Yes according to Captain Dravid, Coach Chappell and Mr. Pawar it was the pressure that affected the "very young" side of India with all the players not used to pressure as they all are new to this game and Our INDIA which loves cricket. All players are "too young and unexperienced" you know!!! 27 and playing like 35 . Not fielding, not applying themselves with batting and all!!!!!!!!!!!
Well gl now that you don't like the pressure and play all the out of form players like Uthappa, Sachin, Sehwag and Dravid!
RE:whom to blame? Just us
by Sunita Ekbote on Mar 27, 2007 08:58 PM Permalink
meaning, pressure is not supposed to affect the players that we have who are more than mature. Why blame the pressure back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need the young team is the whole point of writing waht is written! Players that are young can talk about pressure and all! Our players are too old to talk about pressure
Got the Point!!!! Check all the comments from Captain, Coach and Mr. Pawar. All say the pressure affected their play!!!!!
If Indian team could have lost the match in semis or final, nobody felt sad.but loosing the matches like bangladesh and srilanka, its show how our playes are playing politics in the game.The way Maharastrian players like Sachin,Gavaskar,Vengsarkar played the politics. its is harmful to the indian team.Sack Sachin,Ganguly and Robin Uttappa, give a chance to Dravid and include new experience face hope our team can win the other series.
RE:Team Perforamnce
by SHARATH on Mar 27, 2007 08:31 PM Permalink
Robin uttappa did play well when the most senior Gangooly was struggling even to rotate his innings. His dismissal was by a pretty good catch by vas. why to sack Robin? ..yes sachin and gangooly should be paraded on Donkeys when they returned back.
RE:RE:Team Perforamnce
by Soman Bhat on Mar 27, 2007 08:37 PM Permalink
what captain and coach will do when some players with the support of the board officials ditch conspiracy against current captian and coach? And there won%u2019t such big event like WC to humiliate captain and prove him a poor captian and ganguly as good captain and regain his captaincy If team wins there won't be change in captaincy? It is ganguly ditched dravid and deliberately played negative cricket and humiliated dravid . If some players did not support team or captain and played deliberately negative cricket and had big role in defeat and let down captain what coach & captain can do some players do not want to play for team?? Now see these players name is coming forward to make them as captian?? players are now marketing their names to regain captaincy through their agents.
win or defeat is depands on performance of XI players irrespetive of coach, captain,stretagy ptich and conditions. sl and bangladehs win against team india is best example for that A team is as good as captain and if captain and coach has to go so all other like ganguly tendulkar, dhoni, zahirkhan harbajan, agarkar dhoni should also be out??
RE:Team Perforamnce
by Hari Iyer on Mar 27, 2007 07:50 PM Permalink
why are you not including shewag in the sacking list. I think he is the first to be sacked after sachin & ganguly
RE:Team Perforamnce
by Radhakrishnan Thamatoor on Mar 27, 2007 08:21 PM Permalink
bhat is not gujju hes kannada.. bhatt is guju.. get facts right u cheap.. ENUCH
can you pls appoint CBI to investigate the debacle in WC . I think you wont, reason you taken all the money from bookies to your packet ! estimated 100 crorer rupees ! and we are sure indian team will never won a event because of match fixing.
Indian Cricket board should be sacked for a shameful display today. The players selection looks like purely on monitory basis and not on merit. That's the reason for Shewags, Uttapha , Kumble , Dravid , Sachin. Can't we produce quality 11 players out of 1Billion population . Shame on us for been a mere watcher of this kind of show and supporting their Act.
RE:Ho ha ha ho ha PAWAR ! you are king of match fixing
by Suman Bhat on Mar 27, 2007 07:17 PM Permalink
what captain and coach will do when some players with the support of the board officials ditch conspiracy against current captian and coach? And there won%u2019t such big event like WC to humiliate captain and prove him a poor captian and ganguly as good captain and regain his captaincy If team wins there won't be change in captaincy? It is ganguly ditched dravid and deliberately played negative cricket and humiliated dravid
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If some players did not support team or captain and played deliberately negative cricket and had big role in defeat and let down captain what coach & captain can do some players do not want to play for team??
Now see these players name is coming forward to make them as captian?? players are now marketing their names to regain captaincy through their agents.
win or defeat is depands on performance of XI players irrespetive of coach, captain,stretagy ptich and conditions. sl and bangladehs win against team india is best example for that
A team is as good as captain and if captain and coach has to go so all other like ganguly tendulkar, dhoni, zahirkhan harbajan, agarkar dhoni should also be out??
RE:Ho ha ha ho ha PAWAR ! you are king of match fixing
by Soman Bhat on Mar 27, 2007 07:23 PM Permalink
Utmost stupidity from this blind Dravid supporter.
RE:Ho ha ha ho ha PAWAR ! you are king of match fixing
by Faceless Spirit on Mar 27, 2007 07:28 PM Permalink
Not only stupidity, but consistent stupidity.
Ganguly inherited a battered team torn by match fixing controversies which even Sachin refused to lead.
by Faceless Spirit on Mar 27, 2007 12:10 AM | Hide replies
Ganguly inherited a battered team torn by match fixing controversies which even Sachin refused to lead.
He hand picked players like Yuvraj, Kaif, Nehra, Balaji, Zaheer, Harbhajan.
He insisted Sreenath to stay on.
He made effective use of Kumble
Laxman in suitable situations and pitches.
Even Dravid was a very shaky and slow one day player.
Gangly protected him from being dropped and lost.
He even made him to keep wicket just to justify his place in the team.
Dravid Chappel from day one started disturbing the rythm of the Indian team. The team hand picked by Ganguly fetched initial good results for Dravid also.
