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***Official*** IndianOil Cup in Sri Lanka
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honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
mine would be the same as yours. I think you have picked the obvious ones. Maybe, with the supersub rule, guys like Dinesh Mongia and Sriram could be considered ahead of this Raina... But that is just maybe.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Is anyone following the Sehwag XI v/s Dravid XI match? Live scores aer being shown. No idea about television coverage.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
So far....
- Off-day for Zaheer. Let's just hope he gets it right in his last over.
- JP Yadav gets 2/50. No idea what he bowled, but he got out Sehwag and Badani.
- Nehra had an off-day too, but got 2/49.
- Venugopal gets 75 (at present) at number seven.
- Sehwag got 96 off 77, while others got out in single digits.
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Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Just saw JP Yadav LUNGE to the off-side and hit a Pathan wide for four and win the match for Dravid XI. He's more or less 5'10", built square and long-haired. That's all I could see of him. Irfan got Dravid out playing a loose stroke.
Still, the Indian frontline (more or less) attack got smashed all around by Gambhir (especially), Laxman (especially), Yuvraj, Dravid and Niraj Patel. Poses a few problems for the selectors, but they have Zaheer (actually the best seam bowling option at present- maybe the only good one so far), then Nehra getting two (for a little too much) and Yadav getting two top wickets for not too many. A pity the match was interrupted by rain.
Still, the Indian frontline (more or less) attack got smashed all around by Gambhir (especially), Laxman (especially), Yuvraj, Dravid and Niraj Patel. Poses a few problems for the selectors, but they have Zaheer (actually the best seam bowling option at present- maybe the only good one so far), then Nehra getting two (for a little too much) and Yadav getting two top wickets for not too many. A pity the match was interrupted by rain.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Rahul Dravid scored 40 in 39, with just 3 fours. Ditto Gautam Gambhir, who was scoring a run off nearly every ball and smashed one six off Irfan, and countless boundaries off Agarkar, on both sides of the wicket. Good running between the wickets, good gap-picks, partnerships built well, the Dravid XI had batted very well, from the power-packed opening partnership between Gambhir and Laxman to JP Yadav's lunge. Can't say much of their bowling, which I could not watch, though the final overs were a problem.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
A promising youngster. Read more here - http://sportolysis.blogsome.com/2005/07/17/raina-one-for-the-future/aussie said:who is this S.Raina???
adharcric
International Coach
I had considered such replacement options, but here are my reasons:Arjun said:
-keep kumble because, with sourav and sachin out, dravid would be the only regular senior cricketer left in the squad and the youngsters may need that presence
-remember that guys selected must be among the 36 probables, so forget about people like mishra and powar (who i thought was very deserving of selection) and jadeja (wtf?)
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Kumble may be experienced, but these days, he's a liability on a bowling attack. Moreover, the selectors had plans of picking Powar, Vidyut, Bahutule and other spinners, but they were away in England playing league cricket. That was only a camp list, not a full list of probables- you wouldn't call Harvinder Singh or Sree Santh as probables, would you?adharcric said: