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BP X1 against England announced
« on: February 08, 2006, 06:07:28 PM »

The team is captained by Venugopal Rao, a prolific batsman for Andhra. The match is a three-day affair, starting on February 23.

Board XI squad Venugopal Rao (capt), Wasim Jaffer, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, S. Badrinath, Dinesh Karthik, Dheeraj Jadhav, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra, Ramesh Powar, SS Paul, Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, VRV Singh.


Excellent overall:

Jaffer and Gambhir go head to head.
Raina gets a chance - wow - cool for him to be tried out in the longer version. deserves it

Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra are the best available prospects after Chawla. Nadeem has been disappointing so far.

I like the pace dept: Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, VRV Singh - way too cool.

A great job by the selectors - kudos!



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Re: BP X1 against England announced
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2006, 07:05:55 PM »
2 (maybe 3) glaring omissions - Kaif, Chawla and Badani
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Re: BP X1 against England announced
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2006, 07:46:46 PM »
Only Badani.

kaif is a proven player. He is first in the pecking order for backup players for the middle order. BP XIV includes all prospective players.

Chawla is playing U19 WC which gets over Feb 19/20. BP game is on Feb 23. That is why he's left out.
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Re: BP X1 against England announced
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2006, 03:17:16 PM »

Thinking about the lineup again, not sure if Rao is the right one.
He looked out of depth in ODIs. 
And he is no tyro either to tidy up his few problems - 24 years already.

Badani may not have been bad - or even Mongia.

Or Mumabi's Indulkar  of the next gen who is highly rated.
He had a decent Ranji season last year.

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Re: BP X1 against England announced
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2006, 03:47:33 PM »
Teddy at it again.

It is one thing to say he didnt look the part which is quite wrong IMO.

But to blatantly lie that he is 26 !! - He is 23 and no more.

IMO he is going to form the core of the Indian batting lineup in the next 5 years with Yuvi and Kaif
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