Every World Cup in recent times has seen the passenger class of cricketers on the rise and this time around I would like to name all the passengers from all the teams. Yes everyone has one including the defending champions.
Australia - Brad Hogg
South Africa - Loots Bosman, Roger Telemachus and Robin Peterson
India - Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan and Sreesanth
Sri Lanka - Nuwan Kulasekara and Russel Arnold
England - Michael Vaughan and Ravi Bopara
New Zealand - Daryl Tuffey
Pakistan - Azhar Mahmood, Iftikhar Anjum, Imran Nazir, Yasir Arafat and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
West Indies - Lendl Simmons, Kieron Pollard and Daren Powell
For the other team, I would like to name only the non-passengers:
Bangladesh - Shahriar Nafees, Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Rafique and Mashrafe Mortaza
Zimbabwe - Anthony Ireland
Netherlands - Ryan ten Doeschate, Bas Zuiderent and Daan van Bunge
Scotland - Gavin Hamilton, Dougie Brown and Ryan Watson
Bermuda – No one, their fitness level is pathetic for international sports
Canada - John Davison
Kenya - Steve Tikolo and Thomas Odoyo
Ireland - Eoin Morgan and William Porterfield
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2 comments:
Loots Bosman pulls of some stunner and has done reasonably well vs pak so cant agrre with you on him, Srresanth any day will fetch wickets and has goodlegs in an already depleted fielding side...so sree is also not an passanger, ravi bopara if given adequate games is much better than jamie dalrymple. Imran Nazir is talented but inconsistent, hope he plays well and same with the case of Yasir hammed. Agree with you on Brad hogg, Michael vaughan, Lendl Simmons. AB de villers can be added also.
I would totally disagree with u on bosman, if not for his color, he will be no where near the team. Sresaanth is a gud test bowler but again in ODIs he jus cannot be trusted. Imran Nazir had too many chance n FYI, Yaseer Hammed not in Pak squad. the reason Darlylympl is not ther is eng do not any option when it comes to spin bowling allrounders, AB is very talented player, if they play him in one postition am sure he will fire
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