Greg chappel was instructed by the Australian Board to destroy the Indian Cricket team before the world cup 2007 because talentwise, India is the only team which can challenge Australia. The first and the biggest obstacle in his way was Sourav. His aggresion and dedication mixed with patriotism did not fit in Chappel's scheme of things so he managed to get him out of captaincy and team because he wanted someone as the captain who will follow his instructions without even voicing his own opinion.He got Dravid as the best person he can have.Then he eyed the guys who were mainstay of the team. He picked Irfan and meaninglessly asked him to bat regularly as no. 3 so that he lost his bowling under the pressure of performing with the bat also. He not only lost his bowling but also his batting form. Sehwag was shifted to middle order and then asked again to open. He too lost his form. He disturbed Dravids position by asking him to open. He is not sure where he should bat now.The most consistent batsman of the team lost his consistency.Dhoni had scored big scores of 183* and 148 while coming in as no.3 but can anyone tell me when Dhoni batted last time at no.3? CAN ANYONE ANSWER ?
Hi guys you can't criticize every move they make on the ground, we watch TV and say 1001 comments its easy to talk. but on ground reality is different. first of all our cricketers are not playing their game their worried or afraid of Indian crowd not match opponents. our guys want to secure placement in the team if they score 25 runs out of 20 balls or make century then you are in. until you badly performed in loosing match. guys its a gentleman game. When u play game u lose some and win some thats how game goes.. our guys really don't have match winning mentality they personalities like if some 38 years guy blowing other side then they will respect him or if Indian side if new entry guy bowl and stare at 10 years experience cricketer he is out of cricket.. guys remember you r playing game on ground don't see individual personalities see only you are there as a batsman to score for your nation just do that don't respect on his achievement just keep human values on ground, Off ground its your personality how you respect his values or success.
We should have killing instincts... just have that! your aim is to win games.. Just do that.. How? You decide.
I would like to quote Abraham Lincoln Some body told him Fire General Grant then Linkcoln asked whom should we replace him with then the adviser said replace him with anybody then Loncoln said "Any body might be enough to you bit for me I need Some body".
This is for all those people who advocate removal of sachin and droping dravid.Please try to remember that when all the top 6 players in the team lost form he was the only one to score a 39 , a 29 in the previous matches which we won by puffing.
He was the only indian batsmen in the recent past to hit a century and a half century in the malaysia series. Now when things dont go right dropping all the important men is not the solution. Steven waugh dint play lot of magical innings to beocme worlds best captain he had 12 ppl who contribute 120% with such sort of players even Habibul bashar would seem world beating captain. So dont forget about the ground realities, we have to think of the bowling composition not the bating. Drop mongia bring some chap who has the guts to counter attack at 7 position and who can bowl. Remeber one thng We have the worst bowling attack at present our batting lineup still makes ppl ENVY.
First of all the selectors have to be changed. there are lot of politics going on in the selection level. Then we have to make someone captain who has the aggressiveness to win a match. Then introduce the concept of consistency in a team as hard as possible. I was amazed to the bowling consistency of McGrath in Ind-Aus match. The ball report clearly shows that he has pitched all the balls inside a 2 meter radius and none of the balls in his 10 overs are in leg side!!! Whereas our ballers were giving away so many wides each over and were struggling to keep the ball in line. Batting skills are good in Indian side but no player has the mental readiness to carry on the scores leading the way. They were very reluctent to play shots.
This Greg Chapell has conducted his experiments on the all time strongest lineup India has ever produced and has succeded. All our cricketers have forgotten how to play.
Now he is going to publish a book and make his money while we will have to build our team . The first thing is bring back saurav ganguly as a playing/non playing captain(Chappells first ploy!).
First of all captain and coach should stop too much of experiments. And second thing is players like sehwag and dhoni should allow to play their own game. And dhoni should be promoted to 3rd place. Becoz if if either dhoni or sehwag clicks then 75% winning chances are there.
