Will Australia be whitewashed in all three Asian nations?

[CanadianG00se]

off topic: How many points will Bangladesh gain if they whitewash Australia?

 

[Proactive_]

India was lucky to win that series. A session in Australia's favour in the last match and they would've lost.

It wasn't down to luck. It was Rahane's amazing captaincy who was standing in for an injured Kohli. India had a slender lead of 30 which was easily chipped away by Smith who had come out with a very aggressive mindset and almost 500 runs under his belt in that series until that point. The entire series hinged on Smith's innings.. another 100 from him and the Border-Gavaskar trophy was lost. It was Rahane, who inspite of Smith getting boundary upon boundary, decided to keep attacking, kept the slips in and asked the bowlers to keep nudging Smith to attack.. which immediately led to Smith playing a false shot chopping on to his stumps looking to attack a short ball. It was the series deciding moment and the best bit of captaincy from an Indian captain in the entire series.

I'm telling you, India is doing Rahane a great disservice by not having him captain in favour of a volatile loudmouth who presided over a 300 run loss at the Pune rank turner and has 0 tactical sense whereas Rahane delivered the cup in the greenest pitch of the series. It's amazing how much superstar culture trumps merit in this country tbh. I would have straight away made Rahane the Test match after that test no questions asked. The difference between his and Kohli's captaincy was clear as day.

 

[Proactive_]

** Rahane the test match captain.

 

[CanadianG00se]

It wasn't down to luck. It was Rahane's amazing captaincy who was standing in for an injured Kohli. India had a slender lead of 30 which was easily chipped away by Smith who had come out with a very aggressive mindset and almost 500 runs under his belt in that series until that point. The entire series hinged on Smith's innings.. another 100 from him and the Border-Gavaskar trophy was lost. It was Rahane, who inspite of Smith getting boundary upon boundary, decided to keep attacking, kept the slips in and asked the bowlers to keep nudging Smith to attack.. which immediately led to Smith playing a false shot chopping on to his stumps looking to attack a short ball. It was the series deciding moment and the best bit of captaincy from an Indian captain in the entire series.

I'm telling you, India is doing Rahane a great disservice by not having him captain in favour of a volatile loudmouth who presided over a 300 run loss at the Pune rank turner and has 0 tactical sense whereas Rahane delivered the cup in the greenest pitch of the series. It's amazing how much superstar culture trumps merit in this country tbh. I would have straight away made Rahane the Test match after that test no questions asked. The difference between his and Kohli's captaincy was clear as day.

I also agree, Rahane's capataincy was 'attacking' without being loudmouth. Kohli is also not a bad choice, but Rahane is better.
Ideally id have Rahane to lead test team, and R Sharma to lead LOIs( Odis and T20s).
We need Kohli the batsman more than Kohli the Kaptaan.

 

[Proactive_]

I also agree, Rahane's capataincy was 'attacking' without being loudmouth. Kohli is also not a bad choice, but Rahane is better.
Ideally id have Rahane to lead test team, and R Sharma to lead LOIs( Odis and T20s).
We need Kohli the batsman more than Kohli the Kaptaan.

Kohli is the absolute worst guy for the job. He lacks the most basic prerequisite of captaincy that is emotional stability, the moment things start going bad.. he's a deer in headlights. He absolutely ran his team RCB to the ground despite it having huge names. He also became a non entity when Pakistan started attacking in the CT Final, eventually letting them to a massive score of 330+ before he got destroyed twice in two calls by M. Amir. Neither does he have any technical sense and the worst of all - He is a blatant politician who tried so hard to keep Pujara out of the team to accommodate his guy Rohit Sharma in, not to mention the Kumble fiasco. There is zero reason for him to be captain other than the superstar culture prevalent in this country.

 

[Shutdown Corner]

Bangladesh would definitely beat Australia on a turner IMO

shabash Donnie...this was even before we got on the map with the win vs England.

 

[Shutdown Corner]

off topic: How many points will Bangladesh gain if they whitewash Australia?

10 I think. We'll jump ahead of WI (provided they lose to England 0-3) and be breathing down SL's neck.

 

[Donal Cozzie]

shabash Donnie...this was even before we got on the map with the win vs England.

Bangladesh have won me a lot of money through bets tbh, every one ive placed on them has come up trumps!

Always rated them, they just needed a bit of luck to get the belief they needed to regularly topple top sides. Since 2015 WC havent looked back.