RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by rahulvnair on Apr 07, 2007 02:21 PM Permalink
I feel that Indian Players lack confiedence and form. Everyone should play as a team not as an indivisual.There must be a right balance and cordination between Batting and bowling.I believe that dave Watmore or Steve waugh must be appointed as the coach.I agree that Ravi Sastri Must be the team manager.Kapildev should be appointed as the bowling coach.Players should play a lot of domestic crickets to improve their form.Cricket should not be mingled with politics.Coach and management should be allowed to think and work on their own.I want the old Indian Team back
RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by jeremiah on Apr 07, 2007 02:37 PM Permalink
You made vital points which make a lot of sense, but just that sachin should not stop ODIs immediately but gradually stop and encourage youngsters. The BIG BIG problem in India is the state of DOMESTIC WICKETS which have to be revamped majorly....
RE:RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by Manjunath on Apr 07, 2007 02:21 PM Permalink
some of the suggestion should be welcome,. Uttappa i dont think so Cheteshwar pujara and Tanomay Srivastave should be given chance
RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by rajesh soni on Apr 07, 2007 02:29 PM Permalink
It is not a good move but a desperate move to appoint shastri as manager. "Marta Kya NA Karta".
1) I dont understand about indian politicians they never leave there bootlicking habits, and will retain chappell to do that.
2)Ravi shastri is a "CHIDIMAAR" person, he has good knowledge about pataao a girl, and how to draw winning matches by playing defensive, so how will such a combination will manage team india and Administration is utopian thought.
3) Who is ready to play role Steve, Jonty or Mr. Prasad.
4)Rahul dravid who was once out of one day but playing due to sourav's Kripa drishti, sourav make him play by saying that he can work as wicketkeeper also, hence this complacent man Rahul retained in playing 11, He is not having killer instinct and with those girly fingers he can not show any strength in overall game, Its a conpiracy like UPA government( Communist supporting congress just to keep BJP out of power) same here board is keeping rahul as captain just to keep sourav out, sourav had brilliant captaincy record in indian cricketing history ie. the best, rahul is an individualistic person and cannot be able to do that, media talk about sourav becoz he has that CHarisma.
5) Instead of yuvraj you need to discipline yourself.
Ultimately there is big contradiction in your ten points like u want some players to play instead of bad performance and you want some players out even if they are performing, you are biased. I think Dravid and Greg had bribed you to do so, and you seems to me from Mr. Pawars party.
RE:RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by Prithviraj Hegde on Apr 07, 2007 02:39 PM Permalink
You are dreaming and must be a nice dream. The reality is different. Sourav must have got more Wickets than anoy other Cricketer in terms of getting his own partners run out !!!. Self centered Cricketer and can never be a team member.
RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by Manjunath on Apr 07, 2007 02:21 PM Permalink
some of the suggestion should be welcome,. Uttappa i dont think so Cheteshwar pujara and Tanomay Srivastave should be given chance
RE:Revamp Indian Cricket
by on Apr 07, 2007 02:38 PM Permalink
I think only solution to India cricket's plight is Give all power to honest Greg for two years that includes section of players,dropping of players,scheduling of matches mostly with tough team. Otherwise our senior selfish players and former cricketers turned commentators like ashok malhotra,Manindar singh,kapil dev,yashpal khanna and ajay jadeja would misguide,confuse and destroy India cricket.
Ravi (Jayadritha Shanker)Shastri will be the perfect choice.Though he was a Captain of the Indian team for a shortwhile,but he was a successful.I think this is the right time for the BCCI to appoint him as coach.
Ha...Ha...Ha.......It is extremely funny to know that Shastri has the experience to put Indian Cricket back on track. He kept critisizing all the players and the coach sitting alongside Harsha , Sunil and Sidhu and I don't understand how he will gain the confidence of the players. First of all what Shastri acheived as a cricketer ? Bowling some lollipop spin bowling and batting like a snail scoring 50 of 100 balls !!! Even the legendary Kapil Dev could not do anything as a coach.
As I already quoted in another column, International Players don't need a coach to tell them what to do. They know better. It was Sourav who guided the right path to Indian Cricket for the past 5 years (before Chappell took over). John Wright , as he himself would accept , only played a role of a catalyst and motivator. I'm strictly against a coach taking the headmaster role and trying to instruct players what they should be doing. It's absolute bullshit. Not even college students listen to some one nowadays . It all should end within school level. How can you expect a more accomplished and extradinary genius like Sachin to listen to others and oblidge ???
The following are the mistakes done by Chappell during his tenure.
