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A spineless captain who loves back stabing teammates...
by Rahul Roy on Apr 14, 2007 04:33 PM

Dravid is not a powerful leader and has no self belief. He is too introvert & self centered to be a captain. For his selfish act and self interest he (with the help from another two similar minded person Greg& More ) turned the 'Team India'( inherited from great Ganguly era) to a collection of great players. If you can%u2019t build a team then you can not be a team leader. Without a 'team' you can't win. Consequently we dropped from ICC ranking 2 to 6. He has no influencing power and doesn't have any charisma to be a captain. He himself understands that. That%u2019s why now he got another a couple of south colleagues (Prasad & Sing) to get the help, support and the 'power' to make the players agree to his silly plans. Remember if that plain fails he will complain like a child that his players didn%u2019t support him.

A person who can%u2019t lead himself how can he lead 1.2 billion people ?

If a simple man like me can understand, why all the so called experts and knowledgeable BCCI persons can%u2019t understand that?

I think they do understand. But this is the board politics and the part of the arrangement how they came into power. The current management doesn%u2019t care about Indian cricket . As long as they are in power and get the money everything else is fine. DRAVID IS THEIR YES MAN. They just want to put people%u2019s attention to something different, so that they are not judge by their own performance.

The players should go if they are not performing. But so do the captain, coach & the BCCI management. Because of their combined effort India has slipped down to ICC ranking 6, from ICC ranking 2, when they took power from the previous board.

Only in India we sack our most successful captain after a series win while the captian scored a ton in his last test innings. But we keep our captain (and probably our coach too if he wanted to stay) after such a measurable performance in world cup, champions trophy and so on%u2026.

I think we should change attitude towards cricket tournaments. Just like Olympics we should say participation is the main thing. We don%u2019t want to win; all we want our good boy Dravid as captain. The team won%u2019t win and the players won%u2019t demand. After all its BCCI who are there to control the players and show who are in charge. Not to help or listen to the player or sort our player%u2019s or support%u2019s problem.

For his introvert, selfish act he turned the 'Team India'( inherited from great Ganguly era) to a collection of great players. Consequently we droped from ICC ranking 2 to 7. Without a 'team' you can't be a team leader. He is not powerful and doesn't has any carisma .Now he got another a couple of southie collegues ( Prasad & Sing) to form the 'power' to infulence players according to his plans.

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