This Indian team has talent but they don'nt believe in themselves,then how can we believe in them?Even though they got thrashed in the final i like the 2003 team much better.Now,there is no see excitement, there is tension. There is no confidence, there is hope.There is no attitude..there are 11 men looking in 11 directions,they're not collectively looking at one goal.The 2003 team was a "team"..gone is the huddle,gone is the soul,gone is the attitude,gone is the self-belief.This is the same India that was before Saurav Ganguly took the reins.Remmeber?Under Azhar and the likes.The Indian teams lacks the fighting spirit that Ganguly has..(I am NOT a Bengali..plz).Now its just him and Yuvraj against 11 men armies.Why Bangladesh?Even Bermuda will beat India,if the other don't chip in as well..and chip in well too!! No point in burning effigies or smashing windows..will only irk the players and reduce the embarassment they should otherwise experience.
RE:Its not a team anymore
by rehman m on Mar 18, 2007 11:30 PM Permalink
yes i agree! a leader need not be a performer. rather he should be a motivator with agressive killer attitude which he passes to the other members of the team..surely dravid lacks that!
RE:RE:Its not a team anymore
by Allan Bandes on Mar 18, 2007 11:43 PM Permalink
yeh sab shani ka khel hai bacha.. ha hah ha our mahan astologers india ko jitayenge
Do you guys remember the turnaround of Indian Railways. So we can appoint Laloo for the top most position of BCCI. And if you remember some one said that Indian team represents BCCI and not our country. I think the guy was correct.
Now India and Pak are returning these greedy BCCI people can arrange Indo-Pak series so they make profits.
No parent could have hoped for a better day than this. They just need to lose against Srilanka, which they certainly do, and they are out of the Tournament. During this Exam season -- India need to focus on their Kids careers instead of on these Idiots. Well, Govt should take back the land the allotted these thieves.
RE:RE:A Great day for Parents!!
by amit kollivalasa on Mar 18, 2007 11:34 PM Permalink
even i wish to see India return home early so that many students wont waste time and concentrate on students . I think GOD had granted the parents wishes
I was watching Bangladesh batting thier innings and I would only say this that although most of these guys are raw and young but they were batting and pacing their inninings with such class, even though the writing about India losing was on the wall, I was glad to be awake untill the end. Take it or leave it another 2 years and they will send us to the washers left right and center.Reminds me of the story Hare and the Tortoise.Learn from it Team India, don't make a laughing stock of yourself, there are a lot of free passengers in the team.
Can you actually believe Yuvraj was yawning towards th end of the game???
"Teams start to show their true colours
COMMENT
Robert Craddock
March 19, 2007
AUSTRALIA is still good. England is still weak. Pakistan is still a shambles and India is still a team of pampered stars and the most overrated side in the world.
To see India's team of cruising millionaires harassed and gang-tackled to the ground by the bustling little Bangladesh side with an average age of 23 will remain one of the joys of the cup.
Inspired 17-year-old batsman Tamin Iqbal embodied the spirit of a Bangladesh team which is desperate for the world to respect it when he was hit in the throat by Zaheer Khan, then charged the same bowler and smacked him for a vicious straight four.
Bangladesh has long felt it was only a matter of time before its thriving junior system, which traditionally produces one of the best under-19 sides in the world, gave it a decent senior team. Under the guidance of coach Dav Whatmore, it is well on the way.
"I haven't seen them for two years and I cannot believe how good they are and how they have improved out of sight," commentator David Lloyd said.
India, by contrast, remains the great underachiever. Every time it has a major tournament it trots out its list of big names -- Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag among them -- and gets beaten.
The side looks stale, emotionless and soft.
The once great Tendulkar looks like a battle-weary veteran.
India looks anything but happy, and its recent form of just seven wins in its past 24 one-dayers says everything about what a massive disappointment it has been.
Coach Greg Chappell will write a book when his contract ends -- perhaps as soon as next week -- and it should be quite a read.
It will be interesting to see whether he spills the beans on the self-indulgence in the team, with players refusing to train hard and more worried about commercial deals than the team.
When Bangladesh needed 10 runs to win, the cameras panned to all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who let out a five-second yawn.
He, as much as anyone, embodies the pampered-pussycat mentality of a side that promises so much and delivers so little.
Nothing that has happened in the first week of the cup will have Australia quaking in its boots.
South Africa chopped up The Netherlands with ruthless disdain but has always been spectacular minnow munchers. It doesn't mean the Proteas are going to handle pressure against the big boys any better than they used to.
