Vision

VB Chandrashekhar alluded to it. Sanjay Manjrekar speaks about it. So do Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and Sambit Bal, albeit in the context of the Rahul Dravid non selection.

And the leitmotif of these columns ( and most of the posts and comments in the blogosphere) is that there is an ad hoc manner in which the current selection committee operates while Kiran More's team had a much clearer "vision" for Indian cricket.

But, do the results tally?

Here is the list of players who made their ODI debuts between 24 September 2004 through 24 September 2006

MS Dhoni 23 December 2004
Joginder Sharma 23 December 2004
SK Raina 30 July 2005
Y Venugopal Rao 30 July 2005
RP Singh 4 September 2005
S Sreesanth 25 October 2005
MM Patel 3 April 2006
VRV Singh 12 April 2006
RV Uthappa 15 April 2006

Number of debutants - 9
Number of matches - 54
Total number of players selected - 30
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Here is the list of players who made their Test debuts between 24 September 2004 through 24 September 2006

Gautam Gambhir 3,4,5 November 2004
Dinesh Karthik 3,4,5 November 2004
MS Dhoni 2,3,4,5,6 December 2005
RP Singh (India) 21,22,23,24,25 January 2006
Sreesanth Mar 1-5, 2006
Piyush Chawla Mar 9-13, 2006
Munaf Patel Mohali, Mar 9-13, 2006
VRV Singh Jun 2-6, 2006

Number of debutants - 8
Number of matches - 26
Total number of players tried - 31
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Here is the list of players who made their ODI debuts between 25 September 2006 through 29 October 2007

Rohit Sharma Jun 23, 2007
Piyush Chawla May 12, 2007

Number of debutants - 2
Number of matches - 39
Total number of players tried - 27
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Here is the list of players who made their Test debuts between 25 September 2006 through 29 October 2007

Ramesh Powar May 18-22, 2007
Ishant Sharma May 25-27, 2007

Number of debutants - 2
Number of matches - 8
Total number of players tried - 20
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The more things change....