India A vs Australia A in India

India A Squad:

S Badrinath (capt), Parthiv Patel (vc), Shikhar Dhawan Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammad Kaif, Cheteshwar Pujara, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Sreesanth, Vinay Kumar, Sudeep Tyagi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohnish Parmar, Sahil Kukreja, Amit Mishra.

Australia A squad:

Simon Katich (c), Adam Voges, George Bailey, Doug Bolligner, Beau Casson, Peter Forrest, Ryan Harris, Phillip Hughes, Jason Krejza, Bryce McGain, Marcus North, Ashley Noffke, Luke Ronchi, Peter Siddle

Fixtures:

September 3-5 v India A, KSCA, Bangalore
September 9-11v India A, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

September 15 v New Zealand A, Rajiv Gandhi International, Hyderabad
September 16 v India A, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
September 22 v New Zealand A, Guru Nanak, Chennai
September 24 v India A, MA Chidambaram, Chennai
September 26 Final, MA Chidambaram, Chennai

Let us talk about the squad for FC matches first.

I'm not very happy with squad of India A. So many players have been overlooked. For example, even if we assume that Parthiv Patel opens the batting as he has been doing in last couple of seasons, who will partner him? Why was Akash Chopra not chosen despite having a very fruitful year in the domestic cricket last season?

On what basis have Uthappa and Kohli been chosen?

And if we look at the bowling, who will open the bowling with Sreesanth? Will it be Tyagi? And who will be the thirds seamer? Why was Vijay YoMahesh dropped from the India A squad and why was Pankaj Singh overlooked?

What are Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohnish Parmar, Sahil Kukreja doing in the squad and on which have they been chosen?


Could they not choose any left arm spinner instead of Parmar who has a suspect action?

It is certainly not India's second XV and I wonder what were the selectors thinking while choosing this squad!

Can the Australian forummers tell us what they think about the Australia A squad, was there any notable omissions according to them, and which players are supposed to be good?



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Aus A squad discussed on bumped thread , Chandan

Uthappa and Kohli are in and around the Indian team, so their choices are pretty unsurprising. Uthappa, whatever his limitations in international cricket, is more than decent in FC.

I'm pretty happy with the batting, though I'd have picked Nayar above any of his 3 team-mates picked for the team. I have no idea why Dhawal Kulkarni is picked, don't know what they see in him. All in all, our bowling is very weak.

Patel
Uthappa
Kaif
Pujara
Badrinath
Kohli
Mishra
Chawla
Vinay Kumar
Sreesanth
Kulkarni

should be the first choice team.

Uthappa is decent in FC? If that is so, I'll say Indian cricket in crisis!!

Kohli's FC performance are not anything for which you'll select him in your second XV. And why didn't we choose Sangwan instead of Kulkarni? What sort of a muddled selection is this which will not let a player have any idea as to what do they need for getting selected? Why did we not choose Tiwari or Chopra instead of Kohli?

And why on earth are we not choosing a good keeper? Both Parthiv and Karthik were absolutely dreadful during the Lanka tour?

Give me the name of any two seamers apart from Sree in this squad who you think will make to the senior team?

Two seamers? I won't be able to name one except Sree. They're all dire. But so is YoMahesh. Pankaj Singh, Sangwan, maybe Dinda and that Chennai SuperKings bowler from Punjab were more worthy than any of the seamers, and even they won't be making it to the side any time soon.

Don't tell me you are looking at the bowlers on the basis of their performance in IPL?

No, just the potential. Otherwise Siddharth Trivedi would be there, and Sangwan definitely wouldn't.

Yes. Why will you not take their FC performance into account? None of these bowlers didn't look as brilliant potentially to be fast tracked into the second XV of India?

Why will you exclude Trivedi or Pankaj Singh or VRV Singh or even Gangandeep Singh?

And YoMahesh has performed quite well on a number of A tours. If he was chosen on the potential then, why has he been axed now?

Yeah pace bowling looks bad.
I'm really keen to see how Amit Mishra and Piyush Chawla perform. And Badrintah among the batsmen.
They are the ones who are likely to progress into the test team in the near future.

I would go with an Aussie team of.....

