a)Cricket is a team game. If you remove the Captain mercilessly just when he started recovering from a bad patch with a predetermined planf from one day, from test and then from the team altogether, you disturb the rythm of the team and you ruin the morale of a team. b)You with vengeance start serching for an alternative to a person who still has a few years of cricket left, then your intentions are clear.You do not think about cricket or the team, you just have a petty agenda of blocking somebody's chances of redemption, corrections and improvements. c) This petty agenda gets you out of focus. All your energy is concentrated on a negative agenda.You can not see positive feel positive.In such a situation you can never be a role model. Other players canot accept you as a true leader. d)You also are not consistent in your planning. You go on testing players till the eve of the cup. Instead of encouraging the players going through a bad patch, you abuse them and drop them. You try very mediocre players from the domestic circuit. Here also you do not bring in the most prolific run getters of most wicket taking bowlers from the domestic circuit. e) In a word you create an air of uncertainty among all the players -the old the new and the not so old. f) In such a given situation you can not get the best from your team. All the members become shaky and uncertain. g) You ruin the team in the process and your expection that players would give their best out of fear psychosis is a wrong theory.Negative incentive is not as rewarding as a positive incentive of appreciation from your coach or captain. " You didnt play? Okay never mind. Actually you should have done this or should not have done that. All right, better luck next time, we are with you." h) This is called team spirit. This is called man management. I understand Chappel Rahul combination totally failed to consider this aspect of Indian cricket.They thought they would carry on experiments, drive out all legacies of the past captain and somehow put up a disjointed bunch of brilliant players who will perform for them. This is never possible. The team spirit left by Saurav legacy continued in the first phase of Rahul Chappel era and won some matches. It evaporated too soon. Too much of experiments and ulterior motive ruined the team and the resultant humiliation for a nation of 125 million followed. This is clear logic. In the circumstances I see only one person standing above the rest to lead India for another two years required for grooming a new leader. This interim Captaincy must go to Saurav Ganguly. Obstinates term me as regionally biased, but it is only a coincidence that he is also an Indian hailing from the East.
Age does not matter always. With age people lose many thing but gain far more. You are to weigh the pros and cons. It is not a quetion of emotions but hard logic and rality. Can you discard Heden, McGrath, Jayasurya, Ponting, Femming,and a host of other players if not Lara only because they are old? Unless you groom your talents to be able to replace the old there is no point in saying remove the old. My point is all the current players. young old and not so old would have performed much better had there not been the accident called Rahul Chappel takeover and Gangly ouster. I have a strong feeling out of my experience of studying people for at least 36 years since I attained maturity, Rahul is no captain material. You keep him as captain and you will lose again and again and again. Excuses are easy to find. Sometimes you say your batsmen have let you down sometimes you say your seniors have let you down sometimes you say your middle order has collapsed sometimes you say that your bowlers did not bowl well sometimes you say you would have won if you could score another 30 runs and so on. But this leads you no where. You are to come as a real friend to your team mates. You are to charge them to get the best of them. You are to use your prudence in all departments of captaincy batting bowling field setting bowler changing batting order changing encouraging enthusing and so on. Here Rahul lags far far behind. God knows if he is kept you will see the difference. He will have to make way for new captain very soon because India shall never reach that height under Rahul that it achieved under Saurav.
RE:Reasons and Rationality
by Rahul on Apr 03, 2007 09:42 PM Permalink
You are right, the captain should not be removed mercilessly. Dravid should continue to be the captain.
RE:Reasons and Rationality
by Gunjan Mishra on Apr 03, 2007 10:43 PM Permalink
Ganguly in this whole world cup played against the predecided gameplan making sure dravid looses his job.he knew that by making a comeback he has overpowered Chappell. But I think report of Mr. Sanjay Jagdale (considered to be a very honest person) nails him and tells how he and his coterie of Jaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh (wicketless) scuttled Indian Prospects in WC. So this time Ganguly goes forever. Thanks God , he should join CPI or something to pursue further political career.
RE:Reasons and Rationality
by Indra Sengupta on Apr 04, 2007 12:45 AM Permalink
Even if you remove Ganguly you can not win matches with Dravid. He is brainless. Give him the Captaincy remove Ganguly as you promised and then see the fun. Even if you givehim the Australian team he will lose.
RE:Reasons and Rationality
by HateLoveMyTeam on Apr 04, 2007 05:12 AM Permalink
Hi..DRAVID is "no captain Material".sorry sorry. I am not Bengali...just an Indian who loves the cricket..
Its a very good initiative taken. It will do justice to players who dont get much chance beacuse of lobby system prevailing in our nation. Players are made to sit, just after one match. Now such players can play with more interest.
Does the average Indian Fan know that BCCI is registered under the Societies Act in India??? Therefore it enjoys all the Government Benefits that go with it? Including benefits on tax exemptions, using Government infrastructure and facilities, its official machinery including free service by Police? More importantly, being registered a society, who is it accountable to??? Is it surprising that Cricket in India lacks professionalism? Therefore lack of results? Compare Cricket Australia. Check their official web page at http://www.cricket.com.au . You will get an account of what professionalism means. Did you want to know BCCI%u2019s official website??? Well what does that mean??? The richest Board in the world does not have one!
HIGH TIME A PROFFESSIONAL CORPORATE ENTITY TOOK OVER THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DELIVERING THE NATIONS QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE - ZEE HAS TAKEN THE INITIATIVE AND MAY THEY SUCCEED IN THE NATION'S INTEREST.
i always thought that BCCI might actually do this to distribute the cricket revenue, keep more of the talented people interested in cricket and help people relax and enjoy cricket for cricket and not being all about patriotism... how can u justify the fact that you have a billion fans adoring might be 10-15 people... its just crazy... this skews both emotions and money games... a league like this is gonna level the platform... bravo... keep going
This news is GOD sent for the useless seniors now. The BCCI cannot throw them out now or they join the ZEE board to keep their hearth burning. ZEE board will find some STARS to shine for their new network and fixed matches......
For me this idea looks like nothing more then cashing on the cricket crazy India. They say they will spend 100 crores on this but for TV rights, adverts, they get looot more then that.
And what the hell they want to keep 4 overseas players in each them. Where do they think they will get.
IN UK, they have all county clubs which generate lots of money from this people. But I'm sure in India people are much more crazy then here.
And at the end, the way ENGLAND playing now does'nt help at all. They play like shit except few players. They all aim for earning lots and lots of money.
First thing India must do is to play with junior teams of other countries and try to improve their game before playing with the main teams.
I don't think BCCI will mind this, as they are crazy about earning more and more money and nothing else. They should get cricketers away from all this money related leagues.
I also recommend BCCI to form 2 or 3 teams from the existing top players (about 30-40 in all) and divide according to the experience. Make the pitches more bouncy. Encourage everyone and do not include regional politics in this game.
If they can't, Cricket would become my most hated game for ever.
Let's hope for better days to Indian Cricket in the future to come.
Cheers! true fan of CRICKET and not crazy for it..
