After the present
tour of SA, India is to tour Kiwiland – playing 5 One dayers and 2 tests. The One dayers are on Jan 19th; 22nd; 25th;
28th and 31st …. The 1st Test is at Eden Park, Auckland starting on Feb 6th;
while the 2nd sarts on Feb 14th at Basin Reserve, Wellington. Newzealand is known for its chill weather and
swing that pacers will be able to achieve.
Heard of Rewa - a city in the north-eastern part Madhya
Pradesh. It is the former capital of the
princely state of Rewa and the former state of Vindhya Pradesh. The city lies
about 420 kilometres (261 mi) northeast of the state capital Bhopal and 130
kilometres (81 mi) south of the city of Allahabad. Rewa derives its name from
another name for the Narmada River.
Way back in June 1986
in Test no. 1047 – India was on a high – in that test at Leeds India won by 279
runs as Indian bowlers skittled out England twice for 102 & 128. Chetan Sharma was injured and S Madanlal who
was playing minor league was drafted in to the eleven…………….. it was the
unlikely hero Roger Binny who had figures of 13-1-40-5 and 8-1-18-2 – the
wrecker-in-chief. Madanlal took 3 for 18 in the 1st while Maninder 4 for 26 in
the 2nd… those days Binny was hailed as India’s overseas player as he could
bowl well in overcast conditions but was ordinary on subcontinent wickets
though he took a 6 for against Pakis at Calcutta.
The team for NZ tour
has been announced……………. Pragyan Ojha who did not get a solitary game to play
is dropped out of Test team and in his place comes Ishwar Pandey – who ? The
Test squad is : MS Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, M
Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra
Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Bhuvneshwar
Kumar, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishwar Pandey
For the ODIs – Yuvraj
Singh, Mohit Sharma and Umesh Yadav are dropped and in comes – Ishwar Pandey,
Stuart Binny and Varun Aaron. The team
for One dayers is : MS
Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati
Rayudu, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed
Shami, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Ishwar Pandey, Stuart Binny, Varun Aaron
After leading the
wicket-takers' list in the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy, Pandey has played 12
first-class matches this season - two each against South Africa A and West
Indies A, and eight in the Ranji Trophy. He has taken 45 wickets in those, with
two five-fors, including 11 wickets on the tour to South Africa. Until the 12th standard, Ishwar Pandey - son
of a retired Subedar Major in the army - had no business with serious cricket,
let alone fast bowling. But a chance visit to a selection trial changed his life
forever, and with India call-up, the 6-feet-2-inch man from Madhya Pradesh has
taken a giant leap. A product of MRF Chennai, Pandey, 24, has received maiden
call to the Indian Test and ODI squads for the tour of New Zealand. He played for Pune Warriors in the last IPL.
The hero of that
Leeds match was Roger Michael Humphrey Binny – once a commentator said – with
this name he deserves to be playing for England !!!! – now his son, Stuart
Binny, a medium-pacer and middle-order batsman capable of getting quick runs
when needed, gets a chance as an allrounder – it is a coincidence that Roger
Binny is in the selection committee.
Varun Aaron played
the last of his four ODIs in December 2011, in the home series against West
Indies. He impressed then with his speed and in fact has bowled the fastest
delivery in National cricket but has been hampered by injuries. Remember he played in that test against West
Indies at Mumbai which ended with scores equal (a draw still). Aaron and Ashwin played the last over…. Yuvraj had a woeful home ODI series against
Australia in October, scoring 19 runs in four innings, and now has been
dropped. Ojha should feel unlucky –
dropped to beef up the pace attack …. Zaheer, Ishant did not excel but are
still there. The batting line-up is the
same…………. Hoping that in
New Zealand India does well this time
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
31st Dec 2013.
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