While the Indian seniors have failed miserably with the bats in
England, most of the A team batsmen have done well with the willow at
the four-nation Emerging Players Tournament which concluded in
Queensland on Saturday.
Bengal's Manoj Tiwary and Mumbai's Ajinkya Rahane were star
performers having scored 306 and 274 runs respectively. Skipper Shikhar
Dhawan scored 205 runs.
Barring Aniruddha Srikkanth, whose selection came under lot of
criticism, almost all the other top-order Indian batsmen got a half
century.
While Manoj (average 76.50) hit a century and a half century, Rahane
(average 68.50) hit two centuries. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan, Saurabh
Tiwary and young Ashok Menaria scored a century each while Manish Pandey
hit two half centuries and Ambati Rayudu also scored a half century.
Aniruddha was the only specialist batsman who failed to notch up a
double digit score (9 and 8) in the two innings he got during the only
three-day match.
Srikkanth Junior's performance was a shade better in T20s where he
scored 81 runs in three matches but his strike-rate of shade over 114
was nowhere close to the two Tiwarys - Manoj (88 runs; strike-rate
154.38) and Saurabh (103 runs; strike-rate 151.47).
In the bowling department, Varun Aaron had the most number scalps
(10) in three day matches followed by Iqbal Abdullah and R Vinay Kumar
(9 each). Abdullah was the most successful bowler in the shortest
version with six sticks to his credit
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