This is to Dravid, I wish you had played cricket for other country there you would have got more respect for your cricket.I feel you are the most under rated player in this country.Though you have scored 10,000 runs people,media just ignore you.People in India do not like honest and hardworking cricketers, instead they like cricketers who have political backing. There will come a situation when hardworking and honest cricketers will represent other countries and perform well and earn lot of respect, that will be tighest slap for all Indians.If BCCI makes you the scapegoat play for other country and give a humiliating defeat to Indian team.
RE:Honest and Hardworking cricketers are not respected in India...
by noeducationbadenglish on Apr 01, 2007 03:01 PM Permalink
I also sori veri for underware pilayer Dravidi hoo rooin cuntiri Indeea. maek Kapteen heem and loosing start agaeen.
RE:Honest and Hardworking cricketers are not respected in India...
by rohit kedia on Apr 01, 2007 02:34 PM Permalink
even after making all the money..is he the most under rated player..hehe...only a nut shd beleive this chap
RE:for improimg indian teaM
by Indian Fan on Apr 01, 2007 01:48 PM Permalink
and high tax percentage on sponsorship, advertisement etc as they count for secondary source of income....what do u say ???
common guys stop all the crap of dravid not selecting the right team, or tendulkar should retire and all the other nonsense talks... if u knew better than those who picked the team then why didnt u guys talk about it b4 the guys lost to bangladesh... when india trashed out sri lanka at home, all were looking foward to the same team and had greart expectations from them, nut just bcoz YOUR expectations were not lived up to, u have started getting your frustrations by critisizing the team, the captain and the Heores of Indian cricket, who in the past, have lived up to all of our expectations. we feel proud of ourselves wen some one says "oh- ur Indian, home of one the greatest batsmen in world cricket - Tendulkar" yes, i heard that wen i was in New Zealand. and it made me and my mates sooo proud. once we didnt have word to praise tendulkar wen he was playing soo well... there was a time wen we used to switch off our tv sets once tendulkar got out, coz we knew it was a lost game already... he has served our country and taken us to new heights... we should at the least not tell him, or judge when he should or should not retire... just watch, like saurav, even sachin is going to rise again... and i beleive it... and am sure many more like me still beleives in him.
RE:If I say anything for Saurav then the bangali issue comes in to picture.
by gvr on Apr 04, 2007 05:47 PM Permalink
i think the indian players wives need to give some sort of advice to chappel and co
The more you are away from truth the more you will do disservice to the nation.
Bring the talented and the best available in every sphere of life.
think about India as a whole.
Saurav should be made the captain for atleast two years.
A talented younger crickter,intelligent and spirited should be groomed as vice captain now and to become captain in future.
Sreesanth appears to be a good successor at least from body language it seems so.
Dravid does not have it in him.
Even if you hand over the entire Australian team to him and make him Captain, he will start losing matches after a few games while carrying on experiments and chasing after imaginary enemies in the team and creating confusion in the process.
He is never never the Captain material.
If he is still kept Captain, India will lose all the future tournaments.
RE:RE:Accept the truth India, accept the truth.
by Ifear paceman on Apr 08, 2007 11:18 AM Permalink
Bangladesh was playing with 12 players in WC win against India. whereas India played with 10 players.
Blunders by Indra Sengupta on Apr 01, 2007 07:00 AM | Hide replies
Blunders in short. a) Changing captain. b) Forcing experiments on a winning team. c) Destroying India's strength in the name of experiments, d) Destroying key players one by one, international ploy masterminded by Chappel, and More, and meekly accepted by captain knowingly or unknowingly, f) Captain's failure to motivate the team and using the team to its strength, g) Captain's failure to take right decisions on winning the toss, field setting, bowling changes and so on. h) Greg Chappel as coch and Dravid as captain are two worst things that could ever happen to Indian cricket.
RE:Blunders
by J V on Apr 01, 2007 08:34 AM Permalink
Blunders and Scams: 1) Sehwag is a Hand-eye coordination splendor a magician... But someone (coach/captain/peers/media) someone started criticising his game (technique) and spoiled it to an extent that the dangerous player now became a danger in team. 2) Irfan Pathan a hattrick taker (with 2 clean bolds) lost confidance and wasn't even given a chance to play. Why is there no motivation? what are you doing coach? Srilankan Vas was same bowler now getting better every year... why Zaheer and Irfan are degrading? 3) Dravid Mr dependable is coming at #5 whos decision is this? 4) Agarkar is going out and coming back... why is he not permanently out? 5) Harbhajan (like Murli or saqlain) is not a danger to batsmen ... what is the point in keeping him in team? Sehwag can bowl off spin too and break partnerships. 6) Why no one (politicians and top officials and media) talks about improving standards of domestic cricket?
I have a feeling Moody will let Srilanka down in finals...Modern Vibhishan:))
RE:RE:Blunders
by gvr on Apr 04, 2007 05:55 PM Permalink
chappel has done the right thing.he wants winning only.that has got tobe the startegy like the aussies.u dont work for losing do you?
so team india should have thought twice before falling prey to a team like bangladesh.they dont know the pitches of the windies.the coach is the ultimate decider.
now why did indians play as self and each decide to do whatever he wntned to but chappel wanted to win
how cud india bat first see what happened to ireland when they batted first.
that should be the moral of this story u winsome u lose some.bermuda was outclassed.
NEW DELHI, March 31: Even before the post-mortem reports of India's disastrous campaign in the Caribbean are handed over to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on April 6, its senior officials already seem to be aware of its possible content and the events that transpired in the run-up to the debacle.
"Coach Greg Chappell and manager Sanjay Jagdale's reports will be submitted to the board on April 6. After going through them, we will take a decision on the future course of action. But we are also aware of certain incidents that took place off-the-field among the players," said a top BCCI official. It is now getting apparent that groupism in the team was rampant during India's World Cup campaign.
"There are five players in the team whose attitude needs to be sorted out," the official stressed. When asked to name the players, he suggested names like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Ajit Agarkar.
He further added the need to rope in more youngsters under skipper Rahul Dravid. "There is nothing wrong with the team as such, but we are convinced that it is the attitude of the players that affected the performance. When we meet on April 6, we will go into all the factors in a detailed manner that contributed to our poor show," the official promised.
He also suspected groupism had a huge impact on the field. "They didn't gel well and also didn't play as a team. There were a few who even played for themselves and didn't have much respect for some of the other members of the squad."
When TOI got in touch with one of the players in the team, he said: "All I can say is that we are very disappointed with what happened. A couple of us even cried in the dressing room. It was our dream to do well there but one bad match against Bangladesh made all the difference. There were a number of reasons that contributed to our losses against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka."
