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Shashi Tharoor slams selectors for Sarfaraz Khan's snub


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Posted
59 minutes ago, Gollum said:

After getting justice for Sanju, Tharoor saab will fight for justice for Sarfu.

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Bhai as much as i want sarfu to get A chance even smaran ravichandran and yash rathod who had great fc session were ignored. I agree gg and agarkar are cunts and needed to be kicked out but i don't believe bullshit that sarfu wasn't given chance because he was muslim. Nabi, rasheed and ansari are there in squad. Its must be some tiff between sarfraz and gg

Posted
3 minutes ago, govinda said:

Bhai as much as i want sarfu to get A chance even smaran ravichandran and yash rathod who had great fc session were ignored. I agree gg and agarkar are cunts and needed to be kicked out but i don't believe bullshit that sarfu wasn't given chance because he was muslim. Nabi, rasheed and ansari are there in squad. Its must be some tiff between sarfraz and gg

Bhai I never said ki koi religious angle hai. Personal issue ho sakta hai. Anyway this guy has proved himself over multiple seasons, about time people demand explanation. 

Posted (edited)
46 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said:

I agree with Tharoor. In fact I wanted Sarfaraz to be part of the India squad and Musheer Khan to be in the A team squad.

Musheer may have a chance in future but Sarfaraz has burned bridges with this TM and bunch of selectors and not sure the dressing room trusts the guy much now after what happened last year.

 

Guess he was that great in Ranji this season as well.

 

Yash Rathod has reasons to be gutted though.  

 

Edited by Lone Wolf
Posted
4 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Musheer may have a chance in future but Sarfaraz has burned bridges with this TM and bunch of selectors and not sure the dressing room trusts the guy much now after what happened last year.

 

Guess he was that great in Ranji this season as well.

 

Yash Rathod has reasons to be gutted though.  

 

 

Sarfaraz was never backed whole heartedly though. He was set up to fail and the TM was waiting for him to fail so he could be dropped. Don't think Sarfaraz did anything wrong but wasn't backed. Musheer is another one I hope gets a chance.

Posted
11 hours ago, govinda said:

Bhai as much as i want sarfu to get A chance even smaran ravichandran and yash rathod who had great fc session were ignored. I agree gg and agarkar are cunts and needed to be kicked out but i don't believe bullshit that sarfu wasn't given chance because he was muslim. Nabi, rasheed and ansari are there in squad. Its must be some tiff between sarfraz and gg

 

How do you explain his exclusion and lack of chances?

Posted
16 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Musheer may have a chance in future but Sarfaraz has burned bridges with this TM and bunch of selectors and not sure the dressing room trusts the guy much now after what happened last year.

 

 

 

We have no proof of anything which happened except for personal likes and dislikes

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MA Agarwal 2021-2022 7 13 0 436 150 33.53 851 51.23 1 2 0 66 5 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
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M Prasidh Krishna 2023-2026 7 10 5 10 5* 2 65 15.38 0 0 3 0 0 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
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Sarfaraz could have easily played 15+ tests.

Posted
11 hours ago, kosingh said:

Sarfaraz deserves a chance but I hope Tharoor types stay out of this 

If you are playing politics in cricket and keeping players out for political reasons, then politicians have every right to speak.

 

Its like if some layman is spreading misinformation about diseases in a community, and a real doctor steps in to address it.

Posted
31 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:
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RA Jadeja 2021-2025 38 60 7 2141 175* 40.39 4262 50.23 5 13 4 211 32 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
Shubman Gill 2021-2026 34 61 5 2591 269 46.26 4156 62.34 11 5 3 282 42 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
JJ Bumrah 2021-2025 33 50 14 305 34* 8.47 652 46.77 0 0 19 33 11 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
V Kohli 2021-2025 32 57 3 1740 186 32.22 3496 49.77 3 6 3 188 8 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
KL Rahul 2021-2026 32 59 3 2147 137 38.33 4422 48.55 7 9 3 259 16 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
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YBK Jaiswal 2023-2026 29 54 2 2535 214* 48.75 3835 66.1 7 13 6 317 45 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
RG Sharma 2021-2024 29 52 2 1686 131 33.72 3060 55.09 5 6 2 199 29 http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/guruInvestigate.gif
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Sarfaraz could have easily played 15+ tests.

 

He definitely deserved to be in the team ahead of Jurel, Sai, Karun Nair etc. Jurel should be backup wk and only play when Pant isn't in the playing XI. Sarfaraz is a specialist batter and deserves the spot ahead of Jurel.

 

Compare Jurel and Sarfaraz's stats and Sarfaraz is ahead of Jurel in Tests as well as FC. How he didn't get a longer run is shocking and shows why it's better to be in the good books of TM than actually performing...

 

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Posted
19 minutes ago, New guy said:

If you are playing politics in cricket and keeping players out for political reasons, then politicians have every right to speak.

 

Its like if some layman is spreading misinformation about diseases in a community, and a real doctor steps in to address it.

Also Tharoor is a proper ICT fan, and a genuine well-wisher. Doubt there is any political motive behind his questions. 

 

Same view many of us here have, but what is the use? Tharoor at least has a huge follower count and him raising this issue may make selectors more accountable. 

Posted (edited)

These dressing room leaks have been happening for so long. Even recently, it was alleged that guys like Rohit, SKY, Pandya were leaking info to their cabal of journalists. 

 

So even if Sarfu is guilty of the same, why is he being singled out? Chalo bada leak ho bhi gya toh keeping him out of one series is fine. But completely snubbing him, including from A teams is just neech harkat. These farzi deshbhakts talk a lot about what is good for India, why can't they swallow their ego and do something which will help the national team in the long run? Their ego is bigger than India or what? 

Edited by Gollum
Posted
1 minute ago, Gollum said:

These dressing room leaks have been happening for so long. Even recently, it was alleged that guys like Rohit, SKY, Pandya were leaking info to their cabal of journalists. 

 

So even if Sarfu is guilty of the same, why is he being singled out? Chalo bada leak ho bhi gya toh keeping him out of one series is fine. But completely snubbing him, including from A teams is just neech harkat. These farzi deshbhakts talk a lot about what is good for India, why can't they swallow their ego and do something which will help the national team in the long run? Their ego is bigger than India or what? 

 

That was just an excuse and he was made a scapegoat. Nobody knew for certain who leaked info. But seeing how there were so many leaks from the MI dressing room, I'm willing to bet that it wasn't Sarfaraz who leaked info but it was done by someone more senior and TM took the easy way out by blaming Sarfaraz coz they never wanted him in the first place.

Posted
2 hours ago, Gollum said:

These dressing room leaks have been happening for so long. Even recently, it was alleged that guys like Rohit, SKY, Pandya were leaking info to their cabal of journalists. 

 

So even if Sarfu is guilty of the same, why is he being singled out? Chalo bada leak ho bhi gya toh keeping him out of one series is fine. But completely snubbing him, including from A teams is just neech harkat. These farzi deshbhakts talk a lot about what is good for India, why can't they swallow their ego and do something which will help the national team in the long run? Their ego is bigger than India or what? 

He must have done pesudo desh bhakt aka gg dirty

Posted
3 hours ago, Trichromatic said:

 

How do you explain his exclusion and lack of chances?

GG is cunt and has strong likes and dislikes. Better we get rid of this Cancer 

Posted
1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said:

He is seen as someone who doesn't have the game to succeed against high pace in SENA type conditions. 

 

What's the evidence and does Sai Sudarshan look better?

 

Which SENA country requires success against high pace?

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