"What went wrong in the match?" is what is being asked. The question itself is wrong. Right question is: "What ails Indian Cricket?" The answer is: Everything. The whole bloody system stinks.
Do we require any more proof that Sachin Tendulkar ALWAYS fails on crucial ocassions? Yet he keeps getting picked up for the simple reason that he behaves properly. The phenomenon is not new. The team carried Kapil Dev over 5 years as an ornament. There is some talk going on about making Sachin Captain. One can imagine that unless we are willing to change the manner in which the game is run, making a few cosmetic changes will only worsen the situation.
A word about Dravid. He is too goddamn gentlemanly to lead this side. He has always volunteered to share extra burdens like wicket-keeping in the interest of the team. As a captain too, he continued in the same vein. He chose to open when nobody wanted to open, and forcing anyone to open could have caused a split. Similarly, he chose to bat lower in the order sacrificing his natural no. 3 position, because there were too many contestants for higher order slots. As a batsman he is still supreme, but we should spare him the captaincy. And Greg Chappel, what wrong has he done? He was not given a free hand. Given a free hand, he would never have tolerated players like Sachin.
One Yoeman service which Sachin Tendulkar can do to his beloved country is to announce his retirement, because he will never going to get the kick. We need to pick the team in a more transparent manner. What is this bullshit going around that the discussions inside the selection committee meetings should never be made public. The proceedings of the Parliamentare telecast live.
