Sir Alex
Banned
If you think IPL was formed and is being run with the sole objective of making India the greatest t20 nation on earth, mate you couldn't be further from truth.So? A lot of my Indian friends are also showing a "finger" to IPL for what it has "achieved...."
You have the English Premier League for example. And you've a struggling England team on the other side.
That said, IPL indeed rang all warnings. People were talking up how the senior like Sachin, Kumble etc dominated the charts this time. But forgot or ignored that this meant the so called young brigade, who would be representing India, didn't perform to expected standards.
The moron selectors compounded the issue by completely ignoring the IPL performances and instead stuck with out of form players like Yuvraj, Zaheer etc.
Had the team to West Indies been selected on merit, ie, IPL performances alone, the squad would've been roughly.
Uthappa
Vijay
S Tiwary
M Dhoni
R Sharma
V Kohli
N Ojha
S Raina
P Ojha
H Singh
A Mishra
A Dinda
P Kumar/ U Yadav
V Kumar
Ashwin
With the above team we'd have a greater chance of making to semi, after which is a big lottery anyways.
It gives a shudder we couldn't select our best IPL players like
S Ganguly
R Dravid
Sachin
Kumble
Who would comfortably make the top 6 best indian performers in IPL.
And we missed the services of Sehwag due to injury also.
In short, our world Cup team was in no way representative of our best IPL players, on talent and form.
It's high time selectors woke up to the fact that past exploits are nothing without form in t20, and with 14 games IPL couldn't be a better indicator of that.