SA tour: Gambhir, Zaheer on selectors' radar

Gambhir's century in Delhi's Ranji win and Zaheer's experience of bowling to Graeme Smith & Co will be in focus. 

VADODARA: The Indian team to tour South Africa from December 5 will be selected on Monday. Left-handed opener Gautam Gambhir's century in Delhi's Ranji win on Sunday and Zaheer Khan's experience of bowling to Graeme Smith & Co will be in focus. 

India will play two Test matches and three one-day internationals in South Africa. The tour will start with the ODIs to be played at Johannesburg, Durban and Centurion. The Test matches will be played at the first two venues. The series will end on December 30. 

"The selectors were supposed to meet at Vizag where the second one-day international between India and West Indies was scheduled on Sunday. But there was an alert for hurricane there so I had a word with the selectors," said BCCI secretary, Sanjay Patel. 

With Sachin Tendulkar vacating the long-held Number Four Slot in the batting order, another Mumbai batsman Ajinkya Rahane -- who has been in the waiting for a while now -- may finally get the nod. 

The selectors have been toying with the idea of promoting the in-form Kohli to Number Four already and therefore, if Rahane walks in, he could come in to bat at Number 5, the slot that Kohli had made his own. 

India's bowling attack, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami at the helm of affairs and Umesh Yadav next in line, has faired well but lacks in experience. Zaheer's magic that he's worked on the South Africans in the past will remain on the selectors mind. 

The decisions taken on Monday will have far-reaching effects on the careers of some of the senior cricketers who've been losing ground to the younger cricketers
.

Hi guys If u like this post please leave a comment in comment box... comment box will top right of every post and bottom of every post. its useful for me give a better information.. if u want to give any suggestion in bottom of blog there is contact information option please leave a msgs with u r mail id sure i will get u.