Ashish Nehra’s non-selection raising eye-brows – Cricket News Update
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is under fire for not selecting http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Nehra-c873 for the upcoming One Day International series against England and there are rumours that the left-arm medium-fast bowler is ignored because of internal politics.
Nehra has been an integral part of the Indian limited overs squad since the last couple of years and also played an important role in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011 win. However, the left-arm pacer has been ignored since then.
His non-selection is more controversial, considering the fact that Indian bowling has been heavily criticized in recent times and a number of cricket analysts around the world feel that it is because of the poor bowling that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 faced such a hammering
at the hands of England in their recent tour.
On the condition of anonymity, a source from the BCCI has claimed that Nehra is fully fit and even the National Cricket Academy had verified his level of fitness but still he is ignored and the reason is pretty obvious that the current selection committee
has some differences with him.
The absence of senior fast bowlers like Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Munaf Patel has raised more eye-brows about the non-selection of the left-arm bowler from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780.
The source said, "His fitness certificate was submitted by the National Cricket Academy (NCA) before the team for the ODI series in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379 was picked despite carrying an injury. The other pacers were Praveen
Kumar, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Vinay-Kumar-c2237.”
He further added that the senior players of the team like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and Sachin Tendulkar wanted Nehra in the squad but he was ignored nevertheless.
"For the series in England, captain MS Dhoni and even http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 wanted Nehra in the ODI squad and they assured him that they would take up his case with the concerned people," he added.
The series between England and India is going to start from the 14th of October, with the first ODI at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792 Deccan.
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