saying Pak will beat us but surely they will give a much better fight than what SA gave or BD doing currently.
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Pakistan lost to SL & NZ in UAE

Don't think they would stand a chance against us especially with the likes of Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq as their senior players
 
Xoib said:
He is a decent player but I believe it's more first season blues he will eventually settle at early to mid 40's test average
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I think he'll average 45+ . Lads got a lot of determination. Dunno if he's a 50+ prospect in the long run .
 
RyanRyan10 said:
Pakistan lost to SL & NZ in UAE

Don't think they would stand a chance against us especially with the likes of Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq as their senior players
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If Pakistan had Younis / Misbah / Ajmal in peak form from a few years ago, they would give us a good run for our money.

Now they'll just get demolished.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
I think he'll average 45+ . Lads got a lot of determination. Dunno if he's a 50+ prospect in the long run .
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Hope he never wears a coloured jersey.

We've seen what's happened to KL Rahul.
 
Varun said:
If Pakistan had Younis / Misbah / Ajmal in peak form from a few years ago, they would give us a good run for our money.

Now they'll just get demolished.
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You guys have gone up a notch too with Bumrah and Agarwal inclusion .
 
Another wicket for Abu Jayed, the only guy picking up wickets, feel sorry for him for lack of support from other end...
 
Nikhil_cric said:
I think he'll average 45+ . Lads got a lot of determination. Dunno if he's a 50+ prospect in the long run .
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He has the luck of making debut in his peak years he is good but I think he is below elite level batman who can average 48-52.
 
Xoib said:
He has the luck of making debut in his peak years he is good but I think he is below elite level batman who can average 48-52.
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Yeah that's what . I think he will be just below that. But that's alright for an opener as long as he doesn't give it away cheaply when touring Sena.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Ranji teams greater than most test teams playing today :inti
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In Indian conditions, this is actually true. This is why I would have loved to see a 4-day match between bangladesh and ranji side before series started but unfortunately no practice games were scheduled :(
 
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Steve Smith Lite.
 
Lead is now above 200... going from bad to worse for bangladesh! Hopefully mehidy can start finding some turn or things will get ugly
 
Any one else think Ebadot Hossin's bowling action is a right handed Mitchell Johnson? The same slingy drag down hand, load up and whang.....!!?.....uncanny ai'nt it?? :):sarf2
 
Mayank Agarwal has a List A average of over 50 with a strike rate of over 100 and can't find a place in the ODI team.
 
topspin said:
Very impressed by what I saw from Abu Jayed. A real beauty to dismiss Rohit Sharma.

This guy will be a bowling superstar by 2021. You heard it here first.
[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] - Rohit flopping against lateral movement once again. I think you overhype him too much.
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He doesn’t flop more frequently against lateral movement than other batsmen. His struggles against swing and seam are overblown. He is a brilliant player.
 
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Mayank Agarwal with 8 sixes tied with Navjot Singh Sidhu for the most sixes by an Indian in a Test innings.
 
Finally! Ebadat Hossain gets a wicket to prevent his average exceeding 300 :)). Loved the salute too ;)
 
Soooo, Umesh Yadav has just scored a higher score than 9 bangladeshi players in just 7 balls :))) This is brutal! Although tbh, Bangladesh has just played 4 bowlers and they must be very tired after bowling for 112 overs!
 
Hind side is always wise, but I guess that call at Toss wasn’t that cool😜
 
Slow over rate, 88 overs despite extra half hour and so many overs of spin.
 
Babbar said:
It really wouldn’t have mattered. The gap between the the two teams esp in tests is too wide and deep.
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True, that I wrote in first page. Still, there should be a thought process in place.
 
MMHS said:
Hind side is always wise, but I guess that call at Toss wasn’t that cool��
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Although it probably wouldn't have affected the outcome of the match, but yes definitely, it was a blunder. Monimul accepted this blunder in the press conference. However, I dont blame him because it wasn't completely his call, the management team should take large part of the blame. The first couple of sessions on first day were most bowling friendly as even Ashwin said that pitch had some life to it and it was brave of Bangladesh to choose to bat first.
 
