Dubious 15th member selection

The Indian world cup squad is announced and there are a few eye brows being raised over selection of few guys who have not played ODIs in 2 years time and none in home conditions. 

The most of the team chose itself and as expected there was a tussle for 2-3 spots only. 

The selection of Chawla and Ashvin would raise eyebrows. Pragyan Ojha played most of the ODIs before he was dumped for no good reason. He was not expected to play in SA where only one spinner plays and that luxury lies with Harbhajan Singh. But Ojha did a decent job in the run up to the SA tour and now he suddenly finds himself out of the favor from the selectors and the team management. 

Piyush Chawla's selection is equally baffling. He has not played an ODI in 2 years and is not expected to play in remaining 3 games before World Cup, so he is looking  to go to the World Cup with no match fitness and match practice.

There are just 7 batsmen and most of them will play in all games. There is no reserve keeper who also could have doubled up as a batsman.

What if injury happens to one of the 7 main batsmen? Who is the backup then? Rohit Sharma ? M Vijay? I am sure Srikanth has some plans for M Vijay, he must have told him something in Tamil that dude I shall get you in the team, let one of the batsmen get injured. 

What if MSD gets injured? Sehwag would be the captain in that case, but who would keep? Again Srikanth has a replacement ready. Dinesh BossDK Karthik.

Srikanth's croonies are well placed to be replacements for any one of the batsmen / keeper getting injured. 

Ashvin's case is debatable. It seems he might be benefited on the cost of Ojha. He has played 7 ODIs for India in 2010 and taken 14 wkts.  How much would he add up to the tally in the world cup remains to be seen.

Chawla has 28 from 21 games. There are plenty of part timers in the spin department namely Sehwag, Yuvraj, Raina and perhaps even Tendulkar. Not to forget Yusuf Pathan too. So why 3 spinners? Ideally Parthiv Patel should have been the part of the lineup in place of Chawla, so that he could have been a reserve batsman too and would double up as a backup to MS as well. 

But if Srikanth had mind and logic. He is roaming around all TV channels and cricket  websites saying this is the best Indian team and balanced to win a world cup in 28 years. Only time would tell.

Losers invite winning auction prices in IPL

Dinesh Karthik and Ravinder Jadeja are greater players than Saurav Ganguly, Brian Lara, VVS Laxman, Rahul  Dravid and even Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. 

Well this is  not what the fans think, but the franchisees think highly of the greats like Boss DK and Jadeja sir who have fetched $800000 and $900000 for themselves. 

And based on what is something nobody knows. One of them does not score more than 20 or 30 in a game out of 5 or 6. The other one was suspended for entire 3rd season of IPL and was dropped recently from the national squad after failing to turn out to be modern day Gary Sobers!!!!

Take a bow guys to King Jadeja and King Karthik!!!!

Virender Sehwag

Sehwag is bloody damn good. He is a different player from those boring openers around the world like Paravaraniratne or Taufeek Umar or Hafeez or Hashim Amla or Ali Cook.

He just does not give a freaking chance against him and when you get a chance, you dance high in the air counting how valuable his wicket is.

A 173, 1, 96 in a 3 Test series is freaking awesome. Playing as per conditions. Not a mindless slog as his opponents cast him to be.

Look at Micky Mouse Arthur, he is still getting nightmares from those 319 runs in Srikanth's Chennai that he has written in his autobiography.   He bloody ended career of bearded Saqi Mushtaq as his guru, the GOD did for Abdul Qadir back in 1989.

Sehwag is a unconventional batsman for the modern cricket which is full of players who like to poke out verbal diarohea in the public. Captains talk big things, the bowlers predict big things, an out of form Surd bowler takes himself to be an allrounder,a bowler good enough to bowl in nets at grade C club cricket thinks himself to be a test level bowler.

Sehwag is uncluttered in his mind. He adapts himself to the conditions, stays in a shell for time being and once he feels he has spent time good enough in the middle he comes back to his elements and then mercilessly slaughters the bowlers.

The opposition is so scared of his 100 that they feel they would go to mental asylum if he scores a 100. Evidence of this was evident in Lankan series when Randi bowled a no ball to him delibarately on behest of Dilli babu. Perhaps he forgot he plays for Delhi DareDevils and Sehwag is the king there.

