Sreesanth injury while playing Team Football yesterday

[fineleg]

TV Reports from South Africa: Sreesanth injured while playing Team Football. He was seen hobbling in pain and extent of injury unknown. That leaves some doubt. Great!!! The selectors have goofed up, and now "football" injury. They probably need to stop all this football, volleyball - before more players pick up niggles. As it is with selectors goofup of not picking A.Mithun or M.Patel or P.Kumar - we probably have Unadkat + Yadav playing for ZK and SS :mad: Whats that India-C team (bowling) vs SA national team. Selectors :poink: Hope Team Management sends SOS to BCCI to get both A.Mithun+P.Kumar/M.Patel RIGHT AWAY so they can both prepare for Test-2 at Durban!! Do it now, so they have time to get acclimatised before the 2nd Test.

[saneindian]

Saw the video on Star News. He was hit on his ankle by a player. Did not twist his ankle. Fell down due to the knock and then walked up the stairs on his own to the dressing room, and later was back bowling in the nets again. So looks like its not as serious.

[achilles]

Why in the world do our players need to play ridiculous warm up games before a crucial games? We've had a history of injuries because of this nonsense.

[Andy]

Wow wow wow, The contest is more than 24 hours away and we are already Out.

[Ram]

Can we stop spreading sketchy information please? I know it feels great to spread rumours and half-truths, but please dont portray every freak accident/collission in training as some sort of career threatening injury.

[Laaloo]

Saw the video on Star News. He was hit on his ankle by a player. Did not twist his ankle. Fell down due to the knock and then walked up the stairs on his own to the dressing room, and later was back bowling in the nets again. So looks like its not as serious.

:yay::yay::yay:

[flamy]

[fineleg]

some sort of career threatening injury.

Career threatening??? No one even said it is "series" threatening. But it may be a concern for sitting out the Test-1 at Centurion, and given it is a 3-match series we need to start off properly with a full strength 11 at Centurion with everyone fit. If they play at 80% fit - it will have a detrimental effect as the match (or the series) wears on.

Why in the world do our players need to play ridiculous warm up games before a crucial games? We've had a history of injuries because of this nonsense.

You may be right. There have been football/volleyball injuries before too. Was it Sehwag and Yuvi??? in some prior series?

[Ram]

Career threatening??? No one even said it is "series" threatening. But it may be a concern for the Test-1 at Centurion, and given it is a 3-match series we need to start off properly with a full strength 11 at Centurion with everyone fit.

You should know better than to open a separate thread with all sorts of sensationalist statements like ‘Selectors goofed up..’ (which is factually wrong, even otherwise btw..) or ‘India C team Vs SA team’..

[fineleg]

^ Selectors have indeed goofed up! It is a fact. This is exactly the sort of situation when you need some decent alternatives. We have Unadkat and U.Yadav picked as backup and there can potentially be a situation where both of them have to play in the same Test. What is it - if not goofup? Have they even played one ODI? What sort of selection is that? Its ok to pick them as extra netbowlers after having picked a couple of alternate Test bowlers. Going on a tour for experience and as extra in squad (for net bowling) is ok for these two. They will gain experience. But they cannot be part of the 15 member squad!

[fineleg]

Saw the video on Star News. He was hit on his ankle by a player. Did not twist his ankle. Fell down due to the knock and then walked up the stairs on his own to the dressing room, and later was back bowling in the nets again. So looks like its not as serious.

Thanks for that info Saneindian :icflove: Hope this pans out in a good way and Sreesanth is 100% fit for the match. With ZK already doubtful, we cannot afford anymore injuries to the 11. Hope Laxman is fit too. He was spending more time on physio table in SA as per reports and was having stiff back? Hope the Aussie slayer is up and about. He is the 2nd Inn rescuer.

