'India have covered all bases'

I don’t know how long this selection committee meeting lasted but in truth, anything more than 15 minutes meant that either the coffee was late or the telephone link to South Africa was poor. Indeed they could have done this on sms; asked Dhoni to text one of four names to make up the 15th player since the other 14 could have been picked by my aunt, the security guard and the mithaiwala. Dhoni had to choose between a fifth seamer in Sreesanth, a third spinner in Chawla, a second wicketkeeper in Parthiv Patel and a ninth batsman in Rohit Sharma. It had to be his call; certainly I hope it was