Asia Cup should be rechristened to Dambulla Cup as all games would be held in the single venue. More to do with the reconstruction of typical Colombo grounds for the WC'11.
Who is going to watch this miniscule tournament when World Cup fooshball is on in South Africa.
I liked Aravinda DeSilva's first press conference on reasons behind every player selection and exclusion. Though his tactical reasons to exclude Ajantha Mendis were a googly, but the logic behind dropping Jayasuraiya, picking up Maharoof and sending centurion Dinesh Chandimal to Australia was awesome.
He also said he would talk to every player to explain the reason behind inclusion / exclusion and what plans selectors have for him in long run.
Thats contrasting with our joker chief -- Mr Srikanth. He chose Asia cup team and did not bother to inform why Yuvraj was dropped or why M Vijay was dropped despite hailing from Chennai and doing good in EyePeeYelllll.
Mr Srikanth has just one vision -- have guys from Chennai da to crowd in the national team and try to win Borld Cuppa for Tamil Nadu. Not India mind you.
Thats the reason why Dinesh Karthik keeps coming in after sitting out one tour and failing with bat / ball / gloves in domestic cricket or even EyePeeEllll.
R Ashvin goes to Sri Lanka, Naman Ojha is dropped. Ashok Dinda stays on while Pankaj Singh, other one match bonder is dropped. Dinesh Karthik is out for Asia Cup but would return for SL tri-series with New Zealand.
Subbu Dabrinath is kept on stand by should one of Rohit / Kohli get injured or be out of form. Makes sense. Chennai is nearest Indian city to fly in Dambulla rather than flying anybody from say Mumbai or calling top performer from England to SL. Or who knows Dinesh Karthik would fly in.
He made a blanket statement on Zimbabwe fiasco. He says he now knows who played and who did not. Unfortunately he refuses to see DK and MV in that list. He refuses to give chances to out of favor seamers like Ishant Sharma or Irfan Pathan to go and play in A team in England and prove something to earn a recall in national team.
He got A Mithun travel to Zimbabwe when R Vinay Kumar was injured in Zim. Who was replacement to A team ? Some Ganpathy. Another lad from Tamil Nadu, supposedly an allrounder.
Guys like Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Manish Pandey have been amongst runs in domestic circuit and in A series too, but they aint given any chance. And who are given ? Yusuf, jinxed Jadeja and DKMV.
Where are other players who play in Plate league but fail to make it to the team cos Chief joker refuses to look upwards beyond Sahyadris.
This all examples show how good vision Kris Srikanth has. Something he should learn from Aravinda DeSilva.
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