Quote from: Sithara007 on July 22, 2025, 10:56:06 AM

Quote from: JSRAW on July 22, 2025, 07:47:11 AM

Sounds like a tactical injury to me, indian management has a history of not using word " dropped" and instead they deflect any potential questioning by announcing injuries and most of the times planting a stories in media.

Anyways, surely they have no confidence on krishna hence they are calling up kamboj as new addition in the squad.

there were reports on Nair and then injury report on Reddy and Akash, if everything is true then 3 changes in the playing XI, don't know who will replace them. Maybe kulli and kamboj as pure bowler, Jurel as batter can make it. Another gamble would be Washi batting at number 3, just to test him.

These three are confirmed to be dropped from the XI:

1. Karun Nair
2. Akash Deep
3. Nitish Kumar Reddy

And these will be the replacements (IMO):

1. Sai Sudarshan
2. Shardul Thakur
3. Dhruv Jurel

Don't think that they will go for Kuldeep, given the conditions that are not supportive of spin. And in case Sai Sudarshan is included in the XI, then I don't think that Washington can be promoted to no.3. Bad news for Abhimanyu Easwaran. Still he can't find place in the XI.

With those 3 names, it looks like one bowler short in the playing XI. Shardul is okay 4th seamer but it's bit risky to trust as your 3rd seamer.

Also, the kind of suspense management create around playing XI, you would think that these guys are playing 5d chess. They could do anything, even give another chance to Nair etc. Idk why they don't announce their team in timely manner. In contrast England announced their team in advance.