Topic: Duleep Trophy News and Matches Thread (Read 4449 times)

ramshorns · « **on:** January 19, 2009, 09:39:26 PM »

Jaffer leads strong West Zone batting line-up

Cricinfo staff

January 19, 2009

Wasim Jaffer has been named the captain of the West Zone squad for the Duleep Trophy. Jaffer, who led Mumbai to their 38th Ranji Trophy title, heads a formidable line-up, consisting of some of the leading performers this season.

The notable omission is Gujarat offspinner Mohnish Parmar, who has been overlooked despite being the leading wicket-taker in first-class games in the country this season. It's believed Parmar, who went to Australia in December to correct his suspect action, is yet to be cleared. Parmar has taken 52 wickets in 11 games at 19.42, including 41 at 19.53 apiece in the Ranji Trophy - one less the best of 42 taken by Dhawal Kulkarni and Ravindra Jadeja.

Mumbai's Ramesh Powar and Baroda's Rajesh Pawar are the spinners in the 15-man squad. Powar, an offspinner, took 34 wickets in nine games at 26.14, and played a key role in Mumbai's success, and the left-arm spinner Pawar had 20 wickets from his six games at 28.80.

Kulkarni, Sidharh Trivedi, Samad Fallah and Ajitesh Argal are the other specialist bowlers in the squad. The side's strongest suit though is its batting, with Jaffer, Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara - the top three run-getters in the Ranji Trophy this season - in its ranks. They will be joined by two other strong performers in Kedar Jadhav and Bhavik Thakkar - both scored over 600 and averaged over 70 in the Ranji Trophy. Parthiv Patel, the team's vice-captain, will keep wicket.

West Zone's first match is the semi-final against East Zone at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, which starts on January 29.

West Zone squad: Wasim Jaffer (capt), Parthiv Patel (wk), Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Kedar Jadhav, Ajay Shrikhande, Bhavik Thakkar, Abhishek Nayar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Sidharth Trivedi, Samad Fallah, Ramesh Powar, Rajesh Pawar, Azharuddin Bilakhia and Ajitesh Argal.

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/duleeptrophy2008/content/story/386888.html

ramshorns · « **Reply #1 on:** January 19, 2009, 09:41:37 PM »

Debasis overlooked for East Zone Duleep squad

Cricinfo staff

January 10, 2009

Debasis Mohanty is a notable absentee from the East Zone squad, to be captained by former Test opener Shiv Sunder Das, announced for the Duleep Trophy. Debasis was Orissa's joint highest wicket-taker this Ranji Trophy season with 28 wickets at 16.53, but was overlooked in place of his pace partner Basanth Mohanty.

The side has three other players from Orissa - the wicketkeeper Haladhar Das, Basant - who tied with Debasis on 28 wickets at 21.28 - and allrounder Niranjan Behera. "It's good that we have four players in the squad. However, Debashish should have been in the side. He did pretty well in Ranji Trophy this season," Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) secretary Ashirbad Behera told PTI.

Bengal's wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha has been named as a batsman, and joins statemates Ranadeb Bose, Ashok Dinda, Manoj Tiwary and Dibyendu Chakraborty. The Bengal captain, Laxmi Shukla, has not found a place. Bengal's Utpal Chatterjee has been named the coach.

The East Zone selectors, Raja Venkat and Sambaran Banerjee, appointed the Assam middle order batsman Rashmi Parida as the vice-captain.

This season's Duleep Trophy will be played on a knock-out basis. South Zone and Central Zone, the teams placed at the bottom of their respective groups last season, will play a qualifying match in Bangalore from January 22. The winner will take on defending champions North Zone in the first semi-final, while East Zone clash with West Zone in the second. The final, scheduled to begin on February 5, will be played in Chennai.

ramshorns · « **Reply #2 on:** January 19, 2009, 09:44:53 PM »

Laxman to lead

HYDERABAD: Test star V.V.S. Laxman will lead South Zone in the Duleep Trophy cricket championship to be held in Bangalore, Rajkot and Chennai from January 22, according to N. Shivlal Yadav, secretary of Hyderabad Cricket Association.

All the players are to assemble in Bangalore on January 20. For further details players may contact R. Sudhakar Rao, assistant secretary, on Phone No. 098440 41815.(Rams: That is really funny. Contact someone over phone on a zonal selection.)

