Indian Cricket Team ... Road Ahead

Yet another 'Team Selection' and few more surprises.
Atleast this time thanks to media we know whats going to be final list of cricketers for SA Test Series.

More details here.

Finally we have realized that its only with a good mix of experience and youth we can be winning consistently. (Australia has been doing this for last 2-3 decades)
Without Ganguly the middle order lacked the much needed experience and was more tentative for crumbling time and again.
Simple reason. When Ganguly was around The Wall - Dravid was batting in the middle order most of the time or atleast comes one down and hangs around till the end.
We did win matches without Dada. but most of them in sub-continent.
WI Series should have been ours as many tend to forget the closeness of 4/5 matches we played there.
In the absence of Dada, Yuvraj was taking up the responsibility and he was in ominous form during those stretchful victories of our team.

Having said all this, its good to see finally the Selectors 'realized' the need for experience and reverted back to Ganguly and Laxman.

Is it too late for his recall?
May be, considering we have only two series before the World Cup.
But Dada is known for bouncing back and i wish like his every other fans, he grabs this opportunity.
Its a known fact that Greg and Ganguly not in good terms.
But exclusion of someone from the team should not be done at the cost team's progress.

The yard stick used for Ganguly actually applies to many including Sachin.
But only Ganguly felt the heat and got the axe. Of course there are reasons behind that act which in long-term perspective was looking good. But it was too much of experimentation we were doing.

Not many realize that out of the nearly 10000 ODI runs Dada scored 4-5 of these thousands had been scored at a quicker pace than Sachin.

Without diverting the topic from being Dada Vs Sachin or Dada Vs Greg lets welcome this move of inducting both VVS and Ganguly into the team.

The best move is announcing VVS as deputy to Rahul.
Oh Boy ! he deserves this recognition long time back. So does Kumble.
I simply wonder where does Laxman gets his motivation for making those big hundreds after being ill-treated time and again and dropped on some non-sense facts.
Its very clear message to Sehwag not to take things for granted.
So it is for Dhoni with Dinesh Kaarthick around.

Very good moves and like millions of fans in this country i hope the fortune starts tilting towards us.

Final points on few need-of-the-hour issues.
- improving the pitches we play our domestic cricket. Let it be bouncy, turning, with green grass etc.
- making cricketers' pay to be linked to their performance. (Increase their current pay if they perform well).
- Making Selectors as paid ones and make them also accountable for team's success.
- Please please please let the media allow coach and captain to do what they intend to do. Dont keep poking on wherever they go or whatever they do. They know what to do. Thats why they are there.
- And support from all of us to the team when they are actually going thru bad phase like this.