None of the people in charge of Chile campaign could go to Kuala Lumpur and watch the Champions Trophy where Great Britain participated. But now, everyone is willing to go Ipoh and watch the Indians.

That time our Technical Director, MM Somaya, who is technically a zero in such matters – the beauty of the zero is you can always add a number before it and it becomes a big thing — all of a sudden found his passport is expired. Probably, he never thought one day his old buddy would come and provide so much chance to travel foreign country! So only person who was competent enough to watch Champions trophy did not go, and he was successful to block others from going also. Be it, it is any case a old story. Every one gets luck in their lifetime and this Arjuna Awardee also got thanks to his buddy.

But now a new development

All of a sudden everyone connected with senior team put their name in the long list of those willing to go to Ipoh where a development team would take part. This included born manager magnate RK Shetty, technical savvy Ramesh Parameswaran, penalty corner expert par excellence Sardar Mohinder Pal Singh, and the leader of the group and committed commander Joaquim Carvalho. With lot of hesistancy, the coach designate for the tour Ajay Kumar Bansal, was given his assistant coach in the camp Rajesh Chauhan.

Now it is interesting to watch whether this coterie will be successful to go or the man who is entitled to travel with the tem and watch them from close quarters, Charlesworth, would go.

I think this is major task, and of course, first one before the Five Selectors, selected by the IOA president Suresh Kalmadi. Let us wait and watch how things go.