It's indeed good that Chappel has resigned. In fact, team India consisting so many stars does not deserve a hard fighting,outspoken, Chappel. But, I don't understand where was Tendulkar for all these two years keeping silent about his unhappiness about Chappel. If Chappel was wrong, he should have gone to BCCI much before. If the players were having any kind of discomfort under Chappel, they should have approached the BCCI with their grievences. Not after a pathetic show in the worldcup. It is very evident that these senior pros are counter attacking Chappel as he is straight forward and giving a strong report to BCCI which may eventually force them to loose their position in the team. Now, these senior players (Tendulkar, Ganguly, Sehwag, Zaheer, Harbhajan, etc.) are afraid that they may face the axe due to their poor show and attitude, so collectively they planned this outburst to the media thru Tendulkar, thanks to his psuedo-image and demi-god status. It's all corrupted. A team consisting 5 batsmen having average of more than 40 could win only one match in a major tournament and advance to the next stage and now coming up with claiming that the coach was not right! Shame on them! Tendulkar is a national Cheater! Ganguly is another one, who just wanted to score runs only to secure his place in the team. Throw these two and Sehwag out of the team and all those non-performing players.. We will start winning. Should we send our A team for world cup, the result could have been much better. Regards, Manoj Joseph, Dubai
RE:Chappel
by shlok singh on Apr 05, 2007 04:16 PM Permalink
its not enough to just throw these senior players out. but we need to fill as talented players as they r. according to u tendulkar is a national cheater, u r saying this for a person who played for our country without thinking abt his fitness. shame on u n all who keep thinking like this.
RE:Chappel
by joydip bhattacharya on Apr 05, 2007 06:44 PM Permalink
I guess this is teh fourth World cup we went their concidering we have Only Sachin Tendulkar. And when the guy fails this time we have started blaming him........ We have to accept that we don't have any one other then Sachin to dream Worldcup even after 17 long years...........
RE:Chappel
by Sujoy Majumdar on Apr 07, 2007 10:21 AM Permalink
Hi Manoj You have become very emotional! We Indians are made more of emotion than hard realistic stuff but the question is that by pushing a bunch of raw newcomers in and shoving out the oldies,are we going to change the results of TEAM INDIA ? Look at Team Australia- their average age is 30 .Let us accept the fact that the team failed in only one match (which they had not, I'm afraid, taken it dead seriously).As regards the Sri Lanka match it is nerves that got them down along with a few hiccups in the team selection.Prior to that we Indians had brushed aside the Windies in a humiliating way. You are talking about youngstars but what about the ones that managed to find their way to Team India !What about the performance of Uthappa/ Dhoni/Srisanth etc? You find oldies like Sehwag/ Ganguly at the top of performers' list even amongst this failed lot! By the way, calling senior performers like Ganguly and Tendulkar cheaters you are calling all Indians cheaters - because it is we Indians who have put them on the raised pedestal where they are now!Throw away your emotions and be more realistic . What India needs now is an unbiased selection process and a mature blend of youth and experience. And this should take place without the presence of HE(His Excellency) Greg Chappell! Having had an extensive contact with Caucasians I can safely conclude that the summary of his thanksgiving statement actually means "I am glad to get out of this goddamned country and its ****** people ! To **** you go - I have been able to get my kitty". He sadly lacks the basic ability of a coach -that of being a good motivator-and its no wonder that even his native land, Australia had thought about hiring him after the retirement of John Buchanan-as they are only too aware of his negative attributes!
RE:Chappel
by rakesh krishna on Apr 07, 2007 03:05 AM Permalink
I agree with you Manoj. all know that the coach is not the one to be blamed for the poor show. From this very comment of Sachin towards media he is telling tha attitude he has got !!!!!
Greg This is not the time of performing formalties before going back,it is the right time to tell them their weaknesses and if they are linked with any mafia,it is your first duty to expose them openly.This will be the only real justification of your contract fees got by you.
RE:Expose team india weaknesses openly before going
by k k bazaz! on Apr 05, 2007 02:04 PM Permalink
greg is tough guy and knows business but our people's memories are shortlived and players will save their skin by exploiting greg as everybody is encashing this wheather it be media,some board members or players are also washing their hands into it. Greg if people remember in his first three months told that it took Australia 80's to 90's to make a such tough system but Idian people want results overnight. This is only disgusting show by our players not by coach .had he refuted selection it would have been another issue for greg so he tried to avoid .Basically our systems are weak and our big stars have become big than game .
Go back and think once when greg joined, he brought young talents like Dhoni, Irfan, Raina, VRV singh, Munaf, Dinesh karthick, RP singh. We have won the SL series. Now watch! what has happened when these young players are shinnig and and the seniors have been faded, all these problems started in depth. the seniors "Mafia" has come into action and might created all sorts of problems and ruined the standards of the team, so that greg will be pulled out and again thay can enjoy the money by givening adds. Greg is right about the seniors mafia, he thought of doing good to India but she became avillain atlast and fallen prey to the greddy indian seniors and politicians
RE:Think once
by shlok singh on Apr 05, 2007 04:19 PM Permalink
pandu bhai, go n get ur information right first. everybody has seen the performance of raina, vrv singh etc.
