The author's article has left me puzzled. It seems nothing is Chappel's responsibility - Not to get Irfan back to the bowler he was, not to get our bowlers to finish the opposition's tail, and so on. These are what these players are supposed to achieve on their own. Why then, one wonders, have Chappel ? To create rift amongst players and leak inflammatory messages to the media ? Surely we can find one in a population of billion to do that for us. And at considerably lower consideration at that.
My fear is, in trying to go against the tide the author lost perspective. We will still need to call a spade a spade. Chappel was an outstanding cricketer. He is a poor coach. Earlier we accpet this, better for Indian cricket!
Last point - That idiot box Srikkanth was the 30-40 run opener who was the highest scorer (amongst players of both sides) in the finals of both the WC 1983 and the World Championship of Cricket in 1985, the only two major multi nation tournaments won by India.
