Call back Dravid to Team India: Wasim Akram

Bring back Rahul Dravid for ODI in the Indian team squad! This was the quote given by ace bowler turned Cricket commentator Wasim Akram told reporters today. According to Wasim, there must be senior batsmen in the middle order in order to bring stability to the match.

He told that Rahul Dravid being the senior Batsmen should be placed back to India's ODI team as Rahul has the potential to offer a lot to the country in the 50 over format.

He quoted, "Dravid still has a lot to offer in ODIs. I believe that Dravid should be brought back into the (one-day) team. In the sub-continent, the current batsmen can do well, but on the overseas tours, India need a solid and experienced batsman like Dravid".

Akram also expressed his feelings towards the current bowling line up of Indian team.

The ace cricketer also told that the packed International Schedule has definitely affected the Indian players a lot. Both India and Srilanka playing their series back to back within the time gap of two months. This lead to the players to lose their interest in the contests.

Bring back Dravid atleast for the World Cup!!! All the best Dravid!!!

GAUTAM GAMBIR HOLDS UP NO 1 SPOT

The Indian opener Gautam Gambir has beccome the first Indian batsman in over four years to head the batting rankings after a double failure by Mohammad Yousuf which dropped him out of the top three of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings. Mohammed Yousuf returned to the No 1 spot last week with a century in the first test which took place in galle,but managed to score only 10 and 6 in the second test and ude to that he has dropped four places to the fifth position in the latest ranking which was released after the colombo test. Pakistan skipper Younis khan was able to retain his No 2 spot but by conceding 12 points with the scores of 0 and 82.

Gautam gambir's 847 points is relatively low for the No 1 spot in modern days because usually batsman score up to 900 points to retain the first place.Gautam is lucky may be because of the lack of form by the top order bataman.Gambir is the Indian batsman after Rahul Dravid to top the chart. Sachin Tendulkaris the other Indian batsman in the last 15 years who has topped the batting chart.Both the test and and ODI ranking are headed by the Indian batsman with Indian Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni leading in the ODI and Yuvraj Singh who bagged the Second Spot.

DRAVID AMONG PROBABLES

Rahul Dravid who has been known has the wall of indian cricket has been the surprise inclusion in the 30 member squad which has been picked for the champions trophy which is scheduled to be held in september this year,along with hime players like sehwag, sachin tendulkar and zaheer khan have also been added.Rahul dravid has played his last one Day International in October 2007. His average is about 39.49 from 333 games with a strike rate of 71.22 and the most important thing to be noted is that he is the third player to score 10,000 runs in ODI.


Rahul Dravid's inclusion follows the recent struggle of indian batsmen who struggled to play the bouncers.Players like raina,Yousuf pathan,Rohith Sharma,Gambir struggled to play the bouncers which were bowled by the fast bowlers of West Indies and England.Rahul Dravid played a key role for the victory of Royal Challengers banglore scoring 271 runs with a strike rate of 115.81.Among the players who failed to make a place in the indian team are Irfan Pathan and sreesanth.