Has Zaheer got injured or something?

He has had enough bowling practice and one would want to keep him fit and raring to go for the Tests rather than give him too much of a workout in a pointless game.

That is why Sreesanth, Munaf, Mishra etc who won't feature in the first Test are doing the bulk of the bowling.

yeah its a pointless game. as the Indian back up bolwing as gone for 100s of runs . so its all of sudden pointless.

So one innings is enough for a 4 test series after going for nearly 100 runs and wicketless, I would much rather have confidence by taking a few wickets going into the next games

knowit:
Where do you think I have mentioned in any of my articles or posts that this is a key match?

I have not mentioned it at all in any of my series prediction articles either.

It is what it is- a pointless match. And to show how pointless such practice matches are, read this article which I wrote yesterday after the amount of criticism India got:
http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/14794

I will stick my neck out now and say Zaheer and Harbhajan Singh will barely take a wicket and go for loads of runs..

Will Sreesanth not play the first test Rex?
Who will? Kumar?

knowit:
Well haven't you been doing that all the time before the series started? I haven't been following you on 606 but something gives me the impression that is the truth about you.

As for what they will do- you don't have to wait long to find out. I shall stand by what I said though- Zaheer and Harbhajan will be destroyers in chief.

One practice match will not change my opinion that was based on 175 Tests and almost 700 wickets combined.

Hoggy:
I'm sure the pace attack will be:
Zaheer
Ishant
Praveen
Harbhajan

but with Dhoni you never know. Let's not forget he was the man who included Sreesanth in place of the popular and arguably saner choice of Ashwin in the World Cup Semifinal and Final XI and won.

Errata:
In the last post I meant to list the Indian bowling attack and not the pace attack alone.

Harbhajan does try to bowl darts quite often but even he wouldn't be classified as pace, even with the threshold of pace being rather low in the Indian bowling attack.