Posts Tagged ‘Piyush Chawla’

  • Bowling attack a question-mark for India

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    It is a question that would have passed through many people’s minds. While the batting is more or less decided, who will be the final four in the Indian bowling attack.

    Unfortunately, only Harbhajan Singh makes it to the starting eleven a bowler without question-marks. Zaheer would have made it as well, but there are reports that he has a groin strain and it remain to be seen whether the side will actually risk him for the first game.

    That means two of Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel and Sreesanth should play. My guess is that Nehra will make it to the eleven along with Sreesanth. Munaf has bowled well but needs support from the pitch.

    That means that there is one spot open for the fourth bowler – and one of R Ashwin or Piyush Chawla will make it through. Till about recently, Chawla was not even in contention and would have probably not played a single game. Now, with his performance against Australia, it makes things interesting.

    Who are your four bowlers?

  • BCCI Announced Final 15 For Cricket World Cup 2011

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    India’s Final 15 members for cricket World Cup 2011 announced : Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Ashwin Kumar, Piyush Chawla.

    Piyush Chawla in, Rohit Sharma out

    Piyush Chawla’s selection is bafling

  • Piyush Chawla’s selection is bafling

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    India’s side for the Cricket World Cup has been named and it is a surprise that the selectors have gone in with three main spinners – apart from the long list of part-time options that they have.

    However, the bigger surprise is not the presence of the three spinners but that of Piyush Chawla being picked as the third spinner. Chawla has not been in the best of form at domestic level, picking up only 14 wickets in the tournament at an average of 44.07 – hardly a match-winning one.

    He has not even been a part of the side for a long time and has not played too well in the IPL either. There was also a small matter of Pragyan Ojha being present and one has to feel bad for the left-armer.

    One gets the feeling that there is more to it than meets the eye. With the national selector Krish Srikkanth having decided to not answer questions related to the selection one can only speculate that there is more to it than the obvious.