So Sachin has his way. The other guy blinked! and quit, without fighting. It would have been very nice if Greg Chappel had taken on the various issues facing Indian cricket, head on. He would have done yeomen service to the cause of Indian cricket. Do you expect Gavaskar or Sastri or anyone else with their hands close to the till to speak forthrightly?
Ok, so we did not like what Chappel said, or more accurately, our senior cricketers did not like what he said. But do we really need Chappel to say what he did? If our senior fellas were to examin their respective consciences instead of their bank accounts, even they would have shame facedly conceded that they really did not justify the confidence placed on them.
Tendulkar harps in the last 17 years. Is he trying to say " Look, I have been good enough..." But Mr Tendulkar, you were very good till 2 years ago, tell us honestly, how good are you today? From a time when u were never clean bowled, now you get bowled out ever so often, and that too in awkward postures. Or LBW. Your reflexes have slowed down, your body has taken a beating, and you are now a pale shadow of yourself.
You are a mountain, or were a mountain, and your dignity requires you to accept the truth, face reality and quit. Instead, many of us, and we are fairly reasonable people, believe that you are continuing only to fulfil your commercial obligations, and in the process you are undermining the very team you built. Do think over. There certainly is a kernel of truth in what Chappel said.
Ganguly? He seems to have come back, but somehow one gets the stench of politics whenever he is around. Some people are better kept away, and he seems to be one of them.
Harbhajan...there is no debate on this. He has to go, he is useless. He is a pretend bowler.
Agarkar- he has to go too, with clear instructions to the selection committee that he should not be selected even if he takes 10 wkts in a match and scores a 100 too!
Sehwag???? He is a question mark?
Dhoni should be told to practice on different wkts. Karthik shd be keeper for both tests and ODI.
Dravid? This is I think his first bad, or relatively bad patch. He can be given some rope.
Yuvraj swaggers arond like he is Viv Richards. Somebody should point out to him that he is not a patch on Viv. If he swaggering around for his looks, let him go and model in Lakme fashion week or something. He definitely needs a dose of home grown truth. But keep him.
If you were to do a poll of sensible, reasonable people, the results may surprise many. IT would probably say that Greg Chappel was not very far from the truth, and its time for many of these guys to go.
So where did Greg go wrong? For not manipulating and for his sledge hammer approach? For speaking the truth which the Gavaskars and the Sastris are unwilling to face, that their pet batsman is now a parody of his previous glorious self?
So what do we do now? Like the ostrich, stick our face into the mud, tell ourselves that this Gora had no business to tell off our icon, appoint Sachin as captain, give him Agarkar and the rest of his choices, watch him spend more time on our TVs rather on the ground, and then plead " Contribution for the last 17 years"?
Sachin its time for you to go. We love you, go while we still love you. Dont wait to be booted. No amount of money is worth that.
