Politicians interferance in any sports is the start of decline of the same, as only politics will be played and not the sport.
If Dravid says that Captaincy has taken toll on his batting, it should not be believed, If a captiain is under pressure he cannot score 92 runs out of 63 ball!!! He had some good scored during the one day series but for some poor decisions by Umpires. Even in test he had the bad luck of poor umpiring. So the reason of not able to concentrate on batting is just an eye wash.
Tendulkar is not ready to take the hot plate in his hand again and Ganguly is not offered and players like Kumble were never considered for this position by Board, then who else???
There is one player whose performance (batting & bowling) will never come down due to the pressure of captaincy.
He is none other than Ajit Aggarkar.
Nothing worst than scoring zeros in batting (Which he is consistantly doing) and close to zero performance in bowling! Above all he is from Mumbai!!!
So in all means he is the next captain of Team India.
All good players resign / retire and join ICL please!!!!!!!!!!
RE:Politics in Sports
by Jayakrishnan Parameswaran on Sep 17, 2007 02:50 PM Permalink
This is the most ideal suggestion for the captain. Ajit Agarkar has no pressure either bowling, batting or fielding beacuse of hs zero performance. He is from Bombay, speaks marathi (rememebr how Pawar made him speak in marathi while accepting the MOM in Pune)and is assured of his place in the team till he retires. So what BCCI will look like, President-Pawar (Bombay), Coach: Borde (Bbay)Captain- Bombay, Selectors-shastri,Gavaskar(bombay) Coach of A team - Lalchand Rajput (bombay),Coach of Under -19, Paras Mambrey (Bbay), Chief Selector- Vengsarkar (Bbay), Chief of Cricket Academy who replaced Kapil- Guy from Bbay. Only thing left is to inlcude Bal Thackeray in BCCI and play the Bombay Ranji team as Indian team. remember how Sunil Gavaskar took Suru Nayak to England- don't be surprised if that happens.
RE:Politics in Sports
by prashanth nagabhushan on Sep 17, 2007 03:02 PM Permalink
perfect suggestion, if only we could submit memorandum to choose the captain, we could poll in our vores for this gr8 man AJIT AGARKAR(the destroyer) (of his own team). guys watching T20 world cup will agree with me that we lost the match against the black caps due to his poor bowling. and almost lost the pak match too. c'mon guys lets make him the CAPTAIN of the Indian Cricket Team.
