Slinging scribbles

In one of the most bizarre cricketing instances the world has ever seen, England's  Ian Bell was allowed to resume his innings after tea on Sunday in the second Test against India at Trent Bridge after India decided to withdraw a successful appeal for a run out on the second day of the match. It all began when Morgan flicked the last ball of the 66th over to Praveen Kumar who tumbled over trying to field. In between, the two batsmen thought it is a boundary and by the time the ball came back, Bell left his crease and was jogging carelessly, thinking it's end of the session but Abhinav Mukund took the bails off and appealed. Confusion prevailed when the umpires upheld the appeal and Bell was declared out. The English crowd, apparently furious at the ‘tactics’ of the Indians jeered at them. The jeering, it seems, bothered Dhoni to the extent that he asked Ian Bell to come back to the field, much to the amusement of the ones for whom the dismissal was valid. ...

    I just read out today's sport column which said that Ambati Rayudu and Paul Valthaty had a chance of making it to the West Indies Tour that is due for the month of june.I couldnt help but pity at the lame decision of our selectors.Since when have we started taking into account a person's form in a 20-20 format as a bar for getting into national team?With all due respect to all those who are great fan of the above i can only pity the selector's vision.We are slowly forgetting the inning-builders in our process of selection.If this goes on i wont be surprised there are no more dravids,laxmans who form the backbone of our Test team. I assure you that not even in my dreams do i have any doubt about the capability of these players but i simply do not agree with the selection criteria for the tour.Paul and Ambati have been excellent in their game and have shown a great potential of becoming one of the best players the country would ever see but to select a player on the basi...