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senior players betrayed team and ditched dravid
by Suman Bhat on Apr 09, 2007 12:06 PM

sachin is legendary cricketer and great batsman But nobody is bigger than game or team. Being VC he failed with bat . ganguly and sachin have support of other playes and both had success to kick out chappell out of ind dressing room. but cric fans do not require chappell's report for the failure of WC debacle. the early exit of team from WC is b'czu of some players deliberately played the negative cricket and gifted match to bangadesh and SL .chappelll tried push the senior players from comfort zone and treated every body alike and equalthe body language, negative cricket played by some senior players is proof that they did not support dravid as captain. Even knowing all these players are not with him and ganguly is fighting from backstage for captaincy, and vengsarkar, sharad pawar, ravishastri all are with sachin dravid accepted the captaincy. also he should be aware one more defeat means it may be end of his odi career. Dravid gave 100% team when he was playing under sachin , ganguly . He did not promote gropism or never betrayed his teammates. He trusted that seniors like ganguly sachin bajii will support him. Instead may players played petty politics, let down team. It is loss for dravid, then it is loss for ganguly and sachin also. There is no guarantee that sachin amd ganguly can play next WC,
Dravid gave his unconditional support and sacrifices to all captians he played under. Check statistics for last7-85 years and see the contributions of dravid forr little success india had WHY CAN%u2019T OTHER SENIOR PLAYERS DO THE SAME NOIW??CRICKET ts a team game and ALL PLAYERS have to contribute from bat and ball
Captian and coach did not tell senior players to not take singles, waste more balls than runs scored, poor running bet wkt, drop catches, give so many extra to bowlers, por batting and throwing wkt by playing silly shots%u2026.
, leadership can only take the horse to the water but the horse as to drink it and not vommit.

Even though all senior players are not supporting him, he is fighing with board for contract, endorosement issie
He took fight against chetan desai/ dirty report leak.
he fought for Sehwag/pathan in the selection meeting where the W C squad was picked.
. Sewag is highest rungetter and socred 100 against bermeada others batsman did not score 100 even against bermada
Dravid refused to identify any teammate as doing groupism or out of form or some players are rotten apple.
Dravid accepted the responsibility for defeat in public infront of media( sachin can go media against some bad report / email leak but he never accepted the defeat that he also failed with bat)
Dravid also asked for one media manager, ad managaer and a saying of captain in selection of youngsters,
How can anyone say he is not aggressive or inimaginative or spineless???


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