[Ram]

^ Selectors have indeed goofed up! It is a fact. This is exactly the sort of situation when you need some decent alternatives. We have Unadkat and U.Yadav picked as backup and there can potentially be a situation where both of them have to play in the same Test. What is it - if not goofup? Have they even played one ODI? What sort of selection is that? Its ok to pick them as extra netbowlers after having picked a couple of alternate Test bowlers. Going on a tour for experience and as extra in squad (for net bowling) is ok for these two. They will gain experience. But they cannot be part of the 15 member squad!

If you had been following anything reg. FC cricket over the last few months, you will know that Unadkat has been picked OVER guys like Munaf and Mithun for his bowling. Its not like they just took two extra bowlers for the numbers sake. This was not a political selection, but a performance based selection. So why are you cluelessly ranting about how Munaf or Mithun should have been in the squad? First you bash Sachin over a reported incident in a South African news paper about him chiding Umesh in a net session, but conveniently follow it up with an innocent ‘Is the South African media simply making this up..’? Did it ever occur to you that before you went on that comical rant against Sachin, the firstq question you should have asked was ‘Is this a made-up media story’ and not the other way around? Now, there’s another dose of unsolicited bashing fabricated from an imaginary injury crisis. Trust me, you’re fooling nobody.

[Dravid]

Wow wow wow' date=' The contest is more than 24 hours away and we are already Out.[/quote'] wow wow wow, arent u the brightest bulb in the room:hatsoff:

[fineleg]

Sachin was bashed. ROFL! Go re-read that post to see where or whether any bashing took place. If you want to deify him as God and only posts need to be written about him all the time - pls. do so. But spare me the rant on Sachin bashing when there was none in that instance. And also you are making a fool out of yourself - if you spot bashing in anything and everything. So, do wake up and re-read the posts properly before accusing. Anyway - will keep this thread abt the fitness for Centurion Test - no further comment on SRT (from me) in this thread.

[dial_100]

Finey, you have improved but still you do too much with these kind of threads. I see your concern but you take it too far. Just relax. These guys did not get on the top by Shltting. These guys are extremely sincere and they drive everyone along with them. Bhajji and SS have been behaving so well in past 2 years. We are in good position. Lets watch how SA deals with this challenge.

[Ram]

Sachin was bashed. ROFL! Go re-read that post to see where or whether any bashing took place. If you want to deify him as God and only posts need to be written about him all the time - pls. do so. But spare me the rant on Sachin bashing when there was none in this instance. And also you are making a fool out of yourself - if you spot bashing in anything and everything. So, do wake up and re-read the posts properly before accusing. Anyway - will keep this thread abt the fitness for Centurion Test

Again, irrelevant babble. I did NOT ask you to write glorify eulogies on Sachin, but you owe it to yourself to atleast not fabricate controversies out of the thin air and go on to bash people. Anyway, this thread should have never even EXISTED in the first place. SaneIndian saw the report on TV as well. Did he frantically login to ICF and start bashing people left and right? No, he saw the full report and figured out that Sreesanth was probably ok. P.S; We’re friends now right, I think I have the right to critique my friends. :winky:

[Andy]

wow wow wow' date=' arent u the brightest bulb in the room:hatsoff:[/quote'] :bow: What an Irony

[Deleted_User_1]

Anyway India is going to get phaacked. Better to have that happen with a B-team. Drop or the regulars or kick them in the nuts so that they cannot play. At least we will have an excuse. A-team or B-team, anal rape is a certainty.

[vvvslaxman]

:wall:

[fineleg]

P.S; We’re friends now right, I think I have the right to critique my friends. :winky:

Yep, critique is ok :D but heated arguments can happen too. Its cool :--D See the thing is we all want India to do well. There is no question on that. My point with this thread is to bash the selectors and yes, I got scared hearing the Sree injury. I seriously disagree with the backup bowlers' selection. And also to plead (rant) to stop all this football and volleyball a couple of days before the Test. Sigh! They scare us with all the injury / niggles :((