The most unfortunate thing about the players of subcontinent is that they never want to leave. They are usually kicked out after many bad performances or they retire with disgrace. Kapil did the same. He was playing only to beat the World Record for the last part of his cricketing game and Srinath who is a youngsters was never given a chance and Kapil played for 2 years only for World Record.
Players like Kumble, Tendulkar, Ganguly should have retired atleast two years ago when they were on a high note. I think the selectors should select on performances rather than PAST performances. If Tendulkar is not performing, sit him out so he finds that hunger in him to do well enough to play. Players are taking their spots for granted. This is a tragedy of subcontinent players. Greg or any other foreign coach wont understand Desi mentality, thats whay they failed and bound to fail. :)
No coach can help Indian cricket now until the mentality of the players and BCCI itself wont change. John Wright faced a lot of humiliating situations, but exited with grace. Sehwag slapped Right on his face when John asked him to concentrate more on his fitness and you are not playing well. Now Greg has shown his way for asking senior players to concentrate on the game rather than other issues. As long as indian cricketers come out of a situation where they thinks themselves as gods, no person even god cannot help them. But the unfortunate part now is nobody listens to the issues raised by Greg, they only listens to what sachin said. now this became a personality fight rather than issue based analysis and solutions to the probelms.
Sachin is crying no coach has questoned his attitude. We know how he is playing in the last 3 years and we know how some of the senior players like Saurav, Sehwag, Yuvi, Harbhazan are playing and behaving these days.
Tendulkar has spoken by name but note how he talks only of his reputation being affronted by Chappell's comment on his attitude. 'No coach has ever reported even in passing that my attitude was not correct', he says.
Well, well, well. Didn't Tendulkar plainly sulk on our last tour of Pakistan when Rahul Dravid declared the team's innings closed even as Tendulkar was just a few runs short of another double century? Didn't he tell the media that he was surprised at the timing of Dravid's declaration? Wasn't that 'attitude'?
Was it correct? If coach John Wright didn't write about in his tour report that may well because he's too much of a gentleman. Or he may well have reported it but the dossier was overlooked because we won the series.
Again, this season before the World Cup, when Chappell had made it clear that Tendulkar would bat in the middle order so that he could hold the innings together for the full 50 overs, Tendulkar did not hesitate to tell the media that he preferred to bat as an opener. Was that 'attitude' correct?
Even god cannot help this Indian Cricket team. Even Chappel sent a report in October 2006 rasing a lot of issues and warning BCCI about a major crisis in the World Cup if we dont take enough measures. BCCI didnt bother about that report at all. Now entire nation paid for the debacles we faced. We Indians always have an attitude problem when somebody say you r wrong and change the way you behave. We wanted to behave in the way we want and still wanted to be World Champions. thats not going to happen. See how Newzeland is playing, there is not even a STAR player in ther team, but they play as a team and work hard and succed. thats the attitude Indian should learn. We show doors to guys who wanted to change us. We do not want to change and blames others who tries to change us.
