I’m glad that I’m not a selector, but I see here that even they aren’t disagreeing with with me here. In fact they don’t agree with you at all.

Now let me ask one question. Did you watch any of the matches that I’ve mentioned, and they are not just one match?

I watched all of them.

The Aussie seamers softening him up only for macGain to cash in. Or else a guy who has scored so well against mishra and even Kumble, won’t be out like that.

The next came the shorter version where he had to face Tait. And it was hilarious the way he did it, as if he was scared even going behind the ball, defending it! He played like a gully does here the moment a guy with even little bit of pace comes on to bowl.

Next match was for BP XI vs Australia team where Lee and Clark were bowling and Badri succumbed meekly while Rohit Sharma and Yuvraj absolutely thrashed them.

Before that we had Irani trophy–Rest of India vs Delhi. Ishant and Nehra were the pacers for Delhi on an extremely slow track. But the way, and I emphasise here–the way, Badrinath handled them was least satisfactory and it told you that he won’t be able to face quality seamers even on flat Indian tracks.

If you’ve seen him playing in all these innings, and despite his failures, you are confident that he’ll succeed in international circuit, then I can’t say much!

You can pick and choose one or two games where he failed but look at the list I’ve put up and you will see that your argument is specious at best.

Mere re arrangement of words don’t help. you Just go by one game and rule someone out of the team. if you were so good, you would have been a selector by now.
You are basing your arguement out one game he played against Aus ‘A’. I have seen him scoring a double century against a strong SA XI team, with Dale steyn it. Any day Steyn is much better than a Bollinger.

If I go by your argument that he cannot face quality pace attack, In the AUS A match you are referring to, he got out to McGain who is a spinner.

You gave the stats if Emerging tournament. Now give the stats of Badri vs Australia A in the FC match where he faced Bollinger, McGains etc, the List A matches where he faced Tait, Irani triphy where he faced Ishant and BP XI where he faced Lee and Clark.

Karthik,

It is correct that no one can precit who’ll shine in test cricket. But it is relatively easy to predict who’ll NOT shine in test cricket!

Unlike many former deserving TN players, who didn’t gain anything playing for TN.

Opponent Matches Inns Not Out Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct
Australia A 3 2 0 69 59   34.5 0 1 4
Australians 1 2 0 16 14   8 0 0 0
Delhi 5 9 1 549 206* 68.62 2 1 4
England A 1 2 1 102 100* 102 1 0 0
England XI 1 1 0 0 0   0 0 0 0
Karnataka 6 9 0 441 143   49 2 1 3
Maharashtra 3 5 1 172 72* 43 0 1 3
Mumbai 5 9 1 318 110* 39.75 1 1 3
New Zealand White 1 2 1 125 70* 125 0 2 1
North Zone (India) 2 3 0 222 200   74 1 0 0
Punjab (India) 2 3 0 121 97   40.33 0 1 0
South Africa A 2 1 1 200 200* 1 0 0
Sri Lanka A 1 1 0 48 48   48 0 0 0
Uttar Pradesh 5 6 1 334 123   66.8 1 2 8
West Zone 2 4 1 266 100* 88.66 1 2 2
Total 40 59 8 2983 58.49019608 10 12 28

And this is his statistics for each team he has played:

Team Matches Inns Not Out Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
India A 10 9 5 852 200* 213 4 4 6
Indian Board President’s XI 2 3 0 16 14   5.33 0 0 0
Rest of India 3 4 1 161 80* 53.66 0 1 4
South Zone (India) 9 15 2 740 200   56.92 3 3 4
Tamil Nadu 51 78 6 3683 206* 51.15 12 15 36

You will find that except for the 2 games for BPXI, he has done extremely well for all other teams with his lowest average occuring when he played for TN.

The point is that he has scored tonnes of runs against most opposition – good or bad – and has to be given a chance. I’m afraid however he will go the Sriram way….

Chandan,
No one can predict who will shine in Intnl cricket and who will not.

The rules are simple.

Player ‘A’ performs in Ranji and Domestic circuit, implies he is better than the other in the domestic circuit competing with them,
And Hence Player ‘A’ should get a chance to represent the country.

As Badri has said earlier, he should be given a chance at least to fail.