Good job Arvind. Imagine approach by Hayden, Gilly, Smith and Jayasurya vs that of our Saurav Ganguly. All the others try to score century or better because this is one day cricket, we need people who are fit to play one day cricket and score at a good pace. Imagine if Australia had failed the way India had in world cup, what would be the result ? Ricky Ponting would have lost his captaincy and 5 or 6 players would be dumped for fresh blood. So, we need to do the same thing for Indian cricket.
Let Dravid be the captain for the next year or so before he can do the knowledge transfer etc to Yuvraj or some other youngster. From the current Indian team we need to remove the following players from our ODI team: Ganguly, Tendulkar, Harbajan, Shewag, Agarkar, Dhoni and Irfan Pathan. Retain Yuvraj and Dravid because they are very good batsmen and can play in any surfaces. After a year if Dravid plays like Ganguly or Tendulkar then sack Dravid from ODI team, there is no place for emotions or regionalism when selecting the indian team.
Let Dinesh Karthik be the keeper, bring in Piyush Chawla (going by the initial reports he is a good bowler and not bad with bat even, a great asset at number 7), Manoj Tewary (A guy who always stands alone and shines ), Rohit Sharma, Badrinath, retain Uthappa, Zaheer, Ranade Bose, Munaf, Ramesh Powar, Sree Santh, pace bowling youngster from Kashmir (dont know his name). This should be a good team to begin with, I have not added Raina or Kaif in this because they have been given enough chances, so, let us know give chance to others.
Bottom line, we may loose a few matches to begin with, but on the long run we will be successful. Also, I read about Zee TVs talent search program, we can bring some ppl from that cup too.
Dada, Tendulkar, Dravid, Harbajan should be retained in our test side.
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by jose ferns on Apr 04, 2007 12:51 AM Permalink
In the match against bermuda..Leverock took an outstanding catch..and another one to dismiss shewag..but the same type catch , ganguly dropped!! i mean he did not attempt it..if ganguly fielding was pathic..his running between wickets was worse!! Does this chap can lead india???? He should be thrown in the Bay of Bengal..
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by karan on Apr 03, 2007 10:44 PM Permalink
nice to see someone following ranji cricket, but why do u want to lose for one year when u can win with dada as captain. all u have to do is change the captain he will do the rest with the same team, with or without a coach.sheer arrogance thatz his forte. dont u ever forget that dada is the best captain u had in ur cricketing history
