First of all, Congratulations to RR. They deserve IPL trophy. Points to be noted in RR team; 1. Lead by an Australian (All know that they are the best) 2. Treated IPL as Cricket and not as Entertainment 3. Team work 4. Team is know by its players and not the franchisee Owner. (Any one know who is the owner?) 5. Young and energetic team lead by World class player
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by Sanjeev Kumar on Jun 02, 2008 02:11 PM Permalink
Dear Praveen 1.Please reset your memory.India won the T20 cup under Dhoni as captain.Chennai reached Final under Dhoni as captain.If fielder like Raina drops catch of Pathan then you can not blame Captain.And I think Dhoni is an Indian.Whole world is praing Dhoni(Indian) and you are doing Chaplusi of Australian. 2.This is your personal view point.No body likes to loose even in Carrom played at home which is purely for entertainment. 3.Typical Indian mindset. 4.You seems to be more intrested in knowing the details of the Franchise,hence you know it.I don't know who is the owner of Chennai and Hyderabad team even. 5.Young and energitic team lead by an old man.
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by Praveen Athani on Jun 02, 2008 02:53 PM Permalink
Dear Sanjeev, please go through my above comments once again. I am talking about RR's success rather than Dhoni's failure. I have not written anything about Dhoni or others at all. I again say that' Talking about one good player doesnt mean critisizing other good players.
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by siva kumar on Jun 02, 2008 01:23 PM Permalink
1ST POINT: THEY ARE THE BIG CHEATS. YOU SHOULD BE KNOWING THIS WHEN WE TOURED AUSTRALIA. IF THEY ARE THE BEST THEN WHY DECCAN CHARGES CAPTAIN THE AUSTRALIAN GILCHRIST LOST ALMOST ALL THE GAMES? SO YOU MEAN THEY ARE WORST?
2ND POINT: SO DO YOU SAY DHONI, TENDULKAR, ETC. TREATED THE GAME AS ENTERTAINMENT AND NOT CRICKET??????????
3RD POINT: OTHER TEAMS WON AND LOST ONLY BECUASE OF THE TEAM WORK. WHEN MUMBAI INDIANS LOST, IT IS NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF TENDULKAR BUT THE WHOLE TEAM. DO YOU AGREE????? AS DHONI SAID WE LOST AS A TEAM. WHICH CAPTAIN HAS EVER SAID THIS? HATS OFF TO DHONI.
4TH POINT IS BASELESS. TELL ME WHO IS THE OWNER OF CHENNAI SUPER KINGS? MUMBAI INDIANS? ETC. YOU MUST BE KNOWING THE OWNERS OF PUNJAB AND KOLKATTA TEAMS. OTHERS YOU MUST NOT BE KNOWING.
5TH POINT: AS IF OTHER TEAMS DOESNOT HAVE YOUNG AND ENERGETIC PLAYERS LEAD BY GREAT CAPTAINS. CAPTAINS LIKE GANGULY, TENDULKAR, DHONI, GILCHRIST.
YOU MUST ANSWER ALL THESE NOW. THINK AND ANALYSE PROPERLY.
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by Praveen Athani on Jun 02, 2008 01:29 PM Permalink
Hi shivkumar, thanks for your comments. First of all, I am talking about RR's success, rather than other teams failures.
I am not pointing at any of the great players like Schin, Ganguly. etc. Infact they are my favorite players.
Technically speaking Australians are good cricketers there is no doubt about it. May be their behavior is not good. I agree with that.
In case of Deccan Chargers, Gilcrist came very late in to the action. It was VVS who was leading team.
And if you think that by talking good about one person, I am critisizing other good players, then I am sorry. But you should understand that I am not doing so. Infact I have not taken any names in my comments.
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by Ashpal on Jun 02, 2008 01:10 PM Permalink
Good analysis. Except point 4 , rest are fine. Had they performed poorly as RCB, we would have come to know of their owner. Team show. RR deserved it , they were the best team in tournament in all departments.
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by Praveen Athani on Jun 02, 2008 01:13 PM Permalink
My be you are right, What I want to say is, Media hyped about Shah rukh or Mallya owning a team. Media covered alot about them. And one thing for Franchisees to learn is, pay your player only what he deserves and not on just marketing value. Ultimately 'its performance rather than Brand value'
