Even a ranji trophy captain or a state captain could have played better cricket than Dravid during the match against Bangladesh. Think when the opener Hamim was coming out of the crease and hitting the ball even myself was telling that the keeper should come near the stumps. Why Dravid didnt think? Why dont the bowler think? they say they have played plenty of cricket. Where is the experience when u r not using it at proper time. Dravid is a clear flop as a captain. I thought the board is going to give dravid, tendulkar, dhoni (i feel his hair is obstructing the view of the ball, it(HAIR) is only good for the advertising), ganguly a break for the bangladesh tour. But instead it cut the match fees and restored the same flop players. What action is taken against shewag? Why the board has not asked Dravid's explanation for not including Shreeshanth and karthik in the crucial match against Srilanka? What is the use of agarkar and harbajan in the side. Why tendulkar was given so many chance? Just for boosting his wallet!!!!. I honestly request the board to scrap tendulkar, dhoni, shewag, agarkar and harbajan from the national side. Let them prove in ranji trophy, etc. and then reselected in the national side.
RE:POOR CAPTAINCY
by Suman Bhat on Apr 10, 2007 01:32 PM Permalink
captaincy myth when dravid made captain team was broken ship and ranked NO8th in ICC rankingnow even after so many defeats it is ranked NO 6th( till yesterday's varified) dravid is still No 12th in odi ranking . Indian captains in ODIs
Names Matches Won Lost Drawn/Tied Won%
Kapil Dev 74 40 32 2 54.05% M Azharuddin 173 89 76 6/2 51.45% SR Tendulkar 73 23 43 6/1 31.51% SC Ganguly 146 76 65 &nbs p; 5 52.05% R Dravid 65 33 28 4 50.77% dravid led team lesser no of matches and winning average is only 1.22% less than ganguly's success as captain b'cuz ganguly had advantage of leading team more nos of mathces and more lengthier period. Ganguly had god father called dalmiya and full support of bcci but dravid is criticized by chief slectore board officials etc%u2026 India team early exit is b%u2019cuz of dirty negative criket played delebartely by some senior player and chappell had guts to raise issue all senior players are responsible for WC debacle. Some players deliberately played negative cricket and gifted match to Bangladesh.IF players wer not ready to support team cause or captian, why blame captain and coach?? Many ppl say dravid is not inspirational captain and ganguly had that spark If players has to decide to play for team cause or self. And motivation /inspriration can be attained by self attempt ( by positive thinking and right mindset) captain can only tell but individual player has to believe in self strength. In big event like WC if players can get motivated to play negative cricket why can%u2019t they inspire to play for team???
were not ready to play for team cause, then how can captain Ganguly%u2019s media ageing singing one song dravid chapelll should go sachin should retire and ganguly should be captain and yuvraj make VC After his come back ganguly is playing for self to save his wkt and cement his place not even one performance did not for team cause. He is selfish oppertuinst and promote groupism no media makes noise about his dadagiri. Ganguly did not return with team, but when he arrived next day he was not in team uniform but some channel was highlighting it was warm return attitude%u2026.etc.. whole team is responsible for loss and why coach and captain made scapegoat If captain and coach has to go then sachin ganguly sewag zahirkahn harban, dhoni also be out of team
sunil gavaskar, kapildev, A gaikwad, GR vishwanath, chetan chauhan, kiran more, have supported dravid continue as captian
RE:POOR CAPTAINCY
by siva kumar on Apr 10, 2007 04:32 PM Permalink
i VERY MUCH AGREE THAT SACHIN GANGULY, SEWAG, ZAHIR AND DHONI SHOULD BE OUT OF TEAM. tHEY HAVE TO FIRST PROVE THEIR BASICS IN THE RANJI TROPHY MATCH AND THEN GET SELECTED ALONG WITH OTHERS. THE SCORES SCORED BY SACHIN IN ALL THE THREE MATCHES CAN BE EASILY SCORED BY ANY 11TH PLAYER OF ANY TEAM. I AM NOT JOKING. IT IS FACT. IF WE HAVE TO WIN MATCHES WE HAVE TO HAVE THE RIGHT COMBINATION. NOT PLAYERS WHO HAVE 14,000 RUNS AND NOT SCORING A SINGLE MATCH. tHOUGH GANGULY PLAYED FOR HIMSELF HE SCORED MOST RUNS IN ALL THE THREE MATCHES. HOW CAN U CALL HIM SELFISH. LET IT BE FOR HIS CAUSE, HE SCORED RUNS AND INDIA NEEDS RUNS. WHY PLAYERS LIKE RAHUL SEWAG DIDNOT PLAY FOR THEIR CAUSE ATLEAST. THEY KNOW THEY WILL NOT BE DROPPED FROM THE TEAM. I SUPPOSE THEY MUST BE THROWN OUT OF THE TEAM. DONT COMPARE CAPTAINCY ISSUE WITH OTHERS. HIS CAPTAINCY AGAINST BANGLADESH AND SRILANKA IS VERY POOR AND HIS TEAM SELECTION AND FIELD PLACEMENT IS ALSO VERY POOR. WHY HE BACKS SEWAG AND UTTAPA? HE SHOULD HAVE REPLACED THEM BY SRISHANTH AND KARTHIK. DRAVID PLS GO OUT OF THE TEAM FOR THE GOOD OF INDIAN CRICKET. AND PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE SACHIN JUMP OUT OF CRICKET AND ACT IN BOOST ADVERTISEMENT.
RE:POOR CAPTAINCY
by Jarnail singh on Apr 10, 2007 01:16 PM Permalink
very right dear, if they could have restricted hamim from bashing indian teams fortune would have been different. no slazing, no bouncer and thinking someone will come from heaven and save them.
