First, Rahul Dravid continues to sit out of the ODI team, and his predecessor captain and by far the most gritty cricketer in world cricket in current times, Saurav Ganguly is dropped. The reasons looked scantily logical at best.
Second, the very next day, player categories for IPL - whose genesis itself was more due to revenge/competition than cricketing - were announced that give both the former captains 'icon' status.
- If agility on the field was the reason for omission of Ganguly from the team for tri-series, can rational thought get him a place in the Twenty20 format which is far more demanding in terms of ground fielding.
- Players who have opted out of the Twenty20 world cup in South Africa have all been included in the IPL. Does the IPL reduce to only being a revenue generator ?
