Kholi and Badrinath are of different types; as a selector he should have known this! in the above mentioned slots there were many non performing players at that time and he don't have guts to remove them? playing with newbies at that time! Also Srini is correct if Badri is not given chance at that time his carrier is doomed! why do we have regional matches then if you are not picking top performers???
vengsarkar dont talk nonsense...just selecting a player does not lose any job....take mike hussey...he left CSK..then he gave evidence against srinivasan's son-in-law meiyappan that meiyappan was involved in making decisions about csk and not just srinivasan's relative...still a couple of years later he still played for CSK...
as colonel said he has closed bhadrinath career. kholi emerged. it is common in cricket. only who are lucky get to represent country.
now the matter vengsarkar aiming shastri position. he is buttering kholi. very simple. since sachin was staying for long period even when he wasnot performing, many youngsters couldnot enter the team.
Re: it is signal for shastri
by P S SHAH on Mar 09, 2018 01:57 PM
When Sachin Tendulkar was playing before retirement and an his performance was not as per his standard, he was allowed to continue playing Test matches . None of the selectors had guts to drop him. They left selection of Sachin to Sachin himself and gave statement that as long as sachin want to play, he can play test matches.
Re: it is signal for shastri
by P S SHAH on Mar 09, 2018 02:00 PM
Why Dilip Vengasarkar was silent all these years ? Now Kohli is successful and Captain of Indian cricket team, he want to appear in his good book ?
Another feather in the cap of MSD and in the you-know-what of his "spoon" vaidya. MSD, in order to suck up to his CSK boss, filled the entire team based on nepotism rather than merit. useless players like raina and jadeja (both of CSK) got numerous opportunities, while others were ignored.
I fully appreciate your feelings. This outburst of yours ought to have come at the same time when you lost your job. There was absolutely no need to wait for such a long time to give such statements now. You had waited all these years just to see that Virat Kohli raises in his career.