I am just wondering why Team India should tour SriLanka now, the team has got the wonderful chance to take a break and re-group for the tough NewZeland tour. BCCI did the right thing by requesting for an additional test in NewZeland and that is justified but i don't understand why we should be touring SriLanka after we have played a full 5 ODI series just a few months back.
SriLankan board is bankrupt and hence would want their team to play all through the year to make ends meet. Srilankan Cricket administrators proved that some how they need to make money, they have sent their full team to Zimbabwae and Bangladesh just to make sure that they get some money to run cricket. Their fill up for India in Pakistan is also to help them and Pakistan board to make some money. BCCI is one of the richest sports body and why would India need to tour SriLanka now.
This break would have been great if the probables and the team management grouped for a camp and prepared well for the NewZeland tour. Team India has not done well in NewZeland in the past and we need some special performances to make sure that we do well, if not great. We must basically get used to the icy whether in the island and batsmen in purticular should get used to the natural big swing in the island. It would have been ideal for the team to practice in chilly conditions like Dharmashala (the facility in the stadium is just too good to conduct a camp).I think playing this short 5 ODI series is not going to help our fight to get to the top of the test rating, event though these rating business is a scrap (hope you read the joke of top 20 all time greats rated by the ICC). Team India is the best balanced team now in all formats of the game and hope BCCI shows some respect to the players and help the team to reach the top.
Agreed that BCCI has done a lot to its players in terms of monitory stuff but when it comes to planning the schedule it has always been behind big money and not friendly towards the players. Its a long season ahead for Indian players, after NewZeland all the players have to play the cash rich IPL in the hot summer and get ready for the ICC 20-20, then get ready for the series against WestIndies. I am sure none of the senior players would have been willing to travel to SriLanka now. The other reason for their reluctance will also be the war in SriLanka.
On the team to Srilanka, its a good move to bring in the young R.Jadeja he has been wonderful ever since we got to see him the Under-19 worldcup,IPL and in now in the Ranji Trophy. I would have liked to rest Sachin,Ishant and ZaheerKhan for this ODI series, these players full fitness is critical for TeamIndia's success in NewZeland. I was praying that L.Balaji should not be rushed into the international side for ODI series and should be picked for NewZeland, as he is a natural swing bowler. I am sure Cheeka should have played his part in making sure he gets the right chance. I am not sure how Irfan pathan is being picked for the series with such poor performances, cheeka must be pleasing a few other selectors and may be even Dhoni who is very particular in making sure the players part of that historic T20 world cup team should some how be in his team.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Pragyan Ojha
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Back to cricket, its the same old story from the TamilNadu Ranji Team, but i should say this young team did well as a team and i hope this team if stays together can scale great highs.
It was a spirited run for the young and talented TamilNadu team to have reached the semi-final of the Ranji Trophy and my congratulations to W.V.Raman and Team.
On way to the semi-finals there were lot of good performances from TamilNadu. Abhinav Mukund, ArunKarthick, M.Vijay, Balaji and Ashwin and a brilliant run with the bat from the captain Dhinesh Karthick. In spite of their brilliant performances in the league phase and some good knocks in the knock out stage TN was not able to beat the UP side in the exciting finish for the first innings lead in the semi-finals.
After such a great opening stand of over 150+ and at one stage 280+ for 2 to being bowled out for 445 is very unfortunate and the middle order just did not click to put a big score on the board to take advantage of batting first. Badrinath and Karthick the senior most players in the squad with over 50+ on end of day 1 and starting a fresh day should have gone further to come up with big hundreds and raise a big total but the quick dismissal did not go well with the other middle order batsmen. Vidyuth has not been in good form through out the season and failed again but for Dhandapany breezy 67 it would have been very difficult to have posted the respectable 445.
It was even more disappointing to have let the game to the opponents after taking the crucial wickets of T.Srivastav,Raina,Kaif early and let the totally out of form middle order to score big to chase the score only reflects that the young team was not confident and did not believe in them. I am not taking the credit from Shukla and Parvinder for such brilliant performance in the middle but only trying to put things in perspective. Karthick has been pathetic behind the stumps and his lapses in the crucial junctures of the game in the semi-finals made things easy for the UP batsmen.
UP batsmen also exposed TN bowling and Ashwin was not effective in the batsmen friendly wicket and TN had to press the seamers for more overs and that did not go well in the context of the game. Balaji has been great through out the season with some brilliant performance and should been looking back to be in the big league. I feel he will make it to the Indian Squad for the seamer friendly NewZeland tour.
In summary its the same old sad story that TN fights to reach the semi-finals but fails to move ahead and win the coveted Ranji Trophy.
Back to cricket, its the same old story from the TamilNadu Ranji Team, but i should say this young team did well as a team and i hope this team if stays together can scale great highs.
It was a spirited run for the young and talented TamilNadu team to have reached the semi-final of the Ranji Trophy and my congratulations to W.V.Raman and Team.
On way to the semi-finals there were lot of good performances from TamilNadu. Abhinav Mukund, ArunKarthick, M.Vijay, Balaji and Ashwin and a brilliant run with the bat from the captain Dhinesh Karthick. In spite of their brilliant performances in the league phase and some good knocks in the knock out stage TN was not able to beat the UP side in the exciting finish for the first innings lead in the semi-finals.
After such a great opening stand of over 150+ and at one stage 280+ for 2 to being bowled out for 445 is very unfortunate and the middle order just did not click to put a big score on the board to take advantage of batting first. Badrinath and Karthick the senior most players in the squad with over 50+ on end of day 1 and starting a fresh day should have gone further to come up with big hundreds and raise a big total but the quick dismissal did not go well with the other middle order batsmen. Vidyuth has not been in good form through out the season and failed again but for Dhandapany breezy 67 it would have been very difficult to have posted the respectable 445.
It was even more disappointing to have let the game to the opponents after taking the crucial wickets of T.Srivastav,Raina,Kaif early and let the totally out of form middle order to score big to chase the score only reflects that the young team was not confident and did not believe in them. I am not taking the credit from Shukla and Parvinder for such brilliant performance in the middle but only trying to put things in perspective. Karthick has been pathetic behind the stumps and his lapses in the crucial junctures of the game in the semi-finals made things easy for the UP batsmen.
UP batsmen also exposed TN bowling and Ashwin was not effective in the batsmen friendly wicket and TN had to press the seamers for more overs and that did not go well in the context of the game. Balaji has been great through out the season with some brilliant performance and should been looking back to be in the big league. I feel he will make it to the Indian Squad for the seamer friendly NewZeland tour.
In summary its the same old sad story that TN fights to reach the semi-finals but fails to move ahead and win the coveted Ranji Trophy.
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