13/02/2009

Did he do enough to merit a recall?

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:

LVISS said...

Everybody except you and me seem to know the reason behind Balajis inclusion.

Soulberry said...

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.

Viswanathan said...

R/SB,

Cheekha bowing to quota?

Anonymous said...

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?