Sarphera Surprised !!!India's World Cup squad

Finally selection committee headed by Kriss Srikkanth picked the team for upcoming world cup.The high profile much awaited selection is shocking for sarphera BLOGGER.The team for world cup is Sachin,Shewag,Gambhir,Dhoni,Kohli,Yusuf,Raina,Yuvraj,Harbhajan,Aswin,Piyush Chawla,Zaheer,Nehera,Praveen Kumar,Munaf.The team has 7 batsmans,1 wicket keeper,3 spinners and 4 pace bowlers.The selection is so much suprising for sarphera BLOGGER.Srikkanth has picked 3 spinners,can he answer the inclusion of Piyush Chawla?Is he a match winner?If you needed a leggie,Amit Mishra is a better bowler than Chawla.There is no need of three spinners as their is so many off break options.You could have taken one offie,one leggie and one specialist spinner if needed three.Pragyan was not a bad option.Another controversial decision taken by selector is that they excluded Rohit Sharma.Rohit has not poorer form than Raina and Yuvraj.Perticularly Yuvi who is struggling from more than a year should be out of the squad.Outster of Rohit and Parthiv restricted teams opening options.With Sachin,Shewag and Gambhir in injury list a poor decision by the national selectors.The third spinner could atleast be replaced by Another batsman.Selection of seamers is according to SB's prediction.SB thinks the team is not balanced in the lower middle order.

Sarphera's Prediction:Parthiv On The Race!

Thanks to some good bowling efforts by bowlers India won the 2nd game against the proteas to level the series.But a bad news for Indian camp is that master blaster SRT injured on harmstring and left for home.Last time when Gauti was injured,selectors picked Rohit Sharma as additional opener.But now the selectors has taken wise decision by picking the Gujrat player thinks Sarphera BLOGGER.Parthiv,who has the record of playing test cricket before playing first class cricket is the right choice for South African conditions.When India batsmans are struggling at bouncy tracks his ability to play short ball will surely help India.The 'Chota Hayden' whose batting is impressive after the come back positioned himself as a serious contender for world cup.Although their is no time left for picking world cup squad the inclusion of Parthiv Patel in the current touring team increased his chances.It will not be surprising if the current second best wicket keeper gets a world cup berth.With his opening abilities he is much ahead of M Vijay.Wicket keeping is an additional plus point.In SB's team their is a immidiate threat to Pujara's world cup ambitions.It is interesting to see whether the selectors will give another chance to Yuvraj or not.Their is a lot of media talking about R Aswin but I thing Harbhajan and Pragyan should be there.Although Srilanka picked three spinners(as 1996 subcontinent world cup)their is almost no chance of three spinners in Indian squad.

Sarphera Selector:Team For The World Cup

The final squad for the upcoming world cup is going to declare today.The national selection committee headed by Krishnamachari Srikkanth will pick 15 players for the mega event at the home soil.Indian skipper Dhoni earlier said that 'the world cup squad is almost less or more settled '.And again he stated that one or two performance (perticularly at the current tour in SA) does n't matter,Player's last 12 months performance will be taken into consideration for the selection.Sarphera BLOGGER thinks that playing at bouncy track prior to world cup is a bad move for world cup preparation.If SB were chief selector then the 15 player for the world cup will be SACHIN,SHEWAG,GAMBHIR,KOHLI,DHONI,RAINA,ROHIT SHARMA,YUSUF PATHAN,CHETESWAR PUJARA,HARBHAJAN,ZAHEER KHAN,PRAGYAN OJHA,ASHISH NEHERA,MUNAF PATEL AND PRAVEEN KUMAR.As far as opening is concerned their are many players in the squad capable of opening,so their is no place of reserve opener.Hence M Vijay is out of squad.I prefer Sachin and Shewag to open the innings and Gambhir to bat at no 3.Kohli,Dhoni,Raina and Yusuf to bat at No 4 to No 7 respectively.Yuvraj is out of squad for his dubicious form and lack of confidence.As there are many spinning options in the team their is no need of 3rd spinner.So R Aswin and Chawla are not selected.There are 4 seamers in the squad and I think Zaheer and Nehera to be the strike bowler.Dhoni may take risk of playing three seamers as the pace bowlers are not consistent.Rohit Sharma is a good finisher and he can open the innings ,so he is in reserve. The inconsistany of lower middle order forced me to pick Cheteswar pujara.I would prefer Badrinath over Pujara,but Badrinath is not among probable 30.According to SB the sqaud is balanced.

