The selectors announced the team for Twenty20 on 07-July-2007.
A day before the selectors met for finalising the list of 30 probables, a left-arm spinner who has won a Man of the Match award in a test match against Australia, bowled a very poor spell in a Twenty20 match for Middlesex against Essex.
His figures read 4-0-13-5
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/fds/hi/statistics/cricket/scorecards/2007/7/13819/html/scorecard.stm#Essex1

Murali Karthik, who had those appalling bowling figures didn’t make the list of 30 probables.
After such a poor performance in a Twenty20 match, how can he even dream to be in that list?

If the ICC introduces a “Best National Selection Committee” award in its annual ICC Awards, Vengsarkar and team will win it hands down

“If I had been healthy I think I would have won, definitely.”

That was Serena Williams after losing to the versatile Justin Henin.
Very much Gracious in defeat, I guess.

Which takes my memory back to the second test match between Sri Lanka and  South Africa at Supersport Park, Centurion in 2002.
South Africa were chasing a small total of 121 in the fourth innings of the test.
But Dilhara Fernando had other plans.
His searing pace accounted for 4 South African batsmen and they were left tottering at 73 for 6 before Boucher, McKenzie and Pollock came to their rescue.
Alongwith the hostile bowling of Dilhara Fernando, the match was made all the more memorable by the mimicry skills of Kumar Sangakkara.
He was constantly chattering behind the stumps and the stump mic volumes were turned up.
It will be an understatement if I say that the TV audience were entertained.
When Shaun Pollock came out to beat, Sangakkara was nicely warmed up and what followed was truly hilarious.
Sri Lanka had won the Morocco Cup in August that year by beating South Africa in the finals.
But after that defeat Shaun Pollock did a Serena by saying that the conditions did not really suit them and that their focus was mainly on the World Cup which was to follow.
When Sangakkara started mimicking Pollock’s Tangiers performance behind the mic, even Pollock burst out laughing.
And Sangakkara went on to add: Learn to be gracious in defeat Shaun.