 Decision to drop Rahul shocking: Jadeja
30th Oct 2007 23:48 IST
Agencies
Describing as "shocking" the decision to sack Rahul Dravid from the national team, former Indian skipper Ajay Jadeja today said selectors would be forced to recall the former captain soon.
"The decision was quite shocking. You don't drop players, let alone somebody like Rahul, for not performing in three-four matches. Moreover, except in two of the matches, in the other games he came in the 42nd or 43rd over where it is difficult to score as many runs as the public wants," Jadeja told newspersons on the sidelines of a function in Kolkata.
Lashing out at the board and the quintet of selectors for harping on terms like 'building a team for the future' and 'blooding juniors', Jadeja said, "When Ganguly was dropped, they talked of bringing in juniors. A year and a half later, they had to go back to Ganguly.
"In the same way, they will go back to Rahul after some time. This is not the way to build a team. It seems we are going round and round," he said.
Jadeja also ridiculed the re-induction of Virender Sehwag for the first two one dayers against Pakistan.
"Is he junior? He may be as great a player as Rahul, but he has not been in such sparkling form of late, which justifies his induction. And then too, how can you justify the inclusion of a senior player like him in place of Rahul when you are laying stress on taking in juniors?" he said.
Continuing his tirade against the selection panel, Jadeja said, "They seem to be making fools of everybody.
"It seems what Jimmy Amarnath said about them a decade back still holds good," he said tongue-in-cheek, in an apparent reference to the former right hander dubbing the selectors 'a bunch of jokers".
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