Finally, a six-pack abs fast bowler for India. Mithun looks every bit a fast bowler- tall, broad-shouldered and strong at such a young age. He muscles in to bowl and has splendid short-pitched balls as well as yorkers. If groomed properly, I guess he should be a success at the highest level of cricket.
I think Vinay kumar who was second in the Charts of the most wickets this Ranaji Season, 1 behind Mithun,he has better bowling strike rate and better average than Mithun ,also he did not play in one of the matches. had he played he would have taken more than 50 wickets,he also got a five for in the first innings of Duleep trophy semifinals. Another advantage of having Vinaykumar would have been his batting, he is quite a good lower order batsmen scored a fifity and almost scored a fifty in the first innings of Duleep trophy semifinals
It is nice to see a young fast bowler A.Mithun got a chance in the test matches. Whether he clicks or not time will tell. But Parthiv Patel is deserved to be in the team. How, they choose Saha over Patel is just surprising. In the middle order Mohd.Kaif should have given a chance he batting extremely well. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma will have to wait further. Badrinath deservingly got his place. I think selectors tried and tired of M.M.Patel& R.P.Singh, Ashsih Nehra, Even Sreesanth has not done well in Bangladesh. Except in the last one hour of the Game in the 2nd test.Zaheer Khan is also looked like ordinary bowler. So does Harbhajan Singh.
It is nice to see a young fast bowler A.Mithun got a chance in the test matches. Whether he clicks or not time will tell. But Parthiv Patel is deserved to be in the team. How, they choose Saha over Patel is just surprising. In the middle order Mohd.Kaif should have given a chance he batting extremely well. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma will have to wait further. Badrinath deservingly got his place. I think selectors tried and tired of M.M.Patel& R.P.Singh, Ashsih Nehra, Even Sreesanth has not done well in Bangladesh. Except in the last one hour of the Game in the 2nd test.Zaheer Khan is also looked like ordinary bowler. So does Harbhajan Singh.
Re: Kaif should have been in the team!
by rahul kumar on Jan 30, 2010 11:01 PM
Mohd. Kaif never scored a double ton. He scored 112 in Duleep Trophy,a useless knock which could not win the match for the Central Zone.
In the other Duleep Trophy match, some of the performers were: Abhishek Nayar 259* Rohit Sharma 122 Cheteshar Pujara 110
There used to be a under 21 team and under 25 team, which used to tour other countries. Where is that team. Only now you are in National side or out ,the under 21 or under 25 would have been great platform to test skills and also give more opportunity to others. IPL is not everything.
Re: Re: Virat Kohli?
by Jai Hind on Jan 29, 2010 11:35 AM
That's a flawed criteria. Is Sachin Tendulkar, Dravid, Dhoni or any of the top stars of Indian cricket playing Ranji? The point is Virat kohli played well in the opportunities that he was given. So just wondering why he did not get selected. Maybe he is considered an ODI instead of a Test player.
Re: Virat Kohli?
by vinod vinod on Jan 29, 2010 10:16 AM
this bcci selection commitee is biased they always prefer northies or southies even when they are not good players. mumbai are the ranji champs but still not a single player from maharashtra is not selected.
Re: Re: Virat Kohli?
by Jai Hind on Jan 29, 2010 10:18 AM
Anybody in your mind who should have been selected and did not get selected. Pls don't say Jaffer or Agarkar. They have failed at the highest level already.
Re: Re: Virat Kohli?
by Talisman on Jan 29, 2010 11:09 AM
well. It is not enough that your ask is born in a certian region. It is the quality of centuries that u score in ranji or the number of wickets in matches.
You have given no evidence of either! So, you are not convincing anyone!
Re: Re: Virat Kohli?
by R Balasubramanian on Jan 29, 2010 11:09 AM
once upon a time the Indian cricket was fully dominated by Mumbaikars and its only turn of events. The wheel keep turning and your expectations might come true in near future. Keep coll till then.
Re: Virat Kohli?
by Ravi Shankar on Jan 29, 2010 11:12 AM
When virat kohli was selected ,you did not complain about Mithun. This type of attitude does not help
Re: Re: Virat Kohli?
by rahul kumar on Jan 30, 2010 11:13 PM
@R Balasubramanian
Mumbaikars dominated the team because they deserved it. Mumbai produced Greats like Gavaskar, Tendulkar, Vegasarkar, Wadekar, Sandip Patil,Manjrekar, Shastri, Kambli & the list continues.
So keep crying Mr. R Balasubramanian, u Kannadiggas are Best at crying.
He did well in the Ranji final against a Mumbai team with only 4 regular batsmen. It must be remembered that on that same pitch both Salvi and Agarkar got 5fers. That was not a lifeless pitch by any means.
Anyway it will be interesting to see if India go for a fair and sporting wicket for pace bowling against a SA which will have Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel leading the attack. On top of that India has Dravid missing and probably Laxman in doubt.
Oh yes... and Mumbai won the Ranji Final just as a reminder. They just had a team effort unlike a couple of brilliant performance from Karnataka players one of whom has justly been rewarded with a test spot.
Re: Well we will see.....
by Jai Hind on Jan 29, 2010 10:07 AM
Ofcourse it goes without saying that time will tell. But atleast he got a break now rather than at 28 and when he is in good form too.
Re: Well we will see.....
by jay on Jan 29, 2010 06:28 AM
The young and inexperienced Karnataka team nearly chased down 340 runs on the fourth innings. Congrats to the Winners who had all the lucky breaks from the Umpires
n it was right advice of legend vishwanath I would advise him to bowl fast while maintaining line and length. He should not get into the mindset of bowling 130 or 135 km and settle for line and length as most fast bowlers do after they make it to the national team,"
Re: good selection of mithun.
by Jay on Jan 29, 2010 10:29 AM
But the fact is most settle at 130-135 or lower but still not have any consistency in line and length. If he can consistently bowl at 140 plus and have excellent control then it will be great. He has the potential.
I appreciate the selection of a young cricketer who has been doing very well (in form selection) we usually only talk but it is happening, for that I am thankful to the selectors like K. Srikanth and co., for making the right choice and I wish the younster many many happy years of cricket playing for india. I am confident he will be there long.
