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Indian selectors may soon discover in hindsight that they have missed out on an opportunity to put at least one more youngster to test by shockingly including Piyush Chawla in the Indian T20 World Cup squad.
If we leave out the disappointment of not seeing Ishant Sharma on the team sheet, there are at least three others who have received surprise garlands: Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma and Ashish Nehra.
The mistake was made in the first place itself while announcing the list of 30 probables for the T20 World Cup. Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa and Saurabh Tiwary were all missing and Uthappa and Tiwary’s performance is now hitting hard on the knuckles of Srikkanth & Co.
With Ashish Nehra in the party, the team carries with it the risk of welcoming onboard an injured member who, even when fit, is miles away from the international fitness standards. A back-in-form Ishant Sharma, who has more pace and aggression than Nehra, would have been a better choice. Although I still feel the fourth seamer’s booking should have been made in Irfan Pathan’s name who lends more balance to the team with his all-round skills. No fingers, however, can be raised on Vinay Kumar’s name whose current antics got him his maiden national call.
Rohit Sharma is again an eyebrow-raising inclusion with an indifferent form in the IPL. The first choice should be Manish Pandey. If not him, then Virat Kohli, Robin Uthappa and Saurabh Tiwary come to mind. Good luck to Rohit now who needs a whole lot of that, or else he is well on his way to become another Vinod Kambli.
I can hardly see Harbhajan, Jadeja and Piyush Chawla playing together. So where does the point of including another spinner come in? This is the most baffling selection and nothing short of a blunder. If Chawla is back-up, then it’s a very poor one and if he has got a leggie’s place, then it wasn’t required. As I said before, this is like squandering a sitter. This was a window of an opportunity to draft in another youngster and that could have been Manish Pandey who is looting bowlers with loads of runs.
But this is now what we have and it’s time to put a period to our discussions and back Dhoni and his men to erase the nightmarish experience in England last year by bringing the cup back home.
TEAM: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar, Rohit Sharma.
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