The Indian ODI side

[Richard]

Why does Sharma need to be in the side now though? He's 20 years old. His time will surely come. Ganguly surely does not have long left, but has performed admirably for a fair while now. He deserves to keep his place a little while longer IMO, then retire from ODIs when he feels the time is right.

 

[honestbharani]

Why does Sharma need to be in the side now though? He's 20 years old. His time will surely come. Ganguly surely does not have long left, but has performed admirably for a fair while now. He deserves to keep his place a little while longer IMO, then retire from ODIs when he feels the time is right.

yeah, but if Rohit can produce similar amount of runs as Ganguly, and offer more in the field, surely he should be considered?

 

[SJS]

Sachin
Ganguly
Gambhir
Yuvraj
Dravid
Dhoni
Pathan
Chawla/Harbhajan
Powar
Zaheer
R.P.Singh
Uthappa(sub)
R.P.Sharma(sub)
Sreesanth(sub)

Yes thats just about right. Although I think the selectors prefer Kaarthik to Sharma. I also feel we will need to have a better look at the elder Pathan. He may just solve the problem of a long tail or of having to play just four specialist bowlers.

 

[biased indian]

Sachin
Ganguly
Uthappa
Yuvraj
Dravid
Dhoni
Pathan
Chawla/Harbhajan
Powar/(yousaf Pathan) if he is good bowler
Zaheer
R.P.Singh
Gambir(sub)
R.P.Sharma(sub)
Sreesanth(sub)

2 spinners depend where u play.....

we need to find a good Right ARM FAST BOWLER
or may be a fully fit munaf will do

 

[R_D]

Yes thats just about right. Although I think the selectors prefer Kaarthik to Sharma. I also feel we will need to have a better look at the elder Pathan. He may just solve the problem of a long tail or of having to play just four specialist bowlers.

Yeah.. he could be very handy with the bat lower down the order.. coming in for last 5 and 6 overs. He's strongly built and seems to have long hitting ability. Certainly could get 4 or 5 overs out of him.

 

[Perm]

Rohit Sharma is too good to be a sub IMHO...he seems to have great potential....he has to be in the side TBH.....in place of Ganguly!

Why? Yes, Sharma is a better fielder and scores his runs more quickly, but Ganguly has been consistently amongst the runs since his return, and done nothing to deserve being dropped.

 

[Perm]

yeah, but if Rohit can produce similar amount of runs as Ganguly, and offer more in the field, surely he should be considered?

Yes IMO. If, and only if, he can score as many runs as Ganguly should he be considered. I don't like teams picking an inferior batsman just because he is a better fielder.

 

[Richard]

I don't like teams picking an inferior batsman just because he is a better batsman.

Me neither, but that's a bit tricky to do.

(Think that needs a quick edit)

 

[Perm]

Me neither, but that's a bit tricky to do.

(Think that needs a quick edit)

Done

 

[honestbharani]

Badrinath should be right up there with Uthappa. Keep an eye on Pujara (Saurashtra), Rahane (Mumbai), Kohli (Delhi) and Srivastava (UP).

Awesome call adharcric.

 

[Daemon]

**** that's a good call. Wrong format though.

 

[honestbharani]

He basically called our 3,4,5 almost a generation ago. And FWIW, I think he did not mean ODIs in his post, but I maybe wrong.