A well-balanced India squad
India’s selection committee tends to attract more criticism than praise for its policies, much of it deserved
Tariq Engineer
25-Feb-2013
India’s selection committee tends to attract more criticism than praise for its policies, much of it deserved. But in his column for Yahoo, Partab Ramchand writes that the selectors have actually gotten it right in picking the team to tour Sri Lanka.
It is obvious that a good deal of thinking and planning has gone into the selection of the Indian Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka. If you look closely, Kris Srikkanth and his team has chosen what is expected to be the first eleven and then has added one player for each of five specialist slots – opening batsman, middle order batsman, wicket keeper, pace bowler and spinner.
Tariq Engineer is a former senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo