Gollum Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Kolkata: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly feels out-of-favour off-spinner Harbhajan Singh can make a comeback to the national team if the selectors look beyond those favoured by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. (Read: Sourav Ganguly's success mantra) "I think Bhajji can make a comeback to the national side in both forms of the game," Ganguly told a news channel in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Read: Ganguly tells Virat to enjoy captaincy) Describing Harbhajan as one of the country's top spinners, the former India captain slammed the selectors for not choosing the Jalandhar man over Dhoni's choice. (Read: Dhoni's Test captaincy 'obnoxious': Ganguly) "I believe the selectors don't think much on this (Harbhajan's selection) and especially when you have captain's men around," Ganguly said. (Watch: Why SRK axed Ganguly from KKR) Incidentally, Harbhajan, who last played a Test against Australia in March 2013, has played six Ranji Trophy matches this season picking up 23 wickets at an average of 26.60. The former captain was not too convinced about leg-spinner Amit Mishra's inclusion in the Indian squad for both the Asia Cup and the Twenty20 World Cup at the expense of Harbhajan and Pragyan Ojha. Describing Mishra as an "average spinner who is slow in the air," Ganguly pointed out that it would be tough for the Indians to contain batsmen from scoring. "He (Amit) is slow in the air and this makes it easy for a batsman to read him. It can be recalled how (Shane) Watson was hitting him in Nagpur during the ODI last October," the former captain said. Ganguly also criticised Mishra's fielding and questioned the selectors decision to ignore Harbhajan and Ojha. "Amit's fielding is also not outstanding. I am not sure whether he would be able to make any difference to the team because all these sides are from the subcontinent and they know how to play spinners on these flat wickets. I am surprised that how come Bhajji and Ojha are sitting outside the team," he said. http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news/221330-with-ms-dhonis-men-around-harbhajan-singh-not-on-selectors-radar-sourav-ganguly?pfrom=home-otherstories
Crookbond Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Great Dada, guts ... yada yada yada! :--D
Old guy Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 how did indian cricket survived until now ?
Gollum Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 Harby is pathetic nowadays. He starts crapping even when confronted against the likes of Binny in the domestic scene and when the going gets tough he fakes injuries/underbowls himself.
putrevus Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Ashwin in odis is a total failure as front line spinner who is in the team to take wickets.
Sean Bradley Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Fact is we have no good spinner in the country at the moment, harby crapped all over, was replaced by ashwin, now ashwin started crapping around, can't really go back harby, can we?
Pagalpanti Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Ashwin in odis is a total failure as front line spinner who is in the team to take wickets. agree but except Shami which bowler is actually taking wickets? Everyone seems to be going for runs... Problem is deeper I think. Coaching staff has to be accountable for the failures. The bowling attack is capable of bowling well, we saw it in CT.
putrevus Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Fact is we have no good spinner in the country at the moment' date=' harby crapped all over, was replaced by ashwin, now ashwin started crapping around, can't really go back harby, can we?[/quote'] May we thought harby crapped hope this guy will produce wickets as it turns out Harby's darts were tougher to hit than the junk this guy is bowling.
Sean Bradley Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 May we thought harby crapped hope this guy will produce wickets as it turns out Harby's darts were tougher to hit than the junk this guy is bowling. Why not give parvez rasool a look in?
putrevus Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 agree but except Shami which bowler is actually taking wickets? Everyone seems to be going for runs... Problem is deeper I think. Coaching staff has to be accountable for the failures. The bowling attack is capable of bowling well' date=' we saw it in CT.[/quote'] but before this rut also Ashwin never took wickets, he hardly take wickets in odis , jadeja who is supposed to be the spinner who is supposed to do holding job has take more wickets than this guy. This guy adds nothing else , he is liability on field and as tailender can hardly use long handle. Bhajji may not be the answer but Ashwin is certainly not the guy
Lord Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Fact is we have no good spinner in the country at the moment' date=' harby crapped all over, was replaced by ashwin, now ashwin started crapping around, can't really go back harby, can we?[/quote'] try new ones.Rasool,Nadeem etc
putrevus Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Why not give parvez rasool a look in? why not
Brainfade Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Dada should start an Indian store in America; trying to sell goods that are past their expiry date.
Yoda-esque Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Dada should start an Indian store in America; trying to sell goods that are past their expiry date. :hysterical:
sscomp32 Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Dada should start an Indian store in America; trying to sell goods that are past their expiry date. Sent from my GT-P3100 using Tapatalk
SLICKR392 Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Dada should start an Indian store in America; trying to sell goods that are past their expiry date. :hysterical::hysterical:
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