Friday, June 15, 2007

India's U-19 probables

The probables: Rohan Banerjee, Harshad Khadiwala, Abhinav Mukund, T. Kohli, Manish Pandey, N. Einstein, Ankit Tiwari, Saurav Tiwari, Arpit Vasavada, Dhaval Kulkarni, Amanpreet Singh, Srikant Munde, Pradeep Sanghwan, P. Das, Mohd. Arif, Bharat Reddy, Tejasvi Yadav, Srivats Goswami, Rubin Dalwadi, Ravikant Saini, G.V.S. Prasad, K.P. Appanna, Iqbal Abdullah, Swapnil Singh and Mohd. Khalid. Stand-byes: Sunil Raju, Sarthak Mundva, Suffian Shaikh, Nitin Saini and Manish Sharma.

12 comments:

Chandan said...

Interesting.

Earlier this year the team had played in NZ. I can't find many players from that tour in the team.

Who are the batsmen?

Where are they going to play and when?

Anonymous said...

nice homer

when every body is so much engrossed in blasting senior team, BCCI, someone has the time to look at our future! a gentle reminder.

thanks mate!

Homer said...

Chandan,

possibly they dont fall in the age category anymore?

Homer said...

Straight Point,

thanks mate :)

It will be interesting to see how many of these names don the India cap over the next 6-7 years.
And equally interesting will be the reasons they fell by the wayside .

samir said...

Homer, where did you get this list from? You know what would be nice? If these selections gave us mini-bios: things like which schools and colleges they attended, their backgrounds in age-comps etc. It'd be interesting to see how many have been following a 'cricket track' in their lives, how many are late bloomers etc. As you say, down the line, it'd be interesting to see which ones failed to make it and for what reason.

Anonymous said...

homer

in recent article of harsha bhogle, he says he was flabbergasted by the response of shah to dravid request of more practice matches in australia.

i think he should even be more flabbergasted to know that chief selecter certain mr vengsarkar, who has represented india at higest level for so long and with much success, reportedly snubbed dravid when he approached him for more games. he reportedly said "you will be playing cricket till you catch the flight to australia, what more practice do you want".

now i can forgive shah for he doesnt know the "c" of cricket and in all probability would hold the bat wrong way, the comments he made but VENGSARKAR!!!!

no wonder we are heading fast...to seemingly the point of no return.

a famous joke goes like this...

"sir dont drink too much sir as it is a slow death"

"so what, i am in no hurry"

your comments...

Homer said...

Samir,

The Hindu had a small article with the list of names.

And I concur that we need to know a little more of these kids representing our country .

Cheers

Homer said...

Straight point,

And it is the BCCI's funeral.. More power to them :)

Cheers

Anonymous said...

Great way to dig out the names....It wud be great if half of this players graduate to play for India and not follow the path of erstwhile Kaif, LR Shukla (remember him, next Kapil Dev), RS Sodhi etc etc.....

Chandan said...

Homer? BCCI's funeral? How?

All the while it seems to be Indian cricket's death!!

Homer said...

Superunknown,

Thanks.:)

Homer said...

Chandan,

What is the BCCI's locus standi without Indian Cricket?

And if Indian cricket is dying a slow death, isnt it the BCCI's funeral?

Does the BCCI have enough credibility to survive without Indian cricket? Or revive it?