TNAmarkFromIndia said:
Mayank Agarwal has a List A average of over 50 with a strike rate of over 100 and can't find a place in the ODI team.
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Is he an opener? because if he is, he isn't getting in ahead of the current 2 atleast for year or 2 atleast by which time he will be considered too old and will be competing with likes of shaw and gill. And playing likes of rahul at no 4 is a clear lesson that putting an opener in the middle order isn't a viable solution. Unlucky to playing at the time when india have such great openers.
 
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saha is beyond trash in batting. I would take pant even in india. useless. His catching is great but these days a wicket keeper needs to bat. Even pant is probably a better batsman in tests. Time for a change. maybe even ks bharat should come in.
 
tyron_woodley said:
saha is beyond trash in batting. I would take pant even in india. useless. His catching is great but these days a wicket keeper needs to bat. Even pant is probably a better batsman in tests. Time for a change. maybe even ks bharat should come in.
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Given the strength of the Indian batting, and the weakness of our catching, it is more important to have a better keeper than a better batsman when playing in India.

We are scoring enough runs.
But are dropping a lot of catches. So, better to have a better keeper than a better batsman.
 
BD couldn't capitalize after they got Kohli out for a duck.

India did what they were expected to do.

Jayed did well. Other bowlers were toothless.
 
Xoib said:
You guys have gone up a notch too with Bumrah and Agarwal inclusion .
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I was thinking how a match between Ind-Pak would pan out, it seems to me that it's possible that Pakistan Batsman find out a way to maybe score runs against the Indian bowling. But just can't conceive of a situation where India will be bowled out cheaply enough for Pakistan to win the game.
 
Mamoon said:
He doesn’t flop more frequently against lateral movement than other batsmen. His struggles against swing and seam are overblown. He is a brilliant player.
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Rohit Sharma is indeed a fine player but you do overhype him too much. No in the WC semi and CT final his deficiencies against lateral movement were exposed.
 
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Wow that was some phainty, best thing about India in India is we don't discriminate, doesn't matter if you are BD, SA, NZ or Eng you will receive a thrashing to remember, we treat everyone the same.
 
Virat_Kohli_fan said:
I was thinking how a match between Ind-Pak would pan out, it seems to me that it's possible that Pakistan Batsman find out a way to maybe score runs against the Indian bowling. But just can't conceive of a situation where India will be bowled out cheaply enough for Pakistan to win the game.
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what about in UAE?
 
Bhaag Viru Bhaag said:
You are right. Players like Pant, Pandya and KL Rahul should learn this from Aggarwal. :inti
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Ironically Pant has a good first class average (50). Also his test average is good (44). For what its worth Samson averages 36 in first class. KL Rahul was rated above Agarwal when he made debut as he also did well in domestic. Just that potential didn't get translated. Pant sucks mainly in limited-overs cricket.
 
Virat_Kohli_fan said:
I was thinking how a match between Ind-Pak would pan out, it seems to me that it's possible that Pakistan Batsman find out a way to maybe score runs against the Indian bowling. But just can't conceive of a situation where India will be bowled out cheaply enough for Pakistan to win the game.
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Not the current lot, they won't last 2 sessions against Indian bowling. YK, Misbah and younger Asad & Azhar Ali would have given a somewhat face saving fight.
 
Virat_Kohli_fan said:
I was thinking how a match between Ind-Pak would pan out, it seems to me that it's possible that Pakistan Batsman find out a way to maybe score runs against the Indian bowling. But just can't conceive of a situation where India will be bowled out cheaply enough for Pakistan to win the game.
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Before you think too much let me remind you that this Pak team lost to SL and NZ in UAE. In terms of skill, talent and ability there is no comparison whatsoever, India is so far ahead that this is not even funny. You heard of men v boyz? Current day Ind v Pak encounter would be like gladiators Vs disabled kids.
 
