Youngsters have enough talent to replace the exprience is a doubt

The thing which angered me most was that they hadn't learned anything from their mistakes. The way our top and bottom order collapsed was pathetic. As far as youngsters are concerned, I suggest we should give them more chance to prove themselves. At least Kohli tried to make a difference. Nothing cant be said about MSD. Being a strong bottom hand player he isn't proving much effective in bouncy Oz pitches. Its simply disastrous to see our bottom order offering not even a single bit of resistance. Just how all three of them got out in one over was the proof of how poor our teams performance can be. I am not taking any more pain getting up early morning to see my team in such worthless condition. Go on.. let them make it 4-0 ...

Hey mate, while mentioning match winning knocks you forgot the match winning knock of Pujara against Australia not so long back when he was sent at no 3.Actually youngsters have not been getting enough chances .In England Raina and yuvi were selected on the basis of their ODI form when they hardly had any recent experience of longer format at first class level,instead someone like Rohit or Rahane who have been doing well in Ranji should have been considered.Moreover most youngsters got chance at no 6 position,unlike Ganguly and Dravid who got the chance in England in top order.Its not that youngsters are not talented enough to replace the greats , it just that they should get enough chances with patience.You see Virat failed in couple of tests and all the news channels, fans and critics wanted him out and Rohit in.VVS is a perfect example of this, he was an average player at the start of his career but Indian team management and selectors showed faith in him and look how well he did for India,Hayden is another example,he too started poorly but did well for Australia later on ,there are lot of examples like these.Its not necessary that every youngster will start in a brilliant manner, we have to show patience, with this yardstick we will never get any good replacement of our greats.Pujara,Kohli, Rohit,Mukund,Rahane Manoj tiwary and several other players are more than capable to take the place of greats, only if they get enough chances.

Hi, while agreeing with you, I can't help notice that the problem with our current team is 'sporadic performance' of seniors. While viru is a complete failure, players like Gautham gambir just scratches around even after failing against windies at home before this tour. Any selector with spine should have dropped him from this tour. Either Ajinkya Rahane or Abinav Mukund should have been chosen. Similarly, I think Rohit sharma, a technically gifted batsman, should have been chosen ahead of Virat Kohli starting from the first test in the playing 11. I strongly feel athletic fielders like Suresh Raina should be a constant fixture in test cricket, even though they may fail a few times. And to top it all, Dhoni should be axed from the test team. Let him take care of ODIs and T20s, where he belongs, for which genius would have axed Ashwin from the team in place of Vinay kumar for the third test? Ashwin should have made the playing 11 on his batting form alone, even at the expense of another failed batsman like Viru or VVS. Also this is time for Sachin to retire from ODIs, which will create a slot and groom a youngster in his place, like a Badrinath or Vijay. Finally, I feel it is more tolerable to watch and digest better a youngster fail than the dismal performance of a reputed senior cricketer after all these years of international exposure, falling prey to untried and untested rookie aussie pacers, that too without a fight. When was the last time you saw Dravid getting bowled in test cricket repeatedly? Thanks.

I am of the view that all the seniors like dhoni, tendulkar, dravid etc. should be replaced by younger players. Young players will do a better job than seniors on account of their age and also their desire to perform more.

Well said yaso4u.. That is the most scariest part of this series that we don have enough bench strength to replace the old guard. It is easy to say that we can get rid of the seniors but a team full of youngsters would have probably done even more badly.. I feel the youngsters must be given a chance but it should not be a knee jerk reaction but instead the seniors must be phased out one by one or we could really go further into crisis.. Cheers

Definitely there are many players out there waiting for the Inadian cap but the main question is have we got players who are eligible enough to replace our old players?? I mean you can take the example of Rahane and Murli VIjay. Rahane got a chance in England tour but was failed to perform and Vijay had got a lot of chance but was unable to prove himself worthy. Kohli and Raina are not performing satisfactorily in tests either. Yeah definitely it is also the fact that it is the time to think seriously about our old players as they are failing to perform well. Even our Wall looks weak now a days. He was bowled in 3 inings back to back and Laxman was just pathetic. The same Laxman who was famous for performing well especially against Aussies. As you have mentioned that Ganguly and Dravid forced sidhu and Manjerekar to be out of squad by their stunning performance. But is there anybody there among the young players who is stunning us with performance?? But again, as they say "experience counts".

It is true that we don't have the youngsters capable enough to replace their more fancied seniors but the life can not go on forever. It is always better to build the future team with struggling but learning youngsters rather than persist with failing superstars who have got to be phased out one day. Some of the names we can think of at the moment are Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma with Virat Kohli already playing in the team and proved his worth with a solid knock at Perth. There are some youngsters in the news in domestic cricket they can be tried and groomed as future player of India. One thing is certain our more fancied veterans need a break.