robin uthappa gautham gambhir dravid c kaif vc raina dinesh mongia karthick dhoni optional wc ramesh pawar sree santh irfan pathan munaf patel zaheer khan any two players from ranji trophy,one batsman and a bowler,give rest to.hopefully this team will be selected i think sachin,ganguly,sehwag,yuvaraj,agarkar,harbajan etc till the ireland touranment.
RE:my team to bangladesh
by Ashok on Apr 10, 2007 12:59 PM Permalink
BCCI plan is to select a hopeless team under the garb of youngsters and make them lose every match in BDesh. Afterwards, they will have good excuse to bring back all the senile old so-called senior players saying youth is not yet ready. This is their plan
RE:Another suggestion
by on Apr 10, 2007 12:57 PM Permalink
Some stupid joke. However, the parody is that whether Shastri or Bollywood are all equal. A good coach and a good captain are call of the hour.
Oh - yeah... he has proved that alongwith his coach he could drag the last WC-finalist team, out of the contest in the first-round itself. That is certainly a landmark captainship ability in the eyes of the current BCCI board officials and Mr Chouhan. In what sort of country we indeed live-in !! what a shame!!
Firstly, I protest. Chetan Chouhan was never the finest Opening Batsman. He, in his days, used to fumble & tremble, was a mere of shadow of Sunny. So, his assessment would definitely be like his batting, a mere 25 after a struggle of six hours on a placid wicket.
Now, come to "Dravid' ability as a Captain" - Dravid is basically a good workman or follower not a good leader. He cannot take bold decisions one after another. If he takes such decision once (calling back Sachin), does not have the courage or conviction to repeat the same. May be his typical middle-class background is responsible for this. U see, leaders are born not created, such as, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Yan Chappel, Clive Lloyd - they are all born leaders.
Rahul was not, is not and cannot be a good leader 'cause his personality, language, tone & modulation of Voice, body language are not like a leader. He is not simply imposing enough.
RE:'Dravid has proved his ability as a captain'
by pitar parkar on Apr 10, 2007 01:06 PM Permalink
chetan chauhan never got a test hundred and was a strkeless wonder and dravid can match him as a captain. dravid has destroyed saurav's team India and are trying to make it team of bunch of puppets.
RE:'Dravid has proved his ability as a captain'
by Suman Bhat on Apr 10, 2007 12:59 PM Permalink
it is not captain but senior players let down the team. if some players are not ready to support team cause and played deliberately negative cricket and gifted match to Bangla and SL it is not faulut of captain but the players should take the blame.Dravid always a team player and always supported his captain and have stood for the team. Remember those 4 years where he acted as a wicket keeper even though he is not a regular keeper. He took the pain for the benefit of the team. So called great Sachin refused and still refusing to play in the middle order and crying that I want to play only as an opener and crying that my attitude was questioned and so on%u2026
Captai never asked Sachin always get out inside edge onto the pad and clean bowled in a match where he needs to perform.
Captain never asked Saurav to go over the top and play a silly shot where the need of the hour is play sensibly and play more over and get a good century and make the India to win.
Captain never asked Yuvraj to go for a silly run where there is no run and get out.
Captain never asked Dhoni to play back to a ball where you need to come forward and play.
Captain never asked agarkar to bowl full tosses in the final overs so that guys like Arnold and Vas can hit him for fours and sixers.
Captain never asked Harbhajan to concentrate on bowling his 10 overs for only 40 and don%u2019t take any wickets.
Captain never asked Saurav to drop the catch where as Murali in the same catch held on to a very difficult catch. senior players played deliberately negative cricket and betrayed the team Captain never said that. Players, have some Responsibility playing for your country
RE:'Dravid has proved his ability as a captain'
by Manoj Joseph on Apr 10, 2007 05:44 PM Permalink
There may be people supporting different old war horses, but it is simple and true that Ganguly and Tendulkar are mainly responsible for team India's pathetic performance in the world cup. Dravid's winning rate is no way lesser than any of his predecessors. So, why to blame Dravid for all these! He may not be aggressive in his body languate like Ganguly, but he is a thinking captain and knows better of the situations. But, he needs support from other members as well... Kick Ganguly, Tendulkar, and other big guns who has a negative attitude out of the team... Everything will be alright!
Rahul Dravid undoubtedly is a great batsman but I feel he doesn't have the Killer instinct,same is the case with with Sachin Tendulkar. We lost the Test Series in Pakistan, the series in New Zealand, West Indies and now the World Cup.
We need someone like Ricky Ponting or Stephen Fleming. Kapil Dev & Ajit Wadekar and to some extent Saurav were the greatest captains India has ever produced whereas most of the ex - captains were Failures
RE:DRAVID DOESN'T HAVE THE KILLIER INSTINCT
by Suman Bhat on Apr 10, 2007 01:01 PM Permalink
dravid is very good captain. team won tests in multan under his captaincy without ganguly and in WI (without tehdulkar and ganguly) and even in SA. in oids winning average difference is only 1.2% for dravid as leader of odi when compared ganguly ;s odis success of 5 yrs.
Make Sachin as ODI coach. Dravid as Test coach. Agarkar as captain. poor kambli come out from acting, that you can do it in a middle of the pitch just like ganguly. when shastri is as coach, BCCI already started to call all mumbaikars to be part of indian team (coach/players). name the team as Mumbai and India than india seniors or blue.
how can you make dravid as captain. he could not take the best out from a player, can not be a captain. he did it miserably in the world cup.
