It was a combination that carried on unnecessary experiments. 1. Changing the Captain was not necessary. 2. Instead of Saurav's come back innings being appreciated he was dropped from captaincy and team. 3. Unnecessarily players were dropped and non performers like VRB Singh , R P SIngh and Raina were given chance game after game. 4. Pathan was destroyed. 5. Dhoni's batting orders were changed. 6. Commando trainings and Kabaddi and foot ball games were unnecessarily played. 7. Zaheer and Harbhajan were not relied upon and dropped and reinducted. 8. Laxman and Kaif were unceremoniously removed. 9. A sense of uncertainty was created among the members. 10. Team spirit were deatroyed. 11. Dravid was never magnanimous and never gave courage and inspiration to players to fight as a team. 12. The same team under Ganguly without Chappel interference would have been a much much better team. 13. You can never expect performance from shaky players suffering from uncertainty. 14. What happened was written on the wall the day Rahul took over the mantle. 15. A good instrument Team India was gradually made a junk by More-Chappel and Dravid trio. There should not be any misconception about it.
RE:Dravid Chappel
by bala kumaran on Mar 25, 2007 08:33 PM Permalink
Another main point. Greg Chappel did not force any game to play outside subcontinent in 4 years time. We played only 3 series (South Africa tour, West Indies Tour and Malaysia) and we lost badly in all the 3 tours. Greg is very smart and he chose all the matches inside India.
If you remember John Wright, we had so many Aus tour, WI tour, Natwest (in England), South Africa tour etc. That is one of the reason why we entered Final last year. How come, Greg didnt think about playing in other countries.
RE:Dravid Chappel
by bharat on Mar 26, 2007 08:11 AM Permalink
You idiot! A coach has absolutely no say in deciding the schedule of the team. This is decided only by the ICC and the cricket control board of the country.
RE:Dravid Chappel
by tvs kiran on Mar 25, 2007 10:40 PM Permalink
u have raised good 15 POINTS but forget to tell about BCCI, do we require a politician as its President, let us hope we need a good cricket minded person to occupy the chair, how can spend atleast minimum of 8 hours in the office to let know what is happening from top to bottom.
RE:Dravid Chappel
by Dharmendra Sable on Mar 25, 2007 08:44 PM Permalink
Totally agree with your points. Dravid's failure to induct the confidence & killer instinct in players is the biggest reason for this failure. Players were coming on the ground with dropped shoulders & no confidence at all, as if they have already lost the game before it starts. See the clippings of the team from last world cup & from this world cup, and the reason is there, very visible.
RE:Dravid Chappel
by loganathan kommeti on Mar 25, 2007 09:09 PM Permalink
What you have said is 100% correct. Moreover The coach should be an Indian like our one and only great kapildev who can freely interact with the players and get results. These foriegn coaches are waste.
RE:kjmdsj
by anil kumar on Mar 25, 2007 08:03 PM Permalink
There was a huge mistake by selection commitee that the players like "Irfan Pathan","Sreesanth" and Kumble has been dropped. Pathan was a all rounder whereas sreesanth has proved his capability in previous matches and kumble more over is a experienced player.
According to me "Anil Kumble" should be made captain so that every other senior players wouldnt have any pressure in playing .Anil kumble is a senior and experienced player he can lead the team so that rest of the players like ganguly,dravid,sachin can concentrate on their batting without pressure as a captain
Winning or loosing is not the point. The main issue here is performance. Our players did not perform well. I beleive the first to blaim is the Selection Committee. Check the members of this committee, were they really competenet during their hay days so how can you expect them to select the best eleven. It is high time that we should rehaul the total selection procedure and strict parameters should be excercised in selecting the players.
RE:WHERE IS SELECTION COMMITTEE?
by virendra tripathi on Mar 25, 2007 08:19 PM Permalink
our player is not useful for cricket but they are very useful for advertisement companies...
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by Shareen Joshua on Mar 25, 2007 09:08 PM Permalink
If an actor 4 example Amir Khan or someone famous comes in an add does that mean they are not good 4 actin and only gud 4 add companies... They advertise to improve the companies business nothing else 4 ur kind information... Be sportive yaar.U fans r actin DUMB...
Why did Team India changed the age old batting line up? Ganguly - Sachin - Virender/Robin - Rahul - Yuvraj - another batsman - Dhoni - Bowler 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. In this combination, India has won so many matches. Now why did Rahul put Sachin down the order? Was he scared that sachin might score more runs this time? Did he wanted to save the best for the last? or did he wanted to give worst performance for playing India and earning money through commercials etc?
RE:One more message from me.
by sanjay bhardwaj on Mar 25, 2007 10:45 PM Permalink
Most Indians think that Sachin is God re-incarnated. But even then for those people who still want to hold on to His Holiness Sachin may please create an idol of him & worship at home. For the betterment of our performance in the next world cup he has to retire either by grace or force. If past performance is the criteria to keep him in team then kindly reappoint Kapil, Sunil, Vengsarkar & the others also
Let's do the Post-Mortem of our Indian Cricket Team and its last matches they played.
