1. Destroyed Dhoni by asking him to bat like Laxman. dhoni is Dhoni, he is not Laxman. 2. Pathan was doing good as a bowler. But the intent of converting him to a Kapil Dev too soon destroyed his cconfidence. He was a bowler first, then whatever he could contribute as a tail-end batsman was to be considered as a bonus. 3. Sehwag also destroyed like Dhoni. He was asked to select his shot to become a Tendulkar probably. Sehwag was a destructive batsmann, now he has been destructed by Chapell mantra. 4. Destroyed the confidence of Ganguly by dropping him and the unfriendly treatment towards him by the captain. All players were scared of talking to Ganguly openly, because that will be construed by Chapell-Dravid as a conspiracy. Finally when all players were failing in WC, Ganguly was batting defensively partly because he had secure his place for the next match, and partly because he was trying to save the team from embarassment. Then he was labelled as slow scorer as if he was all out to desttroy Dravid.
Finally I would really like to know who is really baccking Dravid after the disaster in WC. Most of the players were blamed for the disaster except for Dravid. If Dravid can not lead the team with enthusiasm, it is the fault of Ganguly, and now they are not hesitant in including Sachin also. BCCi should be more honest and transparent, and stop protecting Dravid and destroying Indian cricket. Let the players play cricket with a smiling aggressive face without thinking of a spank by BCCI.
India 11 should be: 1. R Dravid (captain) 2. Yuvraj Singh (vice caption) 3. G Gambhir 4. D Karthik (wicketkeeper) 5. S Ganguly 6. D Mongia 7. MM Patel 8. Piyush Chawla 9. RR Powar 10. RP Singh 12. S Sreesanth 13. M Tiwary 14. MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper) 15. Z Khan
Selecters are very BAD, first they have to take off Sachin from the team ASAP, then only the team will grow and will be good. This selfish sachin should not be there in the team.
More is the best selector India had....He had the full support to Dravid and Chappel and these three could have made the Indian team like Aussies.....More threw Ganguly out was right because Ganguly is a bad captain...Hence More should be the selector once again and Chappel should be brought back....
Selector should kick Dravid out without delay, otherwise INDIAN cricket can not be saved.
By the "Sachin bomb" Greig is burst out of INDIA. Fortunately or unfortunately Sachin blasted the bomb very lately. If he would have done this 2 years before when for drawing attention of media and publicity Greg Chappell started talking lot negative about Sachin. That time Sachin was not even in the team and healing from his surgery. If "Sachin bomb" would have been blasted two years before, then INDIAN cricket could have been saved from the biggest mess under Chappell-Dravid combined EVIL force.
Chappell purely came to INDIA to fulfill his mission of cleaning the path of Australia for WC 07 which is to damage INDIAN cricket. All the time Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh scared of INDIAN team which only could challenge them in its best day.
RE:Dravid must be kicked out without delay
by us on Apr 26, 2007 12:20 PM Permalink
After long time gap (after Kapil) probably INDIA got a good bowler, Irfan Pathan. He had been damaged by Chappell-Dravid Evil combination.
This time team was almost same as 2003 WC. Even Ganguly said this time team is much better than what he had on 2003. That's due to good wicket keeper-batsman Dhoni.
Ganguly had a bad wicket keeper.
Still INDIA (runner of 2003 WC) lost in the first round under the greatest Captain of INDIA and World...
INDIA won 1983 WC without foreign coach. Why INDIA needs foreign coach, particularly EVIL Chappell ?
Moreover Mr. Gum put his gun on other's shoulder. Did he have guts to play an innings like Kapil Dev in any world cup?
He is Mr. Gum, he never thinks of his strike rate, rather his run average....
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by felix pinto on Apr 27, 2007 03:04 PM Permalink
What dravid can do if batsman and bowler fail to deliver? what dravid can do if india was 159/4 and 161/9 and evntually all out for 190 against bangladesh? what dravid can do if batsman like tendulkar, uvaraj,doni out for a duck? aganist sri lanka? we were praising him when india made a record of 14 Consecutive run chasing victorys.
RE:Dravid must be kicked out without delay
by CricketLover on Apr 27, 2007 09:35 PM Permalink
Why did Dravid not bat till the end against BD? He is supposed to be techically the best Indian batsman so how he should have led from the front. Yes a captain is as good as a team but a good captain makes maximum use of the potential of the team at the right time. Dravid lacks imagination and is weak as a leader, hence all the divisions in the team. Only a strong captain can keep the team together, not someone meek as Dravid. Someone who commands the respect of all (like Lloyd or Imran), unfortunately there is none in Indian cricket at the moment
RE:Dravid must be kicked out without delay
by Suman Bhat on Apr 27, 2007 06:18 PM Permalink
team india defeated same SL team 6-1 some times under dravid%u2019s captaincy without politician superstar ex captain not having part of team Same SL team reached final of WC b%u2019cuz they play as one unit and all senior players support captain and perform for team causeteam ind WC debacle b'cuz some senior players betrayed captain, team and millions of fans by playing back stage politicsVery easy to blame captain, What about other 10 players players%u2019s the lack of commtiment , lack of passion to win/perform, , poor body languge or groupism or petty politics played against captain and coach spending time in crease for sponsers cause, playing for self records, many players think they are leaders and not to led by skipper, superstar attitude .. lankans are playing as one unit and no players are backfiring captain... many players who supported so called superstars now realized that fighting battle on ground will keep the place in team but not back stage politics. Superstars will never loose place but youngsters will be victims. do you that ganguly becames succefull captian ,in his captainship he won many match in that total 60% won by darvid take out dravid's performance ganguly success will less than sachins..
RE:Dravid must be kicked out without delay
by Jomesh George on Apr 27, 2007 06:28 PM Permalink
It's annoying Indian cricket fans continuously criticising or even abusing Rahul Dravid for India's early exit from WC.He fought really well in the crucial game against Sri Lanka but no support was there from the other end.Dravid is not Kapil Dev to play a magical innings like that Kapil played against Zimbabwe in 1983.We expected him to play an anchor role similar to that of Javed Miandad in the WC 1992 and Dravid has done it quiet effectively.But other big guns failed miserably and all responsibilities were put into Dravid's shoulder.It's ridiculous.
