India v England Series - Squad News [Merged]

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Link: http://cricketnext.in.com/news/injured-ishant-likely-to-miss-first-odi-at-rajkot/35513-13.html

India speedster Ishant Sharma may miss the first one-dayer against England in Rajkot on the 14th of November.

Sources within the BCCI have confirmed that Ishant Sharma has aggravated his left ankle injury and will undergo an MRI scan on Wednesday to assess the extent of damage.

Non stop cricket has taken its toll on Ishant who picked up 15 wickets against the Australians in the Test series against Australia for which he was also named the man of the series.

India are scheduled to play seven ODIs and two Test matches against England starting later this week.

[lollol]

I dont see the use of him playing in all 7 ODI's actually.

India must use him very carefully imo. Just let the other bowlers they have (RP, Sree :D, Munaf, Kumar etc etc) play some games. It will give Sharma some rest, and other bowlers some practice.

[HuZi]

isnít use the other bowler try also ojha and chawla theyve got great spinners and fatbowlers man: bhajji,mishra,chawla,ojha u can use watherever u want al of them r gud and fast bowlers too much to write man

[jusarrived]

should have never been selected for ODI's ...rest Zaheer as well !

[Bublu Bhuyan]

should have never been selected for ODI's ...rest Zaheer as well !
True, it's extremely hard specially for fast bowlers to go through such a schedule. Test cricket matters way more than ODI cricket, and they should have been rested for this ODI series.

[Romali_rotti]

Best news I have heard so far, hopefully Ishant wont play any ODI's and will be fully fit and ready for the tests match vs ENGLAND :D>..

[wanted_desi]

India got Pathan,RP,Munaf,Sreesanth, they won't miss him in ODI.

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Best news I have heard so far, hopefully Ishant wont play any ODI's and will be fully fit and ready for the tests match vs ENGLAND :D>..
We both think so alike :D

[jusarrived]

watch out for new munaf patel , Indians will be pleasantly surprised ..hes lethal with teh old ball these days & bowls 135mph+

[Romali_rotti]

^^^ Cant wait to see Munaf bowl, if he can maintain his fitness and quit his lazy attitude then; WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Poison]

watch out for new munaf patel , Indians will be pleasantly surprised ..hes lethal with teh old ball these days & bowls 135mph+

What a speed freak.

[Savak]

Fast bowlers must be carefully managed. The ICC needs to make the International Calender more player friendly. I honestly believe there should be a week's gap between test matches and a gap of 3-4 days between ODI's. This is a must for the cricketer's especially the fast bowlers. Also please produce more sporting tracks that gives a fair battle between bat and ball.

I find it inexcusable that the Likes of Lee, Johnson have to end up bowling 30 overs in an innings per test match. That is absolute rubbish, bakwaas and not on.

[lollol]

watch out for new munaf patel , Indians will be pleasantly surprised ..hes lethal with teh old ball these days & bowls 135mph+
WOW, new record :D

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Link: http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/indvaus2008/content/current/story/377953.html


P.S. This is disaster for India. Srikanth's this particular statement means that Dravid will still be a part of India's Test team. I seriously believed that Dravid will either be axed or he'll retire, but in no way he'll be playing the next Test series. Just look at the guy's average in the last 2 years -

Tests - 2007 = 35.64; 2008 = 30.09


His average since the last 2 years (since the Test series against South Africa in October/November 2006) - 30.62


I can't believe this, the one innings Srikanth is talking about haven't come in the last 2 years, and he's still expecting it ? :pissed:

[Bublu Bhuyan]

What a speed freak.
:)) It's quite good by Indian standards.

[Savak]

Kumble, Ganguly gone. Can India afford to lose all their main players? I think the selectors are looking to phase the seniors out. Tendulkar can still play in both forms of the game and in fact i back him to be around for one last hurrah in the 2011 WC. Laxman i feel has another 2-3 years left in Test Cricket.

The door's for Yuvraj have opened in Test Cricket now that Ganguly is gone but he needs to grab it with both hands.

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Dravid have detoriated beyond belief. His average have dropped to 52.61 from 58.75

Can you believe it ? From 58.75 to 52.61 in 2 years.

[Keith]

Dravid is a class act and i wish that he will come good soon.

[lollol]

^he was referring to the MPH i think :P

[Muhammad]

Kumble, Ganguly gone. Can India afford to lose all their main players? I think the selectors are looking to phase the seniors out. Tendulkar can still play in both forms of the game and in fact i back him to be around for one last hurrah in the 2011 WC. Laxman i feel has another 2-3 years left in Test Cricket.

