Drop the senior players like Sachin, Drvid, Ganguly, Kumble, Sehwag from team atleast for six months. Appoint Mohammed Kaif as team India captain, coz he has some experience in captaining India under 21 and (won the world cup), also he is the captain of UP(won Renji trophy). Yuvraj should be the wise captain. Include some good youngsters performing in domestic level lige like S Badrinatrh and Joginder Sharma. Give them some time to perform.
RE:Next Team and Captain
by Sandeep M on Mar 26, 2007 03:54 PM Permalink
First ask Kaif to get off the mark, the guy can't seem to make even a single run!! Yuvraj Singh is the logical choice for captain with Gautam Gambhir the vice captain!
RE:Next Team and Captain
by abhi on Mar 26, 2007 03:56 PM Permalink
and gambhir is a bradman,right? no wonder with useless ignorant fans like you indian team is in deep shit.
RE:RE:Next Team and Captain
by Sandeep M on Mar 26, 2007 04:01 PM Permalink
I have seen some of your comments in this blog, we all know who is a piece of shit out here!! Ignorant morons like you who do not even have an iota of understanding of the game pass judgement!! Take a shit break!!
RE:Next Team and Captain
by Kunwar Prashant on Mar 26, 2007 04:05 PM Permalink
In my sincere opinion all this has happened bcoz of Congress .. hmmmmm .. he he he .. India Cricket Team was such a shining glory in the era of "India Shining". Also I would like to request BCCI and et al to approach Human Rights International/UN and what ever they may imagine of and PROTEST (after all protesting on streets is our birth right), for RACIAL DISCRIMINATION .. they may take Shilpa Shetty as their "ICON of Protest" and ask ICCI et al - Why we were put in a pool fo BROWNS and BLACKS - Why we were made to play against Steel Spine Teams like Bangladesh and Srilanka. - Why ICCI didn't put teams from Somalia, Euthopia etc in our pool. Friends, Countrymen and Gentlemen I am telling you all this was a conspiracy against the Mighty India !!! I am feeling soooooo sorry for all those who put their money into this world-cup .. my sympathy is there with star-cast/producer of the forthcoming movies on World C up theme. At last I would like to coin them as BCCI Team not Indian Team.
Now it is official .India is out of the WC.The only Indian participation is confined to players of Indian origin representing West Indies and England . What went wrong? 1.Team Selection-Vengsarkar &Co played it safe after our team%u2019s poor show in West Indies by recalling all the seniors(veterans may be the right word) at the expense of youngsters like Raina and Kaif.You can not lift the WC by playing safe. 2.Disharmony in the team-Even a kid would know that there was no team spirit or unity on display in the ICC(Indian Cricket Team). 3.Ganguly playing second fiddle to Uthappa in the crucial match against SL-it should have been the otherway round. 4.Dravid %u2018s inability to think clearly. Composition of the playing eleven,opting to bat first against Bangladesh,field placements when Vass and Arnold were firing on all cylinders during the death overs,persisting with lesser bowlers even after they(Sachin and Ganguly) bowled 10 overs reasonably well are few examples of his hazy mind set. 5.Overconfidence displayed by Senior players during the Bangladesh tie. 6.Poor fielding.Zaheer,Kumble,Ganguly and Sehwag were found wanting in this department.(Jayasurya and Murali have proved that age does not have any thing to do with the commitment) 7.Sachin has built up a notorious reputation of letting down the team when it matters the most.No wonder he was out for a duck in the crucial SL tie. 8.Confusion personified named Dhoni.He was not sure whether to attack or defend. 9.Format which was not so user friendly.In the earlier versions team India always got enough chances to bounce back.In this WC one unexpected loss greatly affects your chances of qualifying to the second round. 10.None of the youngsters(Sreesanth,Karthik,Irfan Pathan) were given a chance to prove their talent. To sum it up we did not deserve to be in the top eight,as rightly confessed by Rahul Dravid. What are the positives? 1.The selectors would definitely be wiser,next time they sit to select the team, not to keep the youngsters out of reckoning.Hopefully the selection would depend on the current form and potential and not on the past laurels. 2.Sachin,Saurav and Anil ,unless they are very thick skinned,would announce their retirement from OD cricket.If they do not do it on their own, they will be kicked out by the selectors. 3.Rahul,who hopefully will get one more term, can build up the right team for ODIs ,which will be entirely different from the test team. 4.Our players,hopefully would take more active part in domestic fixtures which would be good for Indian cricket. 5.Students can concentrate better on their exams All the best Team India.After all failures are the stepping stones to success. Shailendra Dasari
RE:The Great Indian Circus
by Sandeep M on Mar 26, 2007 04:15 PM Permalink
England has a team that is far different form the teat team with disastrous consequences, their one day team is a bit of a joke nothwithstanding their succewss in australia against a very tired Aussie team!! If the youngsters are good enough to be in the team on the basis of their batting or bowling, thats fine! Just being good fielders does not qualify you for a position in the one day team!!