The team: V.V.S. Laxman (captain), S. Badrinath (vice-captain), Abhinav Mukund, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Dravid, N. Arjun Yadav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), R. Ashwin, P. Pragyan Ojha, L. Balaji, S. Sreeshanth, R. Vinay Kumar, Suarav Bandekar, M. Suresh and S. Anoop Pai. Coach: B. K. Venkatesh Prasad. Manager: Syed Kirmani.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/20/stories/2009012056301800.htm

ramshorns · « **Reply #3 on:** January 19, 2009, 09:50:44 PM »

I am not sure why M. Vijay's name is missing from the SZ squad. Granted Mukund and Uttappa based on the stats did very well and perhaps will open. But I am surprised to see Vijay's name missing. Also Sreesanth is back. I am not sure if Ojha can play given his selection to the Indian team.

dextrous · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2009, 12:27:48 AM »

Quote from: ramshorns on January 19, 2009, 09:50:44 PM

I am not sure why M. Vijay's name is missing from the SZ squad. Granted Mukund and Uttappa based on the stats did very well and perhaps will open. But I am surprised to see Vijay's name missing. Also Sreesanth is back. I am not sure if Ojha can play given his selection to the Indian team.

maybe he's like langer

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2009, 04:02:50 AM »

Yup. Vijay's omission is surprising given that he is one of the contenders for the 3rd opener's slot for the NZ tour. Unles they have decided to go back to Jaffer.

dextrous · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2009, 05:40:17 AM »

Quote from: keep-it-cool on January 20, 2009, 04:02:50 AM

Yup. Vijay's omission is surprising given that he is one of the contenders for the 3rd opener's slot for the NZ tour. Unles they have decided to go back to Jaffer.

you mean indian selectors plan in advance?

ramshorns · « **Reply #7 on:** January 20, 2009, 11:19:10 AM »

Laxman to captain South Zone, Kaif leads Central

Cricinfo staff

January 20, 2009

VVS Laxman and Mohammad Kaif have been named captains of the South and Central Zone squads for the Duleep Trophy. Both sides will kick off their campaign against each other on January 22 in Bangalore.

Laxman only played one Ranji Trophy game this season, but made it a memorable one with 224 against Rajasthan. His presence, along with Rahul Dravid's, make for a formidable South Zone side, which includes Robin Uthappa and S Badrinath. Anoop Pai, Hyderabad's leading run-scorer this Ranji season, has also earned a spot.

Five Tamil Nadu players feature. The opener Abhinav Mukund has been rewarded for an impressive Ranji season, in which he scored 856 runs at 85.60, with four centuries, Dinesh Karthik dons the gloves on the basis of a strong season, and L Balaji's 36 wickets at 17.50 apiece in his comeback season have earned him a spot. Badrinath and the offspinner R Ashwin, who took 24 Ranji wickets, are the other TN players.

Sreesanth's form and fitness will be closely monitored. He played only one Ranji match for Kerala, in which he took seven wickets against Jharkhand, and will get between one and three games to prove himself. Pragyan Ojha, selected to tour Sri Lanka with India's ODI side, adds depth to South's spin department.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Tanmay Srivastava, Uttar Pradesh's leading wicket-taker and run-scorer in the Ranji Trophy, have been included in the Central squad, along with state-mate Shivakant Shukla, who came to prominence this season. Naman Ojha is the wicketkeeper and Piyush Chawla and Murali Kartik make up the spin component. RP Singh, ignored for the Sri Lanka tour, has been included.

The Duleep Trophy is yet another chance for Kaif, who scored 529 runs in the Ranji Trophy, to stake his claim for re-selection to the national side. After captaining UP to their third Ranji final in three seasons, Kaif recently told Cricinfo he was still hopeful.

South Zone squad: VVS Laxman (capt), S Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Dravid, Arjun Yadav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), R Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, L Balaji, Sreesanth, R Vinay Kumar, Saurabh Bandekar, Suresh M, Anoop Pai.

