Given the recent comments on this blogsite on my original post on this topic, below is a fuller list of potential India-A players.
Openers:
Virender Sehwag, Aakash Chopra, Robin Uthappa, Shikar Dhawan
Middle-order bats:
Dinesh Mongia, Suresh Raina, Mohammed Kaif, S. Badrinath, Venugopala Rao, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli
Wicket Keepers:
Parthiv Patel, Puneet Bisht
Pace-bowlers:
Munaf Patel, Ajit Agarkar, V Yo Mahesh, Rakesh Patel, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Joginder Sharma, V. R. V. Singh
Spinners:
Harbhajan Singh, Rajesh Pawar, Piyush Chawla, Murali Kartik, K. P. Appanna, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Sayyed Iqbal Abdulla, Shahbaz Nadeem
Given this scenario, it is possible for us to construct an India-A and an India-B as follows (each with 16 players in them):
India-A
Virender Sehwag
Shikar Dhawan
Dinesh Mongia
Mohammed Kaif
S. Badrinath
Suresh Raina
Parthiv Patel
Piyush Chawla
Ajit Agarkar / V Yo Mahesh
V. R. V. Singh / Ashish Nehra
Murali Kartik / K. P. Appanna / Sayyed Iqbal Abdulla / Shahbaz Nadeem
India-B:
Aakash Chopra
Robin Uthappa
Cheteshwa Pujara
Venugopala Rao / Rohit Sharma
Manoj Tiwary / Virat Kohli
Puneet Bisht
Irfan Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Rakesh Patel / Joginder Sharma
Rajesh Pawar / Pragyan Ojha / Amit Mishra
Munaf Patel
The one other player that perhaps could be added is Gagan Khoda. But that would be at the exepense of one of the lefties — perhaps Abdulla…
– Mohan
14 responses so far ↓
Chandan // 7 July 2007 at 3:57 am |
Shahbaaz Nadeem is a SLA bowler, not a pacer.
Chandan // 7 July 2007 at 3:59 am |
“The one other player that perhaps could be added is Gagan Khoda. But that would be at the exepense of one of the lefties — perhaps Abdulla…”
No way! Abdullah has a realistic chance to represent India whereas Gagan Khoda can only dream of doing so.
Chandan // 7 July 2007 at 4:03 am |
And you put Harbhajan Singh , Irfan, Munaf and Rohit in India B? Any reason for that?
And you didn’t say who are the captains of these sides in your opinion?
Homer // 7 July 2007 at 4:26 am |
Punit Bisht a better player than Rohit Sharma?
And where is Ambati Rayadu?
Homer // 7 July 2007 at 4:28 am |
or Laxmipathy Balaji?
mohankaus // 7 July 2007 at 11:20 am |
Chandan, I have made the mod re: Shahbaz Nadeem. The allocation of players in teams does not have a clear rationale. However, I thought it would be a good idea to pit like against like: Sehwag-Uthappa, Harbhajan-Chawla Agarkar-Munaf, Kaif-Rohit, Badrinath-Tiwary, Parthiv-Puneet, etc…
Homer, Bisht is a wicketkeeper. Raydu and Balaji seem to have gone off the boil a bit in recent years. Balaji hasn’t even commenced playing full-time for TN.
Prabu // 7 July 2007 at 2:42 pm |
No Sridharan Sriram? C’mon guys, that guys deserves to play in atleast India-A if not higher…
Chandan // 7 July 2007 at 4:06 pm |
I don’t agree Prabhu. Sriram will not be considered for India again. And the purpose of A tour is to find replacements for every position.
What would you gain by grooming a player who you know will not be considered as a replacement for any position?
Mohan,
What about the captains?
Say Kaif is India A’s captain but who’d lead India B?
mohankaus // 7 July 2007 at 6:39 pm |
Chandan
Good point regarding captaincy. I hadn’t thought through that clearly enough.
I’d exchange Pujara for Kaif and get Sehwag to captain ‘A’ and Kaif to captain ‘B’.
Seems like a good move?
Mohan
sanjaysub // 7 July 2007 at 7:37 pm |
I would like to see Amol Mazumdar added.
mudasir // 11 March 2008 at 8:39 am |
i am a big fan of shahbaz nadeem …..i want to see him play for india as soon as posible…….wish you all the best
mudasir habib // 11 March 2008 at 8:44 am |
Dear shahbaz……work hard….love your game….youo reach you are about to reach your destiny ,,,,,…….
mudasir habib // 11 March 2008 at 8:48 am |
hi bcci………plez give more and more chance to young guns of our country
nazia // 22 October 2008 at 11:15 pm |
hey Shahbaz will rock one day….Allah is there for him at every step…he just need to work hard as he is doing……Good luck ……want to see you in indian team in next world cup.