I request bcci to bring new generation of cricketer in upcoming game and make strict code of conduct relating to advertisement so that player can concentrate more on cricket instead of advertisement. And also it is the time to retire senior player who still stay in team on basis of individual record.
India is playing in a 5 nation tournament ;the other countries being Uganda,Sudan,Papua new guinea and the mighty Bolivia.Today is a must win match for India against tournament favourites Bolivia for a berth in the semi finals.The winner of the tournament will fight for a place to enter the top 35 rankings in the world. On the morning of the match ,a strategy session is being held by Greg and Rahul.This is how it goes. Greg:Boys,this is one of the most important matches in the last three years.We have to beat Bolivia.Lets go through the batting line up and the bowling line up in this meeting. Greg:So Sourav ,you will open right? Sourav:I don't know.Bolivia has a pace bowler who only bowls short pitch deliveries.His pace is consistently in the range 55-60 miles /hour.I cannot handle all that pace. Greg:Oh,thats ok.He won't dare to bowl short pitch stuff against the Indian batsmen(we have such good credentials).If he does by mistake,just to make a statement to the media,get Hit Wicket and come back.Such nonsense should not be tolerated. Greg:So who will partner Sourav. Rahul:I think Sehwag should.He looked in form in the last game against Sudan.He hit 5 fours between first slip and second slip before he caught at second slip.I think he is in the pink of his form and he should open. Greg:Thats good. Greg:Sachin,you will bat at four ... ok? Sachin:I don't know.I have to go shopping at 11.That means I can't bat beyond ten overs. Greg:Sourav and Sehwag will last till six overs.So ,you will come then.Don't worry,just play your natural game and follow your instincts.You will go by ten overs. Greg:So Dhoni,you will keep? Dhoni:I am not keeping.Last time ,I kept for three hours.My hair is getting spoilt of this.I have thousands of lice in my hair.As a result,the cows in my village have started snubbing me and my advances.These days,dragonflies have started staying in my hair as their food lice is there.I need a haircut ,I am not playing. Greg:Please play just one more match,its the mightly Bolivians ,just one last one. Dhoni:Ok.Don't do it next time.
Greg meanwhile was going through the batting averages and noticed that Dravid had the longest stay at the crease for the last 67 matches.So he asked Dravid to give a presentation in front of the team as to what motivated him so much and the secret to his concentration. Dravid:My wife is extremely ugly.So,I try to stay as long as possible away from her.That is why I play a low risk game(In the last game,he hit 3 runs from 92 balls) .If I get out,I have to go back to her. Everyone starts applauding .What an inspirational cricketer. Now it is time to decide on the bowling line up. Greg:Obviously Zaheer is opening.He was brilliant last game.(Zaheer had bowled only 23 wides in the last match and he picked up three wickets.The secret to this brilliant bowling performance was a result of a mentoring session from Venkatesh Prasad.Prasad told him that to bowl from mid off and aim at Third slip.As a result ,Zaheer returned with the best figures in the match.) Greg:Offlate I have noticed that Rahul has been facing a lot of pressure and so we have decided to come up with Batting,Bowling and Fielding Captain to relieve Rahul of some of the responsibility. Greg:I have noticed that Munaf Patel has stayed not out in the last three matches(all the other batsmen had got out by then).I admire the commitment of this lad and as a result he is the Batting Captain. Greg:I was also going through this figure.Sourav has been involved in 177 run outs.But he himself has never got out.He values his wicket so much.I think we all need to Congratulate him on the price he sets for his wicket.Sourav,you are the RUNNING BETWEEN THE WICKETS captain. Greg:Anil has been sitting on the bench for the last three years.He keeps taking snaps throughout the match.He is such a teamman.I think we need to recognize this loyalty.Anil,you are the Bowling Captain. Greg:Harbhajan is the fielding captain. Rahul:But he dropped the catch in the last match when he dived to his right to take it. Greg:Atleast he dived in the right direction.
After this intense brainstorming session ,Indialooks all set to take on Bolivia.Please pray for the team's success.
RE:RE:Excellent Post by Vivek - Asish Agarwal
by rhodo on Mar 29, 2007 11:43 AM Permalink
Don't forget that it's a game after all. Don't be so sarcastic. Cheer up my friend!
RE:Excellent Post by Vivek - Asish Agarwal
by Suman Bhat on Mar 29, 2007 11:33 AM Permalink
sic person ur msg is mirror of ur damaged brain get a shock treatment
RE:Excellent Post by Vivek - Asish Agarwal
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 11:47 AM Permalink
dravid is the best captain of the world. steve waugh learned captaincy from dravid. He scored at the strike rate of 350 agnst bermuda.. going to get ICC cricketer of the year for this strike rate..