Central Zone squad: Mohammad Kaif (capt), Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Anureet Singh, Robin Bist, Piyush Chawla, Faiz Fazal, Yere Goud, Murali Kartik, Naman Ojha (wk), Pankaj Singh, Parvinder Singh, Jalaj Saxena, Shivakant Shukla, RP Singh, Tanmay Srivastava.

gouravk · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2009, 06:35:19 PM »

wah .. laxman picked as leader above dravid, karthik, uthappa .. interesting ...

dextrous · « **Reply #9 on:** January 20, 2009, 08:43:55 PM »

hah, kaif is still hopeful?! poor guy.

gouravk · « **Reply #10 on:** January 20, 2009, 09:10:21 PM »

and why not ? a tough tour like new zealand might well force FTBs like yuvraj to reconsider their claims for a test spot !

ramshorns · « **Reply #11 on:** January 21, 2009, 04:40:04 PM »

South Zone v Central Zone, Duleep Trophy 2008-09, Bangalore
Hopefuls target the big stage

The Preview by Siddarth Ravindran in Bangalore

January 21, 2009

The Duleep Trophy has long been the setting for many famous turnarounds in a player's fortune - Sourav Ganguly's road back to the national team started with an emphatic century in 2005 and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi's 200 in 1967 after resigning as India captain had his critics imploring him to remain leader of the national side. It remains so this season with a hectic year of cricket ahead and an Indian team in some transition.

The tournament opener at the Chinnaswamy Stadium has several fringe players hoping for a similar upturn, chief among those is South's swing bowler Sreesanth. For a few Test regulars it is an opportunity to gain match practice ahead of the New Zealand visit, but VVS Laxman, the South Zone captain, stressed he was focused on winning the tournament and was not treating the match as a warm-up for New Zealand.

Having struggled with injuries following last year's IPL, Sreesanth had a huge impact on his only first-class game since, taking seven wickets for Kerala. Anyone with his pace and his outswinger would have walked into an Indian side of the 1990s in spite of the long lay-off but the national fast-bowling stocks have rarely been in better health, making a comeback a far tougher proposition.

To complicate matters for Sreesanth, the tournament is now played in a knockout format, with the winner of this match progressing to the semi-finals. That means he could have only one chance to convince the national selectors of his form and fitness ahead of the New Zealand tour next month.

Another bowler who has slipped down the pecking order is legspinner Piyush Chawla, a Test debutant at 17 three years ago. He missed out on the squad for the one-dayers against Sri Lanka despite Harbhajan Singh's absence. He's had a moderate first-class season - taking 27 wickets at 35, and made some handy runs - but an eye-catching performance against the formidable South batting, including VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid, could provide just the boost he needs.

Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath, on the bench for the recent home Tests against England, is another one who needs to perform. His ticket to New Zealand is not yet confirmed, with Rohit Sharma - who made twin centuries in the Ranji Trophy final - leading a bunch of youngsters pushing to take his place. His South team-mate Robin Uthappa has dropped off the national radar since the CB Series in Australia early last year. He has staked his claim by being Karnataka's stand-out batsman, making three centuries in the Ranji Trophy to carry an inexperienced batting order.

A little lower in the race for a national berth is L Balaji, who has had a dazzling season (36 wickets at 17.50) after a long battle with a back injury. A good Duleep Trophy will help him climb another rung on the ladder to the top.

With Balaji and Sreesanth leading the attack, and an imposing batting line-up, South start as favourites, their only weakness being an innocuous spin department. Central's worry is not their slow bowling, which includes Chawla and Murali Kartik, but their batting. Their recognised batsmen have played only 13 Tests, compared to South's 254.

The pitch is expected to favour the batsmen, on the slower side with the bounce getting lower as the match progresses.

South Zone squad: VVS Laxman (capt), S Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Dravid, Arjun Yadav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), R Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Sreesanth, R Vinay Kumar, Saurabh Bandekar, M Suresh, Anoop Pai.

Central Zone squad: Mohammad Kaif (capt), Umesh Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Anureet Singh, Robin Bist, Piyush Chawla, Faiz Fazal, Yere Goud, Murali Kartik, Naman Ojha (wk), Pankaj Singh, Parvinder Singh, Jalaj Saxena, Shivakant Shukla, Tanmay Srivastava.

Siddarth Ravindran is a sub-editor at Cricinfo

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/duleeptrophy2008/content/story/387300.html

dextrous · « **Reply #12 on:** January 21, 2009, 04:52:50 PM »

may i ask why arjun yadav is not captaining the side?

pzd · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:00:17 AM »

SZ Vs CZ

SZ , batting first 57/3, RD out for 7

Just realized that there is already a thread on Duleep trophy. Can one of the mods merge this with the thread created by Rams

poondu · « **Reply #14 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:12:37 AM »

is anybody showing the match live ?

