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.
Chappel accuses our "old" players... check the age of Australia's McGrath, who is their best bowler in this cup. Check out Jayasurya, Jacques Kallis, etc. They would also not perform if they had a terrible coach such as G Chappel.
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 here based on Indian patriotic reasons. He is our hired help only, with a job to do. He failed at his job, so we need to hire someone else. Pity is he quit. He should have been fired.
Be proud of your countrymen... just as people from all other counties.
RE:Lavakari: please stop being a white man's ''chamcha''
by Gorango Thakurta on Apr 04, 2007 10:21 PM Permalink
You seem to be another disgraceful person that is ashamed of our country and loves to suck the white man's dyck. Dont use abusive language towards a proud Indian.
It is not a question of being proud of the seniors. I am proud of the "achievers" and believe that non-achievers should quit. It doesnt matter who they are: coach, captain, senior, junior, bowler, batsman.
The example of seniors in other teams was given to show that seniors can also perform if they are motivated. Similarly juniors can also fail if they are badly coached / captained.
RE:Lavakari: please stop being a white man's ''chamcha''
by pent on Apr 05, 2007 09:20 AM Permalink
good reply, but my friend you missed some obvious points ,NBA,NCAA,NFL teams also get this kind of crap when they lose .the coaches get it so do the players. there were 6 senior cricketers in the team who had like what 10 to 15 years of experience and still they ducked out. Do you think Phil jackson taught Kobi and Shaq how to shoot a bball, he told them the strategy and they went in and delivered. I am sure the coach must have told tendulkar to stick at the wicket and just play normal game with SL and he got out the first ball, he must have also told dravid to stick on and win the game instead he gets frustrated and heaves a stupid shot and gets out, and Ganguly who literally had to struggle like a 1 st grade student to make some runs after playing like 15 years of international cricket...hmmmm your logic falls short there, you cannot coach people who know how to play for 15 ...20 years you can give them pointers to improve their performance and if you still go out there on the field and dont do it ..what do you do????remember the sehwag-wright incident i would have slapped sehwag if i was wright, and wonder of wonders we "US" the Indians forced wright to apologize to Sehwag. So dont bring this white, non-white crap here. the players are just pointing fingers now at the coach ,to make him look bad. Remember the coach can coach, but if you insist that i will play the way i want, that is what you get similar to team india performance
RE:Lavakari: please stop being a white man's ''chamcha''
by Gorango Thakurta on Apr 05, 2007 10:09 PM Permalink
Dear Pent,
You make an excellent point about coaching in the NBA etc. Although Shaq/Kobe were superstars (in money terms far richer than any cricketer!) they had to abide by the coach's plan. Sadly, Indian sprtsmen dont go by that rule. Once someone becomes a superstar, they quit listening to the coach. Even a good coach is limited in what he can do with the "star" players. So, coaching Indian cricket is a travesty.
However, please rethink what you call the white-black crap. In general I do not believe in that crap, because I supervise several hundred poeple of all color. But I have noticed with this particular writer (Lavakari) in the past that he always defends white coaches and umpires against people from the subcontinent. My comment was directed towards that.
