Thursday, January 24, 2008

Dirty politics in indian cricket?

Where is our indian cricket team heading from here.I mean regarding the selection of ODI team for tri-series involving Australia and Srilanka.Is the ugly politics peeping its head in the cricket game also.

Let me put u straight words.There are many mystry questions are unanswered in indian cricket team and the topmost is.

1.On what basis a player is selected?
Lets analyse the selection of ODI team in australia after each player 's performance in tests.

Dhoni(captain)
He can score 10,20 or even ducks in all the tests but not worried about his place in ODI , just because he is captain.And now he has grown to such an extent that he can break the career of dada who proved himself in ODI and tests. He can forget but dada fans and indian cricket lovers would not forget that it was dada who introduced this useless batsman to the world.

Yuvraj(Vice Captain)
He hardly scores runs in double digit in test seies but finds a place in ODI.Why is he in test team, I don't know.He is good in ODI but very poor in test cricket.He is spoiling test cricket.

Tendulkar
He will always be there in all the format of the cricket wheter he scores centuries or ducks.Simple reason is he is the heart of millions of fans.He deserve that.But sometimes I think he has made all the records which no one can think of equalling in near future.So why he is not giving his place to a youngster.

Remember sachin was hardly 16 when he entered into indian cricket.So it is understood that one can break sachin records only when he makes debut in 15 years atleast.

Uthappa
He is a deserving and hardworking cricketer.He has the potential to enter test cricket if useless player like yuvraj makes a way for him. I assure u if provided enough chances uthappa can be better batsman than yuvraj.

Sehwag
Sehwag has his own way of batting.Thats his strength , but sometimes thats his enemy too.He never plays according to the situation.That not always clicks.But after a year sehwag returing to indian cricket is a welcome move.He is also a useful off break bowler.

Gambhir
This guy has lot of talent but his inconsistency makes him out of the team often.He can improve his technique and grow steadily.No surprise on his selection after his dream run in ranji matches.

Suresh Raina
A few years ago he was the hero of the nation along with dhoni after few winning knocks against pak in pak.But suddenly he disappeared from team.Now I don't know why is there in team.

Irfan Pathan
He is a guy who always performs well but the nation expects more from him.One cannot 5 wickets always.He is a emerging allrounder.i always felt he is a better batsman than a bowler. he should be there in both forms.

Sreesanth
A new bowler in india who equals in aggression with australian team.He is a guy who can turn around a match with his wicket taking abilities.But i feel he is little too expensive.But always have belief that he can be a match winner.He needs to be in team.His presence makes the entire team a new feel.

Bajji
He is low on his confidence but i feel he should be given rest and allow him to rethink cricketing skills and comeback with bang.Not happy on his selection.

Dinesh karthik
I always felt he should replace dhoni in both forms cricket(atleast test cricket).He is a 100 times better batsman than dhoni.He is classical batsman.But he failed to prove himself in previous series against PAK.This made his selection in ongoing test series a difficult one.But I assure u that he will gain his form soon.

Other players
I don't know about newcomers like VRV.singh, piyush chawla, pankaj singh amd other guys.

Now lets come to the original topic.The dirty politics.This was proven and seen with non-selection of dada, dravid and laxman.

Ganguly
He is the best india batsman in both ODI and Test cricket for year 2007.But he is not in indian team due to this dirty politics.To be frank I was never a hardcore fan of dada as a batsman.But I liked and admired his captaincy which made india to one of the top teams in cricket.

But due to disaster batting failure dada lost his place in side.But arrived to cricket with a bang.I became fan of him after his performance in 2007. A guy scoring 1000+ runs in both ODI and test cricket in 2007 with few wickets in his name is not in indian team.But we people never worry about that.I don't know why people protest for this anywhere.

I am 1000% sure that dada will comeback again.This time very strongly. If ganguly is not there in ODI even after might performance in last year, then why the hell Dhoni is still in test cricket.BCCI plz answer this?

Dravid
He was captain a few month's back now don't find himself in the ODI team.I personally feel dravid should not have been trated this way.He is so called Mr.Wall in india batting lineup.Now the wall is shattered in a few month is span time. He will find it difficult to find place for himself in ODI with few bunch of young batsman have already proved them.

Kumble
To be frank kumble is not getting the same kind of respect even after reaching 600 wickets.A bowler is always a bunny in indian cricket.We indian are ignoring his mighty records. In a recently shown stats kumble made india won in 41 tests picking 279 wickets so far.

His winning percentage is almost double of sachin.But still sachin in treated as God of indian cricket.But atleast lets respect kumble as a human.

All the best to india cricket. India should always win in all the matches. Chak de india.