Whenever foreign teams come to India to play (One day series, have you noticed? that most of the series have ended in a exciting manner. If India one down, the next match becomes interesting. Whom does it suits? Betting Maestros/Syndicates(match fixers), TV Commercials - how? if India is one down, our billions of people have faith in the team that india will FIGHT back to win the next match. India wins so 1-1, next, again india wins, 2-1, next, india loses, 2-2. Now look at in this angle, last match is there, who is going to win? it will be big fight to win the Series? so the rate of television viewers go up? more adverstisments, more money, more people get interested in betting so .........indirectly.....so there is so much of link being thrown till the team level.
In the World cup, india wins the warm up games in far too good fashion and then shows apprehension that whether they will win the world cup matches or not. (statement been thrown/said by Rahul Dravid before India's first match. Then comes the first match against Bangladesh......who defeated india in a simple way. Now dont buy the statement that anything can happen in ONE DAY CRKT. Infact, watch the behaviour, actions, committment, dedication, batting, bowling (especially Agarkar), fielding. No hard work at all. If you have a chance to replay the match, watch it fully. You will come to know whether the match was fixed or not.
How suddenly Pakistan team also lost? Why also India, Why not teams like Australia who has as aged players like Indian Team has.
I do not even trust now any department that is associated with Indian Cricket. Why also Gavaskar brought up the issue of David Hookes? Thank god he appologised.
If you support my statement, do write more on topics i missed.
what is the use of 15000 runs and so many centuries if u cant deliver when the country needs the most hats of to dilshan and silva who scored 40 odd runs to sail their team to past 250 there is lot of money in cricket and people involved have become millionaires the innocent emotional public of india are taken for a ride let us wake up now stop following dont give them demi god status
RE:drop sachin enough is enough his hunger for runs is over but ads is not
by sanjay bhardwaj on Mar 25, 2007 10:31 PM Permalink
Give sachin vrs/ sack / forcefull retirement.
I really feel that Greg Chappel hasnt improved the team one bit. Under him the team is where it exactly was. We have become stagnant and there is a change woorld over towards progress. Each and every team has worked hard to move ahead. Under John Wright we saw enthusiasm in the team, hunger for victory, words were moulded in action. Its really upsetting n humiliating for a nation like ours where cricket is worshipped to return from the world cupin the preliminary stages. Too many things are taken for granted. Cricketers take their position in the team for granted. They have even taken the hopes and dreams of we Indians for granted. I really hope that BCCI takes some steps to earn a name back in the hearts of cricket fans or else the game will become history.
I have gone through most of the messages, but nobody is writing anything about the contribution of sachin tendulkar. I think he was one of the main reasons for india's debacle.
He performs only against weak opposition, and even if he performs well against a better side, it would be on indian pitches and in inconsequential matches. By better side I mean sri lanka or west indies. Against Australia and South Africa, he fails miserably and against them he is not able to perform on indian pitches also. To prove my point, Sachin's performance against Australia in the knock out match in the recent ICC Champions trophy. In Crucial matches he always fails. His body language is there to see in crucial matches. Against a good bowling and fielding side he never performs. Most of his centuries are against weaker sides or on indian pitches or in inconsequential matches. I can go on this topic, because I am an avid cricket fan and have been watching cricket for more than 25 years. I think Gavaskar, Shastri, Harsha Bogle and most TV commentators are responsible for hyping him so much. He is not that great as he is made out to be. Even in the print media nobody writes anything against him. He is not been performing against good teams and in crucial matches for more than 10 years now.
He was good around 10 to 12 years back. He should retire by himself or the board should tell clearly about this.
RE:Sachin is the most hyped cricketer in the world
by prashanth on Mar 25, 2007 09:16 PM Permalink
What about the last world cup? He played against every team and in SA. Why did you forget his contribution there?
RE:RE:Sachin is the most hyped cricketer in the world
by Indian on Mar 25, 2007 09:32 PM Permalink
So he should be given a chance in next 2 world cups? Why dont we include Srinath then? he still will be better than all our fast bowlers.
RE:Sachin is the most hyped cricketer in the world
by sanjay bhardwaj on Mar 25, 2007 10:36 PM Permalink
Most Indians think that Sachin is God re-incarnated. But even then for those people who still want to hold on to His Holiness Sachin may please create an idol of him & worship at home. For the betterment of our performance in the next world cup he has to retire either by grace or force. If past performance is the criteria to keep him in team then kindly reappoint Kapil, Sunil, Vengsarkar & the others also
RE:Sachin is the most hyped cricketer in the world
by on Mar 26, 2007 08:09 AM Permalink
Tendulkar should no more be called as Master Blaster. Going Forward his name should be Prefixed with "USELESS" Sachin. He should be called as USELESS SACHIN, I think this is the only way as an Indian Specator who believes Cricket as Religion will do justice to the Cricket. The next generation should know what kind of player Sachin is. Other wise may be after couple of months later he will make some fifty runs against some bermuda or kenya and as usual the media boasts sachin to the sky.
