I don't know what chapple has reported to BCCI, that they have come up with such in favour of Dravid and fullfilling all the requests from Dravid-Chapple duo which was primarily responsible for moving down indian ranking from No.2 to No.8.
Chapple has put all the blames very intelligently on the seniors, but read what Simpson says about chapple.
Simpson then lays into Chappell and terms him a failure both as captain and coach.
"Obviously Greg Chappell had problems with the attitude of some of the top players. I found his public declaration of his dissatisfaction over the attitude and commitment of his senior players most disappointing.
"His lack of success with the Indian cricket team has come as no surprise to the Australian cricket fraternity. He is admired greatly for his wonderful, graceful and successful batting and I feel he was one of the greatest slip fielders of all time, but his captaincy and coaching did not command the same respect," Simpson said.
"During his long tenure as captain of Queensland, they were considered the best team in Australia but didn't win a single Sheffield Shield title. In recent times, he had a long coaching stint with South Australia but with poor results.
"Chappell's somewhat autocratic manner was often blamed for his lack of success, as was his perceived lack of understanding that his charges didn't have his golden touch and class as a cricketer."
RE:Chapple ka bhoot
by American Hero on Apr 21, 2007 12:07 PM Permalink
simpson wants to be a coaoch so he is cozying up to Tendulkar and Ganguly, since he knows India are going to lose to bangladesh and these seniors are going to come back. It is another matter of course that India will lose to Bangladesh even if the seniors had gone.
RE:Chapple ka bhoot
by Suman Bhat on Apr 21, 2007 12:12 PM Permalink
Many cricket / media expert are telling dravid influencing the sehwag why reliable sources ?? sehwag is highest run getter with better average and strike rate? He is highest rungetter and scored 100 in WC while no other batsman including yuvraj did not score 100 against Bermuda also When ganguly was captain, laxman and kumble were out of team even after good performance which ended odi career of laxman and kumble. BUT THERE WERE NO NOISE IN MEDIA Sachin being VC is failed with bat during WC. IF he had any problem with dravid or chappell why he did not approach the board instead of media? why is always comes with headlines with against dravid ? Whatever happens to ganguly it is projected the is b%u2019cuz of dravid?How can a ganguly%u2019s performance helped the team ?? His 129-ball 66 against Bangladesh, 114-ball 89 against Bermuda, and 23-ball 7 against Sri Lanka conveyed the impression that he was more concerned with making runs for himself than the team. Poor fielding, poor running between wkt, and unwilling to take singles not rotating strke etc.. It seems that some section of Bengal media, whatever bad/ failure happened to ganguly it is b%u2019cuz of dravid? B%u2019cuz dravid made captain from last 20 months? Why ur reliable sources could find out about back stage politics of ganguly?/
RE:Chapple ka bhoot
by Circuit on Apr 21, 2007 12:26 PM Permalink
Dear Suman,
If we can get results by kicking out all of the current players and making you the captain, there will not be any media heu and cry. but is you can not produce results and start blaming others for this there will be definite hue and cry everywhere. and media represnts the voice and feelings of common population not of some blind supporters like you.
