Sunday, February 14, 2010

Dream job!

IMHO, the only job that seems to fit this term is being a member of Indian cricket team selection committee. Why? For the following reasons:
1. You are not expected to disclose the thought procedure behind any selection decision. So you can drop an icon like Rahul Dravid from the team even when he was your second best batsman in the last series (Champions trophy) and you easily get away with it! That kind of non-accountability seems to good to be true right?
2. You pick a back-up wicketkeeper for a test match. The poor fellow (WP Saha) becomes a thorn in the eyes of the full country for using his batsman gloves only and is dropped for the next test match. He did not even get a chance to put his wicket-keeping gloves on! Instead, you draft in another wicket-keeper(Dinesh Karthik) in the squad who was just dropped in favor of WP Saha before the first test match!
3. You can drop a fast bowler(Abhimanyu Mithun) without even giving him a chance to play coz a senior fast bowler(Sreesanth) is fit again! Even worse, none of them get into the playing 11 because the team management wants to play Ishant sharma, a bowler who has been out of form for almost an year.

So basically, you get to play dice with the future generation of Indian cricket, along with the perks of fame, free travel etc. Now isn't that a dream job?

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