The updates for the day is dominated by the flop show by our batsmen against Northamptonshire. Apart from Mukund who has scored a century everyone else failed. We should be dominating these matches, nothing looks good with our Indian team in this trip. India finished the day on 327/7, the pressure is mounting on Dhoni to perform with the bat, hope he comes good in the next test. May be he should promote himself ahead of Raina or who ever is no.6!
The team selection news is out, Yuvi and Bhajji are set to miss the ODI series while Dravid is recalled after a two year gap. Dravid is in a sublime form and it is not a bad idea to bring him back into the team.
The other major headlines which hogged the limelight is the CAG report on the commonwealth games mess. Looks like the rot is deeper than what everyone else thought! Now Sheila Dixit also appears to be in the mess. I don't want to comment without reading the full report but it is equally wrong on the part of media to project the news as if Sheila Dixit is involved in the CWG mess. Many a times we listen to our subordinates and sanction certain things based on the trust we place on them. Unless until proven I am with Sheila Dixit on this. She is one lady who has taken the project as a prestige issue and strived to complete it on time.
And then we have Sania's match tonight against Heidi El Tabakh who is ranked in the 180s. Sania is going through a mini slump ans this easy match up should help us regain the confidence. Heidi El Tabakh is not even a regular on the WTA tour, she is more of an ITF futures player. Go Sania, get the job done with clinical precision. We will all be supporting you. The match is scheduled at around 11:30AM eastern time in Toronto.
We have AIFF arranging an emergency meeting to solve the issue with clubs refusing to release their players for the upcoming Indian caribbean tour in football. The tour is in jeopardy because of this. Hope AIFF solves the problem as early as possible.
Karan Rastogi and Ranjeet Virali Murugesan, both lost their semifinals matches in the Kazhakistan futures. Both have got very tough opponents. So the loss was more or less on the expected lines. They will be playing along with few other Indians in the same tournament again next week. All the best to our players in Kazhakistan.
In the honor of Dravid for being selected into the ODI team, today's picture is going to be Rahul Dravid.
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