A brilliant maiden 100 by all-rounder Virender Shewag in the crucial
one-day league match of the Coca-Cola Cup tri-series against New
Zealand, was not enough to earn him a place in the Test squad
announced by the selectors in Mumbai today
02-Aug-2001A brilliant maiden 100 by all-rounder Virender Shewag in the crucial
one-day league match of the Coca-Cola Cup tri-series against New
Zealand, was not enough to earn him a place in the Test squad
announced by the selectors in Mumbai today.Even as Shewag blazed away to the 68-ball century, the sixth fastest
in one-day internationals, the selectors did not pick him in the 16-
member team for the three Test series against Sri Lanka starting on
August 14 at Galle.”One-day cricket is entirely dfferent from Tests,” reasoned BCCI
secretary and selection committee convenor JY Lele when contacted
later.”Shewag was included in the Indian team purely as a one-day player. At
any cost this century is not going to help him make it to the Test
squad,” he said.