The door's for Yuvraj have opened in Test Cricket now that Ganguly is gone but he needs to grab it with both hands.

I don't know about Yuvraj as a test player, I think the likes of Rohit Sharma and Badrinath might be ahead in the queue.

[Bublu Bhuyan]

^he was referring to the MPH i think :P
Oops, I missed it.

[Random Aussie]

Best news I have heard so far, hopefully Ishant wont play any ODI's and will be fully fit and ready for the tests match vs ENGLAND :D>..

Good idea team India. Don't waste the best thing you have on ODI games and dead pitches.

Use him when it counts.

[Savak]

Dravid have detoriated beyond belief. His average have dropped to 52.61 from 58.75

Can you believe it ? From 58.75 to 52.61 in 2 years.

He was a class act, he has got most of his centuries outside India. He is a very difficult player to dismiss. Akhtar himself admitted in a TV interview that if there is anyone in the Indian team he hated bowling to the most, it was Dravid and i still remember his words "Itnee duur se bhagna, puuree jaan marna aur phir eik batsman itne arram se ball ko straight bat se defend kar raha hai, single le raha hai, bauhat sakht tap chartee hai".

[Bublu Bhuyan]

He was a class act, he has got most of his centuries outside India. He is a very difficult player to dismiss. Akhtar himself admitted in a TV interview that if there is anyone in the Indian team he hated bowling to the most, it was Dravid and i still remember his words "Itnee duur se bhagna, puuree jaan marna aur phir eik batsman itne arram se ball ko straight bat se defend kar raha hai, single le raha hai, bauhat sakht tap chartee hai".
9 at home, 16 abroad. Yes, he was a very difficult batsman to dismiss. But guys like Dravid, Kallis, Gavaskar, Boycott, etc although are difficult to dismiss, but yet they cause the minimum damage to the opposition. While guys like Sobers, Richards, Tendy, Lara, Ponting, Hayden, etc although are not as difficult to dismiss like the names I mentioned earlier, can do substantial amount of damage to the opposition in very little time.

[itduzz]

and hes 1 series away from being dropped

[jusarrived]

that was a typo guys , i meant kmph ..! :po:

RR , the matches I saw him play recently Munaf was diving around ..lol , dint look very good though , the effort seems to be there ...thats the least you can expect from some one playing in the national team !

[Bumblebee]

Sachin Tendulkar and Irfan Pathan have been drafted in to the Indian one-day team for remainder of series against England. M Vijay, who is yet to play a match in the series, has made way for Tendulkar, whereas RP Singh, whose performance was indifferent in the first three matches has been dropped.

The selectors had rested Tendulkar for the first three games on his request. Pathan returned to the squad after a poor performance in Sri Lanka where he picked up one wicket from three matches.

More to follow

India squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt) Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir , Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha, Irfan Pathan

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current/story/379004.html

[deep82]

good to see RP go! he is abs useless on flat tracks.....atleast Irfan can bat. Also sachin can come for Rohit.

My team for the 4th ODI

Sehwag
Gambhir
Sachin
Raina
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Y Pathan
I Pathan
Harbhjan
Zaheer
Munaf/Ishant

[Rajan]

England.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/7747952.stm

England cancelled their practice ahead of the fifth one-dayer against India in Cuttack in favour of a team meeting as they look to salvage some pride.
Having lost the first four of the seven-match series, coach Peter Moores and captain Kevin Pietersen opted not to train at the Barabati Stadium.

"We thought it'd be better to go over and identify areas that have not gone right," explained batsman Owais Shah.

"You don't forget how to bat or bowl because you miss a day's practice." The decision followed a management meeting involving Moores, Pietersen, senior players Paul Collingwood and Andrew Flintoff and the backroom staff at the team hotel in Bhubaneshwar on Monday.

It was decided a change of routine would be better for the squad as they try to find a winning formula and end India's run of successive wins.
"Everyone feels they are hitting the ball OK and the bowlers feel all right," added Shah. "I think the guys thought we would get more out of discussing particular aspects of where we've gone wrong and try and put them right.

"Sport at this level is more mental than anything you do in the field so we feel if we can make the mental adjustments it should put us in a better frame of mind to go and perform.
"We need to get hundreds. Whoever gets in on the day has to be the man to kick on."It is likely that England will keep faith with the XI that put in a valiant - but ultimately fruitless - effort in the fourth one-dayer, when Shah's 48-ball 72 almost guided them to an unlikely win.

However, India captain Mahendra Dhoni warned his side would not take their foot off the pedal, despite assuring victory in the series with their 19-run Duckworth-Lewis win in Bangalore on Sunday.