Sri Lanka and New Zealand look good if not flawless.
The well-drilled Sri Lankans are a beautifully balanced team and will challenge all-comers."
RE:From an Australian newspaper
by Vijay on Mar 18, 2007 11:35 PM Permalink
Thats the attitude of the Indian players. Yuvraj knows that after scoring 47 in the match he is safe from criticism. Dravid looked clueless throughout the match, he did not believe that we could win. I hate to say this but we desperately missed Ganguly the captain. Last world cup Ganguly was able to comeback after a bad loss. I hope Dravid can do the same. But having said that I dont have much confidence in what I just said.
RE:From an Australian newspaper
by Narayanaswami Krishnan on Mar 19, 2007 07:21 AM Permalink
It is by considered opinion that the worst thing that has ever happened to indian cricket is "TENDULKAR". He is the curse/bane of indian cricket. i have read pages and pages and heard all his paid chamchas(jing-chiks) like roobish ravi sastri, thief gavaskar and fit for nothing kiran more, about how passionate he was about the game and how commited he was about training that he would be there in the playground even before the sun rises. but now i feel his passion is only about making millions. probably he wants to create another record by becoming the "first billionaire"
have you ever noticed? but i used to watch whenever our much pamphered super star fails to score, which happens quite consistently nowadays, he will be nowhere to be seen in the dressing room( i am sure he is practising very hard inside his room for the next match!! OR is it that he is busy on his cell phone scheduling /organising his commercials or having a check on his account). you can only see the very sad faces of other poor guys ( this time also remember you could see only chappel as usual and almost crying sreeshanth in the dressing room when india was being thrashed by minnows bangladesh. but see what happens the day he scores some thirty or forty runs. you will certainly see him sitting very prominently in the second row with his feet up on the chair in front. pls watch the next time. our superstar will never fail you in this.
why don't we gift(deport) these superstars to some other country like nepal or bhutan or afganistan?
to my consternation i read a report that says that this super super star wants to play in 2011 world cup!!!?? Oh my God have mercy on indian cricket
JUST ONE LAST WAY TO GET THE CUP SREESHANTH AND MUNAFPATEL SHUD OPEN BATTING DRAVID AND DHONI OPEN BOWLING TENDULKAR SHUD KEEP WICKETS CHAPPEL SHUD UMPIRE THE GAME
YES!!!!!!!!THEN THERE IS SOME CHANCE WE LIFT THE CUP.....
one - all our much pamphered superstars should bribe all other teams/icc from all the big money they have made from all those commercials.
two - our bcci should appeal to icc that since india is a country of reservation, there should be 49% reservation for india so that the indian team gets 49% of the world cup
RE:team needs support
by iamansp on Mar 18, 2007 11:19 PM Permalink
It is not defeat we worry about. It is the way in which they performed. a team with 7 batsmen 1 4 batsmen whose avg >40 2 5 Star players (sachin, dada, dravid, dhoni, yuvraj) leving that horrible sehvag. compiled a total of 191 which is disgraceful.
RE:team needs support
by iamansp on Mar 18, 2007 11:20 PM Permalink
As far as our support is concerned. They dont need and they dont care. All they care is corporate endorsements.
RE:team needs support
by Silly on Mar 18, 2007 11:25 PM Permalink
I'm amused and surprised by the amount of time,money and energy that Indians (and the nation in total) wastes on Cricket !
First they pick them and put the cricketers on their heads.., making them celebrities and superstars, doing Poojas and Havans (the jaws of my colleagues in US just dropped when they heard this !!). The media and the press and the companies have made cricket an Industry.
Why is a sport so god-damn important for us ? Will these "cricket-fanatics" put their time in some community service or protesting the corrupt politicians ?
RE:RE:team needs support
by iamansp on Mar 18, 2007 11:29 PM Permalink
Now tell me that you dont like the sport. you should be a rare species. It is just the same as American football. It has the largest viewership. We might be doing over the top like pujas that is our culture. So tell your US colleagues that it is no different from a ball game where your fans drink and celebrate, where as our do pujas and celebrate.
I believe it is too early to write off the indian team. Agreed they had a poor match yesterday but the team is good enough to win and that too win handsomely against bermuda and Srilanka. Look they have beaten SL as recently as February.I still see india in Super 8.So lets wait atleast until india's last league game to draw conclusions and making scapegoats. My wishes to INDIA for the rest of the matches..
