WAS THE INDIAN TEAM EVER MORE THAN AN AVERAGE TEAM EVEN DURING YOUR DAYS? ONCE EVEN YOU OPENED THE BOWLING!!!! THEN THE SPINNERS TOOK OVER.. A FEW MATCHES IN INDIA SAW SOME POSITIVE RESULTS. FROM ABROAD THE INDIAN TEAM ALWAYS RETURNED BLAMING THE UMPIRES/ THE PITCHES/ THE CROWDS/ THE VEGETARIAN DIET OF INDIANS ETC..BUT SELDOM A WIN... WAS THE INDIAN TEAM EVER AWARE OF WHAT IS DISCIPLINE? WHY COULD YOU NOT TAKE UP TO COACHING THE INDIAN TEAM IF YOU THOUGHT GREG CHAPPEL WAS NOT UPTO THE MARK. TODAY THERE IS NONE WILLING TO COACH THE INDIAN TEAM..EVEN YOU ARE RELUCTANT. THE BENCH STRENGTH OF INDIA IS NOT CALCULABLE AS THE BENCH IS EMPTY..THERE IS NO YOUNGSTER IN THE CALIBER OF MIKE HUSSEY OR SHAUN TAIT OR THE HUNDREDS AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA. MY REQUEST IS THAT "PLEASE FOLLOW THE GOLDEN RULE..SILENCE IS GOLDEN" IF YOU CANNOT STEM THE RIVER FOR PRODUCTIVITY SO SHALL IT BE..BUT DO NOT DIRTY IT . GREG CHAPPEL WAS THE BEST THAT COULD HAPPEN TO INDIA..BUT JUST LIKE OUR ERSTWHILE MINISTERS SCOFFED AWAY LEE KWAN YIU'S SEZ PROPOSAL ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO AND CHINA TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT, THE SAME FATE AWAITS INDIAN CRICKET
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by Jimmy John on Apr 22, 2007 09:36 PM Permalink
Ramachandran,It's so sick to see people like you always blaming Christians for every wrong in this country and now you have got this stuff into cricket too.What's wrong in being a Christian? They dominate all world sports today and have been doing so in the past.Moreover, anything and everything that has benifitted mankind has come from the Christians. Chappel may have had his faults but you must remember that he was selected by a selection board set up by the BCCI, which desperately needed some cleansing and direction in the Indian cricket team at that point of time. And also to blame him for all the problems is not right. When did India ever dominate world cricket like te West Indians or the Australians? We may have won the world cup in 1983 but we were thrashed in the series after that in India by the West Indians. The only achievement worth mentioning was the ICC World Series we won in 1985 in Australia, otherwise every other tournament has been a big failure.
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by sameer bhadwa gat on Apr 22, 2007 09:11 PM Permalink
"even Ireland would defeat aus if Greg too over as the crciket academy head" reeks of personal vendetta!! what is Gavaskar trying to say?? That India is a hopeles team cos of Greg Chappell?? Sunny got it wrong there!!
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by Supriyo Chaudhuri on Apr 22, 2007 09:14 PM Permalink
I completely disagree. If you question Gavaskar's credentials about commenting about Indian cricket - I disagree - there is none more qualified. About India's performance during his tenure, India was the top team in the world in 1983, and then again in 1985 - so your statement that it was never better than Australia does not hold. His observation that Indian team went downhill after Greg Chappell took over is true - we were dreaming of winning the world cup then. I guess you got your knowledge of cricket, logic, sense of humour and English all wrong.
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by sameer bhadwa gat on Apr 22, 2007 09:17 PM Permalink
Supriyo, i agree with you! but for Gavaskar to make uncharitable comments about Greg Chappell and challenging his credentials as coach is a bit out of place!!
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by Abhijit Ghosh on Apr 22, 2007 09:21 PM Permalink
Mr. Ramchandran has said "GREG CHAPPEL WAS THE BEST THAT COULD HAPPEN TO INDIA", only this sentence is enough to describe your sate of mind, sir. After having a humiliating world cup campaign and so many (like 4-0 loss to South Africa in ODI) guru Greg is really the best thing to ruin Indian cricket. In today result oriented world nobody is spared, guru Greg should be dumped from coaching for rest of his life. Please do not write in CAPS to a person who scored not less than 700 in his first test series in West Indies. Please learn to respect the one of the 3 alltime best players of India in test cricket.
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by vinu manijose on Apr 22, 2007 09:29 PM Permalink
i stay in calcutta and i can say for sure they are nothing but a bunch of lazy bodies with brains filled with the smoke of ganja. the only time a few brain waves knocks those dumbells are when the name of dada is heard. cant blame them.
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by Ganesh Rajan on Apr 22, 2007 09:10 PM Permalink
Please don't use all capital letters, it's equivalent to shouting and it's very hard to read. It's just a suggestion, I am not criticising you.