Race for world cup ticket:game on......

After a humiliating defeat at centurian despite of Sachin's 50th ton,finally team India beat the proteos at Durban.Team India played very well in each and every department than their counter part South Africa.The test will be remembered for 'Very Very Special' Laxman's heroic innings,full flow of Indian seamers and also Bhajji's classics.Again this test will remind the failure of Murali Vijay and Cheteswar Pujara.However India gained its overall 2nd victory at the SA soil.On Last 2006 tour we won the 1st test at j'berg after a ODI brown wash 0-4 aganist the host SA.That test had the memorable peformances of dada and malabar express(sreesanth).But India lost the remaining tests.Hope MSD will not repeat those mistakes.Now we should proceed towards the team selection of world cup.Two tests has been played after the announcement of priliminary squad.People may say that it is unjustified to judge players for just 1 or 2 games,but if yusuf picked for one century at final game then why not ?Before the selection India will play 1 T20 and 3 ODI's aganist SA.I had earlier doubted that lower middle order will face problems at South Africa and that happens. Both Raina(ODI specialist, but forced to display test temperament) and Pujara(future Laxman) both failed to make a mark.But I think it's not over for Pujara as am sure that he will get another chance in the 3rd test.Raina will have to wait for the T20 and ODI's to justify his WC candidature.Vijay missed his oppertunity but still a contender for WC berth as it will depend on selectors whether they will pick keeper-batsman parthiv(Chota Hayden) or batsman Vijay(Tamilnadu-lobby ) as additional opener.Yuvraj,who has been struggling for form benefited for not playing this test series and will be given preference over Raina in the middle order in upcoming ODI series.Sreesanth and Ishant played good but with expensive average.They have to work hard to break the ice.It is my personal opinion that selectors will face difficulty to pick seamer for the world cup.Finally congratulation to 'god' Sachin for 50th ton and best of luck to men-in-blue for 3rd test.HAPPY NEW YEAR.

world cup ka selecton-kiski khusi kiski gham

On 18th december the Indian team of 30 probable players announced for upcoming world cup.Like other cricket fans I want to analyse the selection.I saw various media raised the exclusion of Dravid,Uthappa and Irfan Pathan.Dravid,I dont know why krish srikant does not pick u in the squad.I still expect some disaster in the current SA tour,especially in the middle order.On january selectors may regret but there are Rahane and Pujara available to replace your position.I will really miss u Mr Wall.Robin Uthappa,u look like a giant more than a player.I think u have not got much oppertunity to make an impact.Some experts mentioned about your additional wicket keeping skills but selectors may go to world cup with specialist keepers only as they have picked 4 specialst keepers.(I remember that England has taken 2 wicket keepers in 96' world cup,both Jack Russail and Stewart playing in final XI.)Again there is no chance for opening and last minute strike of yusuf closed the door for u.Irfan:I dont know whether u are playing in Ranji Trophy or not and what is your current form.But u should be their in the squad.I dont know what the selector are thinking about the final XI.The WC is going to be on feb-march-april when the first class season in subcontinent will be almost over and pitches will be dusty having low bounce(except mohali,ahmedabad).It is interesting whether MSD will pick 2 or 3 seamers.But if he pick 2 spinners,then we really miss u pathan. If one seamer will get hammering I dont know who will be going to bowl between powerplays.Keepers:There are 3 keepers(except MSD) and I think if any one eligible for final 15 he will be parthiv.I  dont know why wridhimaan saha has been picked for SA tour.Spinners:There are 5 spinners in the squad and I think all 4 except Chawla has a chance to make for the WC.Seamers:There are 7 seamers and i think 4 will make it to WC.Only zaheer has confirmed his place yet.SA tour will be decider for nehera/sreesanth/ishant.The selection is overall good.I dont know much about Rahane(only had read his name in newspaper).There is going to be a strong competition in between Vijay and Parthiv for 3rd opener.SHOCKED:I am really shocked about selection of Jadeja as there are sehwag/pathan/raina/yuvraj to free arms if required.I request selectors not to pick him.And finally am waiting for mid january when final 15 will be declared