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Monday, February 14, 2011

Chawla poses selection headache for India cricket

Indian cricketers honour Piyush Chawla (second-right) for receiving a wicket of secret Australian batsman David Hussey during a warm-up compare forward of a 2011 World Cup Cricket contest during The M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore upon Feb 13. India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was grappling with a preference nonplus after Chawla’s match-winning performance.
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BANGALORE, India (AFP) – India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was grappling with a preference nonplus Monday after a match-winning opening by leg-spinner Piyush Chawla in a World Cup warm-up diversion opposite Australia.

Chawla, who returned to a one-day side during a new array in South Africa after a three-year break, was a warn inclusion in a World Cup patrol already together with dilettante spinners Harbhajan Singh as well as Ravichandran Ashwin.

With part-time spinners Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag as well as Yusuf Pathan serve bolstering a delayed bowling department, Chawla’s preference sparked a debate.

But a baby-faced bowler forced a Indian group government in to a critical rethink upon their personification eleven after picking off 4 wickets for 31 runs to conform India’s doubtful 38-run win in Bangalore upon Sunday.

“A leg-spinner can unequivocally difficulty batsmen,” Dhoni pronounced after a match. “Chawla turns a peculiar a single as well as has a really great wrong’un. He is unchanging with line as well as length. Also, it gives you some-more options in bowling.

“One of a reasons for his preference was a need to have a spinner who can bat a bit. If he could minister 15-20 runs afterwards it would be great for a side.

“It’s a bit of headache whom to fool around as well as whom not to fool around with a kind of bent you have in a group though it is great for a team.”

Chawla pronounced his warm-up opening could work in his foster once a contest starts upon Saturday with an India-Bangladesh compare in Dhaka.

“We have a couple of great spinners in a squad,” Chawla, 22, said. “If a representation is delayed as well as offers a little turn, we will have a great possibility to have it.

“When we came to play in a initial powerplay, a round was branch a bit as well as all we indispensable to do was representation a round in a right areas.”

Chawla, who done his one-day entrance opposite Bangladesh in 2007, has picked twenty-eight wickets from twenty-two ODIs.

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