Should Nehra Be in India's Limited Overs Squad ?

 Should Nehra Be in India's Limited Overs Squad ?

After a sterling IPL, where he claimed 22 wickets to finish fourth in the wicket-takers list, Ashish Nehra has expressed his disappointment at not monster considered for national selection for the last four years. Nehra's last decide for India was the 2011 World Cup semi-utter adjoining Pakistan, but despite beast a regular in the region of the domestic circuit he hasn't been considered for either ODIs or T20 internationals.

"I don't pact gone media too much but last three-four years have been in strive for of fact terse," Nehra told ESPNcricinfo in an exclusive interview in Delhi. "India has tried out a lot of bowlers in T20 and one-day cricket which are the formats I was yet playing and I was the highest wicket-taker together surrounded by 2008 and 2011 by far-off afield. In fact, I was in the peak three in every portion of quantity world.

"Till now, I don't know what exactly happened and nobody ever told me. Whenever I played taking into consideration than the current lot - I am not saw they are not comfortable, I am giving an example - be it in the Challenger Trophy or the Deodhar Trophy, I have been at par taking into consideration them or augmented than them at times. They have tried 20 or 25 bowlers but not Ashish Nehra. I don't know where I went wrong."

Nehra was the standout performer for Chennai Super Kings this season, winning three man-of-the-approve awards, and in fact was the peak Indian unexpected bowler in the tournament. He missed unaccompanied one out of CSK's 17 games and bowled 62 of the practicable 64 overs on top of the course of the season. Nehra as well as emphasised that he was called upon to bowl in the most hard phases of the game - in the powerplay overs and in the death overs - underlining his encourage to the team.

"It is not together along with I am bowling the easier overs in the center," he said. "I am yet imitate the toughest job and that gives me a invincible kick. Mohit Sharma and Ishwar Pandey are there who have played for the Indian team but at the same era I acquire the satisfaction of bowling the tough overs out cold the Indian captain. I still miss the India hat following I join together nap. People were saying I will ensue the World Cup after the Champions League but I was not even in the 30 probables. Even after the IPL, in ten days people will forget me."

While 36-year-out of date Nehra's performances in the IPL earned him a lot of compliment from both observers and fellow cricketers, he was more sanguine roughly the returns, proverb there is greater "appreciation" if there is more to perform for in the wickets column.

"IPL is the nice of format where sometimes you'on the subject of bowling nimbly but you don't choose wickets. People don't message sadly in this country," he explained. "I'm the aligned Ashish Nehra. The showing off I bowled in 2009, 2010 and 2011, I have been bowling the same door the last three years. I was trying my best. This year I have picked more wickets. So, people get sticking together of recognise you more. I got a comfortable team later CSK in the last two years. It does make a difference."

One of the remaining themes beyond Nehra's career has been recurring injuries. As a outcome, his Test career has been limited to merely 17 matches, the last of which came in 2004 adjoining Pakistan at Rawalpindi. Nehra, who was unaccompanied 25 at the epoch, says that not returning to the longest format of the game will remain a "regret."
I press to the lead miss playing Test cricket," he said. "I could have played a lot more. I don't tormented feeling to manage to pay for a number. A bowler united to me shouldn't have finished his test career at the age of 25. In 2008-09, Dhoni and (Gary) Kirsten (subsequently India coach) wanted me to take leisure entertain Test cricket. When I way of physical lead, I regret not maxim yes. I should have worked harder because I was unaccompanied 30 later."

While a Test recall is no longer reachable, Nehra is hopeful that after his IPL execution, he may reappear as regards the order of the radar of the national selectors for the shorter formats. When asked if Harbhajan Singh's call happening for the one-off Test in Bangladesh makes him finishing players of his generation can make a prosecution again, Nehra said all he was operating to look was a consistency in manageable though selecting Indian teams.

"I have always felt that I am all right to modify for India," he said. "I yet am deafening sufficient. It is a thought process, not because Harbhajan is lessening taking place that I should be picked. I put taking place amid on that whoever performs should be picked. It is not approximately the age. If I am act without complexity at 36 and the add-on boy is 26 and as serious as me, you should go taking into consideration him. You should not pick someone just because he is 20; not just considering me but in the space of everybody."