Image via WikipediaHarsha Bhogle has written about the No.7 slot for the Indian team - very valid point about the absence of a proper allrounder (preferably a pace-bowling one) at No.7.To get an idea of the strategy that might be on the mind of the team management, one has to look at the players who have represented the country at the ODI level in the last year or two - more specifically the list ...
The final Indian team for the 2011 World Cup will be picked by the selection committee on January 17. 15 players will be picked which means an equal 15 will have to be dropped from this list.The 30 probables selected were as follows:Openers - Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, M Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane. Dhawan and Rahane have played no part in the on-going serie...
We are the Champions of the World - Courtesy Castrol Cricket SiteThe Indian team has been partying hard from the night of April 2nd - once MS Dhoni hit the winning six. All the team members played in a minimum of two matches in the tournament - no one was Valson-ed (for all the young bloggers, Sunil Valson was the lone player in the 1983 tournament who did not play a single match). A loo...
So contrary to the recent preparations, India have gone without Rohit Sharma, well done to them. They’ve gone with three spinners - Piyush Chawla the legspinner and Ravichandran Ashwin to go with Harby’s off-spin.
There was no place for Rohit Sharma, who should and will be disappointed, as the only back-up batsman India have picked is Yusuf Pathan.
Well, well. So there were surp...
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