IPL T20 Cricket

Hyderabad and Chennai IPL managements surprised analysts with their selections. Chennai dropped Vidyut and picked Anirudha and retained out-of –form Parthiv Patel. Hyderabad once again picked Arjun Yadav. Both are sons of high profile people in their cricket associations. Arjun Yadav is the son of Hyderabad Cricket Association king, Shivlal Yadav. I don’t know whether Deccan Chronicle franchisee/Adam Gilchrist knew about these selection politics. These bigwigs in HCA successfully spoilt the career of talented Ambati Rayudu. Now it is the turn of Ravi Teja.

It happens only in India:

1. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan played well in his limited outings. But he was replaced by Anirudha, who is the son of Chennai brand ambassador K. Srikanth. He scored 1 run by playing 7 balls in a Twenty20 match. He was all at sea in the middle then why was he selected?

2. Ravi Teja was once again neglected in favour of Arjun Yadav, who is the son of Hyderabad Cricket Board heavyweight Shivlal Yadav.


Comparison of Ravi Teja and Arjun Yadav:

Even though statistics don't reveal real talent and potential of a cricketer, just take a close look at them.

A. Arjun Yadav (Son of Shivlal Yadav):
First Class: 103 innings; 2769 runs; 28.5 average.
Twenty20: 7 innings; 58 runs; 9.6 average.

B. Ravi Teja (No God-father; young boy from Kakinada):
First class: 25 innings; 1169 runs; 48.7 average.
Twenty20: 2 innings; 43 runs; 21.5 average.

If you were a selector, whom will you pick? Hyderabad needs a coach and captain like Shane Warne but it gets a meek captain like VVS Laxman and coach like Robin Singh. Coach praised Ravi Teja before the start of IPL tournament but now who is preventing him to take Ravi Teja into team?

Foreign coaches of Rajasthan, Mohali and Delhi don’t know about these politics. They pick their players just basing on their talent. That’s why they are winning matches. They don’t heed to the requests of Lalit Modi, IS Bhindra and others. Do you think a coach and captain like Shane Warne oblige such requests? That’s why Rajasthan Royals are so successful. They are promoting young cricketers like Asnodkar, Yusuf Pathan and Ravindra Jadeja while Hyderabad is neglecting its 20-year old young talent Ravi Teja.