Let me give you some facts, When Ganguly thrown out of his captaincy the team was healthy Yuvaraj scoring, Kaif scoring, Shewag scoring, ofcourse Dravid too scoring, bolwers like Zaheer, Balaji, Aashish, Irfan, Kumble, Harbajan, doing well. dinesh was keeping well and Tendulkar & Ganguly just maintaing their positions. After taken over by Dravid joining Chappel hands who has this team won few matches. But eventually one by one got rusty and unsecured plans and groupism also developed. Later the team india were ruined and they started losing and the first beat is in WI losing ODI badly, Malysia, Champion trophy, SA and now WC. In the mean after bringing back Ganguly Team India earned respect in SA test matches, ODI against WI & SL in India. In my opinion as long Dravid stays with captaincy circle Team India will never prosper. BEST OF LUCK...TEAM INDIA
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by Blue Billion on Apr 19, 2007 12:37 PM Permalink
Ganguly needs to be thrown out..... He is mainly responsible for India's ouster from WC.... He played only for self in all 3 matches, should ve seen his frustrasion on missing hundred agst Bermuda, his slow batting ag Bangla( threw his wicket after being well set-eating up nearly 130 balls), failed agst quality bowling of SL9 when it mattered most).. He shud definitely be kicked out...
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by siva kumar on Apr 19, 2007 02:48 PM Permalink
Mr.BB, You should know one thing Indian didnt play its full quota of 50 overs in any match. So it is foolish to say ganguly wasted more balls. When wickets fell at one end at regular intervals how could one expect ganguly to come out of crease and hit a six against fast bowlers, which he is capable of. The main person responsible for defeat against Bangla and Srilanka is our Captain Dravid. he should have asked the keeper to come near the crease when the opener Hamim was coming out and hitting fours and sixes. All the other team captain did. Why? our captain didnt think. Honestly speaking do you think of a captain retaining the same team which lost against minnows (bangladesh) against the strong opponent srilanka. This is foolish. Sack dravid from captaincy.
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by mohan on Apr 19, 2007 12:48 PM Permalink
Hey BB, cool cool, I guess no player would do that as you said ( I have no objection if he is thrown out), but lets talk about facts in WC itself. The fact is BD played well with player unknown to other team (underestimated) and the pictes suits their three left arm spinner very well. Forget India & Ganguly, we have seen SA suffered the same and what Gibbs did, virtually can only stay there until end, the guys who hits 6x6 in an over in the same WC. We have seen England struggling against them to achive a very small score, Colli & Nixon took 80 balls each to reach their score 20, so you got to say. We could only say BD played well - WELL DONE
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by Blue Billion on Apr 19, 2007 01:09 PM Permalink
Dear English & SA batsmen are known to struggle ag ordinary spinners... But, is Ganuly not regarded as a better player of spin bowling... also, is he not a big match player... I was a die hard fan of Ganguly during his captaincy days, and definitely never liked Chappel ways.....but Meanwhile, I also agree that the entire blame shud not go to Ganguly and ppl like Chappel, Dravid, Tendulkar, shud also be held responsible...... These ppl shud nt be a part of the team to bangla, since it is the best oportunity to try youngsters before a long season..
