FARCE SELECTION
Despite suffering humiliating defeat in the one day matches and the big loss by ten wickets in the Durban drubbing after selectors have not learnt their lessons and going for the same set of players all the time. Overseas tours are important just like home matches. The selectors should pay heed to the fact that a mixture of youth and experience can balance the side and perform on foreign soil. We are just satisfied with one or two moderate performances of our batsmen. Take the case of South Africa despite de Cock making three consecutive hundreds in as many matches, they did not opt for him in Test cricket. After de Cock we find both de Villiers and du Plessis did make an impact when the chips were down in test match cricket. As a senior Kallis played a calculated innings to make sure that South Africa win their farewell match. So, the " d " factor troubled team India but still we go after the same team. The dropping of Ojha without even a trial in South African soil is just another case of farce selection. Both Ishwar Pandey and Stuart Binny did make the side but they will be warming up the benches in Kiwi land. Again Zaheer Khan is a spent force and given central contract and now the New Zealand tour only to please Mumbai lobby. As the quota system prevail in Indian Team selection, Zaheer came in place of recently retired Sachin Tendulkar. Already Rohit Sharma is having a God Father to get chances again and again despite repeated failures. Just by taking 6 pacemen is not going to help us in anyway as these bowlers are not experienced enough to bowl on conducive conditions. Overall, it was indeed a farce selection.
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