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men who made it --indian team

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:37:43 +0800

THE 15-MEMBER Indian squad for the tri-series in Sri Lanka carried few surprises. Or maybe one. Dinesh Mongia finds himself back in the limelight. For the rest, Anil Kumble is still out as the selectors have decided to treat him with kid gloves after giving due credence to his age and looking at a long-term perspective. At least that is what they say. What Kumble, who has looked more charged up this last year than many others just over half his age, might say, is another matter! Sourav Ganguly, expectedly, is still out. A question about him elicited the usual response from the selection committee chairman Kiran More. Without actually taking Ganguly’s name, More deadpanned his standard reply: That performances always counted and anybody could always make a comeback. It is quite clear by now though, that the former India skipper is not anybody.
Still Ganguly has no performances to speak of in the recent past, so his case is somewhat iffy. But why Zaheer Khan is still in the doghouse after some outstanding performances on both the county circuit just now and in the domestic circuit last year begs questioning.

More, incidentally, did acknowledge that Zaheer had done very well and had been among the wickets but did not elaborate on Zaheer’s exclusion, except to say that his time would come. Perhaps it will, though the grapevine has it that Zaheer is paying dearly for reasons other than purely cricketing.

Logically though, despite the selection committee’s emphasis on the very young, Zaheer’s experience could have come in handy especially given two factors — both admitted by More. One, Irfan Pathan’s worrying slump and two, the fast bowling performance during the West Indies one-dayers.

More himself said that the batting and fast bowling let the team down in the ODIs in the Caribbean. While adding that while Pathan’s form was a concern, he said they were not panicking yet and were hoping he would come back strongly.

ITs no bodys game

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:33:06 +0800

hahahaha

as usual

srilankan rains ruined all the spirit n fun

n the bomb blast scared south african team n they left away.......

n now rains ruined the game

thts y its said

its no body game,,,its a natures game....:|

hope .....u will get to see the game sooner

India shameless show @ champions trophy

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:52:51 +0800

watta poor show by india this time....

is this the team we want for world cup....

every ota match a new set of team n new experiment

huh ..... i think in cuming time ppl will damm about abt this sport.....

i read in papers..tht international selectors says

india still lacks professionalism in sports ..n thts abso true

our players still get with same bowlers n doing same mistakes ..i wonder when will it get over soon...

n tht thou asia is all out this time from champions trophy...

wonder hu will get this time.. ??

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:28:10 +0800

wonder hu will get this time.. ??

ya am toking abt champions trophy...

westindies is in its full formm....

they beated aussi's ...n almost every1

n the final match is not far awayy.... i think this year it goes to west indians....