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Dream team

The selection of India’s best Twenty20 team by The Hindu’s sports team (May 30) was full of pleasant surprises and agonising omissions. While the selection of young players such as Abhishek Nayar, Amit Mishra and Manpreet Gony deserves praise, the omission of Yuvraj Singh from the team is unbelievable, especially after his brilliant knock against the Rajasthan Royals in the last league match.

V. Krishnan,

Hyderabad

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Even as readers relish The Hindu’s coverage of IPL matches, full marks to its sports team for coming up with the exercise of selecting the dream T20 team. So sound is the reasoning and logic behind the selection that it is difficult to improve on the same. Maybe, the final composition could have been arrived at after the semis and the finals. For all we know, the prominent omission — hitter of six sixes in the T20 World Cup — may make a comeback.

Suresh Manoharan,

Hyderabad

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The dream team is fairly well balanced. The only surprise omission is Yuvraj Singh who has proved himself time and again in the T20 format of the game. As the IPL juggernaut comes to a close, it is hoped the team owners would have realised that players such as Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar are not suited to the swashbuckling format of cricket.

M.K. Bajaj,

Zirakpur

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It was my pleasure to see the dream team, which has been put together after careful thought. There can certainly be no controversy about the players selected. However, Yuvraj Singh, an accomplished master stroke player of the shorter version of the game, cannot be omitted. We hope his exclusion was only an oversight.

Sanjay Kannan,

Chennai

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