Seamer Zaheer Khan and spinner Harbhajan Singh are likely to be rested ahead of December's Test series, with all-rounder Irfan Pathan tipped to come into contention, but Dhoni insists: "There are three more matches to come and we want to win all those games.
"You will see a few changes in the side in the next three matches and some of the people who have not played in the series so far will play but we still look to win games."

And opening batsman Virender Sehwag added: "The coaching staff have congratulated us on winning the series and now they say there is another series of three more matches to win.

"After beating Australia in the Test series we are full of confidence and we want to keep that going. We know if we play to our best we can beat England."

[Poison]

England.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/7747952.stm

England cancelled their practice ahead of the fifth one-dayer against India in Cuttack in favour of a team meeting as they look to salvage some pride.
Having lost the first four of the seven-match series, coach Peter Moores and captain Kevin Pietersen opted not to train at the Barabati Stadium.

"We thought it'd be better to go over and identify areas that have not gone right," explained batsman Owais Shah.

"You don't forget how to bat or bowl because you miss a day's practice." The decision followed a management meeting involving Moores, Pietersen, senior players Paul Collingwood and Andrew Flintoff and the backroom staff at the team hotel in Bhubaneshwar on Monday.

It was decided a change of routine would be better for the squad as they try to find a winning formula and end India's run of successive wins.
"Everyone feels they are hitting the ball OK and the bowlers feel all right," added Shah. "I think the guys thought we would get more out of discussing particular aspects of where we've gone wrong and try and put them right.

"Sport at this level is more mental than anything you do in the field so we feel if we can make the mental adjustments it should put us in a better frame of mind to go and perform.
"We need to get hundreds. Whoever gets in on the day has to be the man to kick on."It is likely that England will keep faith with the XI that put in a valiant - but ultimately fruitless - effort in the fourth one-dayer, when Shah's 48-ball 72 almost guided them to an unlikely win.

However, India captain Mahendra Dhoni warned his side would not take their foot off the pedal, despite assuring victory in the series with their 19-run Duckworth-Lewis win in Bangalore on Sunday.

Seamer Zaheer Khan and spinner Harbhajan Singh are likely to be rested ahead of December's Test series, with all-rounder Irfan Pathan tipped to come into contention, but Dhoni insists: "There are three more matches to come and we want to win all those games.
"You will see a few changes in the side in the next three matches and some of the people who have not played in the series so far will play but we still look to win games."

And opening batsman Virender Sehwag added: "The coaching staff have congratulated us on winning the series and now they say there is another series of three more matches to win.

"After beating Australia in the Test series we are full of confidence and we want to keep that going. We know if we play to our best we can beat England."

you are pagal gee. India will pummel these jokers again.

[Rajan]

Time for England batting to show the world that 4-0 Vs SA was not a fluke.they have the batting. Pietersen, Shah,Flintoff, Patel, Bopara can really come good on a flat wicket at Cuttack.Ishant has been wayward.Irfan can be bullied easily and in the absence of Zaheer Khan the first power play will yield lot of runs. Munaf has been decent with his nagging accuracy but he has lost penetration.

Yuvraj will go for minimum 6 runs per over, Harbhajan looked impressive after he slowed the ball but in his absence, Sehwag would find it difficult to contain on on a belter.Yousuf is not a reliable bowler yet.

Sehwag has scored 3 attacking innings of 60 odd in 4 matches. he is bordering on arrogance and his over confidence may cost the team dearly. I watched Gambhir in practice before the bangalore match, he was a bit dull. if he is rested then it would be a problem for India.

if the 2 sides make it an absorbing contest, it would be worth.

[Rajan]

And opening batsman Virender Sehwag added: "The coaching staff have congratulated us on winning the series and now they say there is another series of three more matches to win.
:))

[Savak]

England will have to look at trying something different. Heck get Pieterson and Flintoff to open. I am sorry but Ian Bell nor Matt Prior inspire me. Pieterson is doing himself and his side no favors by curtailing his natural game. I dont buy this theory he has a lot more responsibility now. There needs to be a change in strategy. Pieterson and Flintoff should play their natural games.

Ian Bell, Collingwood and Shah are the consolidators. Bopara, Patel are the other attackers. Seriously the selectors have blundered by leaving Mascerenhas out of the side, his powerful hitting would have been really invaluable.

England cannot do much about their bowling attack other than trying to bowl better because this is the best bowling attack they can do with. The Indian batters especially Yuvraj have really gone after them, they will have to bowl a lot more deliveries in the block hole, mix it up and the field placings right.

But England need to fix their batting i am afraid. Opening with Bell and Prior is a no brainer as far as i am concerned, they put too much pressure on everyone else i am afraid.