Sivaramakrishnan, Prasanna support http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453’s exclusion from AUS tour – Cricket News Update
Former Indian spinners, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Erapalli-Anatharao-Srinivas-Prasanna-c56047, have endorsed the selectors’ decision to drop Harbhajan Singh out of India's forthcoming tour to Australia, and said that the off-spinner does not deserve a place in the present national
squad.
Headed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379, but continued to overlook the veteran offie, who is out of action since his early exit from the England tour.
After getting over his fitness issues that forced him to return home in the midst of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians, to an emphatic triumph in the recent Champions
League Twenty20.
However, despite his previous wonderful records against the Aussies, the Indian Selection Committee ignored Harbhajan in favour of the inform http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RD-Shah-c2298 Ashwin – the duo that claimed 42 wickets in India’s comprehensive 2-0 win the just-concluded
Test clash against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760.
While the chief selector Srikkanth justified Harbhajan’s exclusion, saying that the side cannot afford more than one off-spinner at a time and Ashwin is certainly the favourite option following his brilliant work against the Windies, the two ex-spinners
Sivaramakrishnan and Prasanna felt that the 31-year-old is not worthy of a flight ticket to Australia.
“Even if there was place for a third spinner in the side, I wouldn't have picked Harbhajan at this stage. He needs to get lots of wickets in first-class cricket, work hard, and return to the fold," Prasanna stated.
Sivaramakrishnan came up with similar thoughts, and despite rating Harbhajan as a terrific bowler, cited his exclusion as a correct move especially after the outstanding job by Ashwin and Ojha.
"If you take him to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, you have to play him in the XI. But with Ojha and Ashwin doing so well, that's not going to happen. So what's the point of taking him? I am still confident that he will make a comeback at some stage, but it's not his time now,
Ashwin and Ojha have impressed me a lot," opined the former leg-spinner who is currently working as a cricket commentator.
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