Greg Chappell tried to fix this broken culture but didn't know that the plague which Indian mindset is filled with cannot be cured in 1-2 years. Truths hurts most of the time and we Indian do not like it. This is one of the worst day in Indian cricket where a person who speaks truth have been make to resign. Gregg Paid the price for trying to remove the dirt, being straight and calling spade a spade.
Gregg probably didn't know that this is the country where people celebrate Dewali on destroying Babri Maszid, do not let Sonia Gandhi be prime minister after winning the election by playing emotional cards of false patriotism to cash on sentiments of the country , make Khusbhu apologizes for talking on pre-marital on the name of Indian culture and behind doors do the same, where no comes as a witness when professor Sabbarwal was murdered in view of 400 public, where CBI protects the biggest gambler of Indian cricket Kapil and Azharudin on match-fixing, where Jagmohan Dalmiya leaks the email and Media and Indians blame it on coach, where politician still cash on increasing reservation even after 60 years of independence, where people still believe in astrology , fate and magic more than themselves to blame luck for failing in life and where people feel happy by seeing someone else being humiliated.
Truth is always bitter. The current crisis in the Indian team is just because of the fact that the dirt has always been swept under the carpet. All this blame game and accusations was an attempt to divert the anger of whole nation and I am amazed to see how our incompetent players are blaming it on the coach. We have never had a good team in the first place and didn't perform well on the field outside our country. Seniors players are still in the team on the basis of past glory. Since Sep 2005 Sachin averages 14.09 in 11 one-day matches, Sehwag averages 27.44 in 10 one-day matches and Dravid average is 31.00 against Australia and South Africa. Harbhjan still lives on the miracle of 2001 against Australia, Agarkar no body know why is he consistently in the team. Only gods knows how long Harbhajan will go wicketless. Ganguly returning back to India team was a blunder and Ganguly name has now become a synonym of dirt. How many times these played well against AUS, SF, NZ and ENG?.
How cowardice was it from Sachin to come out in Media and create the sas-bahu kinda emotional drama to divert his and team failure attention. Didn't he has enough courage to speak earlier?. No doubt he failed as a captain and on more than one occasion. I ask where is the performance?. Don't these so called super stars of indian cricket believe in themselves and their capabilities?. Fear of failure and security comes only when you either do not talent and don't believe in urself and reach a position which you didn't deserve. If you are good enough, you will automatically come back if you are dropped.
Same team was happy about the experiments Greg did earlier and never raised any issues why?. Isn't it true that when the team did well by experimentation everybody went gaga over Gregg%u2019s tactics, but with every loss and the same tactics were thrashed?. No questions where asked and no tactic were questioned when we won continuous 17 one-day matches, first time we won a test match in South Africa in cricket history and we won a series in west Indies after 35 years?.
Gregg was a perfectionist and always played to win. He wanted to build an indian team who believe in themselves and do not fear of anyone. He needed a new blood for that as old minds are always sick and tired as you can see now but even new blood didn't live up to the expectation and he had to become the scapegoat of another typical plagued indian culture.
Thank Gregg, you have been a true leader and showed the Indian cricket and players the mirror. You have done what Jhon Wright couldn't do for 4 years and other coaches which we anyways didn't except to do anything new. You have taught us what is good and what is not and where do we need to go from here now. Only after coming you Indians board realized that selections should be on performance basis. Thanks for being the first person to expose the so called demi gods of cricket, selectors and BCCI and making everyone being awake all the time. You will be remebered the first person to break the rule as Gibbs will always be remembered being the first person to hit 6 sixes in an over no-matter who breaks the record now.
