In these days of "protocol" defence, Cheeka offers a refreshing change. When asked about not picking enough reserve batsmen, he admitted that it was a mistake and added like only he can - "Generally we have an opener, a middle order batsman, a spinner and a seamer in the reserves. But in this Test match alone we thought we would encourage two more fast bowlers. But to our bad luck, you had one batsman walking out." No stupid justification of settled batting line up, conviction on the selected replacements' ability, providing greater flexibility in choosing the bowling line up to the captain - none of that non-sense, just a casual bad luck. Man, he simply speaks like he bats...Come to think of it, that's all that it was - bad luck.
Sehwag seems to be just a far superior version of Cheeka both on and off the field!
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Too much is being made of selection issues.. Whats the guarantee laxman will score in the next match. We had a bad match and steyn bowled an extra-ordinary spell. We should rather accept we played badly and move on !!
ReplyDeleteMedia is looking for sensationalism and its there more in the selection news than the players performance !!
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Exactly... too much is been said about the selectors and the worst thing is that they keep telling they missed Laxman a lot, the truth is we missed out Rohit a lot and no one talks about that. Anyways as Krish said, its pure bad luck frm Rohit's side and ofcource SA were on top the game no matter who played in Indian 11. I guess even Dravid wld hav got a beauty frm Steyn.
ReplyDeleteBut coming to the selectors, even they made a blunder by picking Saha in plc of Karthik or Parthiv Patel. Wer did this guy come frm suddenly??? He was back-up keeper accepted, but is he the next best keeper to Dhoni in India currently???? Selectors shld justify their selection to some extent atleast, poor guy Saha, his international carrer is over in a blink of an eye and all his dreams crashed. Nvr again will he be called for even at the worst case.
They shld play Karthik always in their side and can hav him a AB for India, in case Dhoni gets injured he can be the keeper :)
I just came across this post in cricinfo by Harsha,
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I liked this line about Raina's selection in the team,
"He should eat his cake very quickly for fear that it was delivered to the wrong address!"
To some extent this is very true in Raina's case. Wonder he has been picked for the only reason of having played more ODI's than other youngsters.