Ganguly's omission

[Guest dada_rocks]

Why is Sidhu a jerk and why should he be ignored? Inquiring minds want to know:D Sidhu comes across as very forthright,you might not agree with him but the guy's a straight shooter.

HE is a BJP MP may be that's why some people can's see any merit in him:haha:

[gs]

Siddhu gets paid for throwing a sissy fit about anything and everything - cant take everything he says at face value! He is entitled to his opinion, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he is right!

[bradman]

Youngsters deserve a chance but this is not the way , people should be picked like Ishant was played in the test , get 2-3 young players in the side and make them play selective matches , seniors should always remain the core of the team ,and should occasionally make way for younger players , in short rotation policy. BCCI is again going the chappell way , inspite of what had happened in the past.Fools will never learn , now we will prepare for world cup 2011 losing 80% of our matches and then whimper in the next world cup , so much for a young team. This new found fascination with young players happens only in India , people debut at 30 in australia , half their team is over 30 , players present form is the main criteria , how can anyone remove players who have been consistently performing , shame on you BCCI , you effing n00bs .

[Ram]

HE is a BJP MP may be that's why some people can's see any merit in him:haha:

Ahhhhhhh... The Cat's finally caught its tongue.... Now do you guys see why DR considers Siddhu to be the most " most facile speaker of Punjabi/English/Urdu/Hindi/Swahili/Batak Toba and someone who does his job with, aplomb and professionalism ! "

[prince40]

Pakistan!!:hysterical::hysterical:

its a better ODI team than england

[prince40]

Youngsters deserve a chance but this is not the way ' date=' people should be picked like Ishant was played in the test , get 2-3 young players in the side and make them play selective matches , seniors should always remain the core of the team ,and should occasionally make way for younger players , in short rotation policy. BCCI is again going the chappell way , inspite of what had happened in the past.Fools will never learn , now we will prepare for world cup 2011 losing 80% of our matches and then whimper in the next world cup , so much for a young team. This new found fascination with young players happens only in India , people debut at 30 in australia , half their team is over 30 , players present form is the main criteria , how can anyone remove players who have been consistently performing , shame on you BCCI , you effing n00bs .[/quote'] spot on

[Desi Cartman]

Dada was keen on playing in ODIs - TOI Indian selectors choose to leave out some senior players while picking the ODI team for Australia on Sunday. The news was received with a pinch of salt in Perth where the Indian team had registered a historic Test win over Australia on Saturday. While VVS Laxman understood his fate, Sourav Ganguly did express a desire to continue in the limited-overs version for a little more time when he was told about his dropping by selectors, Ranjib Biswal and V Raju. Dravid was out on a cruise with his family and so the selectors could not meet him. "With Sourav, it was basically his fielding and running between the wickets that was the problem. So, we decided to look at the youngsters," explained a senior Board official. What is not to be forgotten is that Ganguly, along with Dravid, had been on the chopping block even before the last ODI series against Pakistan. Also, Ganguly's inability to push scoring in a crucial chase thriller at Nagpur too had upset the think-tank. While Dravid was left out, Ganguly was spared the axe in November 2007 because of his experience. Now, things have changed. Of the others, left-arm spinner Kartik can consider himself unlucky. After being brought in from the cold, he was in form against Australia. He won a game against them with bat and ball, but has now been left out. Here again the captain's judgment prevailed. It was felt that the Australian pitches will be better suited to Chawla than Kartik who is always a handful on Indian turners. Plus, Chawla is touted to be a better fielder. UP's Praveen Kumar retained his spot owing to his consistent Ranji show. An under-done Munaf will have to gain some match practice before returning to top-flight cricket.

[Dravid]

wah, deb protecting his boy here too :D

[bradman]

wah' date=' deb protecting his boy here too :D[/quote'] You can always count on me dude :D

[Guest dada_rocks]

Ahhhhhhh... The Cat's finally caught its tongue.... Now do you guys see why DR considers Siddhu to be the most " most facile speaker of Punjabi/English/Urdu/Hindi/Swahili/Batak Toba and someone who does his job with' date=' aplomb and professionalism ! "[/quote'] let me just say this if u cud ever be half as fluent as him in any of those languages consider urself special..

[beetle]

What about Dhoni? Why didn't he have the decency to let him know? Obviously a coward.

