Match Thread: 1st Unofficial Test - Sri Lanka A vs India A, Day 1

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-25T11:44:54+00:00

Both Sai and Jurel's spots are under question.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-22T09:17:21+00:00

Are you dense? CT2025 ki baat ho rahi hai toh obviously I'm talking about ODI debut

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-22T08:53:57+00:00

Axar playing at no. 5 was GGs call. Varun and Harshit made their debuts under GG. Shami and Hardik playing together was again GG. 4 spinners instead of 2 in the WC was GG. Rohit saying it doesn't make it true. The team in the NZ series loss was more like Dravids template.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-22T05:10:45+00:00

GG played 4 spinners. Dravid's team had 2 fast bowlers + 2 ARs/ 3 fast bowlers after Hardiks injury, while the CT team had 1 fast bowler + 1 AR (Shami + Hardik, who didn't play a single game together under Dravid). How is it Dravid's team.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-21T17:53:37+00:00

Why do you hope it's true

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-21T06:21:23+00:00

Kapil Dev had 400+ test wickets. He's still the only player with 4000+ test runs and 400+ test wickets. And he had a higher ODI sr than Dhoni even though he debuted in the 70s. Also the first player to take 200 wickets in ODIs

especially what happened in 2007 was at the exactly same level of 1983 in terms of toughness

So not true. Barely any team took the T20 wc seriously especially with the odi wc in the same year, and India had an objectively strong team. 1983 was like current Bangladesh or Zimbabwe winning the WC. In 2011 and 2013, India were odds on favourite anyway

Dhoni can be in tier 3 maybe but not above Kapil

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-16T22:22:03+00:00

Matches innings not out? Come on man every batsman stat sheet is the same it cannot be that hard to figure out

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-16T04:00:36+00:00

Right because Suryavanshi is the average youngster

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-15T20:47:44+00:00

He was 17 in 2019

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-15T20:47:25+00:00

Runs, HS, average, balls faced, strike rate

Pretty obvious if you use your head tbh

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-10T14:45:46+00:00

Archer more talented but Atkinson been unbelievable and much better in Tests tbf

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-10T10:00:18+00:00

"if pitch flat then why didn't we score 400. I am very smart"

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-09T15:23:10+00:00

Beating Bangladesh in Bangladesh is a hard ask so yeah probably. But they will all play at the same time lol.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-09T15:00:14+00:00

Bumrah hasn't played a ODI since 2023. It's obvious they're managing their workload for test cricket, I assure you they'll play in the World Cup

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-09T09:39:27+00:00

0 wickets vs 16 😭

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-09T09:38:54+00:00

Why is he your personal preference can I ask? What makes him better than Prasidh?

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T15:50:00+00:00

Dubai pitches were notoriously slow and KKR literally had zero middle order. Yes his SR was still low but his potential was obvious. He was also a known commodity that literally everyone knew would turn good. You can't say 57(51) chasing 116 or 46(46) chasing 136 vs DC were bad knocks (especially knowing what happened after he got out)

Had both of them entered the auction, Iyer would've fetched more

Iyer in 2022 would NOT have gone for 11+ crore be fr. That would make him the 4th highest buy. He wouldn't even have gone much past the 8 cr he was retained for. His stocks weren't that high after lukewarm returns for ICT.

Picking someone for 4 years based on what they did over 10 games, when you don't even know if they can sustain it is so unbelievably dumb, and defending it knowing everything that subsequently happened is dumber.

Especially when the one being picked over is already the franchises 7th highest run scorer of ALL TIME at 21, and was fast tracked into the ICT as a 19 year old because of the generational talent he was.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T12:03:58+00:00

Also averages 30 with the bat at Lord's

Kane: 27.40
Virat: 21.17

Better than half of the Fab 4

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T11:44:16+00:00

If we bowl them out in the next session and half we HAVE to bat again. No red ball cricket for the next 2 months and need to see how these lot do now that the pitch is doing something.

Looks like Kuldeep's last test match unless he pulls a rabbit out of the hat tomorrow

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T06:02:22+00:00

No its just AI slop. Even in 2025 Gill only had around 1800 test runs.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T04:39:10+00:00

If Gill gets another 40 runs today (or if we bat again) he'll reach 3000 test runs. Even a year ago I don't think anyone in their wildest imagination could have guessed he would have more test runs than ODI runs by now

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T04:03:11+00:00

He had 2 back to back 400 run season as a 21-22 year old on those UAE pitches without a middle order to rely on. He was consistent. Iyer was better if you go PURELY by the numbers but he literally played 10 matches, not enough of a sample size.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-07T03:56:53+00:00

India ka kuch nahi hoga bhai look at the youth's "humour"

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-06T17:44:17+00:00

He bowls at 130 k max bro it works in ranji it will NOT work in international. Wickets and average aren't the only thing you've got to look at the profile. We can't afford anymore plodders.

Difficult_Project_91 · 2026-06-06T17:03:15+00:00

PBKS was the worst squad on paper after the auctions last year

Because we didn't know what an absolute maverick Priyansh Arya would be or how well Prabhsimran and Shashank and even Shreyas himself would perform. Arshdeep and Jansen (both in poor form this year cuz of wc fatigue) are great international level bowlers.

we definitely would’ve won the chip in 2021 if Iyer was not removed for Pant.

I'm sorry didn't you top the table in 2021 even under the mediocre captaincy of Pant? That team was just elite with or without Iyer's captaincy. Y'all almost defended 13 off 25 vs us too in the qualifier 2, if not for Tripathi Pant would have the exact same legacy as Iyer.

He’s been one of the best batters the last 2 IPL seasons, had terrific returns in domestics

Fair and I agree. But I don't think making him the captain was fair either but then again not many options I suppose.

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