Everyone's bashing Dinesh Mongia because he is one of the worst cricketers to have played cricket.
For all you Mongia lovers just look at the way he bowls.
Of all these years of watching cricket , I have never seen a more disastrous and ugly bowling action.
When he bowls it seems as though a "man whose left side is paralysed is throwing stones at a lame dog".
And if he is a spinner(as he claims to be), I have never seen any of his balls turn even a millimeter (even in our spinner friendly pitches).
He is that kind of player who makes you think that even patients with Multiple Sclerosis can play cricket.
One of the important qualities that is needed by a middle order batsman is his running between the wickets.While players like Mohd.Kaif is a master of this art, Dinesh Mongia is a good example of how you can mess things up while running.
Far from playing International cricket, he doesn't even seem to be fit for playing cricket at club-level.
Many of the messages posted here shows that the average Indian cricket fan is intelligent and has the common sense to judge a very ordinary palyer like Dinesh Mongia
Dinesh Mongia is ommitted from the team because he is not performing good in top level of Cricket. He is out of sorted when he is playing at international level. But at domestic and English county cricket level he is performing at positive attitude. If he developed himself that good and positive attitude towards at top level than he is get good and positive result.
think Dinesh Mongia doesn't deserve a place in the Indian team or for that matter in any team of International status.To be frank, I have never seen a bowler with a worse action than Dinesh Mongia. Added to the fact that he is a disastrous runner betwen the wickets, his omission is justified.I think that this isn't a topic even worthy of discussion.He should be glad that he got a chance to play International cricket ,even when India has got so much young talent.
The Main reasons i think for the selectors not considering mongia 1.He is at his 27 and playing the same old way as we saw the game for the past yrs 2.He can give way to youngsters in one dayers and try to find a better place on test matches...that suits his kind of playing...
A team man like Mongia, who always played in the interest of his team can not be compared to useless players like Laxman.
Laxman fans are stung by his justified omission and hence the needless attacks on Dinesh Mongia.
I did not see anyone mentioning how Mongia hammered 74 in West Indies, took Man of The Match and helped India win the first ever ODI series win in WI.
Against Zimbabwe his 159* in full 50 overs was in series decider game. And with Heath Streak at his peak, Douglous Hondo, Travis Friend and other good bowlers. Not the tin pot attack of today that enables even Ganguly and Laxman to score centuries.
Mongia deserves to be in the team because he is hell of an improved bowler and batsman then he was two-three years back.
Some shrill and ignorant ones here are saying he played slow in World Cup against England. Mind doing some research and finding out in how many balls Mongia scored his 32? AND THEN check in how many balls Kaif scored 34 against Pakistan in the next game? And then consider that Mongia was helping India consolidate after losing early wickets, batting first and Kaif was actually chasing the target.
He is a champion player and deserves a recall. Infact having watched him play in the county circuit, I can say no other Indian batsman has shown the determination, doggedness and hard work as Dinesh has shown here.
For his bowling alone he is worth his weight n gold. In the Challenger Trophy, I was not at all surprised to see that he was more economical that even Murali Kartik, what to talk of other part timers.
For me, he clearly has better all round credentials than Yuvraj, Kaif, Venu, Raina and JP Yadav.
His selection is a no brainer but than....when did Indian selectors have brain?
Im sorry to say all those people who doubt Mongia are a bunch of losers. Mongia is a class batsman and now more than useful left arem bowler, a highly respected proffesional Mongia has shown his class time and time again. You say 51 chances are enough but let look at how many times in those 51 he has opened and gone one one down and in what circumstances. The minute he hits a bad patch he is dropped yet likes of Shewag yuvraj kaif and ganguly could go on and play time after time after multiple and consistent faliures. Raina and Rao and all the other rubbish are now where near as good as mongia his 104 for Lancashire vs Warickshire which was a match winning innings is still considered to be one of the best in the totesport league today. You losers know nothing about cricket Mongia should be in the side, just give the boy 10 matches and i gurantee you he will rock he is that a good a player ask any coach in England like Mike Watkinson how good a player the boy is. You guys are just a bunch of entertainemnt seekers for the record please compare Mongia's first class record to any player and that is why he got into the india side in the first place.
RE:MONGIA-CLASS
by Leo on Nov 11, 2005 04:04 AM
I agree with Bharat.
Simply putting it, there are two yard sticks in India. Ofcourse Dinesh suffers because he comes from Punjab & North Zone and already Nehra, Yuvraj, Bhajji, Gambhir and Sehwag are from there. So it is tough for selectors to push in one more, lest there be hues and cries.
In India people don\'t even consider that a player can improve. Mongia blasted Rana Naved Ul Hassan and Mushtaq Ahmad for a 93 ball 92 run and single handedly demolished Sussex. I saw the innings on ground. On top of that he bowled superbly.
In Challenger he was more economical than Murali Kartik!If Kartik bowls 10 overs for 45 runs, and Mongia bowls 8 overs for 35 or so, does one have to be an Einstein to pick Mongia for being a pure batsman as well?
Keep praising Symonnds, Harvey, Scott Styris, nathan Astle, Andrew Hall types.....and keep kicking your own champions like S. Sriram, Dinesh Mongia etc. This in a nutshell is the awareness level of most Indian fans and selectors.
In any case Dinesh has bad advisors. If he moves to Bengal immediately, he will play the World Cup. Thats a no brainer! In this age of super-sub rule, there is no better available player in India than Dinesh Mongia.
He should admit that he never had it. Players like Kambli could not make it. Talking of limited opportunities, people like Badani made better use of it than Mongia, who just has record at home against Zimbabwe to show. Mongia is just not talented enough to stake a claim, of course he is good on batting paradises against modest attacks. His claims about having to come in slog overs affecting his career average is not supported by his strike rate, which at 75% is very much below par for someone who thinks he slogs. I dont know why I am even writing it, since there is no way he could fit into any Indian side of any time. And to think of that we had to leave out a player like VVS Laxman in last world cup for Dinesh Mongia! Laxman has more claim to an Indian one day side than, say Mongia or more recently, Ganguly. Even Ganguly cant win his place back, I dont understand on what basis, Mongia is upset about. Anyway, I guess a player should have that kind of confidence and attitude otherwise he can never make it big. Someone once said that he would select attitude over talent. That kind of justifies selection of so many new batsmen over Laxman, but that has nothing to do with Mongia.
Dear Dinesh Mongia I can understand your frustration but at the same time you have to think about competitiveness in the present Indian team.It's not that you are not talented but other players have demonstrated more talent and performed more consistently than you.That's the reason why you are not in the team regularly.Another thing is, you have to prove that you are a match winner on atleast couple of occassion. Hope this will help.bbbbbb
I think Mongia is thinking himself as great player. But looking at his records against best team like Austrilia, I think he should never think to come in squad.
