From memory, I believe if you check the international records of the sidelined guys you mentioned(except Rayudu of course), they are not much better than those whom you mention as getting special treatment.
Rahul Dravid dropped for after just 1 bad series,what reason can you give for this?
From memory, I believe if you check the international records of the sidelined guys you mentioned(except Rayudu of course), they are not much better than those whom you mention as getting special treatment.
Irfan Pathan --
29 tests 100 wickets . 1 century 6 fifties
107 ODIs 152 wickets . 5 fifties.
He did deserve to get dropped but should have been picked again, but is being ignored constantly, he got his swing and rhythm back towards the end of the recent IPL, he could have been an asset in the English conditions. India anyways needed an allrounder to solve the bowling problems, but he wasn't selected even though there have been so many injuries. RP Signh, who hasn't even proved himself in the international arena got selected instead.
Robin Uthappa --
Under Dravid(who gave him a settled role)
4 fifties, 13 innings ,409 runs ,average of 34 and strike rate of 103.
Under Dhoni,
only 1 fifty, 21 innings - 377 runs, average of 22 and strike rate of 82.
Want to know the reason?
Look at the changes in his batting position under Dhoni.
3,3,6,5,7,5,6,7,6,3,7,7,7,3,7,1,1,1,6,2,7.
Is this a joke? Is this some street cricket or something?
How can he constantly change his batting positions and get him up and down so much?
You give him a proper role, like how he gave to a Vijay, Mukund, Sharma or Raina.Please learn to see things inside out before commenting on it.
Dravid clearly handled him well and Dhoni didn't.
Pragyan Ojha--
He has played 13 of his 16 ODIs against Sri Lanka,who are are great players of spin, and has yet managed to pick 20 wickets at an economy of 4.3.
He has also played 11 tests, out which 5 were against Sri Lanka,
but still picked 42 wickets.
Again talking about special treatment, what has Ashwin done to get preferred ahead of Ojha?
Playing against weaker opponents will improve his stats,but he will fail against Pak, SL and others teams who play spin well.
Dinesh Karthik--
he got dropped after just one bad series, which was the Sri Lanka triangular series, before the series his previous innings were
66, 40, 27, 33, 18, 22 ,11 , 79, 44, 34, 48, 19 not out, 32not out, 34, 16, 4 , 47, 4, 67.
Yusuf Pathan--
Yusuf Pathan performing under other captains but not under Dhoni.
Under Gambhir he was brilliant in the 5 ODI series both with the bat and ball.
Such players are rare to find. He is a hit or miss kind of player, but he is good enough for the international level, even Virender Sehwag was considered a slogger before, but Sourav Ganguly stuck with him and developed his talent, even Australia developed Andrew symonds, its not easy to go out and start hitting all the bowlers out of the park from ball one, most of the time he has came in to bat only to increase the run rate, that's not fair on a player. You should be smart enough to use them. Shane Warne and Gambhir get the best out of Yusuf,but Dhoni doesn't,because he doesn't want him in the team.
Yusuf is the same player who has hit the 3 most brutal 100s for India last year, 1 in IPL and 2 in international cricket. He bats at number 7, no batsmen has had much success on that number recently,
Uthappa, Jadeja and even Raina doesn't have a good record at number 7 because a player gets very few overs on that number, he would get to bat early only on bowling pitches. And if at all he is sent early its just to increase the run rate, mostly in the powerplays.
And I have observed this since quite a long,
Dhoni has not given Yusuf enough chances to Yusuf to bowl, he gets to bowl more overs only on flat decks, on turning or bouncy pitches, he is just made to bowl 2 or 3 overs and then replaced with some other part timer.
He has a much better bowling record under other captains and has improved a lot recently.
Now lets talk about some other players who just keep on getting their chances and get the best possible opportunities. (MSD and Shrikanth favourites I mean)
Harbhajan Singh--
Harbhajan has got 3 wickets or more in only 8 occassions out of his previous 80 ODIs and has hardly taken any crucial wickets in tests when its needed, but is still in the ODI side, any strong reason for that apart from his friendship with Dhoni?
RP Singh--
Last played his 4 day game in January and is unfit and overweight right now, but still gets selected from nowhere even though he did nothing impressive in domestic matches. And he also went on to play the last test against England. He was bowling like a part timer in that match.
Murali Vijay--
12 ODIs- average of 17 and strike rate of 61.
In tests,
20 innings, average of 30.
Don't think i should waste my time commenting on him.
Suresh Raina--
Deserves to be in the ODI team, but how can he be selected in tests? and why is he chosen over Yuvraj Singh?
There are so many players who can contribute better than him in tests.
The worst part is that he captains the side in absence of Dhoni and Gambhir.
RP Singh--
Gets selected after not so great domestic performance, has played his last 4 day game in January but still played against England,
etc. etc, etc,