{"id":693,"date":"2005-03-29T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/693"},"modified":"2005-03-29T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T09:36:00","slug":"laxman-kumble-and-karthik-dropped-for-one-day-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/laxman-kumble-and-karthik-dropped-for-one-day-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Laxman, Kumble, and Karthik dropped for one-day series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was stunned when I heard that Kumble was dropped. What the hell is wrong with the selectors and the captain? How can you drop a bowler that enjoys great respect in the Pakistani camp? If I am not wrong, Kumble was the leading wicket-taker for India in the test series. One can argue that he should make way for the young ones in the waiting, but Dinesh Mongia and M.S. Dhoni!? Sorry guys, something fishy there. <br \/>Why drop Laxman? Why should he prove his worth all the time? He is the fav fall-guy of Indian cricket. While Sachin and Saurav get away with murder, Laxman pays for the failure of the famed middle order.<br \/>Dinesh Mongia! F***, when will these guys be able to pull their heads out of their butts? <br \/>Message to Sachin: Don&#8217;t worry son. I hope Somalia is forming its test team. So, be ready to massacre them and to become the only batsman to score 40+ centuries. No shit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnstar.com\/cricket\/cricket_newsdetail_1470339.html\">Link on ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<map name=\"google_ad_map_061219083632050329090600\">\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/061219083632050329090600?pos=0\" coords=\"1,2,367,28\"\/>\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg\" coords=\"384,10,453,23\"\/><\/map>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" usemap=\"#google_ad_map_061219083632050329090600\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1259014363012020&amp;channel=9138153052&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=061219083632050329090600&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fyakpad10.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F03%2Flaxman-kumble-and-karthik-dropped-for.html\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was stunned when I heard that Kumble was dropped. What the hell is wrong with the selectors and the captain? How can you drop a bowler that enjoys great respect in the Pakistani camp? If I am not wrong, Kumble was the leading wicket-taker for India in the test series. One can argue that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I was stunned when I heard that Kumble was dropped. 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