It is amazing to see the real Oldies like Binny,Kapil Dev and others criticize Dravid who is in the current oldies group.Basically we are seeing a war of words on strategy-being aggressive or risk elimination-Dravid unwittingly is falling into the risk averse category.In cricket you have to take calculated risks.So a correct balance has to be found.Not like Kapil and Binny who often dismayed viewers with so called aggression throwing away an advantage but compensated by brilliance as in the 1983 campaign or in their series triumph against England.This is also a clash between the Delhi school represented by Kapil and the Mumbai school represented by Gavaskar.What we are looking for is a good blend.Dravid seems to be cast in the Mumbai school mould and since the power base is there in the BCCI he gets the flak.Maybe he shd step down before the Aussie tour.In Australia aggressiveness will be the issue.His batting seems to have gained in aggressiveness fortunately.It will be good to separate strategy aggressiveness and player aggressiveness.
Main swagat karti hu apke team ka bahut achhi team banai. Sachin ko captain banana hi chahiye. Lekin yesa india main ho nahi sakta because rajniti hai, board & rahul main. jabki pure vishv main sanchin ke jaise player nahi hai. Last time one chance to give mr.tendulkar
RE:Sachin is the Captain of Indian Team
by Nagesh Babu on Sep 05, 2007 12:42 PM Permalink
what he did when he's given first time a chance??? as a captain he is Completely failed.....
RE:Sachin is the Captain of Indian Team
by avinash patil on Sep 05, 2007 01:46 PM Permalink
Dear babu no budy support him when he is captain and his performance is good when he is a captain and crickt is team game not a indivisul game.
If Ind wanted to WIN T20 world Cup then they should call Sachin in their squad, Otherwise Sahwag going to open and he will make sure that Ind will not go beyound 1st round.
RE:Sachin should be called for T20 world Cup
by Readiff on Sep 06, 2007 05:11 PM Permalink
Sachin is not fit for 20-20 except for some knocks. Also, sachin is not ready to lose his health for 20-20s and ODIs now. He is seriously contemplating on his fitness for tests. Sehwag has been a successful opener for a long time, he too had failures like any other guys. You cannot permanently ignore just because he failed consistently for a while. India should rely upon youngsters more than oldies like sachin, dravid, ganguly. Remember that the above 3 too have bad times in their long cricket career.
RE:Team For Tdday
by pinti on Sep 05, 2007 11:35 AM Permalink
Main swagat karti hu apke team ka bahut achhi team banai. Sachin ko captain banana hi chahiye. Lekin yesa india main ho nahi sakta because rajniti hai, board & rahul main. jabki pure vishv main sanchin ke jaise player nahi hai. Last time one chance to give mr.tendulkar
RE:Team For Tdday
by rajesh t on Sep 08, 2007 12:18 PM Permalink
Dear Mahendra...Dravid chould be the captain,not Sachin.And as for Agarkar, I feel you dont watch him bowl horribly most of the time,mess catches and bat as if he is the 11th batsman.Agarkar should be removed from the 15 member team.Karthik should be the 12th man. Reminding you do not post comment wirh a biassed mentality.It was dravid's decision to play Gambir at 3 and Robin at 6.Both played extremely well in that match.....
RE:Team For Tdday
by on Sep 06, 2007 11:13 AM Permalink
the team for india sachin ganguly dravid yuvraj robin utthappa dhoni karthik zaheer khan srisanth ishanth powar 12th man gambir
RE:Team For Tdday
by Inderdeep on Sep 05, 2007 11:25 PM Permalink
Team is ok but i want ganguly should be captain as he is experienced player and dravid should be in middle order an sachin and ganguly should open with perfect combination. Jaswinder Singh, Mohali
RE:Team For Tdday
by vijayanand on Sep 05, 2007 11:43 AM Permalink
Y Dravid is 12th Man? He is the captain of India and he is playing really nice. All of a sudden Sachin is Captain?
RE:Team For Tdday
by shahina on Sep 05, 2007 03:07 PM Permalink
It is not fair to all of a sudden make Sachin as the Indian team captain.It was ok if Saurav Ganguly was made as he has been one of the worlds best and talented aswell fantastic player aswell as a captain.He has the potential to lead the team at this crucial point of time ,when India has to do or die.I strongly feel the BCCI should immediately change its decision of making Sachin as captain and instead give the very talented and well experience captain Saurav Ganguly once again to lead the Indian Team. By Shahina
RE:RE:Team For Tdday
by parmendra singh on Sep 05, 2007 01:11 PM Permalink
isko sale ko team main rakhana hi nahi chahiye isko laat maar kar bahar kar do
RE:Team For Tdday
by Mature Stud on Sep 06, 2007 10:39 AM Permalink
vijay anand only a few stupid and biased idlis like you in the country still want dravid as a captain today...
RE:Indian Cricket League
by Ramakrishna Panicker on Sep 05, 2007 09:52 AM Permalink
Hindustanis are really very religious and so they are thinking always the first born is divine, and seldom they regard others. In fact this is not only not good for us but a curse also.
Therefore, we day by day shrink and humiliate before other Nations, we think the ways how we can suck away others boon with less efforts.
We never kept an open view to regard the Masters. And we kept running in the place of the deserved covering our all inablities with a jackal mind.
Any way good is always good, and at any rate, the general public embrace them.
RE:Indian Cricket League
by Titu Sha on Sep 06, 2007 09:53 AM Permalink
If ICL is of good interest the they would have not taken Kiran More like traitor in their organisation. Everybody is knowing what role Kiran More had played during his tenure as Chairman of selection committee of BCCI. He could not show any personality - Chappel was his boss. Kiran More's selection in ICL has given very detremental impact. We are all astonished to see in TV - how Kiran More is standing by the side of great Kapil Dev!
RE:Indian Cricket League
by Sunil Johnson Tauro on Sep 05, 2007 09:08 AM Permalink
i dont ... stanford works in tandem with the West Indies Cricket Board, so why cant BCCI with ICL. afterall talented people are needed.
