I also agree to his view that our senior players were careless and don't care at all.
I have read today's Times of India and seen Sachin Tendulkar defending senior cricketers and blasting Greg Chappel for his non cooperative attitude with senior cricketers.
Let me ask a simple question to Sachin Tendulkar why he is coming up with defending senior cricketers after they were showing reckless performance against a team like Bangladesh and they could not score more than 200 runs in a World Cup ? Sachin has played 384 one day internationals and I am sure all Bangladesh player together not played 384 ODIs.
Because now the public, media and fans are showing anger against players like Sachin, Dravid, Saurav, Sehwag, Zaheer, Harbhajan & Yuvraj for playing one of the worst ever world cup performance ever had, they want to divert the attention to Greg Chappel so that they can escape with all the wrong doings and make Coach the "Scapegoat".
Even I remember in one of the press briefings in 2006, Sachin himself told the media Greg is doing a wonderful job and we are building a team for the world cup. Suddenly what is happening to Sachin and Senior players ?
Sachin and the so called senior cricketers failed miserably in the world cup and succeeded in dismantling the Indian team.
Sachin also says during 17 years of his cricketing carrer he has give his heart and soul but he is not telling the public when he was given his heart and soul, he also got back whatever he wants in his life. Without giving something you cannot get something back !
Greg Chappel is also responsible for this state of affairs in Indian Cricket now but the seniors cannot put everything to Coach's court and they should also take responsibility for the humiliating exit in the World Cup. They should not get away with a mere warning but discipline them if they want to continue their career in Cricket.
RE:'Our senior players were careless'
by anoop mathew on Apr 04, 2007 10:05 AM Permalink
Sachin knew that Indian people will support him if he shows some emotions. Indian public judge the players on the basis of their stature rather than on their merit and current form. Why is sachin not retiring giving opportunity for youngsters? Micheal atherton recently rightly called him a comic hero.
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by ravi on Apr 04, 2007 10:12 AM Permalink
In the next series if Sachin Hits 2-3 centuries. surely everything will be normal Whether it may be media or Ian chappel or Greg chappel or Michel atherton. So Let sachin do what ever he want.
RE:'Our senior players were careless'
by ravi on Apr 04, 2007 10:08 AM Permalink
Sir , Please see todays Hindu paper , sachin said They re also very disapponted , the whole team is disappointed. Sachin is not blaming Greg for worldcup Exit, He is firing on Greg because greg wants to become Hero by throwing Seniors away. I guess Still Greg trying to become HERO of the episode. Almost in all worldcups we reached Quarterfinals atleast(except one), Where is the coach who wanted to set himself as great? No one. You are putting restrictions on seniors and making them to fail. No one says Coach and captain shuould take the whole responsibility. But It is the responsibility of whole team. So Dont blame Sachin and Others. I guess Indian team would have been in Semis with Normal coach for sure. Hope Everything goes fine for Indian Cricket. Good Luck
RE:'Our senior players were careless'
by rayker rayker on Apr 04, 2007 10:16 AM Permalink
hold your horses. sachin could have reserved his comments for a later time and date. chapell hasnt opined it anywhere. media leaks can come from anyone from selfish crickters to a rude coach. sachin's anguished comments can be true/ or could be to delfect his criticism by playing a sympathy card.
sachin is no longer at his prime, his recent performances have been average - the other day when sachin was batting well himself, there simply no comparison to yuvraj singh blasting away sixers. thats youth - thats good cricket. take jayasuriya's recent innings - it was awesome stuff.
i'd have preferred sachin doing some batting after the deed was done by chapell, not before. he sounds terribly guilt ridden himself!
RE:'Our senior players were careless'
by Raghunathan Nair on Apr 04, 2007 10:26 AM Permalink
Hi Ravi,
Do you mean say that Indian Cricket team lost the World Cup deliberately so that the players can show their anger towards the Coach ? If yes, they should have sorted out this issue before they departed for West Indies. Why the players were keeping mum if they knew they cannot get along with Greg.
Now the fact is that everyone wants to become Hero targeting others in order to hide their dismal performance and they can fool the public lke us.
