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Originally Posted by Arjun
As for Mumbai, their frontliners are either ageing (Nilesh Kulkarni and Amol Mazumdar) or on national duty (Tendulkar, Jaffer, maybe Powar), so their under-performing youngsters (Abhishek, Wilkin, Usman Malvi, A'vishkar Salvi, Marathe, Kukreja and the rest) have to step up.
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Mumbai will get the services of Rohit Sharma, right? That should be huge and they have another promising middle-order batsman in Indulkar (who hasn't really performed enough yet). The young seamer Waingankar should also be there and he'll be returning from a Border-Gavaskar Scholarship stint in Australia
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Originally Posted by Arjun
There's an excellent article on the Railways team on the CricInfo India front page. Clearly, this is one versatile team that's been living in conditions not fit for a top cricket side, for a team that's challenged the big guns of the North and West.
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The consolation here is that there aren't too many guys from Railways that have a realistic chance of making the national squad now. JP Yadav and Sanjay Bangar may still be useful all-rounders, but they are getting older and older and it's pretty obvious that the selectors would take younger options like Sharma, Kumar or even Sodhi over them any day. Amit Pagnis is younger, but he's not even in the top 10 as far as the openers' pecking order goes. Two guys who do matter are Murali Kartik (still ..) and TP Singh, but the former doesn't need to prove himself on the domestic circuit anymore and the latter is now an A-team fixture. Thus, as far as crucial players not getting to face the cream of the crop, this isn't as bad as it could be.