It's indeed good that Chappel has resigned. In fact, team India consisting so many stars does not deserve a hard fighting,outspoken, Chappel. But, I don't understand where was Tendulkar for all these two years keeping silent about his unhappiness about Chappel. If Chappel was wrong, he should have gone to BCCI much before. If the players were having any kind of discomfort under Chappel, they should have approached the BCCI with their grievences. Not after a pathetic show in the worldcup. It is very evident that these senior pros are counter attacking Chappel as he is straight forward and giving a strong report to BCCI which may eventually force them to loose their position in the team. Now, these senior players (Tendulkar, Ganguly, Sehwag, Zaheer, Harbhajan, etc.) are afraid that they may face the axe due to their poor show and attitude, so collectively they planned this outburst to the media thru Tendulkar, thanks to his psuedo-image and demi-god status. It's all corrupted. A team consisting 5 batsmen having average of more than 40 could win only one match in a major tournament and advance to the next stage and now coming up with claiming that the coach was not right! Shame on them! Tendulkar is a national Cheater! Ganguly is another one, who just wanted to score runs only to secure his place in the team. Throw these two and Sehwag out of the team and all those non-performing players.. We will start winning. Should we send our A team for world cup, the result could have been much better. Regards, Manoj Joseph, Dubai
RE:Chappel
by shlok singh on Apr 05, 2007 04:16 PM Permalink
its not enough to just throw these senior players out. but we need to fill as talented players as they r. according to u tendulkar is a national cheater, u r saying this for a person who played for our country without thinking abt his fitness. shame on u n all who keep thinking like this.
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by joydip bhattacharya on Apr 05, 2007 06:44 PM Permalink
I guess this is teh fourth World cup we went their concidering we have Only Sachin Tendulkar. And when the guy fails this time we have started blaming him........ We have to accept that we don't have any one other then Sachin to dream Worldcup even after 17 long years...........
RE:Chappel
by Sujoy Majumdar on Apr 07, 2007 10:21 AM Permalink
Hi Manoj You have become very emotional! We Indians are made more of emotion than hard realistic stuff but the question is that by pushing a bunch of raw newcomers in and shoving out the oldies,are we going to change the results of TEAM INDIA ? Look at Team Australia- their average age is 30 .Let us accept the fact that the team failed in only one match (which they had not, I'm afraid, taken it dead seriously).As regards the Sri Lanka match it is nerves that got them down along with a few hiccups in the team selection.Prior to that we Indians had brushed aside the Windies in a humiliating way. You are talking about youngstars but what about the ones that managed to find their way to Team India !What about the performance of Uthappa/ Dhoni/Srisanth etc? You find oldies like Sehwag/ Ganguly at the top of performers' list even amongst this failed lot! By the way, calling senior performers like Ganguly and Tendulkar cheaters you are calling all Indians cheaters - because it is we Indians who have put them on the raised pedestal where they are now!Throw away your emotions and be more realistic . What India needs now is an unbiased selection process and a mature blend of youth and experience. And this should take place without the presence of HE(His Excellency) Greg Chappell! Having had an extensive contact with Caucasians I can safely conclude that the summary of his thanksgiving statement actually means "I am glad to get out of this goddamned country and its ****** people ! To **** you go - I have been able to get my kitty". He sadly lacks the basic ability of a coach -that of being a good motivator-and its no wonder that even his native land, Australia had thought about hiring him after the retirement of John Buchanan-as they are only too aware of his negative attributes!
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by rakesh krishna on Apr 07, 2007 03:05 AM Permalink
I agree with you Manoj. all know that the coach is not the one to be blamed for the poor show. From this very comment of Sachin towards media he is telling tha attitude he has got !!!!!