Modern day cricket offers no good sight than Sachin and Sehwag in full elements. Those shots out of nowhere just give you a kick in the butt and you want more of Sehwag, Sehwag.

Just think how idiot Dilip Vengsarkar was who kicked him out and brought in Dinesh Karthik. Asshole.  Look where Bossadeshwar is and where Viru is.  DK is rotting in domestic cricket making single digit figures constitently and Viru, the king is making 100s consistently.

I second Ian Chappell when he says Viru is the most entertaining and rocking batsmen of modern era. And compare that with the likes of Sanga Nanga, Mahila Blabba, Amla Damla, YoYo Bobo. You would see where Viru is.

Champion batsman and a superstar.  Whaddyaplayer. Chuck de phatte Viru de bacche...

His 96 was one classic inning that has brought India back into the game in cyberabad after Zaheer and Bhajji rolled over Kiwis in the morning session.

Tracking Jadeja and Bosseshwar in Ranji

Here is tracking the usual culprits of Indian cricket in the premier domestic tournament.

I would be tracking the usual list of backdoor entrants and Srikanth's favorites along sides useless players in batting and bowling.

Beginning with the blog's favorite player:

Dinesh Karthik aka Bhosadeshwar:

The lad is Tamil Nadu captain and he continued to fail with the bat. He made just 4 off 10 balls and was once again out poking a ball outside off to the wicket keeper.  Failure again.

Subbu Dabrinath

Made 83 in the game against Assam and this innings wont be of much importance as there are 3 contenders for the no 6 spot in Test team.

Junior Cheekanth

Made 95 while opening the innings. So this indicates that he is going to replace Vijay as substitute player in Test team.  He could also return to ODI team as # 7 as he plays in the middle order for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.

Ravinder Jadeja

Most hated player in Indian cricket. Took 4/189 and made 40 runs. Enough.

Virat Kohli

Prospective Test player comes good with 173 in game against Bengal at Kotla and proves he is in good nick continuing ahead of the ODI century vs #1 team in world. Once he was out the Delhi lads lost 4 for 34 allowing Bengal tigers an entry again to the match.

Rohit Sharma

Fat, useless, junk.

Made 93 and then threw his wicket away to Sir Shree Ravinder Jadeja.

Che Pujara is not playing as he is on Indian duty.

Yuvraj Singh

Made 52 and 24 in the game against UP and those runs wont be enough to win his # 6 spot again in the Tests.

Irfan Pathan is not playing due to back injury.

That completes the day 1 of tracking the players I love and hate.

Challengers Trophy : India Green vs India Blue

India Blues have almost won a game must win against Greens by a huge margin and for sure they would take on the same team in the final now that Blues have won a game with huge margin. 

Fuckass's team is out almost. 

Fuckass as in Dinesh Karthik. What a chutiya player. 

Yuvraj continues to fail with the bat. Jadeja follows Yuvi Paji too. He took 2/42 and made 8 runs. Too much for an allrounder in making. 

What a player. I guess Yuvraj and Jadeja did not have Poha Jalebi in the breakfast in the morning. Thats staple diet for all Indori people. 

A man who stands tall amidst all this crap of Challengers (reason being Srikanth's croonies now occupy all the slots in Challengers teams) is Ajinkya Rahane. A scoreline of 84 and 95 must earn him a cap for India Australia ODIs if Challengers are a criteria at all. For selection of course. 

India blue have won and Chutiya's team is out of the tournament. 

No other players other than Rahane made any contributions to be good enough to count in the fray. Rahane should get a look-in to the XV, if not XI for now. 

Yuvraj has got one final chance to get some runs under his belt before team for ODIs is declared. With Jadeja failing, he should be out of the contention for good. 

And Chutiya should never ever play for any India team again. Get rid of this rat for good. Fucker.

Challenger update : India Red vs India Blue

Challengers trophy began today in Indore. Indore, the land of Pohe Jalebi holds a special place in my life. Its the best city to be in.

Ok enough on that.

It was India Blue vs India Red today and India Red won by 3 wkts.

India Blue made 9/251 in 50 overs.