1. Demoting Sachin down the order when the whole world knows that he should be opening in the innings. Shastri himself told several times that the best batsman should get the full 50 overs to play !!!
2. Randomly changing the batting order of younsters like Kaif , Raina , Rao and successfully dented their confidence and forced the selectors to remove them from the squad. Kaif and Raina were winning matches for India in the lower order and once they were asked to bat at No 3 , No 4 they started to crack under unfamiliar batting positions. 3. Did not stick to the experiements he did. He attempted the experimentation of sending Dhoni and Pathan at No 3 , both of whom scored brillantly and won matches. But all of a sudden that stratergy was stopped when it mattered the most. (I think Dhoni batted up the order only against Bermuda). 4. Believed that only fielding abilities will win matches in ODI's. When Sri Lanka won the World Cup under Ranatunga, their first 6 top order players were over 30 and all of them fired. Today , the highest run scorer in this world cup so far is Matthew Hayden and he is 34 !!! Select team based on current performance . Age is not the criteria for selection. 5. Finally , anybody will agree that Chappell is a poor manager. His man mangement skills are truly under question that he could not tackle things without hurting the other person and that is not a leadership quality . If he is going to say that he will speak whatever he thinks straight infront of anybody's face he is never going to be successful even with the domestic (or schoolboy) cricketers because no human being likes to be critisized before others.
Shastri knew all these but still wanted to give credit to Chappell. Why ? Because he is a true leader. He knows what to speak and when. He knows that this is not the time to insult Chappell blaming his decisions and tactics. He just wanted to send off Chappell in a good note. Shastri , atleast you understand people better.....!!!
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by Babu 3 Taangwaala on Apr 07, 2007 02:12 PM Permalink
My dear friend MONEY MATTERS and he has nuthin to do with putting indian team back on track, he eevn doesnt know which track he is talkin abt
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by saravan kumar on Apr 07, 2007 02:50 PM Permalink
Hi Senthil, Whatever you have mentioned is not right.What Chappel tried to do was shake the senior players from complacency.Sachin was the best batsman some 3 or 4 years back but not now.Sachin himself realises that.So Chappel has asked him to go down the order. Also if Sachin continues to play like this Chappel would have even dropped him from the side which is the right thing.So the writing was on the wall.Inspite of this Sachin wanted to be in the team and also become the captain so that he couldn't be dropped.So he has ganged up with other players with big attitude to oust Chappel and Dravid. Do you realise Sachin and gang are only playing politics and not cricket.Sachin with other players with attitude should be dropped from the side immediately and infuse fresh talents with Dravid leading the side.He will sure turn things for us fans and will probably make India a force to reckon with in Intl cricket.]
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by Gaurav Sharma on Apr 07, 2007 02:16 PM Permalink
Good coaches or managers need not be accomplished players themselves. John Buchanan, Woolmer, John Wright, Whatmore were very ordinary as players but look at their performance as coaches. They've proved better coaches than Chappell, Miandad, Kapil, Lloyd, Viv Richards who were all legendary players.
In soccer also, Alex Ferguson wasn't an extraordinary player but his Manchester United was once the most formidable team in the world.
Shastri has youthfulness and energy. He can connect better with the players. He has a broad and open approach, knows about cricket politics and is also well respected in the cricketing establishment especially in the BCCI. I think its a fantastic choice and maybe this is what Indian cricket required.
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by Suprabhat Sen on Apr 07, 2007 02:53 PM Permalink
Shastri is a chota version of Chapell.He is a manipalator.We needed someone like Mohinder as coach because he is a fighter.It will be most unfortunate if Rahul is retained as Captain.
RE:RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by sunilkumar mishra on Apr 07, 2007 02:16 PM Permalink
One has to accept that our premier batsmen and particualarly Sachin and Sauarav Sehwag were much below par as they failed in whatever position was given to them leading Greg to experiment shuffling with the younger lot. No coach and more so external one wud have dared to fiddle with a well balanced side playing consistently. When most of the cricketing fraternity is lauding the sincerity and the cricketing brain of Greg, it cannot be for nothing when they all have seen from close quarters including the presnet captain. We cannot have a finegr of suspicion everytime and everywhere.
Ravi Shastri is a very good cricketing brain , bery diplomatic, very astute and pretty experienced and is expected to be a good Manager, if not a good job. I fully agree with u that we may not really require a Coach in the role of a headmaster.
