WC Team India

The Indian team for world cup 2007 has been chose this morning by the selection committee headed by Dilip Vengsarkar.
The team is headed by Rahul Dravid whose form of late is just about reasonable. Although he has four fifties in the last 10 matches, he has not been able to convert. Sachin Tendulkar is the former's assistant and his form has just been regained with a hundred, but I am still forced to agree with Mr.Venkataraghavan's opinion that he needs to pass those scores of fifty and sixty which he has not done of late. In the 2006/07 season, he has scored 2 hundreds with 4 fifties, but that's just the one day stat. In tests, he played six innings and scored 2 fifties and one score of forty four but no hundreds. He really showed us the true quality of the bowlers by winning the castrol Indian ODI bowler of the year 2006.
Robin Uthappa has to play cautiously and build his innings carefully, else his career may be short. He needs to build long innings.
Saurav Ganguly has been batting like we knew him in 99 and 2000. He again, needs a hundred. He has played some very useful innings but has not scored a hundred after his comeback.
Dinesh Kaarthick never really got an opportunity to perform but used the little opportunity he got to the fullest. But why is Dhoni keeping?
Dhoni has kept his place in the side with a fifty and he is also a much improved 'keeper (its not a surprise when he collects the ball.)
Where is Romesh Powar? He may not get you a big haul of wickets, but he controls run flow efficiently and consistently picks up a couple of wickets.
Harbhajan Singh is surviving on past achievements. He needs to regain form.
Anil Kumble has not played much ODI cricket but I suppose the selectors have picked him as a tribute to his being the (only) workhorse of the Indian bowling.
Sreesanth is not as efficient a one day bowler as he is in tests due to his tendency to give away runs. In 26 ODIs, his economy rate is below 4 only in 4 ODIs.
Munaf seems to have got in due to accuracy and certainly deserves to go to the Caribbean.
We all know how useful Agarkar is under pressure and he has also performed when the team needs him the most thus taking his place in the indian team.
Yuvraj Singh has not played much cricket of late and has been picked due to his career achievements as with Sehwag.
Zaheer Khan has been very useful to the Indian team and hopefully he is not affected by the injuries that he is prone to.
The selectors did not have much of choice and therefore have selected a good squad for the Caribbean. -BS