This is one of the silliest article that I've ever read. Looks like, this guy has some grouse against Marathis. It's very wrong to take a one-sided view and then attribute regionalism to it. How professional is it on part of any coach to leak reports to the media? He should face the players and the board directly; not conduct a smear campaign in the media on the sly. As for the Pakistan series, anyone would have felt sad at being unable to hit a double century against our arch-rivals. If Tendulkar was sulking, it definitely didn't show when he came onto bowl and got rid of Moin Khan the next day. Tendulkar has played most of his career in the opener slot and he is most comfortable there. Mentioning that does not mean that he has an attitude problem. Atleast Tendulkar never leaked to the media that he was unhappy with being pushed down to the middle order. His statements were said directly; which obviously means he was ready to clarify it with his coach and captain. Dravid was the captain for the WC, if he let himself supposedly hijacked by the senior players mafia, then it means we had a spineless captain. Anyway with Chappell backing him, he should have had no problem in taking the decisions. As for batting first against Bangladesh, there was nothing wrong in it. What if India had lost the toss and anyway were put in to bat first? Is Chappell trying to say that then it would have been okay to lose to Bangladesh. The toss was inconsequential; we batted badly and a huge part of the blame lies with Tendulkar. There is no denying that; but don't start a stupid smear campaign against him. It's okay to have an opinion of his batting abilites but to besmirch a man's character is not done.