Main contributors:

Rahane 84*, Manoj Tiwary 40, Saha and unfortunately Jadeja 58.

Sudeep Tyagi starred with the ball.  YP got 0/37 and Dinda got 2.

Player Watch:

Focus on India Blue :  Rahane, Yuvraj and Jadeja.

Rahane came good again in ODI after a 5 day game. 191 in Irani trophy followed by 84  off 95 balls. Fairly good.

Yuvraj Singh made 6 off 10 and lost the game in captaincy after a high of Irani trophy win.  Damn he was caught by Bosseshwar.

Jadeja made a  50 again in a losing cause. Does he have a premonition that he would lose, so he should make a 50. Loser.  1/42 with the ball.  Got Pathan with e ball.

India Red won by 3 wickets with 8 balls to go.

Contributors:

Yusuf Pathan with a fiery 63. 5 fours and sixes. Good stuff but one solo performance wont be good for him to regain his place in India team. Would prefer anytime over Jadeja though.

Cameos from Abdi and somebody Mishra.

RP Singh disappointed, Chawla got spank and Jaddu got 1/42.

Players Watch :

Focus on India Red : Bosseshwar, Kohli, Pathan

Kohli flopped, Pathan was usual self. Bosseshwar continued pretending he is playing Test cricket or some crap 5 day game vs Pudducherry club,  27 off 57 runs with just a 4.  What a crap player he is. Enough said.

Player who stands ou : Rahane, makes a good claim to a spot in Indian team. Few more innings of substance should see him knocking door strongly. But will Cheeka and Srini bother to look?

Evil Cheeka Brigade is back in Challengers

Srikanth declared the Challengers trophy squads for India Red, Blue and Greens. The CT would be held in Indore on October 8 - 11.

Who are the captains ? Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik and Subbu Dabrinath.

Wow. Dinesh Karthik and Subbu being the Chennai lads are now the captains of the squads. What the Butt.

To add more salt to the wound, Srini is now the BCCI chief in elect. So see more of Chennai duds in national team and if the coaches, captains dont follow suit, they would be fired. Getting MSD in CSK was a master stroke from Srini in 2007.

Lets have a look at each of the squad in detail:

India Blue: Yuvraj Singh (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Srivats Goswami, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary, Irfan Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, RP Singh, Yo Mahesh, Ganesh Satish, Tanmay Srivastava

Jadeja is part of the squad and so is Irfan Pathan. Who is Ganesh Satish? A search on cricinfo yielded 5 results none of which matched this lad.  Ok on wikipedia its suggested that he is part of Karnataka squad, he is an opener.

India Red: Led by Sri Sri Sriyut Wicketkeeper Shiromani Chennainandan Swaminandan Dinesh Karthikam. Alias KKD alias Boss DK alias Bosseshwar.  His credits and debits are well known. Before he could have left for a promotion tour of a Kolly movie, Srikanth pulled him out and assigned responsibilities of leading Lal India. Thats a behind door entry to India test team. Now if MSD injures further his finger, Bosseshwar would be back in the team.

India Green:  IPL Nandan, Champion Swamy Subramaniam Badrinath Maharaj who last played ODIs good 2 years back would lead a Hari India team. Credentials ? Zilch. But hailing from state of Srikanth and BCCI chief to be yielded dividends.  And guess who is the part of the team ? Mr Junior Sreekanth. Credentials ? One 40 odd in CLT20 and being son of Srikanth. 

Ashvin is part of this team means he wont be part of 2nd Australian Test too.  If he was so impressive in CLT20, what the butt is he doing in Challengers Trophy.

None in the 3 squads knows Usha Raje Stadium as better as Naman Ojha, but what he would speak, Dabri wont get it. 

Srikanth does it again. He has pushed his croonies in the teams and now with Srini coming over as BCCI prez we would see India becoming Tamil Nadu XI in future FTP tours.  And let me remind you not worthy players from TN XI, but useless and flop players who have some relations to this bigots would be in.  Dinesh Karthik and Dabri havent played well for India in ages, yet they keep coming in out of nowhere.

Even Wasim Jaffer and Ajit Agarkar did not get this many chances when Dilip Vengsarkar was around. At least Jaffer made some hundreds in that span of 2006-08, what about this 2?

