From: karnik@femto.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Rashid Patel and Raman Lamba are back!
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:52:23 GMT


	Rashid Patel and Raman Lamba are back in the Indian cricket scene! 
The two were suspended for one season following their nasty brawl in a Duleep
(or was it Deodhar?) trophy game. Now, both have been selected for their 
respective zonal sides for the Duleep and Deodhar Trophies.

	The West Zone team of 15 for the two tournaments is as follows :

	Ravi Shastri (capt.)	Bombay	******* Yahoo! :-) :-)
	Sachin Tendulkar	Bombay
	Vinod Kambli		Bombay
	Sanjay Manjrekar	Bombay
	Salil Ankola		Bombay
	Abey Kuruvilla		Bombay
	Kiran More (vice.cap)	Baroda
	Nayan Mongia		Baroda
	Mukesh Narula		Baroda
	Rashid Patel		Baroda
	Kedar Chavan		Baroda
	Bhavin Radia		Saurashtra
	Surendra Bhave		Maharashtra
	Santosh Jedhe		Maharashtra
	Shantanu Sugwekar	Maharashtra

	
	Looks like Mongia will have to warm the benches, with More in the team
and as vice captain too. Raju Kulkarni is missing from the team, so it would
appear that his days on the verge of a Test place are over. 

	Some of these names might be unfamiliar to some of you, so here's what 
I know of:

	Salil Ankola	- good medium fast bowler. Frank Tyson says that he was
			  the only one (in his academy I presume) who measured
			  up to Aussie standards of strength and fitness.

	Mukesh Narula	- medium pacer, moderately successful last year.

	Rashid Patel	- left arm medium fast.

	Kedar Chavan	- opening bat, made a lot of runs last season.

	Bhavin Radia	- left arm spinner, must be getting on in age now. He's
			  been around for some time, gets a few wickets too.

	Santosh Jedhe	- not too sure, but I think he's an all-rounder.

	Shantanu Sugwekar - good batsman (maybe a Ranji king though), scored a
			    double century last season I think.


	Incidentally, the Bombay selectors are in a bit of a fix. They have to
name a captain for the Ranji trophy team, and the choice isn't obvious for a 
change. Shastri, Manjrekar and Tendulkar will definitely be on tour with the
Indian team, and the other veterans like Rajput and Pandit are no longer playing
for Bombay. So we might have a brand new, inexperienced captain, whose place
in the team itself might be suspect, given the kind of competition there is, 
for places on the Bombay squad. 

	I've also got here the East Zone team:

	Syed Saba Karim (capt.)	Bihar
	Chandu Pandit (wk)	Assam
	Arun Lal		Bengal
	Lalchand Rajput		Assam
	Sourav Ganguly		Bengal
	Snehasis Ganguly	Bengal
	Ranjib Biswal		Orissa
	Saradendu Mukherjee	Bengal
	Avinash Kumar		Bihar
	Subroto Bannerjee	Bihar
	Sagarmoy Sen Sharma	Bengal
	K.V.P.Rao (who?)	Bihar
	Rajesh Singh (who?)	Orissa
	Goutam Datta		Assam
	Sunil Kumar (who?)	Bihar

	Again, it looks like Saba Karim will keep wickets and Pandit will 
carry the drinks. Surprising that Karim got the captain's job with Arun Lal
in the side. Can any of you Calcuttans tell us more about this team ?

	There was some controversy over the selection of the North Zone team
for the Duleep and Deodhar Trophies. They selected a 15-man squad for the 
Duleep trophy, which surprisingly did not include (ex-India player) Ajay Sharma.
Ajay Sharma had topped the batting aggregate in last year's Ranji trophy, and
is also a useful left arm spinner. He was, however, included in the Deodhar 
Trophy team, at the expense of off-spinner Yogendra Bhandari. Delhi captain
Kirti Azad (yes, he's still around!) was very critical of Sharma's omission
and went to the press over the issue, demanding a reconvening of the selection
committee, etc. This however, has not been done.

Source : The Times of India, Bombay edition.


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