With the Indian squad for the World Cup to be selected on 17th, I was thinking about what the squad composition look like. We would need 5 seamers, 2 spinners and 8 batsmen in the squad. Most of the members of the squad pick themselves right away:
Dhoni, Sachin, Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvraj, Raina, Kohli, Harbhajan, Ashwin (backup spinner), Zaheer, Praveen, Nehra, Munaf
That leaves us with 2 spots. 1 seamer and 1 batsman.
The Seamer spot is a tussle between Sreesanth and Ishant, going by the recent test form, I would go for Sreesanth.
That brings us to the bigger trouble: 1 batsman - tussle between Yusuf and Rohit. If not for Yusuf's recent century against NZ, this would have been a straightforward choice. Now the choice is between a pinch-hitter and a technically sound batsmen, who might lack temperament, but has the skills to bat long as well as go for the big shots. Let me go with Rohit here for his sheer capabilities, because we have big hitters in the form of Raina, Yuvraj and Dhoni.
Even if that choice is successfully made, I wonder what the playing 11 will be. Its long since the first choice 11 played together, and the replacements have been too good for us to miss the main stream guys. Here is my approximate playing 11:
Sachin, Sehwag, Gambhir, Kohli, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Raina/Rohit, Harbhajan, Zaheer, Praveen, Nehra/Munaf/Sreesanth
All said, it is the performance during the tournament that counts, lets hope they do well, and give Sachin the trophy for which he will be playing for the last time!
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