Hyperion66 said:
Before you think too much let me remind you that this Pak team lost to SL and NZ in UAE. In terms of skill, talent and ability there is no comparison whatsoever, India is so far ahead that this is not even funny. You heard of men v boyz? Current day Ind v Pak encounter would be like gladiators Vs disabled kids.
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Yeah well India had plenty of Victories against Pakistan in the 90s when the shoe was on the other foot, Pakistan is still a dangerous international team and can certainly get India on their own day.
 
This is pure waste of time. We should have couple of ODIs instead since Bangladesh dont know to play tests. They just lost a test match against Afg at home, so the battle with no.1 team in their den was always going to be one sided. I have no issues with LOI series with some random teams but hope boards schedule test series properly in future since test cricket is no childs play.
 
Virat_Kohli_fan said:
Yeah well India had plenty of Victories against Pakistan in the 90s when the shoe was on the other foot, Pakistan is still a dangerous international team and can certainly get India on their own day.
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May be in ODI or t20 not in tests, they have to own five days to beat India which I do not see happening. With Peak Younis, Misbah, Yasir perhaps they had a chance but not anymore.
 
tyron_woodley said:
saha is beyond trash in batting. I would take pant even in india. useless. His catching is great but these days a wicket keeper needs to bat. Even pant is probably a better batsman in tests. Time for a change. maybe even ks bharat should come in.
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I think Pant will be there in Newzealand.
 
Pant is clearly a better batsmen than Saha. Since former is still improving in wicket-keeping while latter is already a master in that, India wanted to have him for Ashwin and Jadeja in Indian conditions which was a good decision as well.

However, India's batting is weak outside Asia and we will need Rishabh's batting there. If he plays his first 20-25 tests overseas only and manages to maintain an average of 35+ which he should, that would be a good output IMO for a wicket-keeper batsmen overseas.

There was no doubt that in India, Pant would have done an even better job with the bat similar to what Jadeja is doing in such a strong lineup at 6.
 
India strengthened their hold on the first Test against Bangladesh after opener Mayank Agarwal slammed his Test second double century, powering them to 493/6 at close of the second day, with a healthy lead of 343.

Mayank, who ended the first evening unbeaten on 37, batted for another two and a half sessions, ending on 243 off 330 balls, and notching up his sixth 50+ score in his first 12 Test innings. He hit 28 fours and eight sixes, one of which brought up his 200, and ending with the joint-most sixes for India in a single Test knock.

A timely partnership worth 190 runs, between Mayank and Ajinkya Rahane (86), helped India recover from 119/3, after they lost Cheteshwar Pujara (54) and Virat Kohli (0) in quick succession. Pujara had joined Mayank in the final session of the opening day, after Rohit Sharma (6) departed early, in response to Bangladesh’s first innings total of 150.

Pujara, who began the day unbeaten on 43, brought up his fifty with back-to-back fours off pacer Abu Jayed. Soon after, Jayed struck, inviting a drive with a full one, which found a thick edge off Pujara’s bat and flew straight to gully.

In his next over, Jayed snared Virat Kohli for a two-ball duck, angling a length ball in that slipped past his bat and into the front pad. A consultation with the third umpire confirmed Kohli’s dismissal, his 10th Test duck.

Mayank, however, continued his march from the other end, finding able company in vice-captain Rahane. Rahane brought up his third consecutive 50+ Test score (after 59 and 115 against South Africa), helping Mayank blunt the Bangladesh attack, particularly the spinners, who sent down 55 overs before they could claim a wicket.

Jayed returned to bag his fourth, removing Rahane right after the players returned from tea; the batsman slashed hard at a wide one, ending up giving a catch down to deep point.

