Selectors ignored Salunkhe but Warne didn’t
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
While the Mumbai selectors have ignored the performances of Dinesh Salunkhe, Warne has picked him alongside himself in the both the IPL games for the Jaipur side, writes Pradeep Vijayakar in the Times of India.
Salunkhe had not played for any of the Mumbai age group sides, but after playing for Jhunjhunwalla and Khalsa College, he was picked for the university side thanks to the insistence of selector Sanjay Patil. Kapil Dev rewarded Salunkhe with a stint in Leicester cricket in 2007. Air India then took him on scholarship and he has rewarded them with consistent performances.
Also read S Ram Mahesh in the Hindu writing on the remarkable rise of P Amarnath.
When mulling over the decision to quit his job for one that wasn’t nearly as secure, Amarnath didn’t for a moment consider the transition he would eventually make — progressing in four years from bowling in the city’s fourth division to bowling in the Indian Premier League.
The same paper also has a piece on Sanjay Bangar's penchant for writing.
The seven-article series Sanjay Bangar wrote on a popular cricket website is still read widely. He’ll laugh if you describe it as good, but the feedback to his writing has mostly been positive.
Bangar's articles appeared on Cricinfo. You can read them here.
The quality of spin has dropped considerably over the years and yet the batsmen of today flounder on what would have been an average wicket a few decades ago, writes Saad Bin Jung in the Asian Age.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo