The seventh spot in the Indian One Day team
Cross Posted from Pencil - 11/09/2005
The Indians have pulled out a never seen before performance in this series.
Never before has the Indian team shown such domination in a series home and away. With every individual contributing in one game or the other, it is obviously going to bediffucult for the selectors to pick the team against the South Africans. A quick look at the playing twelve narrows down to only one rotating spot available for experimenting in the batting front.
With Shewag, Sachin, Dravid, Dhoni (wk) and Yuvraj taking away four slots. The team think tank has ony positions to fill.
Considering Shewag's drought for runs inspite of getting a good start, Gambhir becomes an obvious choice for opening with Sachin and Shewag dropping down one slot.
We now have one open slot for batsman and the supersub slot.
If Suresh Raina takes up the super sub slot (due to his ability to bowl a bit), it will leave Venugopal Rao, Mohammed Kaif and outsiders like Ganguly, Dinesh Mongia, Badani and S. Sriram fighting for one spot. Kaif, however wonderful a fielder he is, is yet to produce a convincing performance (for sometime now) with the bat. Will they leave out Ganguly and his legacy drop dead. What about Dinesh Mongia's performance at the English county. Will it go unnoticed. Laxman? Lets wait to see what's in store for them in the future. Kiran More and co. may totally surprise us by dropping and never bothering to call back some of the youngsters from this series like they did for Balaji.
The Indians have pulled out a never seen before performance in this series.
Never before has the Indian team shown such domination in a series home and away. With every individual contributing in one game or the other, it is obviously going to bediffucult for the selectors to pick the team against the South Africans. A quick look at the playing twelve narrows down to only one rotating spot available for experimenting in the batting front.
With Shewag, Sachin, Dravid, Dhoni (wk) and Yuvraj taking away four slots. The team think tank has ony positions to fill.
Considering Shewag's drought for runs inspite of getting a good start, Gambhir becomes an obvious choice for opening with Sachin and Shewag dropping down one slot.
We now have one open slot for batsman and the supersub slot.
If Suresh Raina takes up the super sub slot (due to his ability to bowl a bit), it will leave Venugopal Rao, Mohammed Kaif and outsiders like Ganguly, Dinesh Mongia, Badani and S. Sriram fighting for one spot. Kaif, however wonderful a fielder he is, is yet to produce a convincing performance (for sometime now) with the bat. Will they leave out Ganguly and his legacy drop dead. What about Dinesh Mongia's performance at the English county. Will it go unnoticed. Laxman? Lets wait to see what's in store for them in the future. Kiran More and co. may totally surprise us by dropping and never bothering to call back some of the youngsters from this series like they did for Balaji.
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