Now that the unfotunate (and sadistic, populistic, regressive and ultra-political) decision of restoring the captaincy to Sourav Ganguly has been made it is time to look at the composition of the side.
Me, I would bring in Agarkar instead of Zaheer Khan. GC needs to take a look at all resources before the WC and meaningless series such as this are the perfect scenarios for doing something like this. Zaheer was very much average in the Indianoil Cup and pathetic in the finals. While Agarkar could do worse, it is worth trying since he brings in much more value definitely in the field and hopefully with the bat.
I would also bring in Powar for Kumble. I'm not necessarily writing off Kumble as an ODI bowler but again we need to find some bowlers who can contribute handy runs with the bat and in that spirit are the 2 changes.
Also I would drop JP Yadav as we can accomodate only 15 players and I have never been a fan of his type anyway.
Im prepared to give Dhoni another chance although I was fairly shocked by his keeping the other day. Another couple of poor performances and he should be out.
Hence the team would look like:
Ganguly
Dravid
Sehwag
Laxman
Yuvraj
Kaif
Raina
Rao
Dhoni
Pathan
Nehra
Balaji
Agarkar
Harbhajan
Powar
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i would have kept kumble.Maybe i would have dropped raina.Kumble is a legend , u cant play musical chairs with a player of his class.He deserves better treatment .Powar is a good choice though.AS far as dhoni goes , i think dravid is both a better batsman and keeper than him.Check out my blog also , check the post ' What a Shame"
so ok, you got your wish:) but I for one just can't see the point in persisiting with Agarkar any more. he has been the 'unfulfilled potential' and 'lots of promise' man for way too long, and does it really seem like he could figure in 2007? I think that's probably as regressive a step as any in this whole selection thingy
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