Indian squad for the WI tour

Indian Squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt), Yuvraj Singh (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Yusuf Pathan, Murali Vijay, S Badrinath, RP Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Kartik.

Pffft. Yuvraj as vice (Yuvraj in vice would be more like it) – a disaster waiting to happen. Nayar and Nehra are good choices, so too M. Vijay. India will need good pullers and hookers (!!) after the T20. But I don’t think the pitches will offer the same bounce as Lords did.

Absolutely no reason for Ishant to be on this 'tour'. Rest him for motherflunking sake.

Great to see Nehra back.

What is this about? Is India playing another T20 series in WI?

It's a ODI series that was arranged after we agreed to tour India in 2006 I think. Neither side really needs this tbh, we have a test series against Bangladesh straight after these ODI's and then we will be touring Australia a month or so later.

I think Gayle may well choose to have his surgery after the 20-20 WC has finished and therefore miss this series.

I think Dhoni at least might be glad of the trip.

About half of that Indian squad could have done with sitting this series out.

Why has Tendulkar been rested? He didn't play in the world T20, so it doesn't really make sense that he's rested but a guy like Ishant, who has played basically non stop cricket for a year, is included in the squad.

But at least they will be safely out of the country (India) for a bit, is what I meant.

Henry wrote:Why has Tendulkar been rested? He didn't play in the world T20, so it doesn't really make sense that he's rested but a guy like Ishant, who has played basically non stop cricket for a year, is included in the squad.

Aren't they mainly playing T20s and oh, the occasional ODI in the Caribbean? Not quite Tendy's thing.

I thought it was a 4 match ODI series.

it is. doesnt make sense to take a 36 year old who should be wrapped in cotton-wool for tests and the important odi series to a short odi tour thats halfway round the world. blood some youngsters instead

How badly the FTB got exposed against short ball in English conditions is beyond joke!!!

And then he shamelessly says in his intro that pull is his favorite stroke.

And Indian team would have rest of 72 days before its next int'l assignment which is Champions Trophy in SA, unless BCCI pulls something new out of bag.

How are the effigy making and burning businesses going ???...must be going gang busters after the T20 debacle..

lol@YUVI being made vice

Srikanth's TN bias is so evident in this team thats its not funny any more.

yeah. vijay and badrinath? wtf! a clutch of players who should have gotten in before those two. kris is proving quite dissapointing indeed

And thankfully, Nayar got selected this time around. He should have been there before that FTB (who as I've said and has been proved so many times) is simply not good enough to play at int'l level.

Whether Nayar gets to play is another matter.

Badrinath is a strange. Didn't do too much in the IPL either. Would have been the ideal opportunity to give Pandey some exposure.

horace wrote:How are the effigy making and burning businesses going ???...must be going gang busters after the T20 debacle..

Sorry to disappoint you. No effigies this time. People have learnt to not get too worked up over 'cricket' anymore it seems...

Wasn't there a report 2 days about effigies being burnt.

SG wrote:How badly the FTB got exposed against short ball in English conditions is beyond joke!!!

And then he shamelessly says in his intro that pull is his favorite stroke.

SG wrote:Srikanth's TN bias is so evident in this team thats its not funny any more.

The One wrote:yeah. vijay and badrinath? wtf! a clutch of players who should have gotten in before those two. kris is proving quite dissapointing indeed

Remember saying at the height of Raina's one day success under Dravid/Chappell that he would never be sucessful outside against good bowlers. 3 years down the line, he is not even good enough to play a 20 over sloggers match now outside. How bad is that?

Read in newspaper Vijay's stats last few 'games'. I agree Srikanth has lost the plot as a selector. How much has Pathan [I] played of late to be 'rested' btw?

My only real and actual concen in all this mess is that a hell lot of these unfit to play even a T20 carp players will be making a transistion in the test team in a couple of years time to replace the Tendulkar/Dravid/Laxman trio!

Pathan's been dropped. Harsh, but not many issues with that.

Batman wrote:

horace wrote:How are the effigy making and burning businesses going ???...must be going gang busters after the T20 debacle..

Sorry to disappoint you. No effigies this time. People have learnt to not get too worked up over 'cricket' anymore it seems...

that's good altho I expect Invader Zim will be disappointed that he has lost the opportunity to diversify into the Indian market