India tour of Australia 2020 -2021 | News & Updates

[Naimish555]

I

my indian team for 2nd test match :
mayank
gill
pujara
rahane
kl rahul
saha
ravidra jadeja
ashwin
bumrah
umesh
siraj

In test match Pair of two spinner Ashwin-Ravindra is much more required, and specially in jadaja case you will get more strongly defence fielder (it's like buy 1 get 1 free) in specially Australian big ground.

 

[Sparker0i]

In test match Pair of two spinner Ashwin-Ravindra is much more required

Not in overseas seam friendly conditions. One of the two is more than enough.. But yeah in fielding Jadeja trumps Ashwin anyday..

 

[rohitvatsa]

I feel Rishabh Pant has been handled in a very bad way by Indian team management.Yes,he hasn't been top notch but you need to groom players into role rather than demotivating them by chopping and changing.

 

[Duke]

Rohit Sharma. Played IPL playoffs when he was only 70% fit. Had he not played in IPL business end, he would have been fit for the entire Aus tour.

The highlighted part are words of Sourav Ganguly, BCCI president, someone who knows stuff more than you and me....

3 players were injured Rohit, Mayank and Saini..... 2 players get selected for Australia Tour while 3rd person not....
Rohit proved his match fitness by playing 3 matches in IPL (he fielded for 20 overs in all 3 games) still he was made to prove his fitness in NCA rather then travelling with Indian team knowing very well that 14 Days Quarantine is mandatory....
And the genius Captain says he doesn't know the status of fitness instead of talking to his VC and getting a clairty.....
If captain can have his favourite person get selected as coach then certainly can get Rohit travel to Australia even if he is 100% not Fit....
He could have been played subject to physio approval instead of delayed travel and 14 Days Quarantine....

 

[rohitvatsa]

3 players were injured Rohit, Mayank and Saini..... 2 players get selected for Australia Tour while 3rd person not....
Rohit proved his match fitness by playing 3 matches in IPL (he fielded for 20 overs in all 3 games) still he was made to prove his fitness in NCA rather then travelling with Indian team knowing very well that 14 Days Quarantine is mandatory....
And the genius Captain says he doesn't know the status of fitness instead of talking to his VC and getting a clairty.....
If captain can have his favourite person get selected as coach then certainly can get Rohit travel to Australia even if he is 100% not Fit....
He could have been played subject to physio approval instead of delayed travel and 14 Days Quarantine....

Virat Kohli has expressed his dissatisfaction with the BCCI on how the Rohit Sharma injury situation was managed. Before the start of the first ODI against Australia in Sydney, a visibly unhappy Kohli told in the virtual press conference that there was total confusion regarding the situation with Rohit Sharma. “Before we had the selection meeting in Dubai, we had got an email two days before that, which said that he is unavailable for selection as he has picked an injury during the IPL. It mentioned there was a two-week rest and rehab period. The pros and cons and the implications of the injury has been explained to him and he understood that. And he was unavailable for selection. That was the information we got on mail before the selection meeting. After that he played in the IPL, so we all thought he would be on that flight to Australia, which he wasn't. And we had no information whatsoever on the reason on why he is not traveling with us,” Virat Kohli said.

How exactly Kohli is at fault for this?And it is quiet evident that Rohit Sharma did nothing to clear the situation plus he preferred IPL over travelling to Australia with the team or rehabilitating.If anything it is BCCI's fault for this mess as they don't want to upset the owners of their cash cow IPL teams.And further due to BCCI's lack of clarification it has somehow been built as Kohli vs Sharma debate.

 

[rohitvatsa]

When Pat Cummins suffered another recurrence of a back stress fracture in 2012 while playing for the Sydney Sixers in the Champions League T20, the franchise got a massive rebuke from Cricket Australia that they had hidden his injury.

And BCCI does nothing

 

[Duke]

Virat Kohli has expressed his dissatisfaction with the BCCI on how the Rohit Sharma injury situation was managed. Before the start of the first ODI against Australia in Sydney, a visibly unhappy Kohli told in the virtual press conference that there was total confusion regarding the situation with Rohit Sharma. “Before we had the selection meeting in Dubai, we had got an email two days before that, which said that he is unavailable for selection as he has picked an injury during the IPL. It mentioned there was a two-week rest and rehab period. The pros and cons and the implications of the injury has been explained to him and he understood that. And he was unavailable for selection. That was the information we got on mail before the selection meeting. After that he played in the IPL, so we all thought he would be on that flight to Australia, which he wasn't. And we had no information whatsoever on the reason on why he is not traveling with us,” Virat Kohli said.

How exactly Kohli is at fault for this?And it is quiet evident that Rohit Sharma did nothing to clear the situation plus he preferred IPL over travelling to Australia with the team or rehabilitating.If anything it is BCCI's fault for this mess as they don't want to upset the owners of their cash cow IPL teams.And further due to BCCI's lack of clarification it has somehow been built as Kohli vs Sharma debate.

After email and Selection of Indian team (Including 2 other injured player got selected one RCB pace bowler). Rohit Sharma had proved the match fitness in 3 IPL games....
Why didn't captain intervened and pushed for his selection if he is an important player????
If Kohli being a Captain says he doesn't have any information does he merit to be a captain??

 

[Sparker0i]

3 players were injured Rohit, Mayank and Saini..... 2 players get selected for Australia Tour while 3rd person not....

Mayank recovered before the business end of the tournament. Same with Saini, he recovered too. Rohit - in the BCCI president's own words, someone who knows about cricket more than you and me - played IPL after getting injured despite being only 70% fit...

Rohit proved his match fitness by playing 3 matches in IPL

Again, he was not fully fit (70% only) and despite that he played. Had he not played the IPL in half fitness, he would have been fully available for the Australia tour

How exactly Kohli is at fault for this?And it is quiet evident that Rohit Sharma did nothing to clear the situation plus he preferred IPL over travelling to Australia with the team or rehabilitating.If anything it is BCCI's fault for this mess as they don't want to upset the owners of their cash cow IPL teams.And further due to BCCI's lack of clarification it has somehow been built as Kohli vs Sharma debate.

Same people were howling for Kohli to be removed from captaincy after the ODI drubbing, and on SM too people have started to remove him from tests.

 

[rohitvatsa]

After email and Selection of Indian team (Including 2 other injured player got selected one RCB pace bowler). Rohit Sharma had proved the match fitness in 3 IPL games....
Why didn't captain intervened and pushed for his selection if he is an important player????
If Kohli being a Captain says he doesn't have any information does he merit to be a captain??

Why do you think that Sharma wouldn't have made himself unavailable?

 

[rohitvatsa]

Sunil Gavaskar claims Ashwin, Natarajan subject to ‘different rules’ within Indian team

I wonder what is going inside Gavaskar's head!Football players miss matches for their partner's pregnancy,child birth and other family commitments and no one bats an eyelid.But here Kohli missing the test series has become such an issue for Gavaskar.Wonder what is his motive?Is he propping up his fellow stateman for Captaincy which IMO Kohli would lose if current run continues.