IMO india is going to have tough time in the ODI series and also its the wrong time to declare the ODI squad. Dropping Ganguly and Dravid will prove costly to India esp the younger players dont have exp of playing in Australia. The young players are not used to australian climate and the pitch conditions. Dropping Dravid was shock to me. He is the only player who can consolidate the innings with can get runs at a fine pace in the ODI’s and no other player can do that. BCCI should re-think their strategy. They should have the mix of youth and experience and should not depen entirely on youth.
Declaring ODI squad before 4th test will definetly demolarise the big three and will definetly effect their performance in the all important test match. VVS Laxman should have been included in the ODI squad to gain the pshycological advantage.
Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla
Source cricinfo
January 20, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Laxman was never in India’s ODI scheme of things. And Test Cricket and ODIs are different ballgames and the Aussies won’t in the least be deterred by Laxman’s presence! They know him as grafter and one who plays a patient knock and that is out of scope in ODI Cricket.
Ditto Dravid…his time is up in the ODI team. Considering both his form and his decision to relinquish the captaincy for the sake of batting. Its obvious that he wants to concentrate more on batting and moreso as a Test batsman rather than an ODI one! Its time some newcomers were blooded for the ‘Wall’
Dada’s omission was tragic, considering his form last year. But he did have a poor run in the last ODIs he played.
June 22, 2008 at 3:12 pm
go fuck urself with ur fuckin old opinion on climate in australia, phsycological advantage of the useless laxman. fuck off