Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Ripper of a Ranji Final

Guess, all of us are waiting to witness a ripper of a Ranji final between Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.

Bengal has a few India-rejects like Deep DasGupta, S S Paul(fairly decent line-and-length bowler in NZ-style), LakshmiRatan Shukla and Rohan Gavaskar. Of course, without Ganguly this team looks out-of-colour, but still they have experienced campaigners in their team which will help their tital-cause.

Uttar Pradesh has a bunch of prospects like Suresh Raina, Kaif, Piyush Chawla and JP Yadav(not exactly a India-prospect considering his age and his baldline ;-) ). They have an old workhorse in Ashish Winston Zaidi.

UP will start as the favourites thanks to their astounding win over the perennial favourites Mumbai! UP also has some amazing talent in Raina and Piyush, hopefully these guys get a good break into the Indian team, with Greg Chappel keen to push-in youngsters into Indian team!

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