Bad Eden Gardens wicket produced a bad Test
"It doesn’t matter whether or not the chairman of selectors writes a column
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
"It doesn’t matter whether or not the chairman of selectors writes a column. It does matter if we play boring Test matches. So where then do the priorities lie? I have been asked to be on a radio programme and a television show about the [Dilip] Vengsarkar issue but nobody has asked why we are playing cricket on slow, low, pedestrian pitches," says Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express.
We don’t have to worry about a coach, about a permanent manager, about a cricket calendar, about unhappy captains, about systems for selectors to work within. Or about pitches and bright cricket. In three weeks we play a Test in Melbourne on what is bound to be a fresh, bouncy pitch. India will need three seamers in the playing eleven. Today, we cannot find two to pick in the first fifteen. But the most important thing about the selection committee meeting is not that. It is about whether or not the chairman of selectors will attend. Really!
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo