Dravid is indeed a shrewd skipper .. he makes some clever changes in the field and all of u guys,please note that, aggression doesnt mean, running up and down frantically or removing your shirt and waving it wildly .. dravid and ganguly are very good captains with different styles .. and more over, dravid continues to be successful with the bat without captaincy affecting his batting ... Importantly, he never indulges in politics as do, people like saurav, or yuvraj or bhajji and more recently ( and quote shockingly !) sachin also .... Please note that, india won many matches under saurav becoz of dravid's consistency with the bat , the australia series in 2004, pakistan 2004, england 2003 , were all tributes to dravid's superb batsmanship ... Whoever can talk whatever they like, but no one can ever take away the class of his batting , whether u like it or not, he is the most consistent indian star for the past 10 years , winning and saving matches for india routinely ... let's not bad mouth him ... and w.r.t WC debacle, clearly the reasons were 1) batting failure 2) internal politics , so why do we blame rahul for this ?? BCCI has done well to appoint him captain till the england tour...
RE:Dravid for captaincy
by Ravi chandran on Apr 10, 2007 12:02 PM Permalink
Yes, yes, he follows many great strateges. Sadly, the other 10 in the team do not understand that when playing. So, we lose. Long after that, BCCI and fellows like you understand and appreciate that.
RE:Dravid for captaincy
by rahul guha on Apr 10, 2007 12:11 PM Permalink
1. Well ... if speaking against the board means POLITICS then Ganguli, Sachin everybody are doing that except the "good boy" Dravid. 2. Regarding aggression ... the whole world saw Indian teams Body Language ... Our Shrewed and Aggressive captain failed completely to bring the body language of his teammates out. I won't consider that a big qualification for him. 3. Nobody questioned Dravid's ability as a batsman ... yet. But I was really amazed by seeing people started pointing finger on Ganguly ... And somehow this post is silent about that.
Fact 1: Dravid is a good batsman (even I can give him a good strategist). He is a BAD Leader. Fact 2: BCCI is playing old politics once again ... I never understood who this "Jagdale" dude is ... I don't know if he ever played even street cricket!!! And he is our team manager ... and his report is the most valuable document to BCCI just because he says what they wanna hear. Fact 3: The most acceptable seniors in Team india are Sachin and Saurav ... note ... its NOT Captain Dravid!!!
Let me do a prediction against my heart ... India will do BADLY in Bangladesh tour ... Its unfortunate!!!
