Prefir or perish message from Vegnsarkar

After two huge defeats against Australia, senior players of the Indian team are clearly feeling the heat with the chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar issuing a warning that nobody should take his place in the team for granted
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In an interview with the Mid-Day newspaper, chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar said, "There are many players like S Badrinath and Suresh Raina who are performing with the India A side. These guys are waiting for their chance and you cannot ignore them. It's a professional set-up and nobody can take their place for granted. Definitely the threshold has reduced."

India lost the second and third matches of the seven-match series against Australia by 84 runs and 47 runs respectively. The first match of the series at Bangalore was washed out but in that match, too, Australia scored over 300
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In the first ODI, only Sachin Tendulkar among the Big Three got a chance to bat but he was sent back by Mitchell Johnson without troubling the scorers.

At Kochi in the second match, Sourav Ganguly did not play due to a hamstring injury while Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid scored 16 and 31 runs each. The scene at Hyderabad was no different with Ganguly not in the XI and Tendulkar contributing only 43 runs in 71 balls when the asking rate was nearly six runs per over. On the other hand, Dravid was out for a duck.

Courtesy:IBNLive
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