RE:Think once
by Srikrishna CVH on Apr 05, 2007 03:11 PM Permalink
Dhoni, Irfan, Raina, VRV, Dinesh karthik invented much before Chappel has joined .. Munaf has by then already got a recognition as country's fastest bowler .. only RP and Sreeshanth are his seemingly inventions, though. Bth of them shined in the Champions tro[hy whish is not anyway his idea
Dear Mr. Greg Chappell, it's good that you decided not to continue. In Indian team, nobody is brave enough to accept the reality and have the guts to accept that it is their pathetic performance which showed the team the door out, early. They need a scrape goat on which they can put all the blame. And that is unfortunately you. If Tendulkar gets out for a duck, it's because of Chappell, if Viru plays his pathetic innings in every match, it's because of you, if Ganguly takes 129 balls to make 60 to save his face, it's again because of you! If great spinner Harbhajan cannot take a wicket against SriLanka, it's also because of you. If you didn't get a team which you asked for, it's your mistake! If Dravid asked for Viru because of his "previous performances", it's also your mistake! So, in the end, "you are a bad coach!" The truth is Indian team doesn't deserve you as a coach! Indian fans are also like this. They'll forget the pathetic performance their HEROs have displayed in two months and think that these paper tigers will one day become real tigers! They've found you to put all the blame.
RE:Well Done Greg!!!
by Wilson Wilson on Apr 05, 2007 02:00 PM Permalink
Good Comments Texas. Adding insult to injury we have lost a good, intelectual and brave coach. Team like india need such coaches only.
RE:Well Done Greg!!!
by on Apr 05, 2007 08:48 PM Permalink
Great comments texas!Really appreaciate your thoughts in picturing the reality of indian cricket.No post was as clear as you did..thumps up!Can someone ask sachin,sehwag,harbhajan to reply texas.Very sure no one has the guts..greg cant play the match and dont try to make him a scap goat.understand your weakness first before giving comments on anyody.Mr sachin,your 17 tenure and your personal records is not important for indian cricket..the most important is that the matching winning capacity.In calculation you are ZERO for the past four yrs...accept it and get out before greg.This would bring billions into joy...
Frankly speaking, no matter whoever should be the coach, but whatever you need to show as player on ground, you need to show. Our cricketers are being payed for not just their presence in team but to play as representative of country, to make effort to win match by performing with available resource and to win game and enhance pride of our country.
On the contrarary picture seems very poor. Some criticised team coach who is from country where people gives importance to winning performance and not individual records. So if batsman is not performing or bowler is not performing consistently in matches, then replacing them, experimenting by giving opportunity to other players and testing their form and calibre in live cricket is not very uncommon thing and neither it is bad.
Endorsing brands is the thing which players gets normaly when they perform as player very well.But they should not forget that people love them not because they endorse brand and works in ads but they loves them due to their great performance as player.
Players gets money for playing good game, for making efforts to win in match. What a great coach can do if batsman can not score big total when team is in crisis and batsman goes out due to not understanding how ball is bawlled. If players claims that coach is responsible for loss of games or poor performance, then it is not correct. Did coach say them to keep open all stumps for bawlers so that they can bowled you out? Did coach say them to play shots and give catch to fielders?
Players should just concentrate only on increasing performance rather than speaking in media. Has any player made comment regarding how to enhance self-performance in COMING matches? If not, then what is wrong in finding new talent rather than playing with same players in 2011? Keep ban on brand endorsements on trial besis for next 4-8 years and then see how magic happens!!!!
I know what's going to happen in the next year or so. India will have a new coach(I don't wanna predict that coz BCCI is a bunch of Politicians). India is going to win many matches, even enter the Twenty20 Worldcup finals, or even win it. Why?
RE:Prediction of Indian Cricket for the Future...
by John Betham Richard on Apr 05, 2007 02:47 PM Permalink
You are one of those lousy nuts who doesn't understand the Indian politics in scapegoating a foriegn coach...Just because they couldn't do it doesn't mean you blame the coach....You cannot prove Greg chappell wrong...In the next world cup 2011 no matter whatever the performance is you will see that India will exit in the prelims or super 8 matches...Just wait and watch...Our guys don't have it man....
RE:Prediction of Indian Cricket for the Future...
by Sujoy Majumdar on Apr 07, 2007 10:39 AM Permalink
Are you a fortune teller? By trying to sympathize with Greg you are forgetting one basic fact- a good student does not necessarily become a good teacher! If you compare Greg with his predecessor John you will be able to see what I mean1 Nobody scrapegoated John despite his failures because he was one who knew as to how to get on with everybody!If Greg was half as gentlemanly as John he would not have been half as villified as he is now. He lacks the basic decency of a gentleman. If his aim was to transform the Indians into a bunch of world beaters, he should have started with juniors and India A, because that is where you can instill the killing spirit. Unfortunately you cant mint a lot of money there!By the way to correct your amnesia only in the previous edition of the World Cup we reached the Finals! So think before you predict John!
This is very good news for Indian Cricket team... Now they will think why we lost & not to make such a fullish decison of appointing MORE CONTRAVERTIAL, MAN WITH BETTER TOUNG & NOT ADD VALUES TO TEAM..... now we have to think realy in long term to build INDIAN team as winner-From Dnyanesh
Hi Sachin, Forget all the comments praising or criticising you... Tell us what your 17 year experience has tought you? To give away in crunch matches? To equal your duck-record WITH THAT OF BALLER??
