Team for Bangladesh Tour

The Indian team selected for the Bangladesh tour could not have been more inane. My initial reaction was that they had mixed up the ODI and Test lists with each other. There is no Sreesanth in the Test team and he is surprisingly in the ODI team. Sehwag is in the ODI team but not in the test team, though his test performances have been relatively unaffected. Ganguly is in the test team and not in the ODI team even though he is a poorer test player that he is in the ODI format. Ramesh Powar not in ODI team and Piyush Chawla not in the test team.

In the hurry to appease the board and the media, the selectors have botched it up completely. Sure the selected players can perform in the teams for which they have been selected, but surely they should have the opportunity to have a crack in the discipline that they have performed better. And after drubbing Bangladesh in both the tests and the ODIs, these teams would be set in concrete for a year. It would be a year's waste of the talents of Sreesanth and Piyush Chawla - both are not suited for the Indian concept of ODI where containment rather than wicket taking is preferred.