Hughes
Forrest
Katich*
North
Voges
Ronchi+
Noffke
Casson
McGain
Siddle
Bollinger

PearlJ wrote:I would go with an Aussie team of.....

Hughes
Forrest
Katich*
North
Voges
Ronchi+
Noffke
Casson
McGain
Siddle
Bollinger

This will be 3 seamers-2spinners attack, isn't it? I've seen Noffke bowling in one of the T20 perhaps. And isn't Siddle that impressive seamer who played in the Pura Cup final earlier this year against NSW? Then Casson is the spinner we saw in WI. Can you tell us something about the other two bowlers? Have you seen them playing?

And I've seen Katich, Ronchi and Voges. How about the others?

philcric wrote:Yeah pace bowling looks bad.
I'm really keen to see how Amit Mishra and Piyush Chawla perform. And Badrintah among the batsmen.
They are the ones who are likely to progress into the test team in the near future.

Even thinking of including Chawla in the test side will be dangerous, Phil.

Remember his performance vs SA earlier on a spinners paradise?

Chandan wrote:

PearlJ wrote:I would go with an Aussie team of.....

Hughes
Forrest
Katich*
North
Voges
Ronchi+
Noffke
Casson
McGain
Siddle
Bollinger

This will be 3 seamers-2spinners attack, isn't it? I've seen Noffke bowling in one of the T20 perhaps. And isn't Siddle that impressive seamer who played in the Pura Cup final earlier this year against NSW? Then Casson is the spinner we saw in WI. Can you tell us something about the other two bowlers? Have you seen them playing?

And I've seen Katich, Ronchi and Voges. How about the others?

McGain is a 36 year old leg spinner from Victoria. Bollinger is a left arm seamer from NSW.

There is absolutely no point playing wrist spinners. The Indians are too good against them. Would be far better off playing the best available finger spinner.

Chandan wrote:

philcric wrote:Yeah pace bowling looks bad.
I'm really keen to see how Amit Mishra and Piyush Chawla perform. And Badrintah among the batsmen.
They are the ones who are likely to progress into the test team in the near future.

Even thinking of including Chawla in the test side will be dangerous, Phil.

Remember his performance vs SA earlier on a spinners paradise?

Good times!

JGK wrote:There is absolutely no point playing wrist spinners. The Indians are too good against them. Would be far better off playing the best available finger spinner.

so Clarke then

philcric wrote:Yeah pace bowling looks bad.
I'm really keen to see how Amit Mishra and Piyush Chawla perform. And Badrintah among the batsmen.
They are the ones who are likely to progress into the test team in the near future.

I'm keen to see how Pujara and Patel go in the batting. I still think Gambhir will be out of the test side soon, so Patel is a definite choice for the opening slot. Pujara has also shown promise. Badrinath could possibly come in at 3, he definitely needs to be more 'visible'.

Why will you exclude Trivedi or Pankaj Singh or VRV Singh or even Gangandeep Singh?

Don't think they have class to be international players.

Nath wrote:

JGK wrote:There is absolutely no point playing wrist spinners. The Indians are too good against them. Would be far better off playing the best available finger spinner.

so Clarke then

I think Kasper still turns the ball further than any offie we have.

North and Voges bowl "pup standard" finger spin ....

Xavier Doherty made the Aussie's champions trophy 30........

Terrific bowler. One look at his stats tells you that.

Chandan wrote:Gangandeep

Now you're making names up

Henry wrote:Xavier Doherty made the Aussie's champions trophy 30........

Terrific bowler. One look at his stats tells you that.

Why was he not chosen for Australia A then?

'Players with ridiculous Catholic names' quota already filled

Chandan wrote:

Henry wrote:Xavier Doherty made the Aussie's champions trophy 30........

Terrific bowler. One look at his stats tells you that.

Why was he not chosen for Australia A then?

You should really, really check out his stats, Chandan.....

Chandan wrote:

Henry wrote:Xavier Doherty made the Aussie's champions trophy 30........

Terrific bowler. One look at his stats tells you that.

Why was he not chosen for Australia A then?

He may get a call up for the limited over games ...and Trev doesnt rate his stats very highly