What is Dinesh Karthik upto ?

Its been a long hiatus for Dinesh Karthik. He has not been selected for any of the national or tour game teams.  He has been hiding from the bloggers and the media. Perhaps he is planning a tie up with Rajni's to be released movie Robot.  He is going to dance and make some typical Rajni style statements in the promo of movie in interior parts of TN. Though he is not needed by Rajni himself as his name is good enough to pull a fan to the theater, but its being learnt that Dinesh Karthik replaced himself on his own in the promotion team.

Kris Srikanth's forced enforcements for him has given a mental block in Karthik's mind that he would forever be a replacement. He was hoping that he could replace Rajni in Robot, but Rajni is a huge shoe to fill in. His movie experience is more than what actual age of Karthik is.

So after snubbed by Srikanth and Rajni its being learnt that he is trying to fit himself in Simbu's team. Simbu is the same guy who acted in a movie called "Velu" something where he has to go fetch a medicine from US and he goes in and from US in a flash from rooftop of his house using escape velocity principle. Dinesh Karthik is experienced enough to jump and dance, so he is hoping Simbu would have some kind of role for him.

Its also learnt that Karthik has undergone special training from Kiran More on how to jump and he watches the famous mimick action of Javed Miandad for Kiran More act in 1992 World Cup.

Dinesh is also pissed at Vijay and Anni who have pipped him ahead of himself in the good book of Srikanth. Its being said that Srini has his hand on Vijay as enforced replacement in every team for any injured player. So that exclusive bragging rights have been granted to Vijay.  Dinesh has urged Srini to bid for him in the next IPL auction for whatever amount he can. Even 10,000 Rs contract would be good enough for Dinesh as he is desparate to prove to Srini and Cheeka that he is proud Tamilian who rotted in foreign Delhi...But Srini and Cheeka have not purchased Dinesh's desparation as Vijay and Anni are now next enforced replacements.

Freelancing in T20 Kiran Potdar way

Mumbai Indians got their first win in the CLT and this is not good enough to see them through to the semis even if they beat RCB in their final game.  The savagery of Kiran Potdar aka Keiron Pollard was sole reason why MI could win this one by 31 runs.

Besides Zaks and Harbhajan got wickets too.

Good for their morale, good for India (really?).

By the way Pollard's success in non international T20s suggest a disturbing trend :

"The T20 players play great in club / franchisee level T20s but they fail to deliver when they play for their country."

Have not heard Pollard succeed in ODIs and T20Is for West Indies.

He belongs to the category of Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Dabrinath.  So turning freelance is a good option for Vijay, Dabris and Rainas. Even Jaddukha and Dinesh Karthik can join this club and stop competing for slots in Indian team for ODI/T20/Tests.  The original freelancer Freddie Flintoff retired today from all forms of cricket including IPL.

I am sure CSK would retain following players in the upcoming IPL4 auction:

• Dabri
• Raina
• Anni
• Vijay

And bid for Dinesh Karthik to snatch Tamil player from cruel North Indian franchisee Delhi DareEvils.

Srikanth reveals his wisdom on IBN live

Nagpur, Aug 29 (PTI) BCCI selection committee chairman K Shrikant today said the preparations for the forthcoming World Cup were going smoothly and no one should worry about it. "The players are doing well, selectors and the BCCI are also doing their best," he said. "Every series is like a world cup for us, You (media) are talking about future we are talking about the present," Shrikant told reporters on the sidelines of annual awards function of Sports Journalists Association of Nagpur here today. "We are sporting talent and you don''t know who will emerge from behind to make a mark in the world cup," he said.

Citing examples of previous cup, Shrikant said Mohinder Amaranath, Kirti Azad and Madanlal were no where in the picture but emerged from behind the scene and did their best. Selectors are keeping an eye on all important Cricket matches be it under 19, Ranji and Irani trophy matches to pick up the right talent for our future cricket. Talking about injuries hit Indian team, Shrikant said injuries are part of the game and sometime it is difficult for right replacement at the eleventh hour. About yesterday''s match against Sri Lanka where India lost, Shrikant said,"we lost wickets at crucial time."

He however complimented youngsters for doing well.