RE:Make Sachin as ODI coach
by Riaz on Apr 10, 2007 12:56 PM Permalink
Boy Mumbai is the champion and Bengal is #2 as of now where does the rest of India come in Picture? All other players other than Bengal and Mumbai are useless.
RE:Make Sachin as ODI coach
by C Mohan on Apr 10, 2007 12:54 PM Permalink
India being such a big country, each state should be allowed to form its own team, which should become eligible to become a test or International ODI team.Compare it to Srilanka , bangladesh. India has potential to make atleast 5 top international teams.And there is a very probablity of all indian teams exiting in prelim round.
Both Dravid and BCCI have one thing in common-They are big time losers. They are bunch of compromising gutless people who are second to none when it comes to losing matches for India. Dravid who lacks strong personality is perhaps the worst captain, forget his cpataincy record, in the history of Indian cricket.
RE:Dravid & BCCI - Big time losers.
by pitar parkar on Apr 10, 2007 01:11 PM Permalink
mr.dennis u couldn't understand very simple things. dravid is a good captain because he was unable to read the pitch against bangladesh and choose to bat first; that is why we are out of world cup and that is why he is rewarded by bcci. it is simple.
RE:Dravid & BCCI - Big time losers.
by pradeep agarwal on Apr 10, 2007 12:54 PM Permalink
Why do we need strong personality in this role for a game that requires team effort?Dravid is actually doing the right things & consulting the other team members in decision making.The only mistake he made is by supporting his senior team mates which has back fired on him.
RE:Dravid & BCCI - Big time losers.
by Aneesh on Apr 10, 2007 12:51 PM Permalink
ch00tya dravid lost in SA, lost in WI and lost in worldcup. still he is the captain!!! he could win some matches only when dhoni and raina was in good form.
RE:Dravid & BCCI - Big time losers.
by Suman Bhat on Apr 10, 2007 01:03 PM Permalink
team india did win any series in SA against SA even when ganguly was captain. senior players are responsble for WC debacele not captain
RE:Dravid & BCCI - Big time losers.
by kanth on Apr 10, 2007 02:44 PM Permalink
make your mind empty before commenting my friend according to you what are the merits a captain should have first and then how do you assess a captains ability on whether the sucess and failure or you mentioned personality cricket is a team game to taste the sucess contribution from all players is essential there is a clear criterion to measure captains ability on fielding how he utilises the available resources and contain the opposition and control the game by using his brain and win matches for the country.when the batsmen let down the team the captain cannot be held accountable and undervalued him.in this regard dravid is not responsible for this world cup debacle whole team particularly the batsmen shoul be held responsible and ganguly sachin sewag herbajan yuvraj should be removed from the team.
I don't fully agree,now after 3 weeks we are trying to wash down what he did:His blunder with the toss against Bangladesh & also his decision to bowl first against SriLanka especially after we managed a world record score against Bermuda ,those were the main reasons for India's early exit.
RE:RE:'Dravid has proved his ability as a captain'
by Ashok on Apr 10, 2007 12:48 PM Permalink
Despite the failure, I regard Dravid as a person of good character, a reliable batsman and a nice, gery gud guy. But I feel that, as captain, he is the worst India has ever had. BCCI has blundered in retaining him as a captain.
RE:'Dravid has proved his ability as a captain'
by Suman Bhat on Apr 10, 2007 01:05 PM Permalink
CHAPPELL / JAGDALE'S REPORT IS CHANGED AS PER INSTRUCTIONS OF one of bcci official from mumbai
SC Ganguly 146 76 65 &nbs p; 5 52.05% R Dravid 65 33 28 4 50.77% The difference of odi wnnin average is only 1% when compared to succss of ganguly & john AND dravid and chappell Ganguly and john had advanatage of leading team more Nos of matches( almost double) and for five yrs and dravid and ccahppell did not even completed 2 yrs IN NDTV big cricket poll survey %u2013 which was conducted by among 15 state criciket associations 80% ppl voted for dravid to retain captaincy Retain Dravid as captain, Sachin should quit ODIs Should Rahul Dravid be replaced as the captain of the Indian team? And the answer was in the negative with 86 per cent saying he should not be removed with only nine per cent saying that he should be replaced. The rest five per cent did not have any opinion. http://www.cricketnext.com/news/retain-dravid-as-captain-sachin-should-quit-odis/24099-13-2.html
RE:Good Captain
by Deepak Verma on Apr 10, 2007 12:48 PM Permalink
You are right. He has already shown this in Worldcup. If anything is left, he will complete in next few months.
RE:RE:Good Captain
by dinavahi kumar on Apr 10, 2007 12:59 PM Permalink
yes Dravid is a good captain.he nee time to prove himself as a good captain.he need good support from team mates(not like in Ind-sri worldcup match)
RE:Good Captain
by Krishnakamal Chakraborty on Apr 10, 2007 01:05 PM Permalink
Mr. Samrat Guthakurta, Please mind your language. You cannot call anybody "BUSTARD".If any non-Indian goes through this site and findyour word selection, can you imagine what will be the image of India? Criticising others doesn't mean using slang word. You can criticise in constructive way. Everybody can have his/her own view. Wishing u a good luck.
RE:Good Captain
by Deepak Verma on Apr 10, 2007 12:48 PM Permalink
You are right. He has already shown this in Worldcup. If anything is left, he will complete in next few months.
