I only hope and pray that Rayudu is not forced to go the way of an Amarjeet Kaypee, K.P.Bhaskar, Bantoo Singh, Saad Bin Jung or Connor Williams who never ever donned the Indian test teams cricketing whites despite scoring thousands of runs for their home as well as adopted Ranji trophy teams season after season with nauseating regularity.........
I have always been an ardent follower of the "horses for courses" policy, the only problem being that the convoluted Indian cricket team selection committee has turned this dictum around on it's head by selecting the 32 year old Subramaniam Badrinath after a dismal Ranji trophy season wherein he scored a pithy 292 runs from 8 matches and 14 innings at a dismal average of less than 35 and not when he was at his very best and scoring in excess of 1,000 runs per season for five consecutive seasons; another instance of regionalism and biased selection prevailing over cricketing logic???
Badrinath is already 32 and 36/37 is and has always been considered to be the age when most of of our batsmen go into cricketing hibernation for good, so does that mean that the very same Mr. Badrinath will only be around the Indian test team for the next four to five seasons; and pray will one of the five supposedly five men enlighten me on the reasons behind not making a certain Ambati Rayudu a part and parcel of the Indian test team, Rayudu has been the prima donna amongst the Mumbai Indian batsmen during the last two IPL seasons and the top scorer for his adopted Broda Ranji trophy team during the same period; one really wonders why the fact that this dimunitive batsmen cum part time wicket keeper was associated with the now defunct ICL for a couple of seasons is being held against him despite him swearing his allegiance to the powers that be within the BCCI......
I have always been an ardent follower of the "horses for courses" policy, the only problem being that the convoluted Indian cricket team selection committee has turned this dictum around on it's head by selecting the 32 year old Subramaniam Badrinath after a dismal Ranji trophy season wherein he scored a pithy 292 runs from 8 matches and 14 innings at a dismal average of less than 35 and not when he was at his very best and scoring in excess of 1,000 runs per season for five consecutive seasons; another instance of regionalism and biased selection prevailing over cricketing logic???
Badrinath is already 32 and 36/37 is and has always been considered to be the age when most of of our batsmen go into cricketing hibernation for good, so does that mean that the very same Mr. Badrinath will only be around the Indian test team for the next four to five seasons; and pray will one of the five supposedly five men enlighten me on the reasons behind not making a certain Ambati Rayudu a part and parcel of the Indian test team, Rayudu has been the prima donna amongst the Mumbai Indian batsmen during the last two IPL seasons and the top scorer for his adopted Broda Ranji trophy team during the same period; one really wonders why the fact that this dimunitive batsmen cum part time wicket keeper was associated with the now defunct ICL for a couple of seasons is being held against him despite him swearing his allegiance to the powers that be within the BCCI......
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