Cricket Thread

[Dennis Bendtner]

India's Test squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Murali Vijay.

Bold prolly the team. Harbhajan jesus christ.

[Syn]

That'll definitely be the team. But you know what? I'd happily swap Zaheer or Yadav with Harbhajan. Because as shit as he is, he's still a spinner. And India's pace-bowlers are all going to go for 100+ for 0 or 1, every innings. Harbhajan would go for 100+ for 2 or 3. And it's criminal Rahane won't play considering he seems better than Sehwag and Gambhir.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Harbhajan is not a spinner. He hasn't been for about five years. It is an illusion. If anything you could drop Yadav for Rahane to help out India's lame batting and give Yuvraj more overs. Dhoni can bowl seam-up. Mavericks ftw.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Seriously though, if anything I would probably pick I.Sharma instead of Yadav. I don't think either are proven wicket-takers (in India) but Sharma is far more capable of bowling tighter spells. Yadav is scattergun at this stage. Gambhir should not be in the squad, but that fraud mafia at the top of the order is untouchable.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Aussies vs South Africa starts tonight, 11:55 on SS1.

Aussies could go to No.1 if they do well enough in this series, ridiculously.

[Syn]

Good call. All-nighter with work so will have it on in the background.

If it's anything like the last Test series between these two sides, it should be awesome.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They tend not to do anything other than very good series, three test matches is still a bit short but better than last time I suppose.

[Syn]

Underrated batsman that Petersen. Tidy player.

And, more worryingly for the Aussies, Amla looks in for a biggun.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

South Africa closed on 255-2, Kallis on 84, Amla on 90. Petersen went for 64.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Duminy out for up to 6 months, ruptured Achilles tendon. Ouch. So 255-3, essentially.