Playing XI . Questions about RAINA/KOHLI , SREESANTH/MUNAF/NEHRA , ASHWIN/CHAWLA
@karankhanna04 (283)
India
February 17, 2011 1:42am CST
The world cup opening match is just 2 days away but dhoni is having lot of question about the playing 11 because there is a very very strong competetion between the batsmen kohil and raina . Kohli may 80% play and 20% raina because of his serious hitting in the warm up game but most probbaly the hand goes to virat kohli . on the otherside dhoni will most probably play out two faster bowlers and two spinner commandos . So Zaheer khan is surely int he squad but a big competetion is between munaf , sreesanth , nehra . if dhoni watches the two warm up games then MUNAF patel will not play as he has bowled 5 overs only in two matches for 42 runs and now icket which is ridiculous . SO there will be a toss up between nehra and sreesanth , out of which nehra was disgusting in first match but sreesanth was very impressive and on the otherside both were just not so good in the second warm up game . If dhoni goes according to warm up game then sreesanth will be given a chance but if he sees the overall record then nehra is going to play in playing XI . Although sreesanth has the best average of all bowlers in the squad but only due to economy rate that he may have to sit out . What about my liking and my favourites are , i will have my playing XI look like this :-
1- Sachin
2- Sehwag
3- Gambhir
4- Virat Kohli
5- Yuvraj Singh
6- Yusuf Pathan
7- MS Dhoni
8- Harbhajan
9- Piyush Chawla
10 Zaheer Khan
11 Ashish Nehra
there is a serious competeting between Sreesanth and Nehra . This is a big headache for Dhoni and the coach gary.
2 responses
@msdivkar (23359)
• India
17 Feb 11
I agree with your team karan except for one change. I will prefer Sri Santh to Nehra at least for the first match. Kohli will get the preference over Raina as he is man in form and plays attcking copy book style of cricket. Raina has to depend a lot on his eye to hand coordination. Yuvraj Singh's place is also on lot of pressure if he does not perform in next one or two matches he may also be dropped in preference to Raina. Let us wait and watch how the things shape up. Actual show is not far.
@karankhanna04 (283)
• India
17 Feb 11
even i will prefer sreesanth'da but just because of last warm up match dhoni may gof or nehra. . I personally like sree the most in INDIA , i am his biggest and die hard fan , evenn my profile pic suggests that .
Let us hope Sreesanth'da plays , although nehra is vastly experienced.
@rameshkumaar57 (5908)
• India
17 Feb 11
Your selection seems to be good, but I feel, Dhoni, will go with Raina instead of Kohli, even though Kohli is in a better form than Raina, and Nehra will be the first choice, and if he fails, then Sreesanth might get a look in.