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Veteran Indian batsmen Rahul Dravid got a recall to India’s ODI squad for the Compaq Cup and ICC Champions Trophy 2009. No doubt, Dravid contributed a lot to Indian cricket over more than a decade and he should be considered among the greats of Indian cricket. However, his recent call up to the ODI squad raised a number of questions and it seems that BCCI and Indian selectors follow double standard in team selection.

If my memory does not deceive me, I can still remember that how desperate Indian selectors became to rule out former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly from Indian team. Their logic was that Ganguly had become old and therefore had nothing to offer to Indian cricket. But the fact is that he was still one of top performers in the team and was contributing a lot to the team. Still, selectors ruled out Ganguly from ODI squad, even though he was one of the very few batsmen who had more than 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. After losing his place in the ODI squad, Ganguly continued to play test cricket for about a year with sheer amount of success before retiring from international cricket last year after the home series against Australia.

Well, now the question is that if Indian selectors want to bring new faces in Indian team, overlooking aged players, then on what basis they recalled Rahul Dravid in the ODI squad? Don’t you feel that the selectors are following a double standard?