RE:RE:Excellent Post by Vivek - Asish Agarwal
by Circuit on Mar 29, 2007 11:39 AM Permalink
Why are you angry, Have I written anything for you.
No, It was quoted that Dravid's wife is ugly that's why he want to stay more on the crease. Boss, this is a positive point for you in two ways, First Dravid will score atleast some runs somehow in the process of staying more and second you have a good chance to flirt him.
RE:Excellent Post by Vivek - Asish Agarwal
by sandeep sharma on Mar 29, 2007 12:13 PM Permalink
only dravid is scoring runs rest only went for holidays
RE:Excellent Post by Vivek - Asish Agarwal
by Swaati on Mar 29, 2007 07:01 PM Permalink
Great humour with striking resemblance to the actual attitude of our cricketers. God Bless Bolivia, our Indian Tigers are just ready for them. Actually Somalia also could be a good match for India.
In the past many great cricketers resigned from Captaincy taking the responsibility of their defeat in WC or other major tournament. Although all 11 players played with the captain.
So if Dravid is a gentleman he should resign from Captaincy taking the blame that he could not lead the team in right way.
In Srilanka Jaysurya, Attapatu resigned from the captaincy after the team defeated. In South Africa Shawn Pollock resigned after their team lost in last world cup. Many other gentleman of other teams resigned from the captaincy taking the responsibility of the defeat but continue playing for the team.
Dravid should also resign gracefully before he is sacked.
You are not even aware that on the day of defeat, in the press conference Mr. Dravid fully accepted his responsibility for the losing the match, even though it was not his problem.
Did Dravid ask Mr. Ganguly the sucker to waste 23 balls to make only 7 runs, Did Mr.Dravid tell Mr. Sachin to score "0" and get out Bowled, with more than 15 years of experience in professional cricket worldwide.
Did Mr. Dravid ask yuvraj to get himself runout, even after telling him to stay on the wicket to have his cool head. Did Dravid ask Mr. Long Hair Style Dhoni to get out so cheaply to score "0", is this the same Dhoni who demolished the same Srilankan side a year before. Did Mr. Dravid ask all the rest of the players not score more than 40 runs all put together.
The only trust worthy he showed on Shewag who scored 48 runs proved better. Australian Umpire had a better role in giving this match to srilankans' think on!!!
With such kind of a selfish mentality with rest of the players, even I personally don't like Dravid to continue as Captain, what kind of personality he is, you ask him to keep wicket he does, you ask to bowl a few overs he does, no mean he is a better fielder than any one else in this team and send him in any position for batting he does play much better than any of these players. His stats proves him on record.
So why do you want him to be sacked for giving such a dynamic role.
RE:Dravid must resign
by Ankush Datar on Apr 03, 2007 10:02 AM Permalink
All these 'Dravid ke chamche' viz. Suman Bhat (The Eunuch), Ravichandran Babu, Sandeep Sharma etc. should be kicked out from this forum and banned entry. Regionalism practiced by such people have destroyed Indian cricket. You need a strong character to be captain which Dravid doesn't possess and the results are already showing. But still these shameless people have the audacity to blame Tendulkar, Ganguly etc.
If we recollect the past, in 1987 - kapil lost his captaincy due to a single bad day, when he could not pack the sweep shot of graham gooch and gave a catch over just over boundryline to mike getting. Besides these two mistakes, he led team india trumendouly match by match in all the area. but what happened, he had to loose his captaincy.
This time again, Team India was one of the favourites to win the cup and place in SemiFinals was assured by all the leading personalities. Only and Only due to inexperienced captaincy of dravid, team india take wrong decisions one after another until it was out in the preliminary round. Wo to shukra hai Bermuda thi, Koi bhi doosari team hoti to Teeno Match haar ke aate. Thus DRAVID SHOULD BE SACKED FROM CAPTAINCY, He may be allowed to be a team member.
This a team of 11 players and each one has to understand about their role and responsibilities. And this team has no patronage for the country and their people, what poor Dravid could do with players around him not take responsibilities. Sir. Vishy is right in his arguments.
RE:Sir, Vishy is always right!!!
by Uttamkumar on Mar 29, 2007 10:37 AM Permalink
Many gentleman in other cricket teams took the responsibility in the past for their defeat in the world cup and resigned, although 11 players were playing in their match.
