A promising selection
July 21, 2005Greg Chappell is happy with the squad the Indian selectors have selected and so am I. I have already stated about Raina, a promising youngster. But also equally enthusiastic are the selections of Rao and return of J.P.Yadav. The omission of Mongia was surprising but keeping 2007 in mind, maybe the selectors first wanted to go for a younger player to build the squad.
Now the return of Laxman and Nehra’s being in the squad are very positive as far as I am concerned. Laxman is a great talent and deserves another chance in the one dayers. And Nehra has underperformed for most of his international career. This may well be his last chance in the one day squad but it is a chance he deserved. I think he will make the most of it. I guess it is curtains for Agarkar and rigthly so. He has been very inconsistent and I do not see him playing in 2007. But then we can never say any thing where Agarkar is concerned!
The Indian first XI will see a few experimentations in the next six months and then we will know more or less who will play in 2007 and the squad solidification will begin then. Now is the time for squad building. It is important the new players who are tried are given some sort of a run and selected after a lot of pondering first of all. The last season proved the one day squad needs a few churnings if they are to be in contention in the 2007 world cup realisticially. We are seeing the experimentation now.
