The format is very new to Indians as we have played only the solitary T20 match in South Africa earlier this year. The Domestic season in T20 is only a year old as well. In short India are not experienced in this format. Add to that the fact that the team is full of youngsters, and we have a very inexperienced contingent. This could be a plus for India as they are underdogs.
I am looking forward to this slam-wham-bang format. India plays Scotland on Thursday and then Pakistan on Friday.
The aim of this blog to is to guess the starting line up that India will go in with. Looking at the squad, there are very few places that are sealed. Lemme try and take a punt on a starting 11.
1. Virender Sehwag
2. Gautam Gambhir
3. Yuvraj Singh
4. Robin Uthappa
5. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
6. Dinesh Kartik
7. Irfan Pathan
8. Yusuf Pathan
9. Harbhajan Singh
10.Santhakumaran Sreesanth
11.Rudra Pratap Singh
Considerations :
- Sehwag and Gambhir will provide the Right-Left combination at the top of the order, with that hope that Sehwag can give us explosive starts.
- Yuvraj is the best batsman on eth squad and has to come in at #2
- Uthappa slots himself into #4 as a dynamic batsman
Dhoni will play at #5 as a specialist batsman, as he has the added responsibility of captaining the side. With the captain obligated to speak to the commentators live, keeping will be a burden on him. - Kartik, an improviser, will slot himself in at #6 and will wear the gloves. He is not only a better 'keeper than Dhoni , but will also take the load off Dhoni.
- Irfan Pathan will be the genuine allrounder and I do hope he lives upto the expectations.
- Yusuf Pathan is talked off highly in this format and hence will earn his chance against a lesser team in Scotland. If he can bowl as well as he is required to, he can keep this place, otherwise it will go to Piyush Chawla, another leggie.
- Harbhajan, Sreesanth and RP Singh form the specialist bowlers.
- Yuvraj and Sehwag will chip in with eth ball as and when required.
- I dont know how and why Agarkar is even in the squad!!!!!!
- The 2 Sharmas, Joginder and Rohit will sit out!!!
2 comments:
Hi Pramod,
So good to see you here. Finally I get the time to check your blog out.. its good.. I think Indiatimes was getting too full of forwards and meaningless rants. However, must say some of the best bloggers started there :-)
Keep writing.. will check with you often.
ood to see u here vandana. Do keep stopping by!!!!
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