Dharmani's consistency overlooked

Dharmani's consistency overlooked Punjab cricket has come of age and the state team is amongst the top teams of the country. The state provided three stars -- Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Mongia to the Indian team in the just concluded World Cup. The team has been doing extremely well in the domestic circuit both in the longer and shorter versions of the game despite the absence of the stars doing duty for the …

…planning for our future campaigns against New Zealand and Australia and have chosen a squad of 39 probables for a conditioning and training camp Pankaj Dharmani's name does not figures in the list. What prompted the five wise men of Indian cricket to ignore the cold statistics pertaining to Pankaj Dharmani? Domestic cricket does not attract Indian stars and the callous attitude of the selectors towards domestic performance would further reduce it to a meaningless exercise.