Same thing happened with Negi in that first game vs KXIP. He got smashed. From what I've seen of Negi, he doesn't seem to think at all. And I dont blame him as this is his harsh introduction to top flight cricket. But Dhoni must have the brains to see people's potential. He has ignored Aparajith for long, and has instead gone with people like Negi, Manhas, etc. Manhas is never used, and yet gets games.
Aparajith is a spinner and can fill in for Negi's overs if needed. By the way, we already have two spinners and Raina (to fill in). Having Aparajith would have given us two bundled into one.
Negi isn't taking Aparajith's potential place though, he's taking Pandey's, from what I've seen of Aparajith (from the U19 WC), he's a batting all-rounder, his FC record backs me up on this as well and funny how you mention Raina, that's the sort of role Aparajith would be playing if he did get picked.
If you don't like the combination of 3 spinners and 2 seamers, then that's fine, but I don't think I saw you speaking up against it when India were deploying it at the WC with Ashwin, Mishra, Jadeja, Bhuvi and Mohit.
not running down negi just stating his stats arent really great to put him as a prime choice over aparajith, i was stating that to show why people support aparajith
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Those stats don't put him as a prime choice?
thats one statement i cant agree with, IPL will never produce a cricketer of skill on its own, a good performer of FC may use IPL to showcase his skills, but a pure IPL performance cant be a yardstick.
Let me put it like this
player performance
FC+IPL
great should be selected.
FC alone can still be considered.
IPL alone: Get a good season under your belt and comeback for selection.
while your argument holds true for players who may bully our FC bowlers but get exposed against superstars in IPL, it doenst hold true for players who perform in ipl alone cant be considered good due as lot of factors steyn in SC is not steyn in capetown, boundary length, t20 format.etc. remeber paul valtathy.
You've taken a part of what I've said and made it mean something totally different and then have even gone as far to apply it to something totally different.
If that didn't make sense, no one's talking about using IPL performance to select players for the national team, we're talking about using FC performances to select players for IPL teams, both are equally retarded.
Its fair enough to call me biased on this one, but MSD does have the habit of benching talents for long, right from rahanae, pujara, even ashwin to an extent before he got a look into NT ahead of bhaji, now mishra or ojha,yadav.
See problem lies right there, you stack the side with Sehwag, Dravid, Sachin and Laxman, then whine that Pujara, Rahane, Kohli and Rohit aren't getting picked, well no ----, and then we have Bhaji getting picked ahead of Ashwin, but once Ashwin is established you want Mishra or Ojha to be picked ahead of him, remember when they'd joke about how many spinners Australia had tried from the retirement of Warne till they found Lyon? The whole cricketing world would be doing that to us, except it'd be the whole XI.
As far as fast bowlers go, I completely give in to that, Dhoni, team management and the selectors have no clue how to handle them, Umesh and Shami should not be playing limited overs cricket, while Bhuvi and Aaron, all they should be playing is limited overs cricket, and Ishant, he should just almighty tweak off.
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Someone's probably not going to be happy with that "long speech".
, i was suggesting mishra ojha ahead of sirji mostly in tests and incase of ashwin he has been very defensive offlate but still deserves a couple more chances for his past performances.
Flem and Mahi feel Apar is still not mentally ready for the big stage and therefore wont be able to handle all the fame/criticism that comes with it. The 2 dont want Aparajith to become the next Unmukt who was overwhelmed by the fame he got after the finals of the U-19 WC. Before everyone starts to tell me how Kohli was thrust into the big stage at 19, please note that not everyone has the same kind of mental toughness as Virat.
