almost two years back, you wrote a series of very distasteful and capricious articles denigrating the deposed India skipper Ganguly. I realize that you were taking an early gamble on Greg Chappel, hoping to look really good if he succeeded. However, after watching Chappel's antics for 2 years and seeing him rave and rant at the media, I thought you would come around.
But, no. You continue on your disgraceful path of "native-bashing" to gain the white man's favor. Wake up, Lava. The "British Raj" is over. No "bones" will be thrown to you, for saying "me love you long time..." to the white man.
This is the age of Indian champions... be justly proud of our great achievers.
Games are won /lost every minute of any day. Thats not a big deal. The big deal is that the Indian team looked very "badly coached" and totally lacked "leaderdship" on the field. [check out NBA, NFL, winning NCAA teams to understand what tnbat means.]
You claimed to be an advocate of "performance" and "results" when you stuck your dagger into Ganguly. Why dont you apply the same yardstick to Chappel now? He would even be kicked out of WalMart for his performance.
finally, since you are obsessed about Ganguly, here's my take on the man. Well, he at least is a "man". You know, with cojones. He gave us pride, he united a hitherto fracticidal team.
I dont want to commenton who should stay and who should not, in the Indian team. There are much better people than you or me to decide that. But I am sure about one thing. Greg Chappel is not on here based on Indian patriotic reasons. He is hired help, with a job to do. He failed at his job, so we need to hire someone else.
RE:Lavakari: please stop being a white man's ''chamcha''
by Sameer Bhagwat on Apr 04, 2007 03:15 AM Permalink
Greg Chapell or anyone for that matter can only do the job if they are given the team they need. If Seniors gang up against him , what can he do???? First give him what he wnats and then SACK him.
Indian cricketers would like a soft coach like Gaekwad,Wadekar others who will make money from the players.
Why can't you admit that the players also have a job to do??? If Chapell needs to go so also the so called SENIORS..
Can you believe that SACHIN has captaincy ambitions. He is really SELFISH!!
RE:Lavakari: please stop being a white man's ''chamcha''
by Dan Lewis on Apr 04, 2007 03:22 AM Permalink
Sachin is our pride.This is true he is not the same.Yet his presence in any team can change the balance.He has given Indian cricket many-a-things.He is way way better captaincy material than Dravid.
RE:Lavakari: please stop being a white man's ''chamcha''
by Gorango Thakurta on Apr 04, 2007 03:25 AM Permalink
Sameer,
that is exactly the point. Any non-performer MUST GO. I think team Australia is the best example of this. They dont care what "big things" someone did 3 years back. They select on current form. We need that attitude.
