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NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, 2011 : Teams announced (Oct10-13)

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vishalvirsingh Mentor

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Oh crap. Thanks for the PM anyway!
pls share the speeds.... did unadket touch 135K...? or is he still under 131k all the time??? Did Pankaj Singh bowl between 133k to 137K or is He also Under 131 K all the time.... Indian trundlers consider 131K as their Top Speed .....Check out VK, PK and all others... I was specially surprised to see Fallah bowling between 116K to 122K consistently and getting 3 wickets as batsman were going for runs.........he analysis looked good as he got some cheap talenders out but his bowling was Most UNIMPRESSIVE... I bet I would like to Pad up and Face him................is He one of our best 12 Pacers in INDIA...??? No it is a Lie ..it only means that our selections are biased and it is cheating ALL over as I feel guys like Narwal, Fallah and many more should not be in the best 50 Pacers of INDIA..leave aside best 12 or best 16 Pacers.
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vishalvirsingh Mentor

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India Green squad RV Uthappa, S Anirudha, M Kaif, CM Gautam? TL Suman, IR Jaggi, Harbhajan Singh*, Iqbal Abdulla, S Narwal, A Mithun, SM Fallah, S Ladda, IH Chaudhary, MD Mishra India Red squad A Mukund, AT Rayudu, YK Pathan, S Dhawan*, WP Saha? PP Chawla, TP Sudhindra, Pankaj Singh, BA Bhatt, AL Menaria, JD Unadkat, RP Singh, Jalaj S Saxena, G Gambhir
uthapa- Good Talent. Anirudha- Average Talent. Kaif- why does he not retire and rest....no future for him why is he playing . Gautam- i dont think he is doing anything worth impressing???- average talent.. SUMAN- looks a good talent- needs to work Hard. ishank jaggi- always a good talent- need to work hard n convert aqbadulla- Good Talent ..has a future if he improves further.. Narwal- oh how come he is playing in challengers... mithun- Good Talent- shud focus Hard n Improve. Fallah- How Come is he here ??? Ladda- average talent IH Chowdhary- Looks Good has good Height can Improve ..needs to work Hard and focus on SPEED and SWING..shud try n bowl FAST as well even if he gets HIT because when a batsman hits a fast bowler ,he can still get Out. Mishra- average talent. only 5 guys are Good Talent in Green. in RED Mukund- He will play for INDIA for a long long time... good batsmen with just 1 or 2 technical flaws. rayady- good talent y pathan- exceptional Talent - a bowling murderer..shud play each and every 1 day and T 20 for INDIA. Dhawan- good Talent Saha- average talent but gud enuf for indian boring flat tracks. chawla- exceptional talent sudhindra- another rubbish Pankaj singh- how can such a strong and tall fellow bowl so slow all the time...Average talent..great physique. I got a shock when i saw him bowl so slow with such a physique. Bhatt good talent
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Cricket Tragic Newbie

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No challenge left in the Challengers

What's the sole purpose of having the Challenger Trophy? I'm assuming that it's to test the skill set as well as the temperament of the best 36 cricketers in the country in trying and challenging conditions. But, since this tournament is held in India, isn't it rather ambitious to expect the conditions to challenge the participants? After all, these grounds are their workstations throughout the year. Perhaps, playing in front of a packed stadium and a huge TV audience could separate chalk from cheese, for many players suffer from stage fright and react differently to such pressure. Unfortunately, even that can't be achieved with this year's edition of the Challenger Trophy - there's already been a heavy overdose of cricket and with the crowd already giving the Champions League a miss, they'll most certainly stay away from this less attractive domestic tournament. Now, the only thing that can play saviour is the standard of competition. Then vs now In fact, that was the soul of this tournament at its inception. The young crop of cricketers were pitted against the best in the country --- if they made a mark there, they had arrived. Piyush Chawla became a household name when he deceived Sachin Tendulkar with a wrong 'un, Sreesanth got an early lesson in not messing with a batsman on song in another edition when he spoke his mind while bowling to Tendulkar - he was duly dispatched to all parts of the ground. There was a time when India Blue was virtually the current India team and any youngster who was making the headlines in domestic cricket was tested by the best in the business. There's nothing more transparent than testing players in tough match conditions, for net sessions and statistics can give you a false account of one's skills. But that's a thing of the past. Since the senior team is not in a position to participate (the ODI series against England starts a day after the finals of the Challenger Trophy) in this year's edition, the tournament has been reduced to a glorified domestic tournament held over four days and played by the second string cricketers in India. While some of these cricketers are indeed knocking the doors of selection for Team India, there are quite a few who just make up the numbers. Falling standards That's why some of the players picked to play in this tournament will not create even a ripple in the years to follow. Even though, this tournament is a step ahead of the Deodhar Trophy (Inter-Zone limited-over tournament), it still is a far cry from what it used to be or should be. It's more like class X students mixed together and then randomly put into three teams to play against each other. It would only mean playing against the player from your own section (who otherwise would always play with you), while still playing school-level cricket. If one needs to improve or test the standard of upcoming players, it is imperative to play them against better quality opposition. If it is impossible to find a window of four days in which Team India is free to participate, it would be wise to invite an 'A' team of some other country. Or how about conducting this tournament abroad, for then even the conditions would test our younger crop. If any of these things isn't possible to achieve, it may not be a bad idea to scrap this tournament completely, for in the current form it's just crowding the already crowded domestic calendar
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Indeed. It is a shame that we do not have the ODI team available for this tour. The BCCI shouldn't have to accomodate for much. All that should be noted is that the national team should be able to play in the Duleep, Deodhar and Challenger tournaments. That includes the scheduling, therefore, of the Champions League. Therefore, there can be a chance for the top domestic performers to see if they are quite international level.

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