One really wonders what the rationale behind having a 32 year old passenger in team India colours in the form of Subramaniam Badrinath, agreed that he had a less than inspiring domestic cricket season for the Tamil Nadu team, yet the selectors in their infinite wisdom(?) deemed it fit to include him in the team despite his season of horrors with the bat; now that you've picked him please play him as benching him is only denying a younger player the golden opportunity of soaking in the atmosphere of team India's dressing room and gaining tonnes of wisdom and cricketing acumen by rubbing shoulders with the likes of a Tendulkar and a Sehwag, do pardon me for sounding like a doubting Thomas, but I do feel that a 32 year old is past the stage of doing the above.........
One really wishes that team India had a buccaneering, dashing and go-getting coach like a Sourav Ganguly or Shane Warne instead of a dull, insipid, taciturn and lacklustre Duncan Fletcher as the go-getters would have always taken the bull by the horns and ensured quiet a few more entries in the victory column notwithstanding the occasional loss on the triumphant path to ultimate victory. Rain plays spoilsport and checks team India's relentless march towards an innings win at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in the first match of a currently ongoing test series; but on a brighter note, tomorrow is yet another day as the wise one's who preceded us famously said...... Let's stop exulting over a hollow victory achieved against a lame duck New Zealand side on a designer pitch suitably altered to suit the needs of our spinners who are tigers at home and sitting ducks abroad; India is number 5 on the ICC test rankings and the Kiwis a lowly eight so you would always expect the higher ranked team to beat the lower ranked one nine times out of ten, so what's the big deal about beating a side that is ranked three places below you; sterner test await the Indian team in the form of the English and Australian sides and I will only be exulting when team India has beaten these two teams on home soil comprehensively.
One really wishes that team India had a buccaneering, dashing and go-getting coach like a Sourav Ganguly or Shane Warne instead of a dull, insipid, taciturn and lacklustre Duncan Fletcher as the go-getters would have always taken the bull by the horns and ensured quiet a few more entries in the victory column notwithstanding the occasional loss on the triumphant path to ultimate victory. Rain plays spoilsport and checks team India's relentless march towards an innings win at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in the first match of a currently ongoing test series; but on a brighter note, tomorrow is yet another day as the wise one's who preceded us famously said...... Let's stop exulting over a hollow victory achieved against a lame duck New Zealand side on a designer pitch suitably altered to suit the needs of our spinners who are tigers at home and sitting ducks abroad; India is number 5 on the ICC test rankings and the Kiwis a lowly eight so you would always expect the higher ranked team to beat the lower ranked one nine times out of ten, so what's the big deal about beating a side that is ranked three places below you; sterner test await the Indian team in the form of the English and Australian sides and I will only be exulting when team India has beaten these two teams on home soil comprehensively.
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