All media speculations. Discussion are eyewashing experience sachin and ganguly are main culprits for wc debacle. and there were huge public opinion against sachin. But strong mumbai lobby will never let down theirlocal hero. and vengasrakar wanted him to captain. resting ganguly and sachin is eyewashing exercise. And many ex cricketers, media cricket experts had not guts to spaeak against these 2 super starts. the lack of commiment , passion , poor body languge or groupism or petty politics played against captain and coach.. both ex captain are fighting for captaincy behind scens. so they have to prove dravid is not good captain . but dravid started well wining 18 odis in chasing and won test series in WI , histoirci test match win SA, and odi sereis in WI.Chappell report was right in pointingout these dressing room politics and some players undermine dravd's captaincy and not to led by skipper . But this did not bring any laurales to ex captains.they are looser b'cuz there is no guarantee that sachin ganguly will play next WC many younger players will now perform on field and if they go for dressing room politcs they will loose the place in team like agarkar, harbajan and gatting back into team. Pathan and kiaf both deserving playes for odi and good players are victims of this dirty politics
As per some news report tendulkar and ganguly had last laugh that they got rid of chappell and next terget is dravid Indian express poll 75% favoured dropping sachin and ganguly for odi series against BL 80% ppl approved bcci move to drop senior players TOI poll 65% voted in favouring the bcci decision to rest superstars while dravid's supports to retain him as captain increased even after ongoing dravid bashing articles.. 80% of cricket associanton (survey in ndtv) supporte dravid. ,. IBN CNN survey 86% ppl voted for dravid.. Sachin may be living legend but he is no more bigger than team or game 48% voters is voted dravid to be captain by big margin. www.cricketvotes.com
SL is playing superb cricket None of senior player /ex captain m envied mahila%u2019s his promotion as captain From the outset they gave unstinting support. they remained hungry to perform and did not rely on reputation or popular support to protect their places.
If you have a lazy horse you can try to train it so that it runs faster. Instead if you have a mule, you can not get to the point no matter whatsoever approaches you take. This comparison is just made for Rahul Dravid. He is not at all suitable captaincy material. This world cup was the testimony to his inability to lead the team from the frontline. There are better players and captains in the team right now. Dravid must acknowledge his failure and resign from the post. Now it is clear that he is the fellow responsible for groupism in the team. Neither he can manage the players (both juniors and seniors) nor can he manage his cricketing sense. He is alive in the team because of his state lobby-the regional clout.
RE:Dravid take rest and let us watch better cricket!
by Suman Bhat on Apr 27, 2007 01:46 PM Permalink
check the team ind won in last 6-7 yrs and dravids contributions. he is scoring consistantly in tests as well as odis. if dravid has rest all other tens players shold go ahead of him WC debacle is not fuailur of captain and senior batsman failed to perform. 2 ex captains should had majored role in WC early exit
RE:Dravid must be kicked out without delay
by us on Apr 26, 2007 12:10 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....
RE:RE:Dravid must be kicked out without delay
by Suman Bhat on Apr 27, 2007 01:48 PM Permalink
WC debacle was b'cua of 2 ex captains who betrayed the dravid and team and millions of fans. dravid played oids under sachin and ganguly n gave 100% performance for team. and he trusted senior players like ganguly sachin bajji, dhoni zahir and agarkar but backfired by superstars Pathan place is blocked by ganguly.
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by Suman Bhat on Apr 27, 2007 01:50 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 cause ago team 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
I have decided to sponsor Irish team. They are a better team compared to India and Pakistan. I will outsource all the development work from India to Ireland.