Dravid should also take the responsibility that he could not lead the team properly and resign gracefully before he is sacked.
RE:Sir, Vishy is always right!!!
by RAVICHANDRA BABU on Mar 29, 2007 11:35 AM Permalink
My Dear Friend,
You are not even aware that on the day of defeat, in the press conference Mr. Dravid fully accepted his responsibility for the losing the match, even though it was not his problem.
Did Dravid ask Mr. Ganguly the sucker to waste 23 balls to make only 7 runs, Did Mr.Dravid tell Mr. Sachin to score "0" and get out Bowled, with more than 15 years of experience in professional cricket worldwide.
Did Mr. Dravid ask yuvraj to get himself runout, even after telling him to stay on the wicket to have his cool head. Did Dravid ask Mr. Long Hair Style Dhoni to get out so cheaply to score "0", is this the same Dhoni who demolished the same Srilankan side a year before. Did Mr. Dravid ask all the rest of the players not score more than 40 runs all put together.
The only trust worthy he showed on Shewag who scored 48 runs proved better. Australian Umpire had a better role in giving this match to srilankans' think on!!!
With such kind of a selfish mentality with rest of the players, even I personally don't like Dravid to continue as Captain, what kind of personality he is, you ask him to keep wicket he does, you ask to bowl a few overs he does, no mean he is a better fielder than any one else in this team and send him in any position for batting he does play much better than any of these players. His stats proves hims on record.
So why do you want him to be sacked for giving such a dynamic role.
If Dravid is a gentleman he should resign from Captaincy. In Srilanka Jaysurya, Attapatu resigned from the captaincy after the team defeated. In South Africa Shawn Pollock resigned after their team lost in last world cup. Many other gentleman of other teams resigned from the captaincy taking the responsibility of the defeat but continue playing for the team.
Dravid should also resign gracefully before he is sacked.
RE:Dravid should resign
by nixon costa on Mar 29, 2007 10:31 AM Permalink
The indian team as a whole should be blamed for its knock out of world cup and not the Captain and coach only. Let's not blame Dravid or any other individual player. The entire Indian team have let us down completely in shame.
RE:Dravid should resign
by Circuit on Mar 29, 2007 10:22 AM Permalink
Captaincy record for gangul y and dravid statistics prove dravid did equally good job in 16 months compared to ganguly ' 5 yrs Dravid within 16 months did good job and equally good odi success what ganguly has in 5 yrs. Ganguly had full support of bcci and dalmiay prsd with ganguly for all 5 yrs of his captaincy. Nobody ex cricketer or board officials dare not speak against ganguly's blunders He continued to enjoy captaincy even his late 3 yers he was out form and non performing but he was forutnate that dravid sachin, kumble laxman sewag were all in form and contributed lot his success as captain more than ganguly leadership qualities Team won 23 out of 76 odis when sachin was captain Team won 76 odis out of 147 matches when ganguly was captain Team won 33 odis out of 65 ( including this WC matches) when dravid was captian Both sachin and ganguly had more time as captain Out of 76 matches 38 matches won in india and 31 odis wins are against weaker team like kenya, nambia and Zimb Dravid did not loose any odi series at home ( even SA it was drawn 2-2) and 2 matchs against ZImb Except Australia no other team is winning series consistanly there is always ups and downs Even when ganguly was captain there were wins and many humiliated defeat. Team did not win all series under his captaincy. Team India did not win in SA when ganguly was also captain. Team had humiliated defeat by Kiwis( 56 all out a record) aussies, WI, Pakistan when ganguly was captain. Team had some lost test and odi series when ganguly was captain. John and ganguly build a team and watched how it collapsed. Team was ranked 8th in ICC odi ranking and it was broken ship when dravid made capatian Bangladesh beat India when ganguly was captian. Still it is not so good team Even team goes under dravid captain there is chance of winnin After SL series dravid removed from captaincy and made captain for Zim tour which India could have won even when dravid ware captain. Ganguly responsible for the outset of kumble, laxman, nayna mongia from the odi team he also spoiled the careear of Akash chopra, hemang badani, partiv patel, muali karthik, Ajay ratra, S gopan ramesh, SS das Even dravid encouraged yougnerst like raina, munaf, sresant, dinesh karthick, robin, also recommended payush chawla to share the ind team dressing room though even he is not part of team.Statistics prove that dravid did equally good job just withing 16 months compared to ganguly%u2019s achived ment in 5 yrs and that he has no godfather in bcci the way ganguly had dalmiaya.
