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Endless list of potentially talented rookies - but alas!
by Shahenshah on Jun 16, 2007 12:27 AM

where do I start ? hmm - Vivek Razdan (he was quick and rated high by Allan Border then in the early 1990s, but thanks to one Mr.Bishan Singh Bedi, Razdan was a complete burnout during a New Zealand tour), Subroto Banerjee, Atul Wassan (most athletic and fit looking bowler I have seen), Salil Ankola, David Johnson (this dude from Bangalore, played in two series or so, and was content with the money he made and decided not to stretch himself any further - his short-pitched bowling was both his speciality and undoing!), Dodda Ganesh (shooting star, now-you-see-now-you-dont), Debashish Mohanty (genuine swing bowler, but a dummy on drier, flatter conditions, and then came the self-destructive full toss/long hop and his career was over, just when it started to blossom), Abey Kuruvilla (Mumbai boy, did well in his debut series, but not to be seen later), two shooting stars, viz., Tinu Yohanan (from Kerala ?), T.Kumaran (from Chennai), Ashish Nehra (most injury prone bowler even at his prime - he had ankles made of paper and sawdust), L.Balaji (Pakistan specialist, good only against Pakistant, forever recovering from some injury), Irfan Pathan (lethal 3 years ago, but now, huffs-n-puffs like a grandpa, to even get his natural rhythm) - there are other names I cant recall offhand, but the bottomline is this: WE JUST DO NOT PICK BOWLERS AND GROOM THEM FOR THE LONG RUN - and this is my prophecy: Ishant Sharma will shine in a couple of international seasons, but thanks to our dead pitch

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