whom do you think should open for India?
By ackars
@ackars (1942)
India
March 12, 2007 12:23am CST
Who all do you think should open Indian innings in carribean?Is it ganguly-sehwag,ganguly-uthappa,sehwag-uthappa or some oyher combination..?I personally think that they should keep in ganguly-uthappa pair..Uthappa is in good form for a long time and has the same aggressiveness as sehwag..Ganguly....oooom. no doubt about his place as an opener...He just rocks there after his come back.Sehwag has been out of form for a long time.Dinesh karthik is in good touch and has helped India win some matches recently and is a technical batsman..He will definitely be very suitable to play as 1st down or 2nd down...So I think sehwag should be sitting outside...Ganguly-uthappa should open with karthik coming in as 1st down(I prefer, if an early wicket goes) or 2nd down...what do you guys out there think about it?
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3 responses
@banta78 (4326)
• India
12 Mar 07
Well we have four guys who could open the innings for India, sachin, sehwag, sourav, uthappa. So as team management has been saying, i also feel we should field the best opening combination for that match based on the conditions, the pitches, the opponents and the form of the concerned players. So i expect they have formulated gameplans to surprise their opponents.
I feel that in group matches, India should field sourav and uthappa as openers,they have been opening regularly and are in good form and should be able to give India a flying start then we have players to post a big total or chase big target. Besides sehwag is totally out of form. And sachin has settled in middle order and playing beautifully there.
@vivek2006 (1418)
• India
12 Mar 07
I think India should go with Utappa-Ganguly combination. Just see if sehwag gets back to form in league stage at no.3, the maybe push him to open. But one thing is for sure if Tendulkar has to bat no. 4 the the top three, ganguly-uthapp and sehwag should attack from the start. They shouldn't consume many overs to play safe. Tendulkar plays more long innings than anyone else in one day version of the game so give him as many overs to bat as possible. So just go all out and attack in first 20 overs and if the wickets fall early the tendulkar and dravid can stabilize the innings and launch and assault in later overs.
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@akotawala (134)
• India
17 Mar 07
i think that Uthappa and ganguly should be sent for opening the India's innings and what all experiments Chappel want to do should do right now in the starting 3 matches and should do else or no experiments when the main matches are going on.
