Ruturaj is CSK captain, perfect for #3 spot in ODIs & #5 in the test team.
Ruturaj averages under 20 in ODI cricket. He hasn't seized his chances. Gill on the other hand averages 61. There is absolutely no comparison. Gill has done tremendously well in ODIs and deserve to be captain one day.
After Kohli, BCCI needs a new all format poster boy who can pull the crowd.
Mental midget is what I would describe him, always comes across as someone who is super fidgety & nervous at the crease even if he has crossed 100 runs.
Little hope of that. Iyer will feast against SL but that's fine. He'll be very useful in the Champions Trophy whether it's in Pakistan, Sri Lanka or the UAE. After that, we can take stock and start thinking about the next world cup. The others can wait a while to demonstrate their white ball prowess on bouncy pitches starting in T20s.
Pant isn't helping in showing KL the door permanently. First accident and on top of it his either hit or miss style doesn't give full confidence. KL being proper batsman with wicket keeping skill convinces selectors to go with him.
I think Pant like sehwag needs a 200 score innings. Before accident he played a brilliant innings in eng against eng and have to rebuilt the art again. I prefer jurel on any day against Kl in limited formats. Samson is too unreliable.
In wc finals, Iyer was simply expecting bouncer against aus and cummins got him out on first ball with a good length ball. Iyer can be man handled any where by a good bowler. I can't bear KL after that atrocious innings in finals
On top of it bhuvi played as 6th batsmen
Yes
Dhoni fan face has turn to tuktukraj because of CSK .Can't believe that even Ruturaj has a fanbase. Just enjoying the meltdown of them all over social media
Kuldeep is there for odis.Selection committee wants to prefer bishnoi for t20s now onwards and kuldeep for other formats
Yes Rinku is a rare breed. He should be in both white ball squads.
As per ci, lots of players are very appreciate of his skills and leadership qualities. I really don't understand what they are smoking
Most of the players selected in the Srilankan squad are in great form.
They have decent chance of winning a rare series against India
Exciting series to come
Solid squad, but bowling seems to be weaker than batting.
This series will surely test the quality of LPL
Probably sidelined as Binura the leftie had more success in the LPL compared to Madhushanka.
Solid squad, but bowling seems to be weaker than batting.
This series will surely test the quality of LPL
Yes, Sri Lanka's bowling is good for T20 with Pathirana, Thusara, Hasaranga, and Wellalage in the lineup. I expect a good contest between the teams in this series.
I see. Thank you. I liked how Dilshan bowled in the 50 over world cup. Probably after the injury, he is not in good bowling form.
Imagine if Malinga hadn't retired
First let this current SL bowling attack achieve 1/10th of what Malinga did. If they are expecting Malinga like privileges, then need to put in a few shifts like Malinga.
Rinku has to Play ahead of Dube .Im pretty excited for the series. Especially for Gambhir's tenure and Suryakumar's debut as permanent captain.
My playing xi for today's game,
1. Gill
2. Jaiswal
3. Pant
4. Surya
5. Hardik
6. Dube
7. Axar
8. Sundar
9. Arshdeep
10. Bishnoi
11. Siraj
This series won't be easy one for India as Srilanka squad is also looking good.
Im big fan of Rinku but i think Dube deserve more. He played an underrated knock in finals plus imo he was more impressive than Rinku in zimbabwe
Wrong reporting. The host didn't make 169 for 9 in 20 overs in the 2nd T20.
Meanwhile Team India captain resembles a tattoo store.
I don't like tattoos and piercings. But these are adults, and no one should be deciding what they do with their bodies. This is stupidity at the highest level from Sanath. He himself has lots of things to learn and hopefully he will before talking about others.
I agree. Dhoni for xample has ries so many different getups and his cricket didn't get affected largely.
Siraj should be rested today, should be kept fresh for the 1st ODI.
Yeah i wish we'd included another pacer. Arshdeep's bowled a fair bit as well especially in the second half of the world cup. Maybe if the ODI squad has arrived already, Harshit Rana can get a bowl with some permissios? Else I'm afraid it'll have to be Siraj.
