More u hear about the reasons for our debacle more u feel that this is all sheer crap and trash about sacking the coach or the captain Dravid. Foreget about all the so called startegy in dressing rooms , what happens when the playing eleven go to the field donnig the national clours ,they have to batting bowling or fielding to the best of their abilites and skill. What is that Sachin Dravid Saurav with thousands of runs behind them and tag of geniuses attached to them have to wait for from the dressing room to do on the field? It is clear nonsense and humbug as no player goes to the field risking his own career and brand value to settle scores with their rivals when millions r watching with rapt attention and passion to see that their team excels and fires from all their cylinders and in the same manner no coach worth his salt and more so of a calibre of Greg wud risk his worldwide reputation and image and try to create groupism in Indian cricket and damage the standard of our cricket at his own peril . No sensible person wud do these kind of trickery and chickanery unless he is the foolest feloow.My dear players, both seniors and others! Donot try seeking to shirk of ur own responsibility and pass on the blame on others. Be rational enough to admit your own blunders and create further confusion in the ranks if all of u r sincere about the change in the fortune of Indian cricket with u or without u
RE:Ridiculous
by Sameer Bhagwat on Apr 03, 2007 09:44 PM Permalink
The reason India cannot do well is because of people like you. This is a very well written article and talks about how the Indian cricket team does not have a single Leander Paes in the team. They wear their National colors as if they are doing a favour on us.
Nobody is talking of risking their careers, guess you haven't read the article properly. In the Indian cricket team each player plays from himself or his bunch of loonies , so while their statistics look good, the team loses.
Sack this team get the under 19 team in, and ban commercials 4 years down the line we will have a very competitive team.
RE:Ridiculous
by sunilkumar mishra on Apr 03, 2007 09:58 PM Permalink
Donot get restless my dear what I wanted is in a different cotext, I myslef have in my other columns have brought out the same views what is given in the above well written article. I believe it is a cllection of my varius view points in sports column ans cricjket cloumns if u r following u wud thought a little before passing your hasty judgement
RE:Ridiculous
by Sameer Bhagwat on Apr 03, 2007 10:05 PM Permalink
I got the meaning of your statement.
What you need to understand is the classic term Effect and Cause.
Australia play gutsy cricket ( Cause) and the result is they win most of the time ( Effect).
Indians thinks they are superstars ( cause) and their playing is a favour on us, and hence we lose miserably ( effect).
Similary Chapell and Dravid do not do things on purpose but his/their manner of doing things causes an effect which has not produced results.
Captaincy and Leadership is about Making things Happen not wonder Why it happened!! Dravid falls in the second category and that itself is a big problem!!!!!!!!
RE:Ridiculous
by sunilkumar mishra on Apr 03, 2007 10:42 PM Permalink
Hello u got a good analytical ability, but what u say now was covered by the undersigned in the column under Dravid as the astute captain a day back. In any case what we all r waiting to see is that how we get back our lost glory and pride which requires little introspection and sincerity of purpose for both the playersand the management. whole country is watching the deveopments. Only fear is that a lot of skeletons are going tuble out of the World Cupboard in afew days of intense drama to be enacted . Better Watch and see
