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Virender SehWAAAAAAHHHHHHg - upset at how he was dropped
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indiaholic
International Captain
What do you feel should have been done? Dropping him seemed like the right thing to do at that time... Do you prefer that he should have been given one more series while explicitly telling him that that this was his last chance?
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
It seemed to me they had decided these players are not going to be in their plans any more - Sehwag, Gambhir, Harbhajan, Laxman, Zaheer and co. They have been great players. They should have been told clearly how they fit into future plans if they performed at domestic level. Instead, they were just discarded and not kept in the loop at all. These are not 2 test wonders whom you discard like this. You tell them, you are not in our plans but if you do well, we might have you back. Ganguly made an excellent point before the 2015 World Cup. He thought some of these players like Zaheer would be great for the team. However, they weren't playing a lot of cricket and so they can't be picked. They were just not kept in any sort of plans and were discarded. Compare that with Srinath in 2003 world cup. He was out of the team. Ganguly went out of his way to tell him that he thought Srinath could play the 2003 World Cup if he bowled well in domestic cricket in the season before. Srinath took it as motivation and it resulted in him playing the 2003 World Cup for us. We reached the finals.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
And you are sure Dhoni didn't do that with Zak when he came back in 2011? Zak was breaking down all over the shop, he could not even get through IPL games. That is why he was not picked. End of.
indiaholic
International Captain
In Sehwag's case, I think his failures in the first season of domestic cricket after being dropped closed all doors. I don't know if the selectors didn't communicate clearly enough with him and if they did not, it is wrong. Guy deserves to be told where he stands in the larger scheme of things.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
HB, After India lost to Australia and England, Dhoni was to be removed as captain. If any one should have taken the hit for those losses, it was the captain. However the board chief prevented it. Don't you think the captain should be held accountable as well?
indiaholic
International Captain
Who would you have appointed as the captain?
indiaholic
International Captain
Not arguing that Dhoni shouldn't have been sacked.. But there didn't seem to be too many alternatives and the oldies did seem past it..
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
I am one of the biggest critics of his captaincy here. Check the threads from that time itself. But did we have any option as replacement?
Contra
Cricketer Of The Year
Sehwag was deservedly dropped, and Dhawan's innings against Australia pretty much vindicated the selectors, not that Sehwag could do anything about another batsmen scoring runs.
What was stupid on the selectors part was the lack of communication (if true) with Sehwag, like honestly at least give people a heads up about a dropping. And then to actually expect a man who couldn't even get motivated against lesser teams to then go and play DOMESTIC cricket and score bucket loads of runs was never gonna happen. I still feel Sehwag was good enough to be a backup opener to Vijay/Dhawan all this time.
What was stupid on the selectors part was the lack of communication (if true) with Sehwag, like honestly at least give people a heads up about a dropping. And then to actually expect a man who couldn't even get motivated against lesser teams to then go and play DOMESTIC cricket and score bucket loads of runs was never gonna happen. I still feel Sehwag was good enough to be a backup opener to Vijay/Dhawan all this time.
OverratedSanity
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Reckon Sehwag at #6 could've solved a lot of our problems in the last few years. He could've performed the Gilchrist role to perfection.
cnerd123
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I think if he could still bowl then they would have done this. But he was dropped around the time India were beggining to realise they needed a 5th bowler more often than not, and so guys like Raina/Yuvi were getting opportunities at 6.
honestbharani
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It is perfectly obvious to anyone who is not Pratters that Sehwag deserved to be dropped and he is just having a waaaah about it now. I do agree that selectors should have communicated the news better to him. Srikkanth did that well for Ganguly when it was obvious he was past it.
Pratters
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You don't understand any thing being said and keep crying.
OverratedSanity
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Yeah as Daemon said, it's pure hindsight. At the time, I definitely would've dropped him and brought in Rohit and Dhawan. But then I didn't know how much Rohit would suck.
honestbharani
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Our selectors and test captain still don't know it, even though the proof is in front of their eyes. 