I remember one of the first matches when Dravid was made captain, he asked anil kumble to bowl 4th over against Afridi, it was then and there i told to myself that Indian think tank has gone to drains. Believe me defending 190 against Bangladesh was achievable. We lost because of poor captaincy, i hope people remember the funny slip placements and introduction of the 5th bowler well after the 30th over, sachin sehwag came very late. There are hundreds of such examples where Dravid simply F#@$ed up. He is a great player but not all greats become great captains. He is a great orthodox cricketer and he captains the same way, no adaptation to situations. He is not agressive and does not back players enough, obviously the team disintegrates in such situations. Players start to play for their own good rather than a team's cause. People are blaming ganguly for scoring selfishly but tell me, if he started accelerating and got out early, wouldn't he be dropped immediately by Mr. Chappel. These insecurities killed our 2007 campaign, and the team managemnt especially Dravid and Chappel are to be blamed for it. I saw it coming in 2005, i don't understand how Mr. Missed it, ah probably he was busy with his agriculture ministry. That reminds me .... shouldn't we abandon this honorary sytem and make crucial positions like President and Selectors as Paid positions so these people can be held accountable for debacles....
Nope. I dont agree. Rahul is an astute captain in the wrong team. Whats wrong in asking Kumble to bowl the 4th over? Did not Newzealand have a spinner as their opening bowler ?
Dravid is a gentleman in the wrong team. Poor Dravid.
RE:Good article and Dravid's demerits
by Suman Bhat on Apr 04, 2007 11:01 AM Permalink
some players delieberatley palyed negative cricket and betryed team and and dtiched dravid.and betrayed team. If players are not ready to support team cause what capatain can do for that It is up to individual players to deciede that play for team then support captain? ganguly wasted more balls than runs he scored poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team also created pressure on batsman on other side He did not bother to try and hold an easy catch during agarkar%u2019s bowling he costs more rruns to team by poor fielding ganguly inngis is shaky. He w 60 runs in 130 balls how it can help a team cause?? Ganguly had one stage for having batted through nearly 11 overs to make a mere 7 runs. Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs India Scored 191 in 50 overs Ganguly Scored 66 runs in 21 overs wasted more balls than runs he scored., Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs Rest of team scored 50 in 19 overs Against burmada Ganguly scored 89 in 114 balls wasted 25 balls that is around 4.6 runs per over... compare it to the indian teams average of 8.26 Ganguly was struggling while batting against burmuda, and got 3 lifes ganguly in whole faced 266 balls nearly 50 overs and make only 162 runs, the how much pressure built on incoming bats man doesn't matter india wins or Lose Ganguly RETURN WAS HYPED BY MEDIA BUT HE WAS NOT IN TEAM UNIFROM ALSO AND HE DID NOT ARRIVE WITH TEAM?? The picute which tev channel shown after ind defeat in Sl . all players were in tears but no sight of ganguly dhoni and harbajan Ganguly was not in pictue? Harbajan singh went wktless in 2 matches dhoni failed with bat was laughing when he dro[[ed catch VC captain sachin failed completely with bat ( there were not sight in picture which tv channel shown when India lost ot SL all other players are in tears
zahirkahn was wktless in firest match and in he took 2 wkts against SL but he gave more extra runs b'cuz of erratic bowling.
coz Tendulkar scored a duck, Ganguly 7 in 23 balls and Yuvraj 6? Dhoni 0?( match against srilanka) the players who played all 3 matchs Except dravid munaf yuvraj nobody has shown commitment?
RE:Good article and Dravid's demerits
by ANINDYA CHOWDHURY on Apr 04, 2007 11:53 AM Permalink
Will targeting senior players like Ganguly, Sachin, Harbhajan do any favour to the WC first round exit of the Indian cricket team? Will your analysis do any good to the current state of our HYPED Indian cricket team. It's not a question of ditching by any individual, it's a collective loss and unfortunately the captain & coach has to take the responsibilty. If you talk of Dada's flaws then Mr. dependable can also not be spared of doing Ad for Samsung, Britania, Pepsi etc. etc. My personal opinion is Dravid may be a good player but don't have the qualities to be a able leader which is reflected in his body language. I think India stop experimenting with team as well as captainship. Now the ball is in the court of BCCI to decide the future of Indian cricket.
