Heavy on youth, light on experience

kudos to the selectors to make a brave move by selecting players like Raina,Rohit and Chawla. Rather than criticizing the selectors we should trust the youth and back them. Gambhir should open with the experience of Sachin.Raina can bat at 3 and Yuvraj at 4, Rohit at 5 ,Dhoni at 6 with Irfan playing as an all rounder Harbhajan,Chawla can be the spinners and we have plenty of fast bowlers coming up so it is up to how they perform in Australia which will tell future of Indian cricket . "JUST DO IT" My message for the youth.

Fielding is important in a one day game and will effect the result of the game if its a matter of 5 to 10 runs but not when its 30 or 40 runs.. You need runs against this Australian batting line up to seriously challenge them otherwise they are going to flay your bowling anyways to get to the target so the reason of younger legs does not make sense. Also as the article mentioned if india loose a early wicket which more often than not they will i dont think Gambhir or Yuvraj will be able to handle Brett Lee and co. You need a solid middle order and in this line up i dont see any. Suresh Raina has not proved anything yet so to take him ahead of Ganguly is below stupidity. If this is the team which Dhoni thinks will win him matches i am sorry to say he is delusional. I think Dravid and Ganguly have done so much for Indian cricket that they deserve a better farewell and nothing better than playing against Australia in Australia.

A team always should have both experienced and young legs, that is the way to sucess. Every one understands fielding is important,but those so called good fielders need to score runs also.I strognly believe atleast in Australia, we should have given a No.3 position to Laxman atleast in one day matches. Now, every one can see how Yuvraj and Dhoni struggling in oz pitches. They are very good on flat pitches, but not on live pitches.Our selectors won't understand the equation, every time they learn hard way. Now, they are going to learn by loosing very badly in one day matches.

dude they should have gangully insted of the out of touch denesh karthik. He is the most attacking batsman in the indian team remember his double centuary vs pakistan how freakin agressive was dat.

The time has come to look ahead.It was proved in T20 that India has the ability to win with the fresh legs.The selectors have done the right thing by leaving out the seniors barring Sachin.Maybe after 2-3 series the even he can make a graceful exit from ODI.Now that India has 2 captains,the focus in one dayers must be on the next world-cup for which the preparation begins now.Secondly in the next 2 years India has the potential to become the No.1 Test team for which it is important to have the stalwarts.Moreover,a tough series against Australia and Sri Lanka (champions and runners-up)is the time to give opportunity to youngsters and test their potential unlike what used to happen in the past where youngsters were given opprtunities against teams like Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.I hope the selectors stick to their plans as there are more promising players like Tiwary,Rohit Sharma,Uthappa,Badrinath,Raina,Y Pathan and the young fast bowlers, who need to be given the break.

Getting all the rookies to play against the mighty Australians in their home ground, i dont think is a wise gamble. Except Sachin no one in the squad is in the best of their forms, including the captain. I feel the biggest injustice has been done to DRAVID. The reason given by the selection panel is the senior players were not considered b'coz of their poor fielding, and poor running between the wickets. We all know that Dravid is a good fielder and also questioning about his running between the wickets is insane. As said in the article, there is absolutely no way of filling the places of Dravid and Ganguly by the young side. There has to be a gradual phase change. In this way even the younger side is going to learn to face bigger challenges.

The timing of the announcement is absolutely inappropriate with India getting into the Adelaide test on a high. If the selectors can't get the selection right the least they could do is to get the timing of the announcement right! Or maybe that is too much to ask these Boardwallahs who are the helm!! All they care is to fill their coffers - everything else to them is immaterial!!

There is no substitute for experience,if you look at the batting performances as a whole in the last three tests only the experienced people have actually delivered barring a few exceptions. The selectors should have erred on the side of caution by playing the old stalwarts atleast during this ODI series to stamp authourity on Aussies and to make the Indian team climb to number one in ranking.

In my view Ganguly and/or Laxman should have been in the team to provide some experience in the batting line-up. However, now that the team is selected, let's rise above all the zonal politics and support the team India. Do also keep in mind that despite all the personal statistics, India has not really achieved anything remarkable in ODIs over last 20 years. We made it to 2003 world cup finals but we don't really have anything else to show for. A new attitude is needed and we saw glimpses of it in South Africa even though it was only T20. The players played without worrying too much about failure and I think that is what is needed with the talent we have got. Let's not apply too much pressure on the new team and make them feel like a sword is always hanging on their necks. Let's give them a good opportunity.

Dravid and Ganguly has to give way for the Gennext. Aussies have built their team by not succumbing to emotion.The youngsters are to fine -tune their talent in australia as they will learn many nuances of the game .Building a team always involves a few losses both on and off the field and let us wish our youth brigade all the best