From: sidiyus@courtney.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf)
Subject: India Under 25s ( was Re: Snippets...
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:32:12 GMT

In article <karnik.727463634@peca> karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)  
writes:
> 

	Tried to respond to this a couple of days ago, lost the whole  
thing :-( Hope this works , writing it all over again.

> More from the Indian domestic scene.... Incidentally, I get the  
newspapers
> really late here - if anyone can get the news on time, please post the
> results - yoohoo, anyone out there in NCST, Bombay?
> 
>
	Don't talk to me about late ! We haven't gotten the Times from  
B'bay since the 6th of December !!! If it wasn't for your updates, Neeran,  
I'd be screaming in my sleep by now :-)
 

>    a 153 run partnership off just 95 balls, with Zubin Bharucha (96).

	Zubin's been scoring regularly, hasn't he ?? Good to see.
> 
> o  The Wills trophy (one-dayers) has started (is it over by now?). In
>    the first round matches, Delhi beat Hyderabad, Bombay beat UP and
>    Bengal beat Wills XI. Brief scores:

	The Wills is probably over. Bombay lost to Wills in the semis,  
Delhi destroyed Bengal. Dont know the finals  result.
> 
>    Hyderabad 191-9 in 50 ov. (M.V.Sridhar 50, Swaroop 46, Sehgal 3-39)
>    Delhi 195-2 in 48.1 ov. (Sehgal 88*, Nayyar 36)
> 
>    Bombay 235-8 in 50 ov. (Iqbal Khan 71, Dighe 42, Paranjpe 45)
>    UP 129 a.o. in 43 ov. (Iqbal Khan, Desai, Bahutule 2 wkts each)
> 
	ole, Iqbal :-) 

>    Wills XI 197-8 in 48 ov. (Rajesh Puri 68*, K.Srikkanth 30)
>    Bengal 198-7 in 46.5 ov. (Ashok Malhotra 48, Snehasis Ganguly 37)
> 
> o  The Bombay team for the Wills trophy is as follows:
> 
>    Raju Kulkarni (capt.)
>    Sameer Dighe (wk)
>    Zubin Bharucha
>    Jatin Paranjpe
>    Sunil More
>    Vinod Kambli
>    Sairaj Bahutule
>    Mahesh Karanjkar
>    Salil Ankola
>    Abey Kuruvilla
>    Deepraj Kerkar
>    Iqbal Khan
>    Prasad Desai
>    Piyush Soneji
> 

	Got some stuff from a friend returned from India - says Bombay  
were missing Kilkarni much of the time with the flu. Also, either Abey or  
Salil were always out for the PresXI games, alternately. BTW, Sunil More  
is that bat, right ?? I seem to remember a More who was a terrific  
spinning prospect (Ramesh? ) while in school ( tho I don't remember a More  
who was a good keeper :-) )Wonder what happened to him. 

> o  Sunil G. on Kapil Dev's 129 - "One of the great innings of recent  
times"
> 
> o  Azhar on Kumble - "Throughout the tour, he was simply fantastic"...
>    "His control over line & length was wonderful"... "Has the stamina to
>    bowl long spells"...
> 

	Anyway, about the Under 25 team. Was pretty delighted with it, my  
friend told me about it . I remember some of the names.
	SRT was slated to lead , which I was very happy with. He needs to  
get some sort of exposure to leadership, this is as good a time as any.  
For once, they're planning for the future. (tho  i read today that he's  
pulled out :-( I guess one reason may be that they don't want him to  
jeopardize his chances to lead nationally, if the selectors are  
considering it. WHich , IMHO, is the worst thing they've done in a while,  
and theyve done some pretty awful things ). . Anyway.
	The team has 5 players from Bombay - SRT, Bahutule, Kuruvilla,  
Sameer Dighe (keeper + opening bat - maybe the keeper of the future for  
India ??) and Jatin Paranjpe ( hooray !). Also, Jadeja, Zaidi, Feroz  
Ghayas, Rajesh Puri (haryana), Ganguly, that bat from Karnataka - cant  
believe I cant get his name -am drawing a blank. Not Sridhar, the other  
one. Sheesh. Some Kureishia guy from UP (?) I seem to remeber a Ahmed  
Kureishi , don't know anything about him. Also, dont know if this is the  
same guy. Oh, also Pritam Gandhe. Thats about all I can remember at the  
moment. Venkatesh Prasad, supposedly , is not in the side. That's all I  
can remember, I know Iam missing a spinner but can't recall. All in all, a  
good side packed with contenders - ought to be a fascinating game. 

	BTW, obligatory shot at the selectors. They picked my man Salil  
for the 14 man team for the ODI's, didn't play him in a single game, and  
dropped him from the test 14 !! And he's far more suited to tests than  
ODI's anyway !! You know , I think that bunch ought to take our Phil. A50  
Intro to Logic class sometime - their logical reasoning is astounding :-) 

			Sadiq [ annoyed about the Ankola deal ] Yusuf
P.S. Also annoyed greatly at Maninders absence from the team. But thats an  
old wound now.

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