Enough said……

You did not say
that the team should be filled with all rounders,
it was my comment
that with a proven dearth of all rounders
we need more players with dual attributes.

What you have said in your original article
is the accepted practise,
what I said was
discussions of a few questions are being held as taboos,
and asked when will such questions be raised?

I did not contradict what you had said,
I brought forward a different perspective.
My mistake, it was a wrong choice of blogsites.

Having said that, I think one can go overboard with statistics too. The quick-witted Sidhu has often said, “Statistics are like bikinis; what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide is essential!”

The right path is to adopt a middle ground — a bit of supported subjectivity if you like. For if not, all we end up with is a shouting match where the people who hand-wave the most win…

I think you may have misunderstood my point on allrounders. I do not believe I said the team needs to be filled with allrounders. There is always a place in my team for straight-out bats (and straight-out bowlers). Dravid is one of them. Zaheer Khan is one of them. We have a dearth of allrounders in Team India and that would, in my view, affect India’s chances.

– Mohan

its great to see my name so prominently displayed at the top of your post.
you made my day.

You have put in a lot of work on this,
I apologise if I disappoint you by saying,
I do not rely on statistics I am afraid, not even averages.
To me they are numbers that can be stretched and twisted to support any point of view.
My opinions are formed by what I see on the field only. (And definitely nothing from the TV pundits either)

“— just on the strength of his batting prowess!”

My question was in response to your other post on need for all rounders and multi attributes of a player.
Not which are the batsmen that gets into an ODI team just on batting.
I feel we may have ever so slightly shifted from your original line of thoughts.

– Mohan