The BP XI squad to face England has several promising inclusions and one glaring omission. The negative being the abscence of Piyush Chawla, the most exciting teenage prospect since well, The Master himself. For a fleeting moment I almost gave the selectors full marks when I thought that Chawla's abscence had more to do with his playing in the Under 19 World Cup, sadly that is not the case. That tournament is ending a good 4 days before the start of this match, and unless the selectors deem that Piyush will be in need of some rest, it has to be assumed that the selectors dont consider him ready for the big stage yet.
Now to the several positives: The pace attack looks really exciting - Munaf and VRV will fight it out for the tearaway bowler's slot, with Sreesanth also finding a place, along with the Bengali military medium pacer, SS Paul. Gambhir, Jaffer, Raina, Rao, Jadhav are the batsmen in contention and no one will grudge them their well-deserved spots. The one I am not sure about is the selection of Badrinath over his team-mate Badani (who has always for some reason gotten a raw deal) and perhaps Abhishek Jhunjhunwala.
Pragyan Ojha is the wild-card, of whom I hate to admit, I know zilch. If anyone does, please fill me up.
If anything looks weak, then it is the spin department. As mentioned earlier Chawla's abscence is at best baffling, at worst diabolical. What has Mishra done all this season ?? Is Ramesh Powar really an attacking option ?? Is this the best we have got ?? What about Lahiri from Bengal ??
As usual questions arise, but on the whole a fairly good job by More and Co.
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