da fezbet： While the batsmen failed to put up a decent score in either innings,selection committee chairman Chandu Borde chose to attack the bowlersfor India’s humiliating 10-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in the first Testat Galle on Friday
Staff and Agencies17-Aug-2001* Borde blames bowlers for dismal performanceWhile the batsmen failed to put up a decent score in either innings,selection committee chairman Chandu Borde chose to attack the bowlersfor India’s humiliating 10-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in the first Testat Galle on Friday. “The bowlers gave away too many runs and did nottake advantage of the wicket in the beginning when they should havebowled a better line and length,” Borde told PTI over phone from Pune.”It was yet another dismal performance (by the Indians),” he said butrefused to go into the merits of Saurav Ganguly’s leadership. “This isnot the time to do that… The captain is equally disappointed.”Borde hoped the team would leave the defeat behind and play the nexttwo Tests with a renewed zeal. “Ours is a talented team and all they(the players) need to do is to regroup themselves and play to theirpotential, putting the past behind them,” he said.* Lanka, Pakistan A teams to play in India in NovemberThe Sri Lankan A and Pakistan A teams will play a triangular one-dayseries in India in November, according to former Board of Control forCricket in India (BCCI) president Raj Singh Dungarpur.Dungarpur told PTI in Mumbai on Friday that both the Pakistan and SriLankan cricket boards have agreed to visit India. "I spoke toPakistan Cricket Board (PCB) director Brig Munawar Rana and Sri LankanBoard CEO Anura Tenekoon and both have agreed in principle,"Dungarpur added.The Indian A team will also play a three-match `Test’ series with thePakistan A team followed by a two-match `Test’ series against SriLanka A. The triangular series will come up for ratification at theBCCI’s working committee meeting in Mumbai on August 25.* NCA short list 20 traineesThe Bangalore based National Cricket Academy has short listed a listof 20 trainees who will have a coaching schedule at the Academypremises from August 27 to September 22. The players were selectedfrom the five zonal academies and most of them are expected to figurein the third batch of NCA trainees next year.The trainees: K Rawat, Kunal Lal, Vivek Sharma, Abhishek Sharma (allNorth Zone), Vinay Uttappa, Stuart Binny, AT Rayudu and Sendhil Kumar(all South Zone), S Biswal, R Jaiswal, R Mohanty and Mihir Diwakar(all East Zone), Paul Vallthaty, Sahil Kukreja, Siddarth Trivedi and SBachani (all West Zone), Munish Mishra, Sachin Dholpure, DevinderSingh and Surinder Singh (all Central Zone).