India continues to suffer from injury blows and this is even before a ball has been bowled in the series so far. If it is was Zaheer Khan earlier, now was the chance of S Sreesanth to be injured and return back to India leaving the side crippled and without too much experience in the side.
India has selected Yuvraj Singh in their 16 member squad to tour Sri Lanka for the three Test match series after giving him the axe for the Asia Cup that was played in the same country. What has surprised many of the critics is that without having had any practice during the one month, and without playing any competitive cricket, on what grounds was the dropped player selected in the side.
Looking at the way Sri Lanka is playing in this tournament, it does look difficult for the Indians to win their fifth edition of the tournament and the first in the last 15 years. Currently, as things stand, the Indians look like they may compete, but beating Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka will need much more than that.
Irfan Pathan has said in an interview to an Indian newspaper that he was pretty disappointed at being dropped from the Indian team and not considered for the tour of Zimbabwe where most of the senior bowlers have been rested.
Virender Sehwag’s statements about how he did not rate the Bangladeshi bowlers too much almost backfired on the first day of the first Test match at Chittagong as they lost eight wickets in 63 overs scoring only 200 odd runs.
Allan Donald could very well be on his way to becoming India’s bowling coach very soon. Talking to media, the former South African pace bowler said that the BCCI officials had spoken to him in the month of October about a possible position with the Indian side as the bowling coach.
India Not A Long-Term Number One Side: Ian Chappell
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According to the former Australian cricket captain, and no commentator Ian Chappell, India does not deserve to be the number one Test team. He also said that the Indian team does not possess the wherewithal to retain its number one position for a long time.
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