Thursday, October 07, 2004

India Paying for Stupid Team Selection

Not that it's new, but this time it's inexplicable. Why Chopra? The man hasn't even scored a fifty so far. So okay, we need him outside, when we need someone to blunt the new ball. But when Kaif was in such a good nick, or Agarkar who could easily outscore Chopra, and also ball a bit ;-), I don't understand the rationale of picking up Chopra.

Sehwag/Yuvi would have been a good opening pair, or we always could fall back to Patel. One additional bowler could come in handy on such tracks, where bolwers get really tired and disheartened. In absence of Sachin as an attacking bowling option, playing with four bowlers is something I don't understand. If you had to, at least bat with in-form batsmen.

Another (not new at all) problem with India is, to let the opponents get away when they have them nailed. And Indian nemesis are always the lesser known players in the team.

Indians are now with their back against the wall (the wall has crumbled!), and even if we manage to salvage a draw, we've let the momentum shift to the Aussies. We'll have to play out of our skins to keep the Border-Gavaskar trophy with us.

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