India v Australia, 2nd Test, Delhi, 17-21 February, 2023

Are we already on the plane back home?

skully wrote:Are we already on the plane back home?

mentally yes. (excluding the players who will be in the IPL)

now they're talking about sending Kuhnemann, because Agar's bowling form in the nets is woeful

Nath wrote:now they're talking about sending Kuhnemann, because Agar's bowling form in the nets is woeful

Geebers. He is ok, but not yet a patch on Dutchy2.

No surprise re Agar. I think Head must have struggled against Goat and Murphy in the nets.

now they're saying Kuhnemann to replace Swepson in squad (because of wife due to give birth)

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/warner-s-position-under-threat-as-australia-considers-three-spinners-for-second-test-20230212-p5cjuw.html

Warner to be dropped? I'll believe it when I see it

Kuhnemann, what a glorious name, send him on that alone. I need a bit of Germany in my cricket.

Nath wrote:now they're saying Kuhnemann to replace Swepson in squad (because of wife due to give birth)

Zampa will be happy at being overlooked 

Agar may as well come home too

if they're sending Agar home, they may as well send Zampa there

Nath wrote:https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/warner-s-position-under-threat-as-australia-considers-three-spinners-for-second-test-20230212-p5cjuw.html

Warner to be dropped?  I'll believe it when I see it

So Handscomb or Renshaw to be sacrificed for a lengthening of the tail.

Meh, I'd play Head to lengthen the spinning ranks.

You can take you pick whether Warner or Wrench plays.

They should sack Rahul and Pujara and get in Gill and Iyer.

They probably won’t.

Why would India sack Rahul and Pujara when the side is winning?

furriner wrote:They should sack Rahul and Pujara and get in Gill and Iyer.  

They probably won’t.

Scary to think India can get stronger.

Wish we had Pujara

lardbucket wrote:Why would India sack Rahul and Pujara when the side is winning?

Short answer:

skully wrote: Scary to think India can get stronger.

skully wrote:

furriner wrote:They should sack Rahul and Pujara and get in Gill and Iyer.  

They probably won’t.

Scary to think India can get stronger.

They still won’t be able to play a swinging ball in England

furriner wrote:Kuhnemann, what a glorious name, send him on that alone.  I need a bit of Germany in my cricket.

It’s up there with Lehmann, Hauritz, Zesers, Kasprowicz and Zoehrer!

Khawaja even.

The one that always got me was Duncan Sharpe for Pakistan.

David Johnson from the Bannies

Dammit … about to hit send and message disappears … my brain is shot …Russell Arnold from SL

Angelo Mathews doesn’t sound particularly Sinhalese or Tamil either. And the plethora of (de) Silvas, Fernandos etc. over there I think were Spanish/Portuguese imports a few centuries ago.

India had the Binnys as well. Bin India!

Portuguese were everywhere.

Various Da Silvas, Fernandos, Henriques, and Elquemedo Willetts coming out of the proverbials in Sri Lanka and the West Indies in particular.

Getting back to furry’s comments on Kuhnemann and the Germans (‘forgive and forget, eh, major’) there aren’t too many Germanic names in the current German cricket team. Same applies to Norway. Furry, any idea why players from these European teams are much more likely to be speaking Urdu than Hindi, English, German, or Norwegian?

lardbucket wrote:Portuguese were everywhere.

Various Da Silvas, Fernandos, Henriques, and Elquemedo Willetts coming out of the proverbials in Sri Lanka and the West Indies in particular.

Getting back to furry’s comments on Kuhnemann and the Germans (‘forgive and forget, eh, major’) there aren’t too many Germanic names in the current German cricket team. Same applies to Norway. Furry, any idea why players from these European teams are much more likely to be speaking Urdu than Hindi, English, German, or Norwegian?

I guess because there’s very little local tradition in the sport in continental Europe (bar Holland to an extent which is strongly South Africa-linked anyway), and so it only really thrives among Asian expat communities and their descendants.

... really?

Why more Pakistani or at least Islamic names than Hindi / Hindu, though?  Are migration patterns to Norway and Germany so biased numerically towards Pakistani and Arabic > Indian, or are there other reasons?

eg:

Germany v Denmark - players


or this one, Norway's team in particular

Milan once had a decent cricket team.