Can Raina & gang wow us in Zimbabwe?
For once the BCCI acted on something in advance: The youngish team led by Suresh Raina for the Zimbabwe Tri-series was announced days before India crashed out of the T20 World Cup in the West Indies. Matches against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have always thrown up an interesting situation: If you send your best team and they win, people will say that they were supposed to win anyway. If they lose, then that’s cause for a major embarrassment. Sending a second-string team is different. If they win, then it gives the younger players the much needed confidence. If they lose, then there’s something to be learnt. You come to know the actual strength of your bench strength. That’s valuable. A no win situation for the youngsters Raina will be tried out for the future. Virat Kohli gets to be vice-captain at the age of just 21. MS Dhoni won’t last forever, so it’s a good move. Naman Ojha, R Ashwin, Ashok Dinda, Pankaj Singh, Vinay Kumar and Umesh Yadav may get to make their ODI debuts. That’ll be s
