This is a good article by reddiff. Chappell is a brilliant coach and is trying his utmost to bring discipline to the team and make them a fighting unit but he cannnot do it unless he receives cooperation from all sectors. The public just wants to blame someone else other than their beloved cricket stars who they worship. The public nowadays is so narrowminded that they cant even open their eyes and see whose fault it is for the Indian teams horrible performance. They will blame Chappell, they will blame Ian Frazer but they wont blame the actual culprits who are the Indian team. The Bengalis support Ganguly no matter wat and the Maharashtrans support Sachin. Putting the country ahead of everything else should be the approach.The public themselves bring diversity to the team. If someone is underperforming he should be shown the door and asked to prove his value again. Its because of this reason the Australian team is so successful because of how their system works. People plz grow up and start putting your country ahead of ur cricketing Gods. Dont blame Chappell or any1 other than the cricketers who forgot the value of wearing the Indian colours.
RE:Stop Blaming Chappell
by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Apr 05, 2007 02:18 PM Permalink
The most unfortunate thing about the players of subcontinent is that they never want to leave. They are usually kicked out after many bad performances or they retire with disgrace. Kapil did the same. He was playing only to beat the World Record for the last part of his cricketing game and Srinath who is a youngsters was never given a chance and Kapil played for 2 years only for World Record.
Players like Kumble, Tendulkar, Ganguly should have retired atleast two years ago when they were on a high note. I think the selectors should select on performances rather than PAST performances. If Tendulkar is not performing, sit him out so he finds that hunger in him to do well enough to play. Players are taking their spots for granted. This is a tragedy of subcontinent players. Greg or any other foreign coach wont understand Desi mentality, thats whay they failed and bound to fail. :)
No coach can help Indian cricket now until the mentality of the players and BCCI itself wont change. John Wright faced a lot of humiliating situations, but exited with grace. Sehwag slapped Right on his face when John asked him to concentrate more on his fitness and you are not playing well. Now Greg has shown his way for asking senior players to concentrate on the game rather than other issues. As long as indian cricketers come out of a situation where they thinks themselves as gods, no person even god cannot help them. But the unfortunate part now is nobody listens to the issues raised by Greg, they only listens to what sachin said. now this became a personality fight rather than issue based analysis and solutions to the probelms.
Sachin is crying no coach has questoned his attitude. We know how he is playing in the last 3 years and we know how some of the senior players like Saurav, Sehwag, Yuvi, Harbhazan are playing and behaving these days.
Tendulkar has spoken by name but note how he talks only of his reputation being affronted by Chappell's comment on his attitude. 'No coach has ever reported even in passing that my attitude was not correct', he says.
Well, well, well. Didn't Tendulkar plainly sulk on our last tour of Pakistan when Rahul Dravid declared the team's innings closed even as Tendulkar was just a few runs short of another double century? Didn't he tell the media that he was surprised at the timing of Dravid's declaration? Wasn't that 'attitude'?
Was it correct? If coach John Wright didn't write about in his tour report that may well because he's too much of a gentleman. Or he may well have reported it but the dossier was overlooked because we won the series.
Again, this season before the World Cup, when Chappell had made it clear that Tendulkar would bat in the middle order so that he could hold the innings together for the full 50 overs, Tendulkar did not hesitate to tell the media that he preferred to bat as an opener. Was that 'attitude' correct?
Even god cannot help this Indian Cricket team. Even Chappel sent a report in October 2006 rasing a lot of issues and warning BCCI about a major crisis in the World Cup if we dont take enough measures. BCCI didnt bother about that report at all. Now entire nation paid for the debacles we faced. We Indians always have an attitude problem when somebody say you r wrong and change the way you behave. We wanted to behave in the way we want and still wanted to be World Champions. thats not going to happen. See how Newzeland is playing, there is not even a STAR player in ther team, but they play as a team and work hard and succed. thats the attitude Indian should learn. We show doors to guys who wanted to change us. We do not want to change and blames others who tries to change us.
RE:Stop Blaming Chappell
by abby Das on Apr 05, 2007 05:41 PM Permalink
Dear Mark So you support the incident of Chapell showing his finger at Eden...right?So you suport Chapell addressing the players as "mafia"..right?The problem is that you people are so overwhelmed about the white skinned that they are compared with God.How can you expecrt a team to perform when experimentatino goes on and on for 22 months?He doomed the career of Irfan Pathan by trying to make him as all rounder.The austrailians are great players no dout but every one disrespects them for their attitudes on the field(recall the statements of gavaskar recently).These austrailians are all disctators and they cannot tolarate if someone tries to compeate them.Remeber Steve Waugh saying about ganguly.He said he is the best possble captain India can ever have.This man chapell tried to doom the best captain's career too.He should have been behaind the bars just for disrespecting the indians.
RE:Stop Blaming Chappell
by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Apr 06, 2007 12:23 PM Permalink
Mr. Das , did you heard chappel saying mafia about senior players directly anywhere? Have you seen his Interview any where? Have you seen his reports to BCCI? Why do you and Sachin bother about some non-sense reports in the Media? Why do you want to respond about such reports? See the report of Greg to BCCI first, and if you see something wrong in it , discuss it in the meeting. Dont you think this is an emotinal drama saying I did a lot to my country in my 17 years and so on? Yes, yuo did a lot in the past. Wt we need is consistenncy.
at least Greg has taken the decision to quit,and has taken responsibility.will sachin retire or get dropped from the team?or will he just keep on saying sorry we didnt perform. If I as a doctor tell the patients relatives sorry I didnt perform ,will I be eligible to hold on to my job as a doctor? Same with any job.
RE:Stop Blaming Chappell
by Mark Matthew on Apr 06, 2007 03:27 PM Permalink
First of all Das did u hear Chappell calling the senior platers mafia anywhere?? Most of the time the media puts words in other ppls mouth. Dont go by wat the media says.. Anyway ur an idiot if u think any1 gets impressed by white skin. Plz do tell me how did Chappell doom the career of Irfan Pathan?? Did he make him forget how to bowl?? Wat kind of a bullshit excuse is "He doomed the career of Irfan Pathan by trying to make him as all rounder"?? Its like u say u ask a child to learn geometry and he forgets algebra. Tomm if u tell Tendulkar to concentrate on his offspinners and he might forget to bat?? Only a fool like u might think that. On the comments of Gavaskar, wud u rather be a rank 1 team in the world known with a fighting attitude or wud u rather be known as a rank 10 team with good attitude?? Australia has been the number 1 team in the world for so many yrs bcoz of their fighting attitude and their crude system.. In the end its the result that matters. They kikd out Hayden just bcoz he didnt perform for sometime. Cud u imagine India dropping a player like Hayden wid his record?? Indians wud have worshipped him and wudnt have even dreamt of dropping him. Hayden after being dropped came back into prime form and is currently the highest scorer in the world cup. That is how their system works and thats y it is so successful. Do u remember McGrath sledging Tendulkar in the 2001 series and in other series too?? Did u also knw that offield they are very good friends.. That is how Australia plays their cricket wid ruthless agression and determination. If our Indian cricketers and board followed their pattern and system respectively, today v wudnt be dejectedly posting here. Instead v wud be watching our cricket team thrashing the rest of the teams in the world cup. Its seems like ur taking the words of Gavaskar as gospel. If u hear about some of the things Gavaskar did, u wudnt give so much importance to his words. Im too lazy to post about about some infamous incidents abt Gavaskar so rather read them urself. Next time post as an Indian and not as a Bengali.