Wow Mr Srikanth, you were smoking ganja? Youngsters did well ? Are you fucking joking ? You prove your incompetence and impotency dude. You dont know who would make the mark for World cup ? Thats why your step son Dinesh Karthik is still played in the team and he spits on you by making 0s ? What talent are you talking about ? BossaDk ? Rohit Sharma ?

India make it to the final.

So India lump into the final, actually they limp to the final. Riding on the back of a superb Sehwag ton and seamers performance, the Indians would fancy to take on Lankans and avenge the 209 ball defeat to them in the 2nd league game.

It was story as usual for Indians -- the batting collapsed except the skipper and the Sehwag factor. He was on a different pitch altogether. While wickets crumbled around him, he played his natural game and was the sole factor behind 223 on the board that gave something to bowl to the 4 prone Indian seam attack. Never in recent history I remember 4 pacers playing together and none of them was named Zaheer Khan and one of them was named Munaf Patel.

He took 3 wickets and got himself to into a slight contention for the world cup berth. Too early for to say anything for Munafa as he always deceives. Ishant Sharma bowled awesome and touched 140 mark consistently. He should get the confidence back which would be very vital for India's campaign to the World Cup.

There was no spinner on the squad. Specialist one though. There was JadduKha, but he leaked runs as he always does. So he met the expectations. He made 17 with the bat and gave 21 off the ball including 3 sixes. So is he worth calling an allrounder ?

Its like "Kasam BCCI ki khate hain, allrounder Jaddu ko hi banayenge".

His India career lives up to one more day. Nehra took 2, Ishant and Jaddu Kha 1 alongside Munaf and Praveen's 3. Praveen has been the bowler of the tournament. Forget all others, this man from Meerut has got quick breakthroughs in almost every game he has played. 2nd ball today, 1st ball in two games. Wish he could play Tests too though he's got a superb first class record. Only if Srikanth would go up north a little bit over Karnataka.

The batting was worrisome and the Rainas, Kohlis and Yuvis did themselves no favor. They need runs, they may either wait till the home series against Australia or try getting some runs in the final against Cheaters. Raina, UV would be part of the XI playing in World Cup and it would be only good for themselves and team if they are in runs. May be the seaming pitch of Dambulla has not helped them, but they would need to correct their run making spree soon.

Karthik made a duck, Jaddukha made a 17. Period. They wont be needed further this tournament end.

Few words for Sehwag. Actually i have no words for him. He is peerless, awesome and add up all adjectives you can, they'd still fall short of what Sehwag actually means to India. He has not been playing in the World T20s now and India has been crashing out too early than they should.

He has been peerless in Tests and doing the same in ODIs. Given the form Tendulkar is in this year, he and Sehwag should make an explosive opening pair in the world cup.

A pity that DBV kept him out of the team for full 2007-08 until he made a comeback in the Adelaide test in Australia. Since then he has been a different player altogether. In the same league of 4 Indian modern greats in batting.

Whaddaplaya.

So tis going to be another India SL final and the emotions would be high. I would love to see India roll back SL inside 100 and then have a look at Sangakara's reaction.

Tri series lessons!!

There have been 2 massive defeats in the ongoing tri-series in cheater land for India and that puts up serious question marks on the backup batsmen.

India is without 2 of its first choice batsmen in this series and their replacements have not fired any imagination at all.

Dinesh Karthik and Rohit Sharma have failed spectacularly in this series. And this should be their final series thus putting a closure on their aims to play the world cup. They simply have not shown any fire or attitude to grind in the middle and make runs. They dont have a plan B once they are cornered by lesser pacers of cheaterland.

Ravinder Jadeja should be seen for final time in the Indian blue for he is neither a bowler neither a batsman. Actually he is a nothing player. He should soon be replaced by Irfan Pathan, who even at his skewed pace of 120 kmph should be a better bat than RJ. Why selectors ignore IP and continue to have DK in the team is baffling. I doubt if Srikanth has got any vision for the team in the world cup. And if he has not then his head must be rolled soon than later.

Dhoni needs rest for he has appeared jaded and tired. His captaincy has appeared wanted most of the times. It seems the media trial has taken its toll on him.

Next series to follow is the CLT20 and this would be a good opportunity to try out Robin Uthappa and few others.

