Chappels decision is good for all incluidng Chappel. Hope Chappels wishes are honoured by the Board. This is step no 1 in the right direction. Lets see what comes next. Tell me India why should any of the three Rahul Sachin or Saurav retire? Tell me India which newcomer you can rely upon? Utthuppa, Kartick, Raina or who better than these three? Unless you find suitable new players you cannot simply ask the old guards to take rest. I feel the coach and the captain failed to perform the role they were supposed to. Coach must keep watch over the old tested players. If someone is failing it is not always prudent to remove him. You analyse as a coach the reasons of such failures. Give him confidence. Dont make him shaky. Tell him to change his batting stance, tell himto change the weight of the bat. With age people lose a few things but gain many,like experience and confidence. This you will have to honour as a coach. It is very easy to simply pass on the buck to senior players or players. It is more difficult to extract the best ouf your limited resources. It requires prudence and patience. Chappel lacked both of it. Dravid was equally hopeless. He did not make up the lapses and lacuna of the coach. As a batsman Dravid Sachin and Saurav has still left a good amount of cricket in them but may never be upto the next cup.
RE:One Step towards the good
by Sameer Bhagwat on Apr 04, 2007 07:41 PM Permalink
Why should Sachin Retire??
His scores in the last 2 years , forget last 4 ODIs in SA total 23 runs, world cup 7,0 vs Bangladesh.
You and all you lunatic fans live on past glory.
Why should he retire? because we want guys like Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwari ,Badrinath etc given a chance. If we have to lose we should lose with them so that they gain enogh experience in 2-3 years time.
Playing with this bunch of Advertisement freaks like Sachin is pathetic, fielding is pathetic, running bet wickets is pathetic, body language is pathetic.
If they ahd any shame after losing to Bangla in a WC match, they should RETIRE.
They have ganged up against CHAPELL to hide thei own INSECURITIES
RE:One Step towards the good
by Ramelton Corwe on Apr 04, 2007 08:27 PM Permalink
Wehn Sachin and Saurav and Veeru came on they were not "GIVEN" chances. They had to be selected becasue their talented performances. Do not go around like a beggar asking for chances for new ones. If they are good enough they won't need to be given chances.
