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Vinod Kambli lashes out at Indian selectors for ignoring few Mumbai cricketers for West Indies tour
Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Shardul Thakur are the three players selected from the Mumbai team.
24 May 2016 • 2:12 PM
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Former India cricketer Vinod Kambli has taken to Twitter to lash out at the selectors for not picking the right side for India’s upcoming Test series West Indies. Kambli reckons players like Shreyas Iyer, Aditya Tare and Siddhesh Lad, who were the pillars for Mumbai’s win in the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 season were not picked for either tours, but Mumbai’s leading wicket-taker Shardul Thakur finds his place in the Indian Test side. which will tour West Indies in July 2016. Overall, three cricketers from Mumbai were picked in the Test team. These were Rohit Sharma, Rhakur and Ajinkya Rahane, who has been elevated to the post of vice-captaincy. READ: India announce squad for West Indies tour 2016
However, Kambli believes that the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja and Wriddhiman Saha should not have been given chances ahead of Shreyas, Tare and Lad. India have fielded their regular side for the Test series, barring Thakur, who has received his maiden India call-up. READ: Exclusion of Shreyas, Nadeem for upcoming tours baffling
India will also play three One-Day Internationals (ODI) and three T20 Internationals (T20I) against Zimbabwe, beginning from June 10. MS Dhoni will in charge of a young Indian side, which also has many youngsters like Mandeep Singh, Faiz Fazal, Yuzvendra Chahal among others. READ: Shardul attributes maiden India call-up to Mumbai Ranji team
These men have no idea.what kind of selection is this Test n 1 day.Test team.Pujara,Jadeja,Saha & 6 fast bowlers. pic.twitter.com/iAtGZixe2X
— VINOD KAMBLI (@vinodkambli349) May 23, 2016
On what basis pujara jadeja saha walk in.Pujara n saha no performance In domestic.pls tell me selectors. Cont pic.twitter.com/HjsskP28uO
— VINOD KAMBLI (@vinodkambli349) May 23, 2016
Mumbai been Ranji champion only 1 player in the test team apart from Rohit n Rahane. What about shreyas Ayer n tare pic.twitter.com/JGsFtrCIdC
— VINOD KAMBLI (@vinodkambli349) May 23, 2016
Selectors the Teams u have selected is simply not digestible.Thats why Jimmy Amaranth calls u all jokers pic.twitter.com/QxmGN6ymZq
— VINOD KAMBLI (@vinodkambli349) May 23, 2016
I am really pissed off the kind of selection is going on from the time I entered n departed from the team.They have destroyed careers
— VINOD KAMBLI (@vinodkambli349) May 23, 2016
Kambli has represented Indian in 17 Tests and 104 ODIs. He has scored 1084 runs in Tests and 2477 runs in ODIs. Kambli’s career was controversial and was therefore cut short after just seven years. He was considered one of the brightest cricketers in India among players like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and others.