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #15 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:35:47 AM »

No. Silly on Neo's part not to telecast.

Btw, things getting worse for SZ ... 102/6 now. What kind of pitch are they playing on?

KKD still there.

pzd · « **Reply #16 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:37:09 AM »

Probably green ...I guess it's a trial for NZ ...

dhruvdeepak · « **Reply #17 on:** January 22, 2009, 09:15:27 AM »

KKD HAS GONE MAD!!!! WHAT A KNOCK!

152 off 113!

he was on 51 off 63 when i last checked!

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #18 on:** January 22, 2009, 09:26:41 AM »

Wow..what a knock ..scorecard suddenly looks healthy at 294/8

cricinfo · « **Reply #19 on:** January 22, 2009, 11:36:29 AM »

Quiz time .....

Who received the only peach delivered during the entire first day

ramshorns · « **Reply #20 on:** January 22, 2009, 03:47:05 PM »

Looks like the Central bowlers especially Yadav exploited the initial freshness of the pitch for couple of hours to get RU/RD/VVS/Badri and ofcourse Arjun Yadav. Then once getting the eye in KaKaDi took it to another level with a mean knock to take South to some respectability.

k-slice · « **Reply #21 on:** January 22, 2009, 03:52:10 PM »

surprising that vvs failed. i am really begining to wonder if this might be the begining of the end for him. then again if the team can accomadate RD as a passenger why not him. atleast VVS runs well between the wickets, has an excellent strike rate, is a fielder in the same bracket as jonty, has great kneeswhich have never had surgery performed on them and has played scintillating knocks in the past. all except the last statement might or might not be true. what really concerns me is that were these stalwarts, aka rd and vvs to retire like AK and Sg did i think we as a team would find it hard to fill in their boots and might be faced with a australia like situation where the young turks take a while to step it up.
ramshorn: just stating my view.

ramshorns · « **Reply #22 on:** January 22, 2009, 03:55:54 PM »

Quote from: k-slice on January 22, 2009, 03:52:10 PM

surprising that vvs failed. i am really begining to wonder if this might be the begining of the end for him. then again if the team can accomadate RD as a passenger why not him. atleast VVS runs well between the wickets, has an excellent strike rate, is a fielder in the same bracket as jonty, has great kneeswhich have never had surgery performed on them and has played scintillating knocks in the past. all except the last statement might or might not be true. what really concerns me is that were these stalwarts, aka rd and vvs to retire like AK and Sg did i think we as a team would find it hard to fill in their boots and might be faced with a australia like situation where the young turks take a while to step it up.
ramshorn: just stating my view.

Thanks for clarifying.

dextrous · « **Reply #23 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:45:59 PM »

Quote from: k-slice on January 22, 2009, 03:52:10 PM

surprising that vvs failed. i am really begining to wonder if this might be the begining of the end for him. then again if the team can accomadate RD as a passenger why not him. atleast VVS runs well between the wickets, has an excellent strike rate, is a fielder in the same bracket as jonty, has great kneeswhich have never had surgery performed on them and has played scintillating knocks in the past. all except the last statement might or might not be true. what really concerns me is that were these stalwarts, aka rd and vvs to retire like AK and Sg did i think we as a team would find it hard to fill in their boots and might be faced with a australia like situation where the young turks take a while to step it up.
ramshorn: just stating my view.

and vvs also scores run by the bucketful?

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #24 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:48:22 PM »

It will be interesting to see how Balaji & Sreesanth go on this pitch tomorrow morning.

k-slice · « **Reply #25 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:59:31 PM »

ofcourse dex. he actually scores runs by the tub. after all buckets can hold only so many runs.

dextrous · « **Reply #26 on:** January 22, 2009, 05:34:51 PM »

Quote from: k-slice on January 22, 2009, 04:59:31 PM

ofcourse dex. he actually scores runs by the tub. after all buckets can hold only so many runs.

haha...not as many as ganguly

LosingNow · « **Reply #27 on:** January 22, 2009, 10:10:19 PM »

Quote from: k-slice on January 22, 2009, 04:59:31 PM

ofcourse dex. he actually scores runs by the tub. after all buckets can hold only so many runs.

LOL

Libran · « **Reply #28 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:01:32 AM »

Quote from: keep-it-cool on January 20, 2009, 04:02:50 AM

Yup. Vijay's omission is surprising given that he is one of the contenders for the 3rd opener's slot for the NZ tour. Unles they have decided to go back to Jaffer.

