Re: Gavaskar in brilliant form..........

"Cric8wala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Gavaskar's 14th century in first class competition cost a clueless Sri
> Lanka `A' 173 runs,

ha ha!  CLUELESS Sri Lanka 'A'.  That's funny!

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> BTW, Das *really* is the blue-eyed boy, isnt he? Was supposed to be on par
with
> Jaffer last year before NZ, got outperformed domestically, and yet went to
NZ.

Yes, there maybe a small matter of a 250 overseas in England that the
selectors must have thought to be worth something.

> Was selected captain of India-A in England - and was the worst of the
openers
> in runs and averages both (with Jaffer being the best), and somehow Das
stayed
> in contention, even captaining India-A in tour matches against NZ as well
as
> against SL-A.

It is surprising that neither Jaffer nor Gambhir go to Australia, but if one
went by comparative tour/domestic averages alone, it is hard to imagine that
Karthik or Pathan would even be in contention.   Or why Sriram, Gavaskar,
Bhandari, and Rayudu wouldn't be.

And not that Karthik appears to be setting the world on fire in the SL-A
match either.

> Now he has scored 40, 11 and 16 against SL-A. Lets see if he
> still retains his spot for the 3rd "test" against SL-A next week. (With
Ranji
> performances being taken into account, and a "rotation policy" in effect,
one
> would expect a few changes for that 3rd test - with Jaffer, Mongia, Paul
etc
> all having a shot at making it).
>

I hope Jaffer notches up a huge hundred.  That way, he would book a spot on
the Pakistan tour.


>
> Sadiq [ should be a draw tomorrow, given this pitch ] Yusuf
>

With the CLUELESS Sri Lanka 'A', who knows?


-- 
Shripathi Kamath