It was always heading this way . Whatever the position the board would have taken , it would not have been good for anybody concerned had the same group of people continued to work together.
What this shows is how our players have managed to cement their positions . They have attacked chappel like a pack of wolves just because he tried to bring in professional ethics and did not make exceptions about Ganguly or Tendulkar .
Perhaps the person most relieved is sourav - who has manged to not only make a comeback on merit - for which he has to be lauded - but he has managed to get a group of players who have underperformed like him in the past - Zaheer and Yuvraj - and are currently underperforming - Sehwag and Harbhajan . This "mafia" is the one which has undermined both the captain and the coach .
As if all this was not enough , we have the ingnonimity of having to see the greatest batsman of our country push himself into the controversy by making candid confessions - the timing of which is very suspect .
Chappel brought all under performers under pressure and instead of pulling their socks up and giving us their best , the players dislodged the man himself. ..what a pity.
All this nonsense that the media reports about cultural difference is a non-issue . To add fuel to the fire , the media keeps hounding the persons involved and made a mountain out of a mole. The media has to take a good share of the blame as do the players and the board.
A sad sad day . It shows the inefficiency and politics in Indian cricket . What a shame . I am ashamed to call myself a fan of Indian cricket . From the outside this appears like a well orchestrated plan to remove chappel and for that I totally sympathise with Chappel.
If for nothing else , the Indian Cricketers didn't deserve to win the world cup because they are mafia who have commited this henious act ..shame on them ..shame ...