Vijay is injured... otherwise he is ahead in the pecking order...much ahead of RD and VVS

broadbat · « **Reply #29 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:05:38 AM »

Still have no clue why Neo is not broadcasting this game? I thought they had sewn up all rights for domestic matches with the BCCI.

Libran · « **Reply #30 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:11:52 AM »

With a lot of "have beens" playing... it is not commercially viable
Maybe the long weekend will see some hopelessly jobless people walking into the stadium

broadbat · « **Reply #31 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:19:53 AM »

The tragedy then is that we will have nothing to post during the match and as a result make our weekend even longer.

broadbat · « **Reply #32 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:29:20 AM »

Meanwhile Chawla seems to have fallen by the wayside as far as his bowling goes,
4-0-34-0. KKD effect no doubt.

dextrous · « **Reply #33 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:45:58 AM »

Quote from: broadbat on January 23, 2009, 04:29:20 AM

Meanwhile Chawla seems to have fallen by the wayside as far as his bowling goes,
4-0-34-0. KKD effect no doubt.

he made it to the central squad more for his batting, i think

broadbat · « **Reply #34 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:38:53 AM »

CZ 65-2. Sreesanth and Uthappa

get the wickets.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #35 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:41:57 AM »

Uthappa may very well be a mistake on CI's part ...they kept changing the scorecards thru the day yesterday as well

Libran · « **Reply #36 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:53:24 AM »

Quote from: keep-it-cool on January 23, 2009, 05:41:57 AM

Uthappa may very well be a mistake on CI's part ...they kept changing the scorecards thru the day yesterday as well

Mallya's handiwork in influencing CI .. to show his swap of ZK for RU is paying rich dividends

LosingNow · « **Reply #37 on:** January 23, 2009, 06:24:50 AM »

Quote from: Libran on January 23, 2009, 05:53:24 AM

Quote from: keep-it-cool on January 23, 2009, 05:41:57 AM
Uthappa may very well be a mistake on CI's part ...they kept changing the scorecards thru the day yesterday as well

Mallya's handiwork in influencing CI .. to show his swap of ZK for RU is paying rich dividends

Looks like he did get the wicket.. and has bowled 4 overs.

I remember him from the bowl-out in 20-20 WC against Pak

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #38 on:** January 23, 2009, 06:41:20 AM »

Tight game here .. CZ - 136/4. Kaif going strong on 47

SS has 2 wickets so far; Balaji has 1

Libran · « **Reply #39 on:** January 23, 2009, 07:16:49 AM »

Kudos to Balaji... he has really made a great comeback from an injury that was termed "career threatening"

He should be picked for the NZ Tour... will be a great support fo ZK and IS in the seaming tracks..and if SS can make it back as well, we can do away with a spinner and go with an all pace attack... Yuvi, VS and SRT can do all the spinning they want.

look at a XI like this ... VS-GG-VVS-SRT-Yuvi-RD*-MSD-ZK-SS-LB-IS

* replace with Badri/Raina/ Pujara ... any of these will score as much or more than RD in their respective current form

Related Topics
	Subject	Started by	Replies	Views	Last post
	Duleep Trophy - SZ v SL A and NZ v EZ General Cricket Discussion	Libran	121	3091	November 08, 2006, 04:39:40 AM by keep-it-cool
	Duleep Trophy Final - NZ v/s SL-A General Cricket Discussion	keep-it-cool	43	1066	November 16, 2006, 10:19:13 AM by keep-it-cool
	Duleep Trophy to be held after Ranji General Cricket Discussion	poondu	0	275	June 04, 2007, 03:18:24 PM by poondu
	Duleep Trophy Match Thread Cricket Match Threads	poondu	117	4202	February 25, 2008, 05:05:11 AM by keep-it-cool
	ICC WC T20 Matches : Common thread of all non India matches Cricket Match Threads	ganavk	2	814	April 23, 2010, 04:07:29 AM by sojibds
	ICC WC T20 Matches : Common thread for all India matches.. Cricket Match Threads	ganavk	0	433	June 05, 2009, 04:22:25 PM by ganavk
	2011/12 Duleep Trophy thread General Cricket Discussion	Cernunnos	133	2942	February 16, 2012, 01:40:00 PM by Cover Point

AuthorTopic: Duleep Trophy News and Matches Thread (Read 4449 times)