Who will replace Sachin, Lax & Dravid on retirement ? The batting talent in country is quite good unlike the bowling stocks and the candidates to replace the trio would be:Yuvraj, Pujara, Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Murali Vijay and Ajinkya Rahane. Out of these Yuvraj averages 44 in First class cricket, Pujara 60, Mukund, 55, Badrinath 57, Rahane - 66. Histrorically top quality international cricketers (defined as cricketers with avg >50) average 55+, infact closer to 60 in first class cricket. For eg if you look at the big 4 of Indian cricket, Sachin avgerages 60, Dravid 56, Laxman 52 and now retired Ganguly averages 44 against test avg of 57, 52, 47, 42 respectively
The pretenders average as under:Ajinkya Rahane - 66S Badrinath - 58Yuvraj - 44Abhinav Mukund - 55Cheteshwar Pujara - 60. Clearly except Yuvraj others seem to be worthy candidates. Potentially Indian batting line up could look like Gambhir, Sehwag, Mukund, Badrinath, Pujara, Raina ! Tough times ahead of our team but think these guys have the quality to meet the challenge
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