There are reports that selectors felt Dravid was not comfortable with seniors. Dravid should be asked WHY. If Sachin & Saurav have been "rested" because of this the first thing to be done is to sack Dravid as he cannot carry the team with. What if he is not comfortable with other player latr on? Vengsarkar says its a long season we needed to rest sachin & saurav and in BD we try yougsters. That means rahul will be rested in some matches later on? And are gambhir and mongia youngsters. Its nothing but a knee jerk reaction. Both sachin & saurav must be happy.as we are expected to beat BD. If they do so there's nothing great and these players wil be seected on England tour as the team needs experience and they would have rested by then. But if they lose hell will break loose and the 5 wise men (??) will have no option but to select them.
RE:Rahul Dravid as captain?
by Faceless Spirit on Apr 21, 2007 08:54 PM Permalink
The Board the captain and the captain's fans all are stinking and farting in joy. The entire place is full of foul smell.
India will return loser from Bangla outing. The great captain shall silently pass three more farts in joy again.
Only new player is Manoj. He will not be given any chance to play and be dropped again. The scheme is such that they will call Tendulkar agin but won't give chance to Ganguly.
Farting captain is farting all over the places with his farting fans who write long eulogies on this joker Rahul.
Bare his back and cane him with an oil soaked cane stick 10000 times.
RE:Rahul Dravid as captain?
by evelyn abraham on Apr 21, 2007 05:07 PM Permalink
It is the view of the sources..U cannot take that as even 1% percent true..All sources coming up with ridiculous stories..Just exploiting the people since they all seem to be focussed on cricket..
RE:Rahul Dravid as captain?
by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Apr 21, 2007 05:36 PM Permalink
How do you know that Dravid was not comfortable with seniors? It%u2019s the other way around.
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:Rahul Dravid as captain?
by samanthkumaran on Apr 21, 2007 05:07 PM Permalink
Dear Friend You seem to have forgotten Mohd Kaif. He has been given unfair treatment
