Ridiculous Post Match Commentary On India Vs South Africa Encounter On Indian News Channels

Boria Majumdar suggests on Times Now during the analysis of India Vs South Africa that Harbhajan should have bowled one of the last overs.  There were suggestions on various platforms that Harbhajan should have bowled the last over instead of Nehra. The result would not have been different even if Harbhajan had bowled the last over. It would have been much easier for the South African players to achieve the target. If that had happened these people would have been criticizing the same move even sharply citing that Harbhajan has not done anything significant in the recent times and they would have suggested that Nehra should have bowled the last over instead of Harbhajan and they would have insisted Nehra's heroics against Pakistan to win a game in the last over when Pakistan was almost cruising.

Expert comments on television are ridiculous most of the time. Neither Harbhajan, nor Yusuf Pathan deserve a place in the Indian team. Harbhajan has not done anything significant in the last three to four years. Yusuf Pathan is a great T20 player, but he is a bit and pieces player in One Day format. If he clicks, he can destroy the opposition, but that does not happen consistently because he lacks the technique to stay at the wicket scoring consistently or for that matter without scoring. Sachin Tendulkar scored a hundred batting at the top and helped his own record, but he might have also failed if he arrived in the situation that the other middle order batsmen failed.

There has been talk of bringing Ashwin in for another bowler and Suresh Raina for Gautam Gambhir. That is completely ridiculous suggestion. Ashwin should be brought in for Harbhajan and Suresh Raina should be brought in for Yusuf Pathan or Gautam Gambhir. That would provide the best balance to the Indian team. The perfect eleven for India would be as follows. One of Nehra or Sreesanth should be played in the XI.

1. Virender Sehwag
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Gautam Gambhir
4. Virat Kohli
5. Yuvraj Singh
6. MS Dhoni
7. Suresh Raina
8. Ashwin
9. Zaheer Khan
10. Sreesanth
11. Munaf Patel

OR

1. Virender Sehwag

2. Sachin Tendulkar

3. Virat Kohli

4. Yuvraj Singh

5. MS Dhoni

6. Suresh Raina

7. Yusuf Pathan

8. Ashwin 

9. Zaheer Khan

10. Sreesanth

11. Munaf Patel

India will not lose even a single game with this combination

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