Comments on: Indian Team Writers’ XV

By: nawaz

nawaz — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:45:48 +0000

I dont understand the logic of the selectors when they leave out a player of yashpal singhs ability, either they do not consider players from outside mumbai, tamil nadu, punjab and a few other states who have clout in the board or they do not know who is performing. that is why i guess players are opting for the ICL.
Mr Vengasarkar and Co should now wake up and take notice of players who are performing or else indian cricket will lose out many more players for the ICL

By: raj

raj — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:56:10 +0000

there can be few changes in above team if selectors want to give rest to senior players then
Rohit Sharma Manoj Tiwari could be included.

By: raj

raj — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:52:02 +0000

Yashpal singh and Harbhajan should be standby players

By: raj

raj — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:50:30 +0000

hi there i want to throw some light on selectors mentallilty, selectors have phobia of selecting young player not the player who are plying well in domestic cricket and everybody knows these cricketers are playing well and these should be in the team today and today means today.

these are
Gagandeep Singh ( Punjab)
Yashpal Singh (Services)
Randeb Bose (Bengal)

Indian team for the world cup 20-20 and Bangladesh can be

1. Sachin
2. Saurav Ganguly
3. Robin Uthappa
4. Dravid
5. Yuvraj Singh
6. S. Badrinath
7. Reetinder Sodhi
8. Irfan Pathan
9. Ramesh Powar
10. Munaf Patel
11. Randeb Bose
12. Sreesanth
13. Zaheer Khan
14. Dinesh Karthik / M.S Dhoni
15.Gagandeep Singh

there should be one wicket keeper only in the team and for 20-20 world cup rahul dravid should keep wicket so that extra batsman or bowler can play.

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By: mohankaus

mohankaus — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:29:27 +0000

The eerie thing is that almost all of the said-experts have been, I believe, braying the same tune! The unanimity of opinion is almost sinister for an Indian fan! Apart from the odd bleat of distraction from Kapil Dev, that forever-anti-system-guy (whatever the system), all the said-experts have sung from the same song sheet!

I referred to this in an earlier post:
http://i3j3cricket.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/recent-selection-decisions-have-been-good/

Gone are the wild theories from these said-experts: “Let’s kick out the current players and instead wheel in Murali Kartik, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Sujith Somasunder and Dinesh Mongia in the team. Why not Pankaj Roy? Bleat. Bleat. Bleat…”

The previously-known cacophony of wild speculation is absent. Reasoned, and frighteningly calm argument has entered in its place! Even the unthinkable has happened! Srikkanth has stopped nose-blowing!

What’s going on?

Mohan

By: smangalam

smangalam — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:38:04 +0000

Mohan,
Hilarious article to start off with…I would be curious to see if these 18 players have a singular point of view on team composition or if their views depend on the media/medium they are representing. For example, Kapil Dev may have opened with Sehwag, dropped him from the side, made him bat at number four, asked him to bowl left handed etc. all in the same day. So, its not just 18 players anymore, its more like the Jekyll and Hyde situation…

Add to this formal confusion, you have outsiders speak on Indian team composition. Everyone from Courtney Walsh to Amjad Khan of Denmark and Kent fame may be talking about where Murali Karthik (also known as Dinesh Karthik) should bat, how indebted the Indians are to Greg Chappell, how much Indians are going to miss Laxman or the left arm spin Dinesh Karthik (also known as Murali Karthik), or how badly affected the Indian fielding is without Mohd. Kaif (or was it Mohd Azharuddin!!)….