24 Mar 2010
Calcutta: Some pundits are calling for Sachin Tendulkar’s inclusion in the India squad for the World T20, beginning next month, but there are good reasons why he won’t figure in the line-up.
No.1 is that Sachin isn’t among the 30 probables for the tournament’s third edition.
Then, Sachin is himself not keen on making himself available, even if the Board of Control for Cricket in India pulls strings to have an exception made for the top batsman of the modern era.
Indeed, in response to an SMS from The Telegraph, on Tuesday evening, Sachin responded with an unambiguous “No.”
Sachin, it may be recalled, featured in India’s first T20 International, against South Africa (late 2006), but never played again.
During last year’s IPL, in South Africa, selector Yashpal Sharma did ask Sachin to “review” his decision, but the maestro stayed firm.
Sachin is understood to have told Yashpal that he didn’t wish to disturb a “well-settled young bunch.”
The “young bunch” didn’t deliver in the World T20’s second edition, last year, but Sachin’s position hasn’t changed.
Clearly, Sachin’s focus is Tests and ODIs, the two forms where he’s not only the highest run-getter, but is the No.1 in the number of hundreds, too.
Sachin, who turns 37 next month, scripted a brilliant 71 not out in Monday’s Mumbai Indians versus the Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL clash.
The selectors, meanwhile, will be picking the World T20 squad on Friday. India won the inaugural edition, under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s captaincy, in 2007.
No.1 is that Sachin isn’t among the 30 probables for the tournament’s third edition.Then, Sachin is himself not keen on making himself available, even if the Board of Control for Cricket in India pulls strings to have an exception made for the top batsman of the modern era.
Indeed, in response to an SMS from The Telegraph, on Tuesday evening, Sachin responded with an unambiguous “No.”
Sachin, it may be recalled, featured in India’s first T20 International, against South Africa (late 2006), but never played again.
During last year’s IPL, in South Africa, selector Yashpal Sharma did ask Sachin to “review” his decision, but the maestro stayed firm.
Sachin is understood to have told Yashpal that he didn’t wish to disturb a “well-settled young bunch.”
The “young bunch” didn’t deliver in the World T20’s second edition, last year, but Sachin’s position hasn’t changed.
Clearly, Sachin’s focus is Tests and ODIs, the two forms where he’s not only the highest run-getter, but is the No.1 in the number of hundreds, too.
Sachin, who turns 37 next month, scripted a brilliant 71 not out in Monday’s Mumbai Indians versus the Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL clash.
The selectors, meanwhile, will be picking the World T20 squad on Friday. India won the inaugural edition, under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s captaincy, in 2007.
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