England tour of India - Oct 14 - Oct 29, 2011

[Cricket Tragic]

This committee picks the team early. That has been the way they have done things.

[Sidhoni]

England:yoyo: :ohyeah: We are winning this 5-0!!

[kabira]

why should you wait for irani trophy to get over. they have challenger trophy after that, squad should have picked after that.

[kabira]

and we are going to play games in india only, so no visa issues...doesn't make sense to select team 2 weeks in advance.

[saneindian]

Challenger Trophy (Oct 11- 14) is too close to the Eng ODI series which starts Oct 14th. Irani Trophy would have given them a good look at Aaron, Umesh etc.

[saneindian]

The funny part is England are yet to name their touring squad for this series!

[Cricket Tragic]

England will name their squad today.

[Stuge]

England:yoyo: :ohyeah: We are winning this 5-0!!

what are you smoking :hysterical::hysterical:

[ganeshran]

The question mark is on Sehwag and Yuvi's return.

[gakgupta]

I hope, no new pacer will be given a chance on flat batting tracks of India and ruin his career for ever

[The Realist]

Pathetic state of affairs. Its like Brazil in football saying we have no strikers :facepalm:

[msb1991]

Ideally, you will have a situation like England where you have bowlers of the highest quality who can play in two or all three formats of the game. India do not have such a luxury. Therefore, we must look to each format as to who the correct choices are. Nehra is a correct choice for OD and perhaps T20 cricket until his constant unavailability becomes a serious issue. He has performed well in the formats at international level. Whether you want to dissect these performances or not, he has done well at times whereas the likes of Vinay Kumar has never done well. Looking to potential bowlers, Varun Aaron has done well at domestic OD cricket and so he can be a possible one for that format. Umesh Yadav, on the other hand, has a poor OD record and so any attempt to try him out in ODI cricket will and has been futile.

[ganeshran]

We need to give new fast bowlers a chance soon - we cannot keep going back to tried and tested failures. Yes new bowlers might not play well - but its a gamble we will have to take.

[asterix]

Selection in the "playing XI" is important...

[Cricket Tragic]

If Yuvraj comes back, we can play the extra batsman at 7 and get rid of Jadeja. 3+1 or 2+2?

[Sid]

Yuvi will be fit for the tour ,I saw his interview last month where he said he will definately play ODI series vs England.There are question marks over Veeru though.

[ganeshran]

I think its time Yuvi says adios to Test cricket and concentrates on ODIs. Age is not on his side, and he is a way too important part of the ODI side especially with our depleted spin options

[BERGKAMP]

PLEASE DO NOT PICK DARTBHAJAN, THAT IS ALL, KTHXBAI!

[Yoda-esque]

We are screwed big time for the next 2-3 years:(( Its obvious that the WC was the cumination of all things good and that things are looking very very bleak now

[ganeshran]

^ All things said and done, WC toh 4 saal tak apna hi hai :proud: But ya, the bowling department looks seriously depleted without Zaheer. :((