India VS Australia test series

Well, I don't think Ishanth will get picked up for the playing 11 though... Normally, when India plays test cricket, especially in home conditions, they pick 2 spinners and 2 seamers. It's almost guaranteed that Zaheer is going to be picked as one of the seamer because of his vast International experience and I think the other is going to be Shreeshanth. I mean think about that. Shreeshanth has done exceptionally well so far, when it comes to test cricket. He picked up a 5 wicket haul to help India win the first test match in South Africa a couple of years ago and since then, his performance in test match is not bad at all! In fact, it's above average. Even when Sri Lanka toured India last year, he bowled a couple of tight spells and picked a 5 wicket haul. He is my number 1 choice to open the bowling with Zaheer Khan in test matches in any given track. On the other hand, he did not convince me that he is good enough to bowl in test matches with power plan on. And about Irfan Pathan, he hasn't done anything special in the domestic arena to convince selectors since he was dropped. The problem with Irfan is that, when he's batting well, bowling is out of form. And vice versa He's definitely not the old Irfan Pathan anymore and he has lost both pace and swing. Anyway, what Irfan is gonna do in a test match against Australia in India? I mean you already have 2 frontline seamers who are doing decent enough in test matches so, my take on it is, the selection is sort of justified.

@dollar, "everyone knows that Indian batting will collapse in no time." So this is your view on Indian batting? Do you know the fact that if not so sharp in the bowling department India is far better than other cricket playing countries in the world. Can you tell for sure that Australia has not had a horrible batting failure? Say anything but please do not vent out prejudiced view.

Let's hope that Indian pace bowlers do something good in these test matches. I will not say anything before these matches. As far as Irfan Pathan is concerned, no doubt even after losing his swing and pace, he is better than Ishant Sharma and other pace bowlers (who were recently selected for the ODI team). No matter who is selected and who is not, the only thing that matters is, whether India will win this series or not. Let's wait for the result.

ya... friend you are absolutely true,i too feel this. T20 killed real cricket and specially soul of cricket Test and ODI. T20 Cricket has become money making tool for sponsores.

Well, the problem is that whenever a small part of cricket or cricketing nation has a controversy like this going on, people tends to think bad and doubt ALL world cricket completely and then write them off

But Cricket of present time became so boring and ridiculous than before.not a one doubt but i will say lot of doubts,no matter.why people shut their mouth against this.