South Africa And Sl In India Options

[tracknest]

As I expected, a thumping win by the Indian side. Keep it up guys. On a good batting wicket, Irfan and Harbhajan bowled beautifully.

Good to see Sewag playing to his potential. I love the balanace of this Indian team and credit must go to Chappel and Dravid.

Well done boys and keep making us proud.

[princeali]

Ganguly is still more talented than many of the current Indian batsman, which has been proved recently, but he should not have been treated the way he is.

I don't like the idea of re-calling Wasim Jaffer and the not playing him, he should have been played instead of Gambhir in this test.

The Aussies are still a strong team, other teams have a way to go to reach their standards of playing well in different conditions. Yes, they can be beaten but to match them you have to consistently play well. England beat them in the Ashes but lost to Pakistan, England are a good team but putting them in Australia's bracket as many critics have done just because they won a series is going overboard.

I like SA's team not only in Tests but in ODI's as well, they're going to be a team to watch out for when the WC arrives.

The India-Pak series is coming up soon and that's going to be a cracker.

[vivekpm]

Ganguly is still more talented than many of the current Indian batsman, which has been proved recently, but he should not have been treated the way he is.

I don't like the idea of re-calling Wasim Jaffer and the not playing him, he should have been played instead of Gambhir in this test.

Given that Gambhir failed again, Jaffer will get a look-in in first test against Pak. And given all the hype and controversy created around his dropping, Ganguly might get into the squad for Pak. Though I still believe that he should be in the team only for ODIs.

Some information for u, just in case u r not aware of. Kaif has been playing first class cricket for the last 8 years. In the 67 matches that he has played so far, he scored 5 centuries, with highest score of 136 and a pathetic average of 37. I think other than BD and Zim teams, you wont find any other test batsmen with such poor record. Even most all rounders have better batting averages. So on what basis u think he is going to succeed in test?

I agree that with you here that average of 37 is not something to show for a batsman. I never said he should be sustained for Pak. My feeling is that, sooner or later he will make a comeback.

Apart from all the names discussed here, does anyone remember a player called Badani? He deserves a chance too IMHO.

Cheers,