Mr. Mahendra is puppet of Dalmia & Dalmia & Sourabh must have given him money to say this. If Chappel is a liar then sack him. DO they have the guts to do this.
Loser here is the Indian Cricket which is at the mecy of such people like Dalmia & Mahendra.
By doing this committe has taken India 5 years back. Now cricket players like Gangully & others who do not want to take efforts & pride to play for India will never ever go for physical fitness & mental toughness required to paly ay Intrenational level & which in turn will effect Cricket.
It is high time that media & public should not project the Indian team & its players as great & talented
Accept them as medicore team which can beat only with great efforts Zimbabawe & Bangladesh.
Why New Zealand win final & beat India, the reason is they can take a decision not to select Chris Crains a grat alrounder becasue he is not fit. This is true with all other teams & that is the reason other teams beat India.
If Gangully is mentally fit then why India lost 19 finals.
IF Gangully is gratest then what is his performance against good pace bowling attack.
Only Ganguly is resposible for all the loses ! / Cricket is a game of only 1 player !
by Meghadoot Chaudhuri on Oct 12, 2005 12:49 AM Permalink
I don't want to take pains to negate all of your remarks. But for the one I can't help replying.
You said "If Gangully is mentally fit then why India lost 19 finals". Perhaps you don't understand that cricket is a game of 11 people and when a team fail, mainly it is because most of the players fail. Secondly, when a door remains half open, people like you always term it as half-closed. Yes, during Ganguly's tenure as Captain, India lost 19 finals ; but name another captain who could take the team to 19 finals. Now you will say that it happened because of Sachin, Dravid, Laxman and others.
So when team wins, it is because the other players besides Ganguly ; and when the team loses, it is only because of Ganguly.