Mayank, then on 158, intensified his charge, moving past 200 in the next 46 balls, with Bangladesh’s spinners guilty of bowling too short or too full. Ravindra Jadeja, playing second fiddle to Mayank’s authoritative strokeplay, brought up the team’s 400 with a signature hoick over deep midwicket.

After crossing his double hundred, Mayank struck four more sixes, before becoming India's first dismissal to spin. A big shot off Mehidy Hasan fell into the hands of a diving Abu Jayed, but by then India had comfortably crossed 400. Jadeja (60*) kept one end occupied, taking the team lead past 300 with his 14th Test fifty, but Bangladesh managed to make another late breakthrough, with Ebadot Hossain's full delivery cleaning up the stumps of Wriddhiman Saha (12).

An enterprising, unbeaten cameo by No.8 Umesh Yadav, worth 25 runs off only 10 runs, helped India finish the day with a flourish, with the home team collecting 190 runs in the 30-over final session.

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BD can try playing a series against Indian domestic teams to get a sense of longer version. Trust me. Many teams might struggle against them. No shame in having a longer series. Only way they can compete with other teams.
 
Bel_Homme said:
This is pure waste of time. We should have couple of ODIs instead since Bangladesh dont know to play tests. They just lost a test match against Afg at home, so the battle with no.1 team in their den was always going to be one sided. I have no issues with LOI series with some random teams but hope boards schedule test series properly in future since test cricket is no childs play.
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They have to play each other for the sake of the ICC Test Championship.
 
Ab Fan said:
Pant is clearly a better batsmen than Saha. Since former is still improving in wicket-keeping while latter is already a master in that, India wanted to have him for Ashwin and Jadeja in Indian conditions which was a good decision as well.

However, India's batting is weak outside Asia and we will need Rishabh's batting there. If he plays his first 20-25 tests overseas only and manages to maintain an average of 35+ which he should, that would be a good output IMO for a wicket-keeper batsmen overseas.

There was no doubt that in India, Pant would have done an even better job with the bat similar to what Jadeja is doing in such a strong lineup at 6.
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Pant's keeping against quicks is decent,
I believe him as a keeper as well.
His problem is only against spinners which will not be the problem in S.E.N.A countries.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Ironically Pant has a good first class average (50). Also his test average is good (44). For what its worth Samson averages 36 in first class. KL Rahul was rated above Agarwal when he made debut as he also did well in domestic. Just that potential didn't get translated. Pant sucks mainly in limited-overs cricket.
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Pant and other big things need to start putting a price tag on their wickets. Most of these guys are walking wickets. :inti
 
tyron_woodley said:
saha is beyond trash in batting. I would take pant even in india. useless. His catching is great but these days a wicket keeper needs to bat. Even pant is probably a better batsman in tests. Time for a change. maybe even ks bharat should come in.
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So saha is trash now? I think his test includes 5 50's and 3 100's? That's pretty rich from someone who is beyond trash and was not hyped up to be the next big thing in world cricket.

And currently Pant can't even hold his bat properly let alone holding his place in the team lol. :inti
 
Ab Fan said:
Pant is clearly a better batsmen than Saha. Since former is still improving in wicket-keeping while latter is already a master in that, India wanted to have him for Ashwin and Jadeja in Indian conditions which was a good decision as well.

However, India's batting is weak outside Asia and we will need Rishabh's batting there. If he plays his first 20-25 tests overseas only and manages to maintain an average of 35+ which he should, that would be a good output IMO for a wicket-keeper batsmen overseas.

There was no doubt that in India, Pant would have done an even better job with the bat similar to what Jadeja is doing in such a strong lineup at 6.
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Pant has lost it completely. His confidence is shattered and he should go back to domestics to find some form.

Saha is clearly not the long term solution. He will become an even bigger liability with the bat when India is touring and the lower order can get easily exposed in SENA countries. You don't want an ultra long tail.

India should try out Samson or some other young keeper who can bat better than Saha.
 
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