[Dravid]

there is a part of me that hopes we get killed in commenwealth series

[fineleg]

"it’s all over for me in the one-dayers now. But I’ll keep playing Test cricket " It was indeed an ironic Sunday for Indian cricket and if at all it did anything it only typified the harsh nature of sport. One star was on the rise and the other that had shined brilliantly over the years was waning. On one hand the intrinsic worth of the 19-year-old Ishant Sharma after just one brilliant spell of fast bowling on the fourth morning of the third Test was being endlessly extolled a day after the famous win. On the other, the news of Sourav Ganguly’s glittering one-day career being cut short by the national selectors was greeted with a ‘we-knew-it-was-coming’ note. The media lingered around for a while in the team hotel lobby after they were done with Ishant and when they left, Ganguly, dressed in a sweat shirt, jeans and slippers slipped out of the hotel for a walk about on the Adelaide Terrace. Over and over again he kept thumbing his mobile phone to check text messages, which we presume had flooded his inbox with words of sympathy. The career of arguably the best-ever Indian one-day batsman has ended and if there were any doubts, the resigned look on his face said it all. Not expecting this “To be honest, I wasn’t expecting this. But I guess it’s all over for me in the one-dayers now. But I’ll keep playing Test cricket for a while and then let’s see,” he told the Mumbai Mirror. Ganguly was perhaps betraying his emotions. That his days were numbered in the limited version of the game had become evidently clear when he was dropped from the fifth and final one-dayer against Pakistan played at Jaipur on November 18. It was similar to what they had done with Rahul Dravid, when they benched him for the Mumbai game against Australia telling the world that he was being rested. Dravid, after being overlooked for the five-match one-day series against Pakistan was not even considered for the tri-series in Australia. There were murmurs then and there are whispers now that India’s captain in one-day internationals MS Dhoni and his deputy Yuvraj Singh are unhappy with Ganguly’s batting strike-rate and his pedestrian ways in the field. They had even, reportedly, taken the matter up with the selectors who bided their time and once Ganguly failed against Pakistan, scoring 89 runs in four matches, the game was up for the left-hander. It hardly mattered that he has scored over 1300 runs in the last 12 months at an average of 44. He had to go. No point being romantic The selectors feel there’s no point in being romantic and continuing with Ganguly for what he has done in the past. In any case, most Indian cricketers don’t give up easily and in some cases they have to be dragged out. But for a man who changed the face of Indian cricket with his fight-until-death attitude, Ganguly deserved a better treatment from the board. At 35 Ganguly is good enough to play a year or two of Test cricket but as Rahul Dravid kept repeating, the one-day game is getting younger by the day and for that reason the likes of Suresh Raina and Robin Uthappa are must-haves in the team. A tour of Down Under at their age will only give them the right kind of exposure for the future battles here. The likes of Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly and Laxman have performed well here in the Test matches because they were aware of the conditions and hostility that prevails in the territory. Good eye In his tenure as the chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar has shown that he has a good eye for talent and most decisions taken by him have only helped Indian cricket. That India is second behind Australia on the official ICC ranking testifies that. Also, the decision to pick a young side for the Twenty20 championships in South Africa springs to mind and so does the decision to back Ishant Sharma, who is now clearly the new star on the horizon.

[fineleg]

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article&sectid=59&contentid=200801212008012103151142137879fa5

[Guest HariSampath]

Excellent article...Thanks for sharing finey... It sums up why Ganguly has been dropped as well as Dravid, and there is just cricket involved here, no nostalgia and romance.:congrats::wtg:

[Cricketics]

THANKS FOR TAKING INDIAN ODI CRICKET TO NEW HEIGHTZ.. GREAT ODI CAPTAIN.. THANKS GANGULY.. sucks and disappointed by the news..

[Chandan]

What a sad day. Why on earth could BCCI not give these two great players an opportunity to announce their retirement instead of telling everuone that they've been dropped? Disgraceful BCCI!!!! :mad:

[Guest HariSampath]

^...SIMPLE...they are NOT willing to announce retirements...was that too much to understand ?

[theguyinallblue]

Thanks Ganguly for the ODI performances in early years of this decade... you were good till you were good..:-) Hope to see you around for another 1 year in test cricket...

[Guest HariSampath]

why is everyone disappointed now ? Dravid had been dropped long back and still hasn't announced retirement....Ganguly had it coming for ages, and still wanted to keep playing, and now everyone in the team camp has a "we knew it would happen" look, which means everyone in the team were not exactly surprised and were expecting it, the surest sign a player is on the way out