SUBRAMANIUM BADRINATH THE BAIT IN PRESSURE SITUATIONS

For all those who are living in chennai and fans of the Chennai Super Kings know this person in and out and they way in which everyone would say if you ask How Did Badri Play?.the answer would be that "He played way too slowly and wasted many balls" but actually if you analyse the situation correctly he is mostly used as a bait in pressure situations and he rescues the team and creates a platform for the big hitters such as Dhoni,Albie Morkel,Dwayne Bravo it is the nature of t20 cricket that people love only boundaries and thus the hardwork of badri is overshadowed by brutal hitting by the likes of dhoni and co in the csk squad.
Csk have been the most consistent squad in the IPL history by making it to the semi-finals in all the editions thus far and to be honest badri has rescued csk in many matches where we would have lost an classic example would be the the Elimination Final 2 between Chennai Super Kings and the Mumbai Indians where csk lost 2 wickets for just 1 run on the board and badri with hussey crafted a match changing partnership and that was completely overshadowed by some brutal hitting by Dhoni.imagine if that platform had not been set by badri and hussey csk would have been shot out of the ipl-5.

Badri is blessed with sound footwork and quick reflexes which makes him an very good batsman and an excellent fielder and remember he is 32 years old.He scores very heavily in the domestic circuit amassing a total of 7891 runs from 150 innings and he has been the mainstay of Tamil Nadu's batting line up.The ugly truth is that a batsman of such quality and experience has been completely ignored and to be honest he has not been given his due chances.They say that Badri is an test batsman and yet why is he not playing for India in test matches tough being present in the 15 men squad for many series.The most shocking surprise was during the India vs New Zeland test series 2012 where Cheteshwar Pujara was selected ahead of Badri.was completely baffling.With the retirement of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman the indian test batting line up required some Experience at the top one of the two slots was taken up by Virat Kolhi leaving only just one spot which was given to pujara.tough pujara scored a century it was in placid pitches and against an non firing and tired  New Zeland bowling line up.Now with the likes of England and Australia touring India against whom India lost all the 8 test matches its a wonderful season ahead.obviously the quality of the bowling line up in both these teams are very high so with tendulkar speaking of retirement we need some experience in the test line up.

Initially Suresh Raina was considered and was given 17 test matches but kept failing badly before he was dropped and for badri he was given just 2 test matches and he played well against the famed South African bowling line up of Dale Steyn who picked up 10 wickets in the match and only 3 indian batsmen scored above 10 runs in the first innings where badri and sewagh played a crucial partnership where viru scored a century overshawdoing the beautiful innings of 56 by badri giving sewagh a platform.Badri was just given 2 test matches to prove his worth and he was dropped.With none of the IPL teams interested in buying him at the auction held this year his career seems to be going no where..An great talent which went un noticed.