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Jarquis

Jarquis

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
If Badrinath does well and is dropped for Yuvraj I will cry. Hell, if he's dropped after doing averagely I'l cry.
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
If he gets dropped after one Test even with two ducks, it'll be a travesty. If we can give someone Yuvraj this many opportunities, surely a man with a FC average approaching 60 deserves 4-5 Tests?
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
metallics2006 said:
Zaheer has come out of his rustiness and has started reversing the ball again. The two spinners Bhajji and Mishra are not push overs by any means. The series should be an exciting contest.
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1 good game against Bangladesh and people changed their mind about Zak? WOW!
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
Edged&Taken said:
Intresting to read about this groupism within the indian team headed by Dhoni on one side and Sehwag on the other. . Recent rift being the Ojha/Mishra selection during the Bangla Desh tour.

The group composition within the team is
.Dhoni Camp - P Ojha, S Tyaagi, Sachin, Zaheer, D Kartik, S Sreesanth, Yuvraj, Bhajji
Neutral - Rahul, Laxman, M Vijay
Sehwag camp - Gambhir, Ishant, A Mishra[/I]

Sehwag--Dhoni-camps-at-loggerheads
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I met Irfan couple of days ago in a wedding function!

It was the 1st time he said about Dhoni and his tectics. He said that MSD is a very changed person and does not greet people who are not in the league [ National team ], on the other hand - SRT always steps forward to everyone he knew in the past...

He also said that MSD was never like this!
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
wood-e said:
Sorry about the late reply as stated above by someone else S Ramesh and Hemang Badani i cannot for the life of me believe what Hemang did wrong always performed well for India. Robin Singh should have most defenitely been given more chances earlier in life the ammount of drop kicks that we awarded test caps to in the 90's was just ridiculous. Debashish Mohanty Dodda Ganesh there was one ridiculos opener who came and played here in 2001 Devang Ghandi I think his name was. I remember Robin came and performed admirably in the ODI's that followed and everyone was saying why he was not included in the Test squad. Even Dinesh Karthik keeps getting robbed. I noticed he was dropped for Saha the Bengal WK what has dinesh done wrong one bad shot in Bangladesh when we all screwed up in that first innings. Or what about L Shiva never being recalled to the team despite stellar first class performances with bat and b all.
What about Thiru Kumaran just as good if not better than some of the medium pacers who played for India. or the talented leg spinner Balaji Rao who know plays for the canadian national team. Even right now L Balaji is way down the pecking order. He is a great limited overs bowler much better than our man Dinda as we saw in the IPL. Yet Munaf
Patel and co keep getting chances. What about Ashwin keeps getting thrown at the bottom of the pile aswell because of Ojha and Mishra. Need i say more?

Having said that all that my thoughts are very biased towards players from Tamil Nadu its because im patriotic there is nothing wrong with that and although Kris Srikkanth did not have the greatest record he did form a great opening partnership with Sunny.


I am really happy that Regional Bias are changing but i will always be Biased towards my state and there is nothing wrong with that.
Im just praying the duo of Vijay and Badri stay staunch for years to come.
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Am I allowed to start crying for the exclusion of Parthiv Patel? He is scoring runs + doing not bad a wickey and deserves a recall...isnt it?
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
kingkallis said:
Am I allowed to start crying for the exclusion of Parthiv Patel? He is scoring runs + doing not bad a wickey and deserves a recall...isnt it?
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He was never a good wicketkeeper and the fact that he hasn't improved means they will always go elsewhere... Plus, this is more like a shot at DK to get his act together. I still think they will pick him for the next overseas tour. Now he gets a shot at playing the Duleep final...
 
Dissector

Dissector

International Debutant
Quite excited about this series even though it's just two tests. South Africa has the best record in India over the last 20 years, IIRC an even record in terms of tests won and lost over 4 series. I only wish they hadn't wasted a test in Nagpur where I am sure we will see pitiful crowds over the five days. Give places like Nagpur the extra ODI or TT game and keep tests only in the 5-6 big cities.
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
popepouri

popepouri

State Vice-Captain
I'd go in with Botha. He's been a star with the bat and been consistent with the ball this season. Deserves a shot given that he can tweak it more than Harris.
 
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silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
TT Boy said:
RSA seamers – 37.4 overs 8 for 128 :)

Spinners and McLaren – 37 overs 1 for 183 :sleep:

Tour Match: Indian Board President's XI v South Africans at Nagpur, Feb 2-3, 2010 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Apparently the Indian top five were all taken out by the short ball and Parnell got the ball to reverse nicely.

Might as well go in with four seamers (Steyn, Morkel, Parnell and Tsotsobe), hope to bat first and then bat for four days giving Sehwag the fifth day to score a double duck.
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Well, it's an Indian tour match tradition to go after opposition spinners and try to get them dropped so teams will go with four pace bowlers and then prepare a dustbowl.

I think SA should still go in with four seamers, but these tour matches are designed to make opposition spinners look bad..
 
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Dissector

Dissector

International Debutant
Wow I didn't even know this was allowed. Have there been other tour games with more than 11 players?
 
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