There are a lot of things that were spoken here about Dravid was not comfortable with seniors? He want them out and so on.
The manager of the Indian team in WC has submitted a secret report to the BCCI which was not disclosed saying that its the seniors like Sachin, Saurav especially Saurav divided the team as pro chappel/dravid and anti dravid/chappel teams and the anti dravid/chappel team led by Saurav deliberately played badly so that the coach goes off and Captain will go and finally Saurav will be given the captaincy again.
Manager submitted a detailed report about wt ever Saurav did like not taking the advise of the dressing room to play fast against Bangladesh, SMSs sent by him to media about the team composition, and when Dravid told Saurav wt to do, Saurav replied back arrogantly saying I was the Indian team captain before and you need not tell anything and so on............
BCCI wants to teach a lesson to Saurav, but fearing a backslash by CAB (Sapura%u2019s state association) included Sachin also in the people who are removed, but has put a polite word rested. :):):)
This happened to lakshman also. The senior players especially Saurav had always has fear that Lakshman will be the next captaincy candidate as he was playing well in the test matches and has a lot of experience as a captain and Selectors once thought of removing Saurav as a test captain and make Lakshman test side captain as Saurav was struggling to get runs in the test matches. Saurav slowly tried to eliminate lakshman encouraging Yuvraj as the test batsman and fought hard to replace lakshman in the test side. This is the reason why lakshman was a never a constant members of the team despite of his good show whenever he gets chance.
Politics always played and plays and still will play in the selection of the players and the way cricket is played in India because the bosses of the BCCI were always either businessmen or politicians.
RE:Saurav, the Great manipulator
by Rahul Roy on Apr 21, 2007 05:56 PM Permalink
Seems like you have full access to this so called 'secret' not %u2018disclosed%u2019 report. Why not post it for general public to prove your imaginative points. Otherwise I can talk about so many meetings taken place between Dravid, Greg & More to throw Ganguly out of the team but I have no proof to show ...
Only in India we sack our most successful captain after a series win while the captain scored a ton in his last test innings. But we keep our captain (and probably our coach too if he wanted to stay) after such a measurable performance in world cup, champions trophy and so on%u2026 Why we were out of Champions trophy in the first round as well? We had young team, NO GANGULY, perfect home pitch, world most successful & intelligent Captain Mr.Rahul Dravid and the best strategist Guru Greg Chappell? Why same for the ODIs in SA?
We only started wining after Ganguly joined started scoring runs and up lift the team moral
RE:Saurav, the Great manipulator
by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Apr 21, 2007 06:33 PM Permalink
I may not have a full access to the report, but if you have seen SETMax and ESPN just 2 days after the BCCI meeting, you will know wt I am speaking. Charu sharma and Harsha Bhogle touched these points. John wright who is commentating in SetMax at that time said its a common phenomenon in INdian Cricket and Ravi in that program categorically denied to answer and discuss the report because he is officially the manager of Indian Cricket TEam. :)
RE:Saurav, the Great manipulator
by Rahul Roy on Apr 21, 2007 07:31 PM Permalink
I also heard that Dravid sent Dinesh kartkic at least four times to Ganguly saying he has to try hitting a 'Six' in each ball in Bermuda match? How good of a captaincy is that? First you have to trust your teammate, their motive and their judgement.
If you can not do that then you will be like the case Mughal Samrat Aurangajeb..where you can not trust anyone.
Remember Rahul in his early days of one day? where he could not able to scored runs quickly and used to put the team in pressure? Did Sourav question his intension? That's not how you run a team...
RE:Saurav, the Great manipulator
by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Apr 21, 2007 07:36 PM Permalink
Dravid was removed from the team at that time and was asked to refine the game. He went back, played alot of ranji games, did worked hard and came back with his pure hard work.
RE:Saurav, the Great manipulator
by Rahul Roy on Apr 21, 2007 09:56 PM Permalink
Dravid was never droped. Sourav new how good a player he was ...convinced the player kept him in the team...created his position by asking to keep wicket..Actually Dravid status as a batsman in one day changed after that when he was assured of his place in the team...
RE:Saurav, the Great manipulator
by Abhijit Roy on Apr 22, 2007 12:24 AM Permalink
RAHUL IS AT PRESENT INDIA'S BEST BATSMAN, BEST VICE CAPTAIN(very good cricket brain)AND WORST CAPTAIN(cannot controll the team).
