Navjot Sidhu warns selectors against wholesale changes – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Navjot-Singh-Sidhu-c78928, the former Indian opening batsman, has warned the national selectors against wholesale changes in the Test team and feels that the upcoming players need the guidance of senior cricketers in the dressing room.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229 and VVS Laxman from international cricket.
Tendulkar is currently the most senior player in the Indian side and Sidhu believes that the presence of the batting-maestro in the dressing room is extremely valuable for emerging cricketers like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737, who can learn a great deal from one of the greatest batsmen of all times.
Sidhu advocates a mixture of senior players and young blood in the team and thinks that radical changes must be avoided.
“We have no http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772. We cannot make wholesale changes, it has to be a mixture. The likes of Kohlis and Pujaras need one Tendulkar and a solid captain in the dressing room,” said the cricketer turned commentator.
Some of the former players and cricket pundits have recently criticised Tendulkar, after a run of poor performances at the highest stage of the game. Sachin struggled in the first two Tests against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, managing just 29 runs in the three innings, before scoring a valiant 76 in the on-going match at Kolkata.
Sidhu expressed that the former players who are giving statements against Tendulkar must remember that they were mediocre cricketers in their playing days, possessing no right to slam a sportsman of the calibre of the right-handed batsman.
The former cricketer has no doubt that the little-master can still deliver the goods in international cricket.
“Media should stop criticising http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607. Nobody has achieved what Tendulkar has. He is our pride,” mentioned the former opening batsman. “We need to respect our heroes. He is an institution in himself. But there are some legless men who are trying to teach him how to run.”
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