Comments on: Team India for Sri Lanka series

By: vampiviomepay

vampiviomepay — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:08:56 +0000

Thank you

By: Samir Chopra

Samir Chopra — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:34:53 +0000

Its not clear to me either why Munaf Patel is in the team. I’ve yet to see any intensity from the lad.

By: Neno Cricket

Neno Cricket — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:12:48 +0000

well my idea is very silly but i think dhoni quiet this series to get the test captainship.. He knows he can strenghthen team but he has no weapon. May be his trying that (I told silly idea for all).

anyway added you in blogroll

By: Govinda Iyer

Govinda Iyer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:12:12 +0000

What a load of bulldust from players like Dhoni and hie ever ardent bunch of supporters

Back to back to ODIs are shorter than back to back 5 days of test cricket!!

These hard working patriots get to stay in 5 star hotels, get fed well, collect oodles of frequent flyer points etc

They never complaine about 50 days of IPL games or shooting for umpteen advertisements for products or appearing at corporate functions or discos for MONEY!!

Just ask the jawans stationd at the borders for India–Pakistan–China re burn-out !!

Boys, pull the other leg and play jingle bell!!

By: avnish

avnish — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:41:49 +0000

hi, frind M.S dhoni is the best capten of the word.This was immediately followed by the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa in which he captained Team India for the first time. Dhoni did and made himself unavailable for Sri Lanka.This was immediately followed by a Test series against South Africa. satyam Adpost

By: Ananth

Ananth — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:25:57 +0000

I’m not sure if the seniors need to go if they perform; Dravid has been the worst of the Big 4 certainly the last 2 years; so if performance is the critereon, he should be put on notice. Other than that if those guys are good enough why not keep playing; anyway 3 of the Big 4 are out of everything but Tests; and Sachin has been wise managing his priorities(skip most of the IPL, skip Triply, skip Asia Cup etc).

Piyush Chawla has been unimpressive to say the least. And Yuvraj needs an attitude change. The break may do him good.

Amit Mishra and Ali Murtaza(if the proposed ICL rapprochement comes through; ICC is set to recognize the ICL as exhibition games) are better prospects, as is Ojha.

On the future batters: S Badrinath should be at the top of the list; Rohit’s FC average does not inspire confidence and Badri looks a Dravid clone(the good Dravid). I’d also mark Ajinkya Rahane, Abishek Nayar and Saurav Tiwary as better longterm India Test bets than Raina, Rohit or even Yuvi

By: The Pav

The Pav — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:35:46 +0000

With Dhoni opting out citing fatigue (hardly surprising considering he workload over the last 18 months) does this mean

1) he’s the first victim of the IPL. Perhaps if he hadn’t played then he would be fresh enough to represent his country
2) That he considers limited over cricket more important than Test cricket

personally I think the scheduling for India has asked for super human efforts and has been unfair to the players

By: Srikanth Mangalam

Srikanth Mangalam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:39:29 +0000

I’d also like to see Amit Mishra given a shot. The others that you mentioned are ideal replacements with possibly Badrinath as backup.

I am suspecting a dry/boring test series with several tons in the offering. I have not seen enough of Mendis to have an opinion yet. It would be really interesting to see how Gambhir/Tendulkar/Laxman (possibly the three best players of spin) take this fellow on.

By: mohankaus

mohankaus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:45:16 +0000

@Srikanth

I certainly hope that the selectors have a plan for the gradual replacement of the Fab Five from this tour onwards. Ideally, it should be Laxman or Ganguly after Sri Lanka (August 2008), Laxman or Ganguly after Australia (November 2008), Kumble after England (December 2008) and Dravid after Pakistan (January 2009).

It’d be great to see Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Piyush Chawla and Suresh Raina as replacements.

What do you think?

As for this series, the most serious threat will be, in my view Ajantha Mendis. I really liked the look of this young bowler. He is capable, smart, good and deadly.

– Mohan

By: Srikanth Mangalam

Srikanth Mangalam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:26:39 +0000

While I am satisfied with the looks of the team, Suresh Raina may consider himself unlucky not to have made it into the team. With all factors in mind, Mohan, are we still aiming/hoping/expecting that the top four start fading out by the end of the Aussie series?