India's world cup dream/ run has come to sorry end. If the performance of the team was disappointing the reaction of angry fans equally disgusting. Guys, the team was spineless, shamless in the way they played the game but atleast let 'us' not loose 'our' dignity! With this debacle would begin a makeover hogwash. If the BCCI is serious about an interospection and learn from the debacle I feel a few changes are a must. First, they must be earnest in their effor to build a seperate squad for Test and ODI. Use the senior players, Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid, Kumble, Laxman for Tests. Dravid should lead that team, he is the only captain whose performance has not dipped with the added presure of captaincy. For ODI's look for Yuvraj Singh to lead the team. Reinforce the ODI team with Md. Kaif, Powar, Karthik. This would not only help the players focus better but in the long run help build bench strength. Pathan, Uttapa should be given another chance. Shewag, Bhajji deserve the boot. Use MS Dhoni only when India is palying in the Sub Continent. The BCCI must introduce a performanced based component for the players. Lastly coming to the coach, I think Chappel was an maverick coach. Never affraid to try new things but unfortunately ran into resistence from the head strong senior members of the team and selection commitee. He should be retained to try these experiments with a much junior team, say the U19 or U23. His "scientific" methods will be better appriciated and yeild better results with the junior teams. For the national side must try someone like Kapil Dev or Robin Singh, who have worked hard to whatever they have achieved. They know what it means to represent a passionate country like India.
RE:True Interospection?
by manuj bahl on Mar 26, 2007 03:58 PM Permalink
Kapil Dev shall be made Coach and Yuvraj should be the captain. Mohd. Kaif should be brought back from the Wilderness. I fully agree with you that we shall invest more time in player like Utthapa who does have odes of talent. Youth should e the Mantra for the Re-surrection of Indian Cricket Team. If steps are not taken right now then we should get ready to have cricket going the way Hockey had gone.
What had happened in last week in Carribean Island nothing more then a wake up call. Cricket in India is going the way Hockey have went. If rot is not contained right now then simply forgot to even play in any World Level compettion once teams like Ireland, Bangaladesh, Netherland start getting serious about there domestic structure. Greg Chappel have done enogh damage to Indian Cricket and its hight time we dump him next flight to down under. Indian cricket was like a divided house in whole tournament. Rahul was playing favourites by selecting Sehwag even though he was failing like monsoons do with us every year. Sourav has his own bunch of followers, This cricket team was best on content ever but worst on team spirit. The reason for this is Guru Greg's divisive politics. He have proved beyond doubt that foriegners can be more lethal in playing game of Favouritism. This present Indian Cricket Team is full of Individualism and the credit for this goes to Guru Greg. All the efforts put in by John Wright and Sourav Ganguli have been wasted by this present management of Rahul and Greg chappell. Rahul donot have the spark of a leader and thus he should concentrate more on his batting which is falling apart with the burden of Captaincy. Leaders are not made they are Born and at present we do require a leader who can lead us in right direction with Iron hand Glove fist. Indian cricket requires a loud call on its dumb ears and the best way to do that is to ask Seniors inteam to either perform or be ready to say Good Bye to World of Cricket. Lets make Yuvraj Singh as captain and start investing in "Right Young Turks". Souhafrica have shown what it brings to the team when you have a mercurial youngster as a Captain. If a team full of champion cricketers like Shaun Pollock, Kallis , Gibbs and Ntini have Greame smith as captain then a team of Chokers (India) very well can have Yuvraj as captain who except the last inning against Sri Lanka had played the cricket in right notes. Lets invest in Youth and see the Results. indian cricket team require blood transfusion and only young blood can make us a cricketing nation of champions and not of Chokers.
According to me need to take some action as per below. 1)Make captain Yuvraaj Singh immediately as BCCI has dicided that captainship will not be given to Ganguly,-perhaps. Yuvi has good connections with all the players in the team incl Sachin,Dravid and Ganguly and everyone will support/advise him in a possitive way.So everywhere there will be a big chance to see the team spirit/motivation although Yuvi is a good batsman also with mnmm flaws. People those who are saying to deduct Sachin,Dravid and Ganguly,-I am sure they hv not played cricket thats why they are saying as kids.The time has not come yet that India Cricket team can be made without these three great players.A few failures can not reject the class. b)Dissmiss Chapell immediately and appoint coach either Wasim Akram or Aqib Javed so that we can produce attacking fast bowlers and also they are good to create proper team spirit. c)Selectors ratio shd be same from all the zone. In any decission making problem re. selection final decission will be taken by captain and coach. d) Captain/players/coach/every BCCI officials income/earning will be on low salary and high incentive/bonus on performance basis.
Please do not create a panic as no one will gain anything from it,and people of other countries will laugh at us.
I also request rediff and the media to create pressure on BCCI accordingly if my sggestions r logical and practical.
