Gavaskar has the guts to call a spade a spade, when politics and a mute, spineless captain is at the helm.
Results are in front of everyone. India failed miserably. Dravid's captaincy and leadership are pathetic (boy, he can't even get his team together, what a baby!). Chappell is a lousy coach trying to save his own skin. Instead BCCI sucks up to Chappell as a consultant and retains a failed leader. Hats off to cricket politics! But this is no surprise in a country where politics has destroyed everything - most devastatingly, sports. And the fans also deserve it. Nowhere you will find such mindless criticism and lack of support for the players. One day they are Gods and the next they are being vilified.
Serves them right.
Read this article: http://worldofindia.blogspot.com/2007/04/bcci-story-shifting-blames-and.html
RE:Gavaskar has the guts
by on Apr 27, 2007 02:31 AM Permalink
If Gavaskar really is so much concerned about the state of indian cricket, why doesn't he take mantle of coaching India and leading them to world cup victory. Its easier said than done.
Also Dravid is a good captain in making. Unlike Ganguly and Gavaskar he doesn't play dirty politics. Only thing is he does have some head high players in his team by virtue of their god fathers in the team. He needs to take some tough decisions and start from scratch
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by zzzzz zzzzz on Apr 27, 2007 02:50 AM Permalink
Dravid lacks leadership and man management qualities. He's a class palyer no doubt, but he won't be a shadow of that as a captain.
Ganguly is a very good leader. He supported his players and moulded India into a fighting and successful team. He probably has himself to blame for his downfall from captaincy, but one cannot neglect his contribution as player and especially as a captain. People, biased by their own views, forget Ganguly's contribution. In the 2003 world cup, Ganguly led from the front, scoring three centuries (and a top run getter).
RE:Gavaskar has the guts
by Suman Bhat on Apr 27, 2007 02:17 PM Permalink
ganguly should retire Ganguly had big role in defeat in mathch against Bangladesh. He gifted match t o bangaldesh deliberately playing negative cricket just to humiliate dravid and to take revenge against chappell ?? but he betrayed the whole team ganguly wasted more balls than runs he scored poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team also created pressure on batsman on other side He did not bother to try and hold an easy catch during agarka bowling , Never tried to accelerate run rate He did not tried to hold simple catch during agarkar%u2019s bowling 60 runs in 130 balls how it can help a team cause?? Ganguly had one stage for having batted through nearly 11 overs to make a mere 7 runs. Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs India Scored 191 in 50 overs Ganguly Scored 66 runs in 21 Rest of team scored 50 in 19 overs Against burmada Ganguly scored 89 in 114 balls wasted 25 balls that is around 4.6 runs per over... compare it to the indian teams average of 8.26 Ganguly was struggling while batting against burmuda, and got 3 lifes Ganguly 7 in 23 balls against SL Ganguly did not return with team but next day when arrived in kolkat airport media said he got a warm welcome He was not team uniform. He did not try to hold simple catch during agarka%u2019s bowling. His poor fielding, poor running btw wkt cost more runs to team than the runs he scored. During SL match, John Writh commentriator was telling that if Sl batsman want 2 runs they should push ball towards ganguly and screen was showing ganguly putting hands behind head staind yawning near boundary line. ganguly is main culprit for WC debacle. ganguly spend more time as per clause of his sponsers ganguly is main culprit for WC debacle. ganguly spend more time as per clause of his sponsers Ganguly success is b'cuz of dravid contribution in tests and sachin contribution in oids.. Not B'CUZ OF HIS LEADERSHIP OR AGRESSION GANGULY %u2018S SELFISH, OPPERTUNIST, CUNNING POLITICIAN AND PROMOTING GROUPISM AND NOT BATHER ED IF TEAM WINS OR NOT GANGULY IS MAIN CULPRIT IN DEBACLE OF WC HE SHOULD BE OUT OF IND TEAM FOR TESTS AND ODIS team went final in WC2003 bcuz sachin batted brilliently. he scored 33%of total runs and won MOS and best batsman. NOT B'CUZ OF GANGULY CAPTAINCY OR LEADERSHIP, srinath bowled well and dravid ketp wkts to accomodate one more batsman No player played negative cricket that team should loolse. But this time some players were not with team or captain by scoring 50 in almost every Innings at the cost of winnig chances of India. India''s loss against bangladesh was due to him. He created fear in our own batsmen by playing pathetically slow and then gave confidence to bangladeshi bowlers.
in 2004 team ind out of chapmions trophy in 1st round under the leadership of so called agressvie leader gangster ganguly. Team had humiliated defeat against kiwis(56 all out recored lowest score for team ind) aussies, Pakistan, wWI ganguly and his chelas like dhoni, bajji, zahir khan should be out team ganguly destroyed team spitrit by votmiting dressing room conflict in front of media after scoring a 100 durig zimb tour. He is promoting groupism, encouraging younger players to play petty politics, against team mates. Ganguly ugly politics made Sachin to leave captaincy down in order permanently betrayed by ganguly. dravid anchored success to captaincy of ganguly but ganguly betrayed dravid dalmiay supported ganguly for 5 yrs as godfather and ganguly betrayed dalmiay ganguly is selfish, opperitunits, politician criketer
RE:Gavaskar has the guts
by Vimal Kumar on Apr 27, 2007 01:45 AM Permalink
Well you seem to have a problem with the only man who calls a spade a spade - Chappell. We've all got used to Gvaskar calling an axe a spade, if you know what i mean. How hard it is to see that Gavaskar is a biased man?
RE:RE:Gavaskar has the guts
by zzzzz zzzzz on Apr 27, 2007 02:40 AM Permalink
In this case, Gavaskar has just pointed out the obvious. If you think that India is more successful after Greg Chappell's term, you are welcome to that opinion. I just see that it has gone downhill. I'm not anti Chapell, but if you call success as dragging a top team into the pits, then yes, he has been successful. IMO, Chappell's contribution has been zero. I don't think Chappell will succeed as a coach anywhere. If you can't unite a team and get along with player, you can't go very far.
