WC 2011 Squad --The News is Out

FInally, the news is out... Chief Selector for BCCI, Chris. Srikanth announced the squad for the world cup for INDIA with some surprises and some compramises in it

The team looks like this.

1. MSD(Captain / WK)
2. Sehwag (VC)
3. Sachin
4. Gambhir
5. Yuvi
6. Virat Kohli
7. Suresh Raina
8. Harbhajan
9. Yusuf Pathan
10. Zaheer
11. Praveen Kumar
12. Munaf
13. Nehra
14. Piyush
15. Ashwin

The players left out : Sreeshanth, Rohit, Parthiv, Ishanth

Surprises:
                1. Rohit has been left out.
                2. Considering 3rd Spinner by taking in Piyush
                3. No backup / reserve wicket keeper in the team (either Parthiv or Dinesh)

Cause of concerns:

               1. No pace bowler, other than Zaheer Khan looks like who can bowl in the slog overs.
               2. having no Reserve wicket keeper in the team, can be fetal if MSD gets injured
               3. The current of injuries for the players who are in the squad

I guess the selectors have taken the luxury in the spin department while compramising on the batting department. It indirectly indicates that the team will get the spinning tracks or the kind of tracks they wanted during the up coming WC.

Also this luxury is needed as we don't have a powerful 5th bowler, who can take wickets in the middle overs and our 5th bowling options do't seem to be effective enough to take the wickets. For the same reason, we were able to take quick wickets in the initiatal overs but allow the opponent to settle down and establish huge partnerships in the middle overs.

Except for un availability of reserve wicket keeper, the team satisfies all of the parameters of the game.

Let's hope how this team help Sachin fulfill his dream of winning home the worldcup.

All the best TEAM INDIA.