RE:How we can escape from big failures...........
by Sandeep M on Mar 26, 2007 03:46 PM Permalink
Any Pakistani will wreck Indian cricket with a vengenace so pls do not talk about Wasim and aaquib Javed, tomorrow you will talk about Javed Miandad, the guy will be licking his lips in anticipation on how he can screw Indian cricket. If you wan't to produce fast bowlers you can always appoint Kapil Dev or Chetan Sharma as the fast bowling coach!!
RE:How we can escape from big failures...........
by chinmoy chatterjee on Mar 26, 2007 04:12 PM Permalink
I hv not uttered the name of Javed Miandad as we hv great batsman with us already like Gavaskar,Sachin,Dravid,Ganguly etc etc,we dont need any batsman coach. U think every Pakistani is unfaithfull,-sorry I dont think like that.Everybody thought in favour of Chapell and it is proved wrong,and now if u r thinking negative for every pakistani then this will be proved in future that this is not true. Kapildev is now like a God in India for winning WC in 1983,he is perhaps engaged in so many matters , it will be hard for him to concentrate properly in coaching.Also Wasim was more danggerous bowler and captain than Kapil,we shd not avoid the truth. I dont want to commnt re. Chetan Sharma.
RE:How we can escape from big failures...........
by bharat on Mar 26, 2007 03:57 PM Permalink
You cannot take Kapil Dev and Chetan Sharma's name in the same breath. If you consider Chetan Sharma as a bowling coach, we have several ex bowlers of the same caliber or better.
News Channels are reporting that Sachin Tendulkar is likely to be the next captain of India. It will be most surprising and unusual if that were to happen. While most people think that it is time for him to retire honourably, the BCCI is reported to be thinking of giving him the captaincy. Just look at his performance in the WC and it is not wrong to feel totally let down. This even though the weight of captaincy is not on him.
Is this idea of capatincy for Sachin anything to do with his being from Mumbai?
RE:Loss at WC
by manuj bahl on Mar 26, 2007 03:39 PM Permalink
The only reason for Sachin to be made Captain is that because our Indian Cricket Team is totally divided into two camps. Rahul Dravid camp and Sourav Ganguli Camp. The only person agreeable to both faction is SDachin Tendulkar. Thus he is not being made Captain for his cricketing ability but because he is only Nutural player left in our Guru Greg's Team. Yuvraj is the best man to captain the team but being close to Sourav is handicap. Thus only one left to take this responsibility is Sachin Tendulkar. Understood
RE:RE:Loss at WC
by Ankur Khanna on Mar 26, 2007 03:56 PM Permalink
why dont we bring back old man Kapil Dev instead ? He is well respected by everyone
RE:Loss at WC
by balaji gururajan on Mar 26, 2007 04:01 PM Permalink
if a man who has been breathing (not just playing) cricket for the past 16 years cannot devise strategies to set field and attack the players of the opponents, who else would?
but the problem was that sachin favoured his mumbai collegues without thinking about the talent of other batsmen, whereas Ganguly was the man who brought in Bhajji, yuvraj, sehwag, dhoni into the team without giving importance to someone like devang gandhi for example who was from Bengal.
We have lost the best captain we have got and we are not ready to accept a person with the best cricketing brain and experiance availible in the country! pathetic
RE:Loss at WC
by Sandeep M on Mar 26, 2007 03:49 PM Permalink
The captaincy is for test matches, for one dayers Yuvraj Singh is likely to be made captain!!
RE:Loss at WC
by Sandeep M on Mar 26, 2007 03:51 PM Permalink
I'am a great supporter of Tendulkar but i agree with you and many others that the root cause of India's failure in this WC is his inability to deliver when it really matters; his inability to handle pressure may spell more doom for India in the future! But if he has a diastrous England tour, he might announce his retirement.
RE:Loss at WC
by Ronit D on Mar 26, 2007 04:05 PM Permalink
sachin looks constipated while captaning india, past experience shows that, he is a nervous captian
RE:When Aussies became Indians!!
by krishnakumar bommireddipalli on Mar 26, 2007 03:33 PM Permalink
Great Indian diaspora- BOYCOTT the above goods till the manufacturers apolozise for hiring buffoons.
You have mentioned that India's performance in 2005-06 was outstanding due to Greig Chappal but it is wrong. Actualy India's performance against PAKISTAN & ENGLAND in 2005-06 was good because of absence of important players in both the above team.
1) When India played against PAKISTAN in Pakistan then 2 very important players were not playing in PAKISTAN team. They were SAEED AFRIDI and SHOIEB AKHTAR.
2) When India played against ENGLAND in India in the very Hot summer(Started with Nagpur)in 2005-06, the 5 very important and senior players of ENGLAND left India due emmense hot weather in that summer, though the reasons mentioned by them were personal.
So, my dear Mr. Arjun Swarup, the reasons of good performance of India in 2005-06 was good not because of Greg Chappal but because of absence of important players from the opponent teams.
