Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Warm up match against New Zealand

The performance of many of the Indians in the match was very disappointing, especially when they could not restrict them well even after playing 6 main line bowlers was a far cry. Only three players played exceptionally well Rohit , Raina and Ishant. My predictions about Rohit and Raina were right, but Ishant bowled exceptionally well, I thought he was out of form but was very focused, RP never got his line correct not even for a single ball, was very disappointing. But yesterdays match is an answer for who should sit out, the majorly out form Yusuf Pathan, Irfan can take his place. When Zaheer is back he can probably replace RP is he does not find his line still or Irfan, who looks mediocre with both bat and ball.
So the line up should be:

Virender Sehwag
Gautam Ghambir
Suresh Raina
Yuvraj Singh
Rohit Sharma
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Irfan Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Praveen Kumar
Ishant Sharma
RP singh

Ravindra jadeja though made 41 is not a match winner as he took equal number of balls to do it, I opine any one pacing his innings like that will be able to make that score and especially in the 15th over both he and Irafan were humiliated with full toss balls and both of them failed to clear the boundary. Jacob oram put Jadeja under control going for just 3 runs in the crucial 18th over. So this man I doubt his capabilities of raising to the ocassion and especially when there are match winners like the six batsmen in the team I have written above, he stands no where.

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