My line up for World Cup would be:

1.
Sehwag
2.
Tendulkar
3.
Gambhir
4.
Yuvraj
5.
Raina
6.
Dhoni
7.
Pathan I
8.
Zaheer
9.
Harbhajan
10.
Praveen
11.
Ishant Sharma
12.
Ashish Nehra
13.
Pragyan Ojha
14.
Virat Kohli
15.
Uthappa / Any new player discovered in next 2 months

No Jadeja, Karthik and Sharma.

Will bunch of jokers listen or will they continue to push regional players to the squad now that the world cup is just 6 months away and India do not play a ODI series until late October.

Wishing Karthik and Jadeja fail

The test series is over and the ODIs at Dambulla are back.  A relief that this is going to be the last leg of the series with Sri Lanka in last few years. Its been an unending spree of ODIs and Tests with the Island nation and that’s gone under skin of the normal sane cricket fans.

The Dravids, Laxmans and Tendulakrs are back in the rest mode. In come the usual culprits like Jadeja, Karthik and Ashvin amongst Nehra and Praveen Kumar.  For a change the team on the opposite side is going to be New Zealand without Bazz, Dan and Jesse.

The boring Lankans would be back to play the Dhoni warriors on 16^th, a day after Independence Day.

I don’t have any zeal to blog more on how useless Jadeja, Karthik are. I’d rather wish they fail and India lose so that selectors open their eyes and ground this folks for good. But that’s wishful thinking. I cant imagine the sorry plight of Karthik opening with Sehwag and thus keeping Virat Kohli who’s had a super ODI year 2010 out.

Sachin, Gambhir -- one of the 2 ODI openers for India are rested and Srikanth's one of the step cricketing sons Dinesh Karthik is back. And he is going to open with Virender Sehwag. Enough said. 

The pace attack looks shoddy even more and if this is the pace attack Srikanth plans to field in the ODIs leading to the world cup, GOD bless billions of India  fans. 

Like Suresh Kalmadi being ugly face of Indian sports, Kris Srikanth is ugly face of Indian cricket. 

And some anonymous dickheads fucking readers might say I am ugly face to Cricket blogging.  Sore cunts!!!

Cheeka is disappointed man today

Cheeka is disappointed man today : 

• No TN player is in the Indian team today playing Board Prez XI.
• Dinesh Karthik is unable to be drafted in the team as none of the batsmen is injured. In his training as fast bowler DK was bowling in a way the ball reached the other side of wickets in 3 bounces and every ball was termed as no ball. Srikanth fought hard with the local ump to allow the ball to be legal, but umpire was a Modi supporter. So DK cant be drafted in as fast bowler to replace Appam and Zaheer.
• M Vijay was shooed away by MSD. 
• Fringe players are failing to shine.
• TN does not produce fast bowlers as it produces film stars or DKs, Vijays so no pacer from TN cant play for India.

Cheeka is a disappointed man today. He is planning to talk to TA Sekhar and Dennis Lillie to train Aniruddh Srikanth in gully of his bungalow in Chennai in fast bowling. He reasons that when Pakistani fast bowlers can jump to international cricket straight out of gully cricket, why not his son. 

Cheeka is impatient man today.

India's XVI for Sri Lanka

India has declared 16 players for the yet another Test series vs Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.  Its going to be the 3rd series in 3 years between the two teams and hopefully for next 3 years there wont be any series between the 2 teams. 

The usual culprits (no pun) return to the test team making it the usual colored look. Dravid, Laxman, Ishant etc etc return for the Test series. 

Also returns is Wriddhiman Saha. Shocking. He was a dead as a dodo in the Nagpur Test vs South Africa and just after a Test, he returns. 

Dinesh Karthik was ignored. Good for this blog, not so for others. 

Also returns is M Vijay. Srikanth makes sure he keeps one Tamil Nadu player in every team he selects. Last series he had 2, Dabri missed out this time. 

If M Vijay was not present, Dinesh Karthik would have been. Guess the reserve slot (Wicket keeper or opener) is fixed for a Tamil Nadu quota. 

