No matter what Tendulkar or other senior players say, no matter what Chappel says, the fact is that greed, fame and politics have taken over Indian cricket. They no more play for the country. When Tendulkar enters into Indian cricket team he was 16, but these senior players are not willing to give way to youngsters as if there will be no fresh talent after them. Despite of huge pay checks they get indulge in as many endorsements as they can. Players should be banned for signing endorsements and there will be fixed formulae based on past 5 to 7 performances to evaluate a player, no matter how big 'star' he may be.
RE:Greed, Fame & Politics
by Lotiya Pathan on Apr 04, 2007 07:57 AM Permalink
sachin,dravid,ganguly will serve indian cricket for another two years, no matters what chappel bark.. there are very few who would be called for replacement for these trio.
RE:Greed, Fame & Politics
by Krishna Kashyap on Apr 04, 2007 07:49 AM Permalink
Bhaskar, seems you have already lost all hopes. You are asking for replacement without giving the due faith and trust a youngster may require. It's like as you would not let your son enter into a pool untill he learns swimming. I agree with you, it has to be a gradual change but here you see we're carrying the same old team for last many years without seeing any more great performances from them. We need to take evaluate their performances in last few games not the overall that gives true picture.
RE:Greed, Fame & Politics
by Krishna Kashyap on Apr 04, 2007 08:05 AM Permalink
Thanks for understanding. Actually we tend to remove youngsters with just one or two bad performance (Raina, Venugopal, Gambhir, Balaji...if you remember) while we dare to touch star players. For example we preferred Agarkar over Sreesanth and in a way we killed his confidence and passion to some extent. We need to have faith in these youngsters and the yardstick should be same for all the players on the basis of last few numbers of performances.
