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Dinesh Karthik to replace Manish Pandey for Champions Trophy


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Wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik is all set to don the national colours yet again in the upcoming Champions Trophy at the expense of Manish Pandey who has been ruled out due to an injury. 

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Just now, wanted_desi said:

I guess Rahane will play in starting 11. Oh ****.

No he is not.

 

Rahane is stand by opener for Rohit and Dhawan.

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“Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Dinesh Karthik, Shardul Thakur, Suresh Raina were also discussed. Visas will be applied. They will be on standby,” Chief Selector BCCI MSK Prasad said in the much-awaited meeting.

 

“Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma are openers. Ajinkya Rahane is back up opener,” Prasad stated.

 

 

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Just now, sandeep said:

Karthik preferred over Raina and Pant.   Not sure why.   Must be Southie quota.   /s

He was scoring lots of runs in domestic 50 overs matches. It is not bad way of selecting a player.

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5 minutes ago, wanted_desi said:

He was scoring lots of runs in domestic 50 overs matches. It is not bad way of selecting a player.

Raina has outperformed him in the IPL by yards.  And is a better fit for the team from a team balance perspective - Karthik cannot provide big hits from early in his innings, which is what our current team needs in the middle order, and Raina is a viable part-time bowling option if we are getting clobbered.   Same with Pant - could have learned a lot about conditions in England, ahead of the 2019 WC.   There's no doubt that out of Karthik and Pant, who's going to be in contention for the team then.   

 

FYI, I was being sarcastic with the southie quota remark.  There are too many ICF-ers who take baseless potshots at the "Bombay Lobby" and pass it off as fact.   

 

But clearly, there's some non-cricket reasons here in picking "KKDK" over Raina & Pant.  

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Rahane has been horrible in IPL and so have Yuvi. There were players like Utahppa who looked like in some serious form but werent selected. Current selectors arent going by IPL, which is understandable. Raina must have pissed someone that he was discarded like it.

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This selection committee does not want to put pressure on players who are not performing & are selecting players who can be easily thrown out of the team.

 

I really think If any pacer gets injured we may see Ishant in the squad again

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