There are many tweets where people have questioned Srikanth's agenda for Chennai (Read Tamil Nadu).  I believe Srikanth has not chosen anybody outside Chennai too. I am not sure from where one Ganpathy hails, but Dabri, Vijay and Dinesh Kartik are sure Chennai duds. 

Dilip Vengsarkar was from Mumbai, but for Jaffer he did not push anybody from Mumbai who did not deserve a place in final XI. Srikanth is different. He needs his states players to serve a hidden agenda.  Guess he is in post for another 3 months and by September he would be out. I just hope he does not stick around to select World Cup team. Else it would be half Chennai Super Kinks team playing in Indian blue.

Yuvraj also returns. That means he was dropped on basis of fitness and not form. He did not play a single game to prove he was back in form. So as his latest tweet read "This elephant is back in fitness and raring to go" proves he assumes he is back in fitness. 

If thats true we wont know till he plays the 3 day game or the first Test.

If he fails, Suresh Raina is down there to pressurise him. If he keeps going he would benefit the national team. He is yet to hit a test 100 since Bangalore 100 against Pakistan. And a hundred or a big innings would be due for him to prove his worth in the # 6 slot. If not there are several other contenders -- Pujara, Raina, Sharma and Kohli to grab the place. Yes Aniruddha Srikanth is in there too. 

There are 3 spinners in the team. Mishraji, Ojhaji would be one of the spinners that would play alongside Bhajji. And its going to be one of Sreesanth and Ishant accompanying Zaheer in the new ball attack. Selection of Sreesanth is again questionable. What worthy he has done all this while is not known to us (at least). He seems to be another quota selection (making for loss of R Ashvin).

16 players for a 3 Test series is a bit too much. Usually teams name 14 players for a Test series and usually one or 2 players are released to play for their respective domestic teams.  We have not seen that happen for India and wont happen till the likes of Srikanth are around as egoistical regional headed selectors chefs.

MicroMax conquered

India won a final and Asia MicroMax cup. Wow. Good one. Both are rarity. Asia Cup after 15 years when none of this players debuted for India and when Azharuddin was still the biggest name in Indian cricket.  India won despite making a mess of final 10 overs scoring just 49 runs and losing 1 wkt.  Scarier part of it is to have hit just one boundary. And who hit it ? Our hero Ravinder Jadeja. 

Everybody got starts, none of them made big except Dinesh Bhai.  The 66 he made were at right time. Today the Test selection is due and he would know that one innings of substance means his place for next series is secured. So wont be surprised if he makes the cut into the Test side as well as backup keeper.  Not only Chennai-ites are fan of Dinesh Bhai, but also Chinese and Anon readers who don’t forget to shower their piece of praise in the comments section.

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina got starts, none made big. 2 of this 3 would go out when Yuvraj and Sachin return.  Amazing to see Jadeja being given chances after chances despite failing with the bat. He was a batsman who could bowl, now he is a bowler who never bats.   He would continue to play and in all probability would be part of World Cup 15. 

Bowling was good. Nehra, Praveen and Zaheer were among wickets. Fielding was decent too.   Nehra showed glimpses of that memorable Durban night of World Cup 2003.

All in all good win for MSD who grabbed 3^rd multinational trophy in as many years (CB in 2008, Compaq in 2009 and Asia Cup in 2010).

Hopefully World Cup in 2011.

Gearing up for another drubbing

It’s the final day and yet another ODI against Sri Lanka. Yawn.  Limited overs watching in India seeing India play is a painful experience this days.  Half of the side is incompetent and incapable. Most of the lot of that half are either in the team due to regional affiliation to the selectors or due to the over confidence in their limited ability from the coach and the captain.  The remaining lot are just putting in formal efforts to bowl 10 overs just cos they got to.

A lot has been said on few players like Jadeja and Karthik who continue to play every tournament India plays despite their failures and chances provided to them.  No other players in recent memory have got chances as many as this 2 players. Yet they continue to baffle us all with their failures.

Dinesh Karthik fails most of the time he plays and when he succeeds never goes past 50.  Are we getting him in the team to make 20s and 30s. There was a time in Indian Test cricket history in 2000s when one of the Fab 5 – VVS Laxman continued to make 20s, 30s and 40s. He was dropped. This was after he had made miraculous 281 vs Australia in the greatest Test series India ever played.  If Laxman can be dropped, then who the heck is Karthik? Well he is a Chennai-ite hailing from same locality of Srikanth (some unpronounceable locality).