RE:Dravid should resign
by sharadindu nath on Mar 29, 2007 11:08 AM Permalink
Man!! Are you from Indian Institute of Statistics management !!!!!
But one forgets that there are lots of aspects beyond statistics, where Dravid even cant be called a good captain leave aside being a GREAT one. The best captain of all times India had was Saurav. You are comparing what Saurav did in five years to what Dravid did in 2. But its a simple fact that when Ganguly took over it was a team and country shattered of confidence for the matchfixing era that preceded. Saurav's great ness cant be measured by his no. of wins as a captain, it took him years to bring up, groom what we now hail as TEAM INDIA. He fought all odds, to get some of the now so called superstars [read Sehwag, Yuvi, Bhajji, Zaheer. etc] their status. He even kept Dravid in one day scheme of things by utilising him as a wicket keeper[if not for his slow batting then, he would have been long dropped from the ODI side] Agreed that team was filled with stars like Sachin, Laxman, Sehwag, Dravid but see how well he captained a team with seniors without much dissent and divide, he had the command and aggression of a true leader. He is an enigma as rightly said by Geoff Boycott in Times now.
Now look at Dravid, he took over a team that was readymade by Saurav and went on a winning spree, when thing started falling apart, Dravid was clueless how to handle the situation and pressure. Remember most wins were in initial days, when he had the readymade team and much experiments of the trio[Dravid, Chappel and More had not happened] Remember most wins were in the subcontinent, none in tougher conditions such as Aus, SA, WI etc It all started from WI tour where India lost 4-1. Then Kualalumpur,then Champions trophy at HOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then SA, total disaster, all losses and nature of losses???????? could not even bat 40 overs with so called visionary team of the TRIO. Both captain and coach were clueless.
If he cannot manage a team which has senior players in it, then he doesnt deserve that chair, naturally a person who is taller in stature and abilities, is going to command more respect amongst teammates. He kept saurav out saying his presence has bad influence on the zide, but it was the same Dada's entry that brought life to the team in South Africa. Dravid's win percentage just doesnt matter, what matters is that he couldnt handle crisis, he was utter failure, so was GReG... They are not the solutions to India's woes, going to Saurav would be a step back now, lets look at the future, a new young experienced captain is must, maybe YUVI fits the bill best, and he must be supported by Seniors, rest who dont must be shown the way. He must be given 4 yrs to learn and mature as a captain and head the contingent in 2011.
If Dravid is a gentleman he should resign from Captaincy.
Ganguly took many crucial and finest decision during his captaincy. After Kapil team under him reached to final. Where will you put Dravid as compare to him?
RE:Dravid should resign
by Seenu Subbu on Mar 29, 2007 11:14 AM Permalink
Ok, Dravid will resign. May be, Ganguli will come back as captain. But Sehwag will suck as usual, Tendulkar will be the dharti ki bhoj as usual and Uthappa will flunk at every opportunity. Munaf Patel will bowl like my mother and Dinesh Karthick will only score centuries against Bangladesh.. Oops, sorry, he cant do that now. What the f will change for Indian team, dude?
RE:Dravid should resign
by Krishna on Mar 29, 2007 10:40 AM Permalink
Dravid is not captain any more. He was made captain only till world cup. The main problem with half of indian population is that they dont know facts assume something and demand something
Batting second against Srilanka is quite tough as they are good fielding side. It was clear from SouthAfrica struggling to chase... The only mistake India did was against Bangladesh which had let them down. Ofcourse, Sachin and Yuvraj let India down against Srilanka and its not collective failure
RE:India's performance
by Circuit on Mar 29, 2007 10:08 AM Permalink
yes sachin didn't see the ball coming in and yuvraj was unlucky that dravid not responded.
Winning or defeat in matches depends on performance of XI players irrespective of captain, coach, pitch, 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 &n bsp; NO Runs Hs ;Avg SR 100 50 0 V Sehwag 3 3 0 &n bsp; 164 114 54.66 &n bsp; 117.98 1 0 ; 0 SC Ganguly 3 3 0 & nbsp; 162 89 54.00 &n bsp; 60.90 0 2 0 Yuvraj Singh 3 3 0 &nb sp; 136 83 45.33 &nbs p; 117.24 0 1 & nbsp; 0 R Dravid 3 3 1 &n bsp; 81 60 40.50 &nbs p; 72.32 0 1 &n bsp; 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..