Decent team but did they really have to announce that the Minister of Sports approved it? Just setting themselves up for another suspension. Why make it public that he's getting involved in actual team selections? Even Pakistan doesn't do that and their Interior minister is their cricket board chairman. They maintain the pretense that he's not getting involved in stuff like team selections and that it's done independently by the selection committee.
West Indies also beat England & South Africa before the T20 World Cup 2024.
Kusal Mendis was captain against Bangladesh & Afghanistan series played in March 2024.
No. India sent C team. INdia these days send 2 teams to 2 locations. Pandya was the captain.
On top of it,chahal played all the games instead of bishnoi.Dravid later said we don't have a batter at 8 in his typical idiotic way.Kishan was preferred over jaiswal as an opener for first 2 games even after jaiswal scoring daddy centuries in test series and everyone was asking for his inclusion.
KL Rahul shouldn't be in the side first , how this stupid management able to forgive that final innings , this selfish idiot single handlerly destroyed our chances 66( 101)Rishabh Pant or KL Rahul? Rohit Sharma opens up on India's problem of plenty
India will take on Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI series beginning on 2 August in Colombo.
A big quandary for India ahead of the ODI series would be around the wicketkeeper’s role.
In Rishabh Pant’s absence due to a horrific accident, KL Rahul donned the role in the fifty-overs format for a significant period in 2023, including the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup at home and the subsequent South Africa tour.
However, with Pant's return both players are in the squad and India needs to pick one player as a wicketkeeper in the XI.
“I’ll need to discuss with the head coach. You’ll see it tomorrow when we play the game,” India skipper Rohit Sharma stated in the pre-match press conference.
KL Rahul has impressive batting numbers when being the designated wicketkeeper in ODIs. In 35 matches where he kept wickets for India, he has 1355 runs at an average of 58.91 with two hundreds and ten fifties. He also has 48 dismissals standing behind the stumps.
Pant, meanwhile, also had good numbers in his last year of appearance in ODIs. In 2022, Pant made 336 runs in 12 games, scoring his maiden ODI hundred (125* off 113) against England in Manchester.
This makes the choice between the two a tough one for India.
However, Rohit was pleased with this problem of plenty, wherein two talented players could pip each other out for a specialist role based on their performances.
“It’s a tough call. Both are quality players. They’re match-winners in their own way. It’s always nice to have problems picking up the team like that.
“When you’re discussing too much on who to pick or leave, then that means there’s quality in the team. Which I think is a good thing.”
“I look forward to these problems till I’m captain.”
Looking forward to the three-game series, Rohit believed in treating the bilateral encounters as important contests in their own right and not simply a preparation ground for the upcoming bigger tournaments.
“We want to come here and play good cricket. This is no practice ground. We want to get something out of the series. It is as simple as that.”
Instead of an emphasis on experimentation among personnel, Rohit was in favour of getting more out of the players on the field.
“For us, when we play a series or a game, we want to get something out of it as a team. If some batter did something different, or if the bowler did something else, we discuss about that in the dressing room.
“We want to get something out of a series, but not at the cost of [winning], showing no intent or purpose. Maintaining standard of Indian cricket is very important, and if you can maintain that and then end up losing, then that’s fine.”
Having retired from the T20I format after captaining India to a World Cup win in June, Rohit was questioned on how he felt about moving away from the format.
However, the India skipper lightened up the entire press conference by stating that “mentally” he wasn’t out of the format yet.
“The only difference I feel is that, I’ve felt like I’ve been rested from the T20Is, like it used to happen in the past. And then a big tournament will come up, and we’ve to again get ready for the T20Is.
“That’s how I feel. I don’t think, I’m completely out of the format.”
India ODI Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill (vc), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khaleel Ahmed, Harshit Rana.
Rishabh Pant or KL Rahul? Rohit Sharma opens up on India's problem of plenty
India will take on Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI series beginning on 2 August in Colombo.www.icc-cricket.com
