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Close call between Agarkar and Nehra: Ganguly

July 08, 2004 21:38 IST

Indian cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly said that it was a tough decision for the selectors to choose between paceman Ajit Agarkar and Ashish Nehra for the Asia Cup, but the scales tilted in favour of the latter due to his good performance in the nets.

"Nehra's good performance at the nets won the day for him. But it was a tough decision and a close call," Ganguly said on his return from Chennai after attending the conditioning camp for the Colombo event.

Asked whether the team was concerned over security following the suicide blast in Colombo that left four policemen dead and 12 others wounded, Ganguly said "this is a matter for the Board to look into. I understand that BCCI Secretary S K Nair is speaking to the Sri Lanka cricket board officials on this."


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Sub: Injustice withAgarkar

Injustice is done alll with poor agarkar, I dont know why the selectors are taking away the kid " Parthiv" if the wickets are to ...


Posted by Ajay Randhawa





Sub: Injustice!

Agarkar was our best bowler in Australia, without doubt! Infact he was the one who set up the epoch making victory against Australia in Australia ...


Posted by Ganesh





Sub: Agarkar VS Nehra

Sir, It really looks like a hazy picture,the prudency behind the selection of Nehra to Agarkar is really impertinent in the context that the Indian ...


Posted by K.M.cheriyan





Sub: nonsense!

this is rediculous!! how can ganguly say that? dont he know statistics!? ganguly might have forced selectors to drop agarkar to take zaheer & nehra ...


Posted by srinivas k





Sub: Injustice to Agarkar

Ganguly's preference for Nehra & Zaheer is only TOO OBVIOUS! Ideally, the tossup must have been between Nehra and Zaheer!!! Ganguly's selfishness in letting his ...


Posted by Ganesh




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