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Uttamkumar on Mar 29, 2007 10:15 AM Permalink
Dravid should be sacked. If he does not resign, it is clear that he does not have human skin.
Suman Bhat is really a "ash-hole". He is nothing but IDIOT always portrays Dravid irrespective of his boneless and slave character. Hay man, understand, Dravid is just a JUNK. Gracefully he should resign, otherwise be sacked.
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 10:24 AM Permalink
Hi Uttamkumar.. dont abuse suman bhat.. be pity on her.. she is sick.. just discharged from mental hospital.. again her parents are thinking to send her to join agra hospital.. give some consolation to this finest lady.. god has given everythings to her except brain.. otherwise she is good.. i too luv to read her comments..
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Suman Bhat on Mar 29, 2007 11:37 AM Permalink
u guys are sic brain damage ppl if ganguly's dierty dadagiri is made public u guys start abusing using filthy language fraustreated looser get shock treatment
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 11:53 AM Permalink
Yes suman bhat..we r looser. we lost this world cup due to poor captaincy shown by dravid. hey guys, dont say anything to her.. she is crying.. no baby, dont cry.. dravid got lots of lolly pos for u instead of World cup for indians.
RE:RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Circuit on Mar 29, 2007 09:59 AM Permalink
Since dravid is back to bangalore sorry bangaluru, suman will go to his home to praise his great captanincy in the world cup, and that way all the rediff message reader community will be saved. but No, SHE IS BACK WITH THE SAME BULLSHIT.
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by chanchal george on Mar 29, 2007 10:27 AM Permalink
India should hold a separate world cup with teams like Bermuda, Bahamas, Somalia, Uganda and Cambodia, and of course the matches should be fixed. It would have been better had we sent our women's cricket team to the world cup. Mithali Raj and Anjum Chopra would have played better than our men's team
RE:RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 10:34 AM Permalink
in ur women cricket team, add suman bhat's name. she is the best all-rounder produced dravid and other bangalorian.
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 10:11 AM Permalink
agreed suman bhat.. whole nation agree with you.. u r winner of the competion irespective of our WC debackle due to poor captaincy showb by dravid.. cheers.
RE:whole team is responsible for defeat
by Ankush Datar on Apr 03, 2007 10:13 AM Permalink
It seems the Rediff moderator is also a Kannada & hence saving all of Suman Bhat's messages & removing the comments by others. Shame on you....
RE:kapils said
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 10:11 AM Permalink
agreed suman bhat.. dravid is teh best captain of the world. steve waugh learned captaincy from dravid. He scored at the strike rate of 350 agnst bermuda.. going to get ICC cricketer of the year for this strike rate..
RE:kapils said
by Lootiya Pathan on Mar 29, 2007 10:19 AM Permalink
suman bhat is an woman/29/bangalore/pro-southi.. doesnot understand cricket other than blaming ganguly/tendulkar.
Team won 76 odis out of 147 matches when ganguly was captain
out of 147 matches India won 76 (51.70%) lost 66 (44.90%) Tie or no results 5(3.40%) won 74 (50.34%)
But Saurav captained 34 ODI against minnows Bangla Desh Zimbabwe Namibia Kenya Netherlands Canada etc%u2026..
Dravid, R *
Team won 33 odis out of 65 ( including this WC matches) when Dravid was captian
India won 33 (50.77%) lost 28 (43.08%)no result/ tie 4 (6.15%)
But Dravid captained ot 65 matches captained only two ODI against minnows i.e. Bangladesh and Bermuda VC sachin failed with bat but ganguly played negative cricket and gifted match to bangladesh even one win would have taken team to S.legue and there was no change in captaicy and odi winning average differen very just 1% when compared dravids 's 16 months captaincy with ganguly's 5 yrs achievement. one win means there is change and also harbajan wkt less and dhoni is failure if coach and captain has to go then sachin ganguly herbajan and dhoni shold be shown the door
RE:captaincy myth
by Uttamkumar on Mar 29, 2007 09:54 AM Permalink
Suman Bhat is really a "bhnat". He is nothing but IDIOT always portrays Dravid irrespective of his boneless and slave character. Hay man, understand, Dravid is just a JUNK. Gracefully he should resign, otherwise be sacked.
Hi Rajkumar / Uttamkumar dont abuse suman bhat.. be pity on her.. she is sick.. just discharged from mental hospital.. again her parents are thinking to send her to join agra hospital.. give some consolation to this finest lady.. god has given everythings to her except brain.. otherwise she is good.. i too luv to read her comments..
