L.P. Sahi in the news

Rahul Dravid is quite at ease with himself and demonstrates, yet again, that an articulate and thoughtful man can still lead from the front. In an interview with L.P. Sahi he speaks quite candidly about himself.

This exchange, towards the end of the interview shows that he is not one to be carried away in the wake of 1 comprehensive victory when there are 11 more matches to come.

Q: Is a good beginning to a series half the job done?
A: (Laughs yet again) One-twelfth of the job has been done...

And in another article in The Telegraph L.P. Sahi provides his insight on the fate of the previous captain, Sourav Ganguly. Oddly he has this nugget at the end of what is mostly an opinion piece:

Logically, he (Ganguly) should take Gautam Gambhir’s place in the XV and (if the Nagpur side is retained on Friday) Yalaka Venugopal Rao’s in the XI. But, then, every selection isn’t driven by logic and other factors come into play.

The "logic" part of this equation is hard to understand. In the two ODI's played so far, Gambhir has not been in the 11 (+1), while Venugopal Rao has featured in both but not batted even once. So what have they done to be dropped? The argument, no doubt, is that they made the side because Ganguly was injured. But what really boggles me is how he can depose two guys, one to get into the pool and the second to swim with the team.

Ganguly's last few ODI's have not shown the batsman to be in form prior to his injury, so therefore a century in a 4-day game should not automatically qualify him for a return to an ODI squad, once healthy. (I shall have an issue with the selectors if he is dropped from the Test squad, however, but I shall discuss that should it happen).