Dhoni to choose between Yuvraj and Raina for the 1st Test against England – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 to bat at number five in their 1st Test game against the English at Lord’s, on July 21, 2011.
Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 today, is scheduled to play a bilateral series consisting of 4 Tests, 5 ODIs and a T20I against the hosts.
The inaugural Test match is going to be of great importance and Dhoni would not want to take any risks by making any wrong decisions.
As far as skills are concerned, it will be hard to differentiate between Yuvraj and Raina, but on paper, the former takes precedence, as he has played more Tests than the latter. However, the latter has higher batting average in the 5-day format of the game.
Both Yuvraj and Raina have displayed marvelous form in this season. Yuvraj was instrumental in the Men in Blue’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011 triumph.
The four-time ‘Man of the Match’ bagged the ‘Man of the Tournament’ award at the end. He set a new record in the history of the tournament by scoring a fifty and taking 5 wickets in a single match.
Making his Test debut in 2003, Yuvraj has played 34 Tests so far with 1639 runs and an average of 35.63.
On the other hand, Raina led the Blue Shirts in an ODI series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 last month in the absence of Dhoni, and piled up 232 runs, which included three fifties.
Unlike Yuvraj, Raina played his maiden Test in 2010. He has just 11 Test games to his name with 605 runs but an average of 37.81.
In this situation, it is hard for the most successful Indian leader to select or reject either of the two stars.
Some analysts suggest that Yuvraj is in more need to play this Test as he is going over age with a very http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 Test career. The all-rounder himself voiced such concerns some days earlier.
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