The Indian cricket team starts the three-Test series against New Zealand in Hamilton on March 18.
However, to everyone’s surprise, India's cricket selectors picked Lakshmipathy Balaji for the New Zealand tour, a player who last played a Test match in March 2005 before suffering a career-threatening stress fracture to his back.
I for one, wonder whether Balaji had done anything to merit a recall since his return to active cricket.
Test squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt.)
Virender Sehwag (vice-Capt.)
Gautam Gambhir
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Venkatsai Laxman
Yuvraj Singh
Murali Vijay
Dinesh Karthik
Harbhajan Singh
Amit Mishra
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Munaf Patel
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Dhawal Kulkarni.
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4 comments:
Everybody except you and me seem to know the reason behind Balajis inclusion.
Not according to me, yet.
He moved the ball both ways and perhaps he is India's "secret weapon" in a country which is expected to swing. I'm skeptical at the moment.
R/SB,
Cheekha bowing to quota?
Balaji is not a bad addition at all. I only hope he swings the ball the way he used to.
I am wondering though, what happened to Piyush Chawla?
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