Why is Munaf not in the team?

That is a baffling question for which there seems to be no answer. The 10 wickets haul in the practice match, the manner of dismissals (clean bowled), the clean up of the tail twice over - all pointed addressing a tradional Indian weakness - dismissing lower order especially in patta wickets. (Remember the Gillespies, who had thwarted a 100 Indian strong positions, over and over all these years). By all accounts, the selectorial huddle began around 320 PM and by that time Munaf had already proved to be better than VRV but he had not yet done the tail demolition. But, by the time of announcement - 5 pm, the 1st day play was over and More could have easily pencilled in Munaf ahead of VRV since by then, Munaf had cleaned up 5.
So, who decided on VRV? from all accounts, GC endorsed VRV's name on the basis of familiarity. Perhaps he was not that familiar with Munaf and the 5 wise men, who are tongue tied at best- hardly could have argued in favor of Munaf.
As much as I like the professionalism of GC, I am slowly starting to be cautious about his undue weightage in these matters. Part of the problem is because, More and co. is too flabbergasted to counter - the 100s of print outs, computer graphics (which Ramki supplies to GC), long vision speeches...and I still believe that GC has the best of intentions ( I am with him on SG exclusion since it was getting the team no where but I still feel SG is not a bad option to have especially as spare ODI opener ahead of GG) but do not like the sub-servience of the 5 wise men. Gone are the days of brilliance shown by the Lala Amarnaths and Vijay Merchants, who picked the side based on hunches and formed strategies on pitches. These days, there is really one decision maker and although I do not question his intention, I am not convinced that the 5 wise men should bow before him all the time because of their inadequacies.
I just wanted to add one more recent instance in such a selection. Most of the cricket followers felt that Zaheer Khan needs a look in for the Pak tour, on the basis of his Ranji performance. In the final analysis, he ended up with so so figures and frankly squandered a good chance, although the wickets are of no great help in Pak (but so was the case for Mohmd. Asif and Irfan Pathan too but they managed to pick up wickets). May be...may be, some one has some thing in VRV that we are not privy to and which is not there in Munaf. I hope so..
..now, it is over to Nagpur - Poms must be wondering what has hit them. With Tresco. flying back and injury problems, indifferent batting form aplenty, they are on the back foot but don't count them out..not yet. Freddie and co. is far too professional to go down so cheaply. I still feel India has the edge but much depends on how Bhajji is going to bowl after a long layoff.