When we criticise Chappel, we have to ask ourself a quetion. Wt was Chappel's vision? For what he was recruited? Does BCCI allowed him to function him freely? Does he given full freedom to achieve wt is dreamt of him?
When Greg Chappell became the coach of the Indian team, he brought a vision with him. That vision involved creating a team of youngsters; players who were eager to learn and experiment; players uncluttered with their own importance; fit and athletic players who ran well and fielded better; players who played for each other rather than for themselves; players that were multi-dimensional. That was what would win them the World Cup, he said, and people sneered at his ignorance of preferring the Rainas and Sreesanths to the Gangulys and Zaheers.
Worse still, he lost no time in taking out the Gangulys and the Zaheers from the team equation itself. He found himself none too impressed with the Tendulkars. He tried to persuade the nation to accept his vision; a nation that was more obsessed with whether Tendulkar got his 40th ton than whether or not India won its next match; a nation that wanted their 'Dada' to be in the team even if every bowler, including domestic ones, were queuing up to take a shot at him. Simply put, the nation thought Indian cricket had been handed over to wrong - even dangerous - hands - dravid.
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by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Nov 16, 2007 11:50 PM Permalink
The usual Indian politics followed that has kept our nation back for so long in cricket and other fields, and India went into the World Cup of 2007 with what the nation wanted, rather than what the man hired to chalk out the World Cup strategy wanted. The result was a first-round exit.
Some six months later, a new team is formed for what is the latest form of cricket - a slam-bang format known as Twenty20. The big 3 decide (???) to make themselves unavailable for the format, the team gets a huge dose of unknown, untested "fresh blood" cricketers; multi-dimensional, fit and athletic (most of them), who run well and field better, non-celebrities (most of them), a team eager to prove themselves, led by another of those younger breed of players uncluttered with his own importance. The result - India wins the Twenty20 World Cup, beating teams they looked nowhere near matching six months ago.
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by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Nov 16, 2007 11:54 PM Permalink
It is not about winning the Twenty20 cup. It is about the attitude, the fearlessness, the team work, the work ethic that Chappell spoke about, which seemed to be in abundance in the Twenty20 winning team.
So whats the conclusion. We adopted the theory that was taught by Chappel, but still tries to criticise him. If whatever chappel is telling is wrong, let BCCI sue him. If BCCI dont do it, Govt should take action against BCCI. These are serious charges by an australian and country's prestige is in question now.
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by atanu choudhury on Nov 17, 2007 12:59 PM Permalink
Only people who are blinded by Greg Chappel would think like you...All credit to him all discredit to players... .he had come here to establish his supremacy & who so ever came is his way was shown the highway for right or wrong reasons... if BCCI & people managing it have any self respect it wouldn't have asked him to revisit India for coaching...
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by Ashish Kumar on Nov 17, 2007 09:39 PM Permalink
Your views are based on selective memory. Chappel had his way all the way till the team India ate humble pie in the Malayesian triseries,Champion's trophy and finally in South Africa. It was after all limits of humiliations were crossed that selection committee headed by Vengasarkar asserted itself and brought back Ganguly. I am sure all the Chappelites have forgotten the contribution of Ganguly in redeeming team's prestige, as is their wont. U love Chappel because he brought your regional hero to fore. Why do not u realise that he your motherland to shame.
