India in Australia, 2010

Ages in brackets

Vijay (27)
Gambhir (30)
Sehwag (33)
Tendulkar (38 )
Laxman (37)
Dhoni (30) c
Pathan (27)
Harbhajan (31)
Zaheer (33)
Sharma (23)
Mishra (28 )


Five pronged attack: Dhoni, Pathan and Harbhajan can bat enough to make up for only having 5 specialist batsmen.

Tendulkar, Laxman probably 50-50 chance to make it.

Pathan i don't think will make it as a test player.

Zaheer probably won't make it. With the fast bowling stocks looking up in India, I'd imagine a new face may make it to that series.

Don't think India would play 2 spinners. Mishra probably would be first choice spinner on non-subi pitches.

Sehwag
Gambhir
Vijay (if he can cut it at test level)
Tendulkar
Laxman
R Sharma
*+ Dhoni
Mishra
Ishant
xxx (Pacer 2)
xxx (Pacer 3)

Hmm.. so we'll tour Australia in 2010? This is just after 2 years? Last time Australia played in India in Oct-Nov 2004 and India visited there in Dec-Jan 2007-08.

Any reason we'll tour 2 years before than we did last time?

Zak's 31 now? Strange, thought he was younger.

doremi wrote:Zak's 31 now? Strange, thought he was younger.

He is 30.

india tours aus in 2011-12, not 2010

tendulkar will be 38 though, so maybe you got the ages right

and its much too early to say what the team will be. lots of cricket to be played between now and then, no one is a certainty yet. unlike 2004 looking to 2007-08

Chawla, RP Singh, Sreesanth or Munaf Patel will play key roles in the next Test Series.


As for the Batting stocks, Look out for Vijay to continue along with Tiwary and Badrinath aswell to rise through the ranks.

A lot can happen in 2 years. 2 years ago everyone thought that Dravid was the member of the big 4 likely to go on the longest.

Henry wrote:A lot can happen in 2 years. 2 years ago everyone thought that Dravid was the member of the big 4 likely to go on the longest.

Dravid could still be the longest if he gain's a purple patch soon.

It's far too soon.