Alternatively, I'd prefer to have all of Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman in the side, with the bowler coming in for Yuvraj Singh. Best with experience, decently strong batting and a bowling attack more likely to take twenty wickets.
Apart from World Cup Final at home, Lords in battle between 2 best sides in world, ...
Nah Marc.. With all due respect to Lords, I think Sachin would much prefer to do it in front of his home crowd. It just means more to the folks over here.
We're not doing a good job of showing it though
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Now that's a step in the right direction.
Pretty sure even if he was fit he wouldn't have made it. They didn't bring him to England and that seemed to be the final clue.Badri got injured, i think.
Been extremely unlucky with the timing of his form and injuries throughout his career. And his treatment based on ODI's has been poor.
Also, Kohli seems pretty certain to play the game tomorrow.
Down to the individual boards I'd have thought. For a touring team, you'd want the XI you'd hope would play each game, plus reserves to cover lack of form/injuries - how many reserves you pick depends on the length of the tour, how many reserves you think you might need and how many you can afford to take - bear in mind each player will need hotel accomodation, expenses and flights, so it's not cheap to take players halfway around the world.
