Tell me India why should any of the three 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. 1. 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:Why Should Sachin Saurav Dravid Retire?
by ss ss on Apr 05, 2007 09:04 PM Permalink
Right.. Until we have good kids.. keep Dravid Sachin and Saurav as player.They still can do better than some players. Rahul , a great batsman , but does not has Captainship attitude. A captain does not need to perform always good with Bat/Bowl.. if he does.. it's real but most important keep the team together and get the best from them. If you have watched Rahul.. on field.. Does he look like a Captain? BCCI need to have someone like Yuraj or Dhoni or Dinesh kartik as Vice Captain. And latter one of become Captain.Sachin and Saurabh should be captain for timebeing and keep a future Captain as V-captain.
Greg Chappel may have good idea but then you need to implement that. If team fails.. Coach and Captain should blame most. They have to get best from players , if not,, they are unsuccessful in their job.
RE:Why Should Sachin Saurav Dravid Retire?
by Suman Bhat on Apr 06, 2007 10:58 AM Permalink
ganguly dravid sachin should stop racing for captaincy and play for team and country. team needs the performance fight on field rather by the 3 players than fighting in dressing room? Greg may be erratic but he hold the mirror for ind cricket which is ruled by sponsrs and politicians and players becomce pawns in their game..
RE:Why Should Sachin Saurav Dravid Retire?
by rayker rayker on Apr 06, 2007 10:24 AM Permalink
unless you give chance to the younger generation, you will not know how good they are. tendulkar's form hasnt been good of late. a century here and there in sub cntinent conditions isnt any good. we are poor travellers, we hardly leave our mark in foreign shores. if we need to win only in home matches, then at least cncentrate on winning ALL the matches at home, let 10 tendulakr's exist.
