Re: Pick the India Team that will play T1

"R. Bharat Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Not the team *YOU* would pick, but the team you believe the
> Indian selectors (Ganguly, Dravid, and Wright) would pick:
> 
> Here is my XI
> Ramesh
> Sehwag
> Dravid
> Tendulkar
> Laxman
> Ganguly
> Patel
> Kumble
> Harbhajan
> Khan
> Nehra
> 
> I'd say any of Agarkar, Balaji, Chopra, or Dasgupta could get in.
> The only one who probably does not have a sniff is Pathan.

Balaji bowled complete rubbish in the two warm-up games. Pathan wasn't
brilliant, but was pretty decent. I don't think India will play 3
left-arm pacers, however. I'd agree that all of the other 14 have a
chance of figuring in T1.

My suspicion is that India might play an extra batsman and go in one
bowler short. (7 spec. bats, 1wk, 3 spec. bowlers.) If not, then
Agarkar will play, because he's the best bat of all the bowlers.

I doubt the team will go with the team you have above. It's 6+1+4 and
Agarkar is not one of the bowlers. From the way the batting order was
shuffled for the warm-up games, it seemed to me that Ganguly was keen
on playing 7 bats. At the very least, he appeared keen to shore up the
batting, and the way to do that is to either play an extra bat or play
Agarkar.

My rather brave prediction:

Chopra, Sehwag, Ramesh, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, Patel,
Kumble, Nehra, Zaheer.

-Samarth.

> 
> Bharat
> 
> PS: Any word on how Nehra has been doing?