5 idiots

Way back in 1988, Mohinder Amarnath had called the Indian cricket team selectors as a bunch of idiots. 21 years later, they continue to prove Jimmy correct..!!
After the Indian cricket team lost the home ODI series to the injury hit Aussies, the selectors had the tough task of uplifting the morale of the down players and the team on the whole and at the same time select a 'good' team for the home series against the in-form Lankans, but what they presented can easily be called as more of a joke than team selection. Except for the selection of Sreesanth(Dhoni finally seems to have forgiven him for his running around act after taking his wicket in the IPL) and Zaheer Khan in the team, the rest of the team selection seems like a joke.
-Three spinners were picked up viz. Harbhajan, Mishra and Ojha.Now we all know that Dhoni prefers to play a single spinner in his lineup unless the wicket is too spin friendly and given the quality of spinners in the Lankan side, it will be a foolishness if they decide to make such a wicket.
-The out of form Ishant was again given a chance with the likes of Nehra and Munaf ignored.However, the selectors cited the reason that Nehra needed some rest and himself opted out of the test series.
-Given India's 'strong' batting lineup with Sehwag, Sachin, Yuvraj, Laxman, Dhoni, Gambhir and Dravid, it seems completely pointless to pick up Tamil Nadu's Murali Vijay and Subramanium Badrinath in the side with no likely role for them..!
-The team was chosen with the match between the Board President's XI and Sri Lanka yet to start, so it could be thought what the players would play for, as cited by the BP XI captain Rohit Sharma.

so... the selectors proved their critics right.... once again..again and again...!