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by Suman Bhat on Mar 27, 2007 08:26 PM Permalink
stretagy and conditions. Bangladesh and SL victory against India is best example.
Ganguly is cunning politican there is more groupism and politcs in team after his return. Ganguly played a big role in defeat of of team ind against bangadesh and sabotage Indian campaign in World cup.
ganguly is main culprit for defeat against bangladesh. He is politician he his supporters played negative cricket deliberately to defeat the team and humiliated dravid and chappell. He played for self and scored consistanly but not a single innings was not held for team victory. How can his negative approcha helped team?? Hew as playing silly shot getting out when team required his service. His innings was shaky.
ganguly wasted more balls than the runs he scored. The strikerate and average of bangadesh and other country opening players are better when compared to ganguly averagel
His poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs
Rest of team scored 50 in 19 overs
Against burmada he scored 89 in 114 balls wasted 25 balls that is around 4.6 runs per over... compare it to the indian teams average of 8.26
Ganguly was struggling while batting against burmuda, and got 3 lifes
Harbajan singh went wktless in 2 matches
dhoni failed with bat
Zahirkahn was wktless in firest match and in he took 2 wkts against SL but he gave more extra runs b'cuz of erratic bowling.
VC captain sachin failed completely with bat
Tendulkar, Ganguly and Yuvraj? Are they exempted coz Tendulkar scored a duck, Ganguly 7 in 23 balls and Yuvraj 6?( match against srilanka)
Batsman Mts Inns NO Runs Hs Avg SR 100 50 0
V Sehwag 3 3 0 164 114 54.66 117.98 1 0 0
SC Ganguly 3 3 0 162 89 54.00 60.90 0 2 0
Yuvraj Singh 3 3 0 136 83 45.33 117.24 0 1 0
R Dravid 3 3 1 81 60 40.50 72.32 0 1 0
Dravid was criticsed by chief selector and board members and ex cricketers but he was highest rungetter, and scored 100 and won mom. Other players din not score 100 against even Bermuda also%u2026 iit is these playrs contributed to team defeat why u blame coach and captain only. I
If these players are not ready to play for team and why u captain and coach coach? IF CAPTAN AND COACH HAS TO GO THEN ALL THESE PLAYERS ARE ALSO EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFEAT AND SHOULD BE KICKED OUT..
Stat prove dravid is doing equally good job in last 16 months when compared to ganguly %u2018s 5 yr success.
GABGULY DITCHED DRAVID BY PLAYING NEGATIVE CRICKET. if any win there won't be a change in cataincy. And ganguly won't get such huge stage like WC to humiliate dravid , so exit from the wC means provend dravid poor captain and many will praise ganguly &he will say infront of media that he is not prolbeminterested in captaicy. but will do everything to regain captaicy
RE:Ho ha ha ho ha PAWAR ! you are king of match fixing
by Soman Bhat on Mar 27, 2007 07:44 PM Permalink
what Ganguly could do when some players with the support of the board officials ditch conspiracy against him and team India? And before such big event like WC to humiliate Ganguly and prove him a poor captian and Dravid as good captain and snatch his captaincy If team wins there should not be change in captaincy, if not the captain has to take the responsibility. It is Dravid who ditched Ganguly and deliberately played in to the hands of negative forces like More and humiliated Saurav.
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If some players did not support team or captain and played deliberately negative cricket as alleged then the captain had a big role in defeat.Letting down captain or coach means some players do not want to play for team, as they have no confidence in the Captain.
Now see these players names are coming forward to make them as captian and rightly so. Players like Dravid are now marketing their names to regain captaincy through their agents.
win or defeat is dependant on performance of XI players under the motivation of the coach and captain and right stretagy from them depending on pitich and other conditions. SL and Bangla win against India is best example for that
A team is as good as captain leads it as Ganguly did in 1983 World Cup and if captain and coach could do so with all others like ganguly tendulkar, dhoni, zahirkhan harbajan, agarkar then there would not have been any problem.
RE:Ho ha ha ho ha PAWAR ! you are king of match fixing
by Abhishek Tandon on Mar 27, 2007 07:19 PM Permalink
Mr Pawar...please give ur resignation letter and ask Ganguly, dravid, yuvraj, dhoni etc to follow you.
At least please do it. This is our hard earned money which these players are wasting and you are only calling meetings and enjoying.
I wanna kick the ass of bloddy bastards...can anybody do it on my behalf when india team will reach india...
Let's not be surprised at what Pawar said of India's world cup performance as he is given to the political way of dealing with things. Indian cricket has never been a world force in terms of talent, skills and guts but Indian cricket board has been in terms of muscle, money, power and mediocrity. His theory is that India has the right to be taken to cleaners by a team like B'desh as they have beaten teams such as Sri Lanka and Australia. India has been playing international cricket for atleast 3 times longer than Sri Lanka and B'desh but is yet to reach a position of greater respect in world cricket except 1983 world cup win. Shoddy domestic structure, unsporting pitches, lack of modern thinking/creative efforts, absence of selfless and proven personnel at the helm, utter disregard to the paying cricket followers, dis-jointed and knee-jerk approah to the festering issues, lack of dynamic vision to take Indian cricket to greater heights, regionalism, factionalism, favoritism, nepotism are but a few, afflicting the game in India. Even an eternal optimist would vouch that there's no light in sight and Indian cricket will continue to languish in deeper abyss. Haven't we been talking this for as long as there has been competitive cricket being played in this country. We tend to forget this all once we thrash some hapless teams on doctored pitches. Let's not waste our efforts in something we can't do anything about. The same is applicable accross every other domain in the country.
