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04-01-2005, 12:29 AM
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| The gopod news is that the side does have some decent bowling options: 4 specialists and 4 part time spinners. I'd agree that Ganguly does look like the weak link as a cricketer.. but he's without question the obvious candidate to captain... not for his on field abilities (replaceable) but because whoever fronts up this Asian team is going to have a media job bigger than anything ANY of them have ever seen before.. and talking about a huge disaster and relief effort rather than about cricket. Ganguly is supremely articulate, polished, confident and experienced with the media.. and maybe that matters more than any on-field cricketing ability. |
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| Pabs made a good point in another post, we have to remember I guess, that this is not supposed to be a best of Asia vs best of rest of the world team - just Asia XI vs RoW XI - XI select players , not neccesarily the best. It's a charity match after all. When I think of Ganguly and his media handling skills and his leadership skills in general - I tend to come up with one word - hardnosed - Ganguly almost dogmatic in that sense, not everyone's favorite, most probably either in your good books or bad books - no middle ground - pepole love Ganguly or they hate him. On a side note, I do think Atapatu is a fairly level headed skipper him self, and I would tend to opine he would be just capable of leading a asian xi as Ganguly, or anyone for that matter. Last edited by Zainub : 04-01-2005 at 12:45 AM. |
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04-01-2005, 02:03 AM
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| I think Malik may have been left out due to either that injury or his suspect action. It does render him somewhat useless if he can't bowl.
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04-01-2005, 09:09 AM
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| No question the guy can bat, but well enough to make a 'best of asia' XI ? Don't forget we're playing in Melboune too, his big knocks this year mostly came from the sub-continent.
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