Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Baap of all Jokers

Read the interview here in Tehelka. And decide for yourself whether people like Niranjan Shah really deserve to be in the board of BCCI. Two subsequent questions have completely conflicting answers.

For the sake of argument, what is the more important criterion for selection: performance or rotation policy? Would you drop the best performing players for rotation policy?
Rahul's performance is not there. Lakshman's performance is not there.

I am talking about Ganguly. He has done well.
Lakshman has done well too.
There is more....

What is the idea of this rotation policy?
To give players rest. They play so much cricket these days, they may need rest.

My question is whether the rotation policy be applied to Tendulkar? Doesn't he also run the risk of getting injured?
If he wants rest, why not?

Ganguly did not want to rest. He is very disappointed.
There is a certain combination you require in the team. Suppose there are five one day series. He will play three. We will actually help him.


With jokers like this, who needs other forms of entertainment? On a related note, I think we have another joker called Dhoni in Indian cricket. The man needs to stop acting and start playing cricket for some time. And he definitely needs to stop giving smartass comments to the media.

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