Jadeja is another player hyped and low on substance.  MSD feels he is one player who can be turned to an all-rounder.  A player with a bowling average of 44 and batting average of 33.08 is an all-rounder, that’s baffling. Contrast that to Irfan Pathan who has bowling average of 30s and batting average of 25+ in ODIs. Yet he has not played any game since Feb 2009.  Any day Irfan would be a better all-rounder than what Jadeja could turn out to be( I am damn sure he would never graduate as an all-rounder). His innings in Asia Cup against Pakistan and Sri Lanka depict his limitations as player and moreso his mental approach to the game. Against Pakistan he was not sure what he was trying to do to Ajmal and against SL he began the collapse which turned out to be a hat trick for Maharoof – a player not even regular of SL side.  He bowls and bowls economically, but does not take wickets. What’s the use ? Do we need a restrictive bowler or do we need a bowler who can take wickets ? If Pragyan Ojha could bat a bit, he would be better “all-rounder” than Jadeja.

Fast bowling is another worry for India. Zaheer Khan, Pravin Kumar and Ashish Nehra do not sound fearsome. That’s an ordinary attack. Any one can hit them for runs. Ashok Dinda, high on fire, zero on wickets. He would glare everybody who hits him for fours, but he won’t try to give them a reply a fast bowler typically does – get him out. Dinda sees eye to eye and when it comes to bowling chickens out. Another Sreesanth, just that a little less hyped up and less on theatrics.

Suresh Raina is yet to achieve the consistency of a finisher. He was damn consistent in IPL. But in ODIs he is far away from it. This scorelines wont get him near to the Test spot which is up for grabs for upcoming SL series.  Ditto for Rohit Sharma.  He continues to be careless and temperamental in batting.  He plays his strokes, he has all shots in the book, but he does not have patience.  This players are high on IPL run lists, but low on ODI runs for India.

I am not sure if this players would be around for long to play for India with the intensity as demonstrated by the seniors and their prodigies – Sehwag, Yuvraj,  Harbhajan etc.

Saurabh Tiwary is another passenger on the tour with no chances provided to him.  Ditto for R Ashvin who is warming the benches.  He is being ignored in attempts to give as many chances to Ravinder Jadeja who is ……………

A Mithun, N Ojha, SST,  R Ashvin are in the company of those players who did not get any chance to be in the middle except carrying drinks or towels. In short they were just passengers. No doubt that next series India plays, this players would be dumped and the culprits would continue to play and India would continue to lose.

MSD says Jadeja is a specialist spinner and most usually as 5^th bowler after 3 pacers and one spinner (or 2 pacers + 2 spinners). IMO there is no need to play Jadeja as an allrounder. Play an extra batsman and have Sehwag, Yuvraj, Raina, Sharma bowl quota of 10 overs.   

Something like this lineup would be good:

Tendulkar, Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Raina, Kohli / Sharma, Harbhajan, Zaheer, POjha / PKumar, I Sharma / A Nehra

The inconsistency just boils down to 2 slots – 6 and 7. With Dhoni being the floater and given the match situations – Dhoni, Raina  and Kohli / Sharma can bat at 5,6 and 7.   Once Uthappa is fixed he could be one good player at 7 too.

Meanwhile for now lets enjoy another drubbing at the hands of character rich Sri Lankan team.

Fuckass Boss DK

I hate to see Dinesh Karthik's swollen face on the TV and as i said previously I wont watch any game the fuckass plays.

Enough said.

T2OIs with Zimbabwe : Who cares

In the euphoria of World Cup football and Asia Cup we forgot that there is a T20I set to follow with Zimbabwe and this team would play 2 times more.

So to save some pride we hope that the Indians would win at least something against Zimbabwe and end this disastrous tour on a decent note. 

One more time for Bossa DK and YuM Veejay to take strike for India and then they are back to play for local sides in gullies of Madras. So guys hit it big. Make 50s so that Srikanth would fit you back in the team should one of the players get injured. 

Go make hay in the sun while it shines. Who knows you might never turn up for India again.