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by Ashok on Apr 07, 2007 03:16 PM Permalink
ravi sastre he bigest bogus felo, he politishan, he dubal krosing felo, he nose noting aboot krikit, he lousy felo he fraud, he spoyl indin krikit even fardhar
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by sunilkumar mishra on Apr 07, 2007 02:18 PM Permalink
One has to accept that our premier batsmen and particualarly Sachin and Sauarav Sehwag were much below par as they failed in whatever position was given to them leading Greg to experiment shuffling with the younger lot. No coach and more so external one wud have dared to fiddle with a well balanced side playing consistently. When most of the cricketing fraternity is lauding the sincerity and the cricketing brain of Greg, it cannot be for nothing when they all have seen from close quarters including the presnet captain. We cannot have a finegr of suspicion everytime and everywhere.
Ravi Shastri is a very good cricketing brain , bery diplomatic, very astute and pretty experienced and is expected to be a good Manager. I fully agree with u that we may not really require a Coach in the role of a headmaster.
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by rakessh singh on Apr 07, 2007 02:07 PM Permalink
Dear senthil,
I agree with you to a certain extent but not in entirely.The basic thing a sportsperson should have is the confidence.Which unfortunately the Indian team was lacking.
I think its not right to blame the coach totally for the players dismal performance.He can't go out and play for the players.
RE:Shastri - The Bluffmaster
by Senthil Kumar on Apr 07, 2007 02:15 PM Permalink
Rakessh,
Thanks for you're comments. I do agree that Chappell is a legendary cricketer. But the fact of the matter is he completely failed to understand human tendency and physcology. He had that arrogant high handed attitude towards the players ,media and even towards the member of parliments to comment and critisize them.
Just to quote an example , the husband and wife should understand each other for a smooth and sucessful life. It does'nt matter how intelligent and genius the husband is if he fails to understand his wife and deal with her accordingly. This applies vice versa.
All these so called caretaker of India cricket just wasting their time and our time by giving their stupid suggestions and changes to make great Indian team for next world cup..we asked these fools will Australia will not coming to participate in world cup 2011...If they have any suggestion pls comments
RE:Nobody have solution to change Indian cricket
by Dave on Apr 07, 2007 02:03 PM Permalink
absolutely right, BCCI is run by bunch of people who have never played cricket and they thinks they are expert of the game.. what knowledge sharad pawar & CO have to take decisions..why dont professional guys are given charge to run BCCI without regional politics.. pure waste of time
RE:Nobody have solution to change Indian cricket
by on Apr 07, 2007 02:42 PM Permalink
Dear you would be surprised to know that Our so called formers gr8 players like Kapil,shashtri and Kapil have sports advertising co.which get ads.to presents seniors players are more shrewd than politician.Have you ever seen these former giants criticising present senior players. Because they are pr &commission agent of Segwag,sachin,ganguly Arif-Mumbai
RE:Nobody have solution to change Indian cricket
by rahulvnair on Apr 07, 2007 02:25 PM Permalink
I agree with your point Dave.Politics and cricket are two separate fields.The professionals who have experience in the field should be given the task of managing it.
we always change players and coach, for a change we can change our president, who isnot a cricketer, but a politician. Never blame the lame. These politicians have spoiled everything and now sports.
RE:why cant we change the president
by Rajeev P on Apr 07, 2007 02:01 PM Permalink
politions should not allowed to contest BCC election. Only ex cricketers should be allowed to contest the election.
Nice decision made by BCCI that appoints shastri as manager not as coach. Please appoint Kapildev again as coach for team India. Because Kapil knows the talency of each and every Indian player and the plus point is he also an Indian. He has great winning attitude while he was a captain and also as a citizen of India. Captaincy will be given only to Dravid. While Kapil as a coach in 1999-00 the team was not good. But now the team has super talented players like Dravid, Sachin, Sehwag, Yuvaraj & Dhoni etc. but coach was not good. So for a citizen I want again Kapil as team Indias coach. Pls Kapil you only change the fate of Team India. I am one of your fan.
RE:Shastri - The Manager
by Ashok on Apr 07, 2007 03:18 PM Permalink
ravi sastre he bigest bogus felo, he politishan, he dubal krosing felo, he fraud, he nose noting aboot krikit an he spoyl indin krikit even fardhar
Nice & Wise Decision By BCCI, Since Ravi having knowledge of each Indian Team Member's Behaviour He know How to handle the Present Situation But He must work hard for our Nation Pride to save the real & True Game Of Cricket
RE:Ravi Shastri As Indian Manager
by Ashok on Apr 07, 2007 03:18 PM Permalink
ravi sastre he bigest bogus felo, he politishan, he dubal krosing felo, he fraud, he nose noting aboot krikit an he spoyl indin krikit even fardhar
