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Superior shot selection of the Indian batsmen needs to be admired

Savak

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I am not talking about Pujara here. But even players like Pant impressed me , he saw Lyon was spinning the ball away from him in the rough and he was super patient with his shot selection knowing when to leave the ball, when to take the odd chance. Against the pacers, he knew when to defend and when to attack.

In comparison Pakistani batsmen are either blockathon or Afridi like in their approach, no one can consistently play the right shot to the right ball consistently.
 
I was away from PP for a long time and was never following cricket. But when i looked at the numbers, Babar seems to have breached the top quality test batsman barrier. On current form better than Kohli and Root. Build a team around him. I am sure that is happening now.
 
Dinesh Karthik via a sports media platform:

Cover Drive - Virat Kohli
Straight Drive - Sachin Tendulkar
Pull Shot - Rohit Sharma
Flick Shot - Viv Richards
Reverse Sweep - Eoin Morgan
Cut Shot - Marcus Trescothick
Celebrations - David Warner
 
I am not talking about Pujara here. But even players like Pant impressed me , he saw Lyon was spinning the ball away from him in the rough and he was super patient with his shot selection knowing when to leave the ball, when to take the odd chance. Against the pacers, he knew when to defend and when to attack.

In comparison Pakistani batsmen are either blockathon or Afridi like in their approach, no one can consistently play the right shot to the right ball consistently.
With so much passion, good facilities, good competition and lots of talent, you can't go too far wrong as a national team. As an individual you are competing against people equally as talented as you and you work hard to beat them. Thus the improvement
 
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