GermanShepherd
School Boy/Girl Captain
India squad: Sourav Ganguly (capt), Rahul Dravid (vice-capt), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Venkatsai Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Ajit Agarkar, Anil Kumble, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Sridharan Sriram, Dinesh Karthik.
This squad was named for the Jubilee game against Pakistan next week.
Nehra and Agarkar shouldn't be there -- time to give the likes of Bhandari/Paul/Salvi a chance.
The inclusion of Laxman and Yuvraj is also questionable as is Kumble whose time in ODI cricket IMO is over. The Dravid as keeper experiment must also stop.
I think India need to be more innovative with their ODI setup/strategies.
The seven batsman 4 bowler tactic is just not workable now.
A squad like the followng would be much better:
1) Ganguly
2) Tendulkar
3) Kaif
4) Dravid
5) Sehwag
6) Powar/Joginder
7) Dinesh Karthik
8) Pathan
9) Zaheer
10) Harbhajan
11) Salvi
12) Murali Karthik
Your'e taking a calculated gamble on the likes of Joginder,Powar, Karthik (wk) -- but I think its well worth the risk. Some imagination and flexibility is the required now.
This squad was named for the Jubilee game against Pakistan next week.
Nehra and Agarkar shouldn't be there -- time to give the likes of Bhandari/Paul/Salvi a chance.
The inclusion of Laxman and Yuvraj is also questionable as is Kumble whose time in ODI cricket IMO is over. The Dravid as keeper experiment must also stop.
I think India need to be more innovative with their ODI setup/strategies.
The seven batsman 4 bowler tactic is just not workable now.
A squad like the followng would be much better:
1) Ganguly
2) Tendulkar
3) Kaif
4) Dravid
5) Sehwag
6) Powar/Joginder
7) Dinesh Karthik
8) Pathan
9) Zaheer
10) Harbhajan
11) Salvi
12) Murali Karthik
Your'e taking a calculated gamble on the likes of Joginder,Powar, Karthik (wk) -- but I think its well worth the risk. Some imagination and flexibility is the required now.