With the 2009 Ashes Test about to start, the selectors of both the England and Australian cricket teams, will come under intense scrutiny. When it comes to selecting a squad of players the game of cricket is unique. amongst all sports. In football for example it is the manager who picks the team whereas in cricket it is the job of a panel of selectors containing several members. These selectors contain people who all have extensive in the game having all played at various levels.
India’s campaign for the World T20 Championship did not start on a positive note. Leading from India’s dashing opener Virender Sehwag’s suspected fitness problems the media shot off stories of possible conflict between Dhoni and Sehwag. Dhoni did not help matters by responding to it in a negative way and even parading his entire team in a press conference to prove unity. Finally Sehwag was sent home and India suffered a setback without playing a match yet.
Most selectors, especially those involved in the international cricket arena are well paid – how would you like to travel the world watching top class cricket all expenses paid ! The beauty of the game is cricket fans are particularly knowledgeable and that means that if they do not agree with any of the selection decisions and they are proved right the selectors will come in for heavy criticism.
One of the selectors is usually the cricket coach as well, after all he manages the team his opinion will carry a lot of weight .If he wants a particular player in the team or conversely one dropped he will get his way. Whilst the cricket captain is not on the selection panel his opinion will carry a lot of weight after all, a captain who is not in tune with his selectors will adversely effect everyone involved .The panel of selectors will try to give the captain they want.
At the end of the day it is the role of the panel of selectors in cricket is to pick the best eleven cricketers available for selection. Due to injuries or more often lack of form that is not always possible due to player injuries or even more likely loss of form. Often player selections give rise to a huge amount of controversy and the selectors are called to account for their decisions.
Although records of test matches have been kept since 1877 the very first Test Match between England and Australia that took place that year was not covered in Wisden for 100 years. The scorecard was printed to celebrate the centenary of the test in 1977 and bizarrely, the result was the same in both cases – Australia won by 45 runs.
Wisden now boasts an associated website Cricinfo and the book is now more an additional reference to this site. As one would expect of anything Wisden, it is probably the most comprehensive online cricket information site in the world, containing a huge archive of cricket records and statistics. Use the Cricinfo Stats guru to find out any cricket you may possibly want to know, be it countries, players, grounds or officials. It has such a wealth of information that you really can make it your ‘one stop shop’ for all things cricket
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