The much-awaited meeting of the Delhi BJP, which was scheduled for Monday, has been postponed again.
The meeting was earlier scheduled on June 25, but was postponed to June 30.
Party leaders were expecting the announcement of the new Delhi unit chief at the meeting.
Sources said Delhi BJP president and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had expressed his desire that the meeting be addressed by his successor.
Nitin Gadkari, BJP?s Delhi in-charge, too had announced a week ago that the new chief would be anointed in the coming week.
?The whole executive council, special invitees, office-bearers, mandal and morcha presidents along with district presidents participate in this meeting. But it is being postponed again and again. More than 1,500 people participate in the meeting, where directions are given to every post-holder in the unit on various issues. Like now, when the Capital is under President?s rule, the meeting would have spelt out directions for the party cadre,? a senior leader said.
The Constitution Club was booked on Monday for the meeting under the leadership of the new Delhi BJP chief.
?We know that there is no consensus on who should be the new Delhi unit chief. But the party brass must know that any delay in announcing the name could hurt the party,? a senior leader said.
It isn’t sure whether Ashwin is spinning it because there’s moisture in the well-watered pitch, or because it’s dry and therefore tacky. Ashwin being quite good is probably relevant too, and he sends one past the outside edge and off stump - Jennings left it, but the turn he anticipated wasn’t there. Single off the over, earned by Jennings to long leg, via sweep.
Root takes two off his first ball, gliding to cover. But I can’t stop watching that ball from Ashwin, which was pretty much perfection. England will be feart, and with good reason.
Here we go! Here - we - go! This is delicious from Ashwin, flighting one in that pitches on middle, grips, spits and fizzes past the outside edge to clatter off! Oh yes!
Yadav serves Cook a short, wide one, so he slaps it to the point fence. Then he and Jennings nab a single each before Cook snaps four more off his pads. This is now a minor Start, which is to say one should now add two wickets to the score.
There’s plenty of swing for Ishant - too much swing, you might say - and Cook is content to take one from the over, turned off his legs.
Ishant Sharma, who has form for brilliance in England, is getting warm. He’s lost the waves in favour of a sweep and his first ball squares Cook, pitching on the seam and going away into the back thigh – good start. Very good start! The third ball also leaves Cook, and the fourth is too good, squaring him again! Maiden.
India have three slips and a gully, then move gully to short midwicket; cunning. Umesh Yadav – who name means “his hands” in Hebrew – runs in hard, and Alistair Cook blocks well on the back foot. Then he finds some movement and Cook leaves well, relying on the bounce – there’s less than he expected and already the call to bat looks the right one. Cook then takes a single into the off side, the only run form the over.
Sanjay Manjrekar inspected the pitch for the game. His verdict was that it is 'typical English conditions'. The conditions are overcast and the pitch is dark in colour which means there can be some moisture on the surface. Now you can have a look at the pitch yourself and share us your thought.
With Pujara dropped the question is who has got the benefit of the big sacrifice by the Indian side. Taking into account KL Rahul's current form, it was almost inevitable to exclude him from the playing XI. It means that Shikhar Dhawan has got the benefit. It does not look to be a very wise decision as Dhawan himself has struggled in the long-format lately.
In the practice match, Dhawan played just four balls and was a massive failure for the Indian side. Ravi Shastri and Kohli should have considered Pujara's composure and skills over Dhawan's fiery attitude.
England have played the most number of Test matches- 1000. They are followed by Australia (812), West Indies (535), India (523), South Africa (427), New Zealand (426), Pakistan (415), Sril Lank (274), Bangladesh (108), Zimbabwe (105) and Ireland and Afghanistan (01).
India (Playing XI): Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma
England (Playing XI): Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root(c), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow(w), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson
Joe Root says it looks a good surface and the cloud should burn off. While, Virat Kohli says he was thinking about bowling because of the cloud cover, to get the maximum out of the new ball on day 1, but agrees that it looks a decent track.
Talking of turn, Adil Rashid is expected to make a comeback today. In general, he’s not been well treated by England and Joe Root in particular, dropped for Liam Dawson, omitted for Mason Crane, and never really given a run. But this time it is different. If the selectors have asked him to come out of retirement then they must have thought him to be important for the series against India.
The England skipper likes to face Indian bowlers. He has scored a fifty in each of the 11 Tests he has played against India. No other player has hit fifty-plus scores in more consecutive Tests against a single opponent than Root's 11 against India.