Sreekumar Menon and Others, Please stop denouncing Gavaskar. You are looking at his 36 runs innings, but forgetting that he contributed very significantly in 1983 World Cup. He played a 36-run innings, when one day cricket was starting and he was known for his slow knock as an opener. You are also forgetting that he captained 1985 Benson and Hedges Cup winnng team in Australia. Come on man. Show some respect to the Winners of your own country. As regards - How Greg Chappel is responsible for performance of failing team members, then please inform why was he appointed coach and what was his responsbility. For such senior positions, there are accountabilities and he is also accountable and that is why he resigned.
Gavasker - You are one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.While others remember your 36 run innings, I remember your one of the fastest century with something like 93-balls century.
Actually, on the 36 ball inning, Gavaskar himself admitted that he took a nick on the 2nd ball of the innings which went un-noticed by England. He did not accept the truth and leave the crease.
And his innings was widely regarded as his expression of contempt towards the then captain.
Also, as Ricky ponting pointed out, he is a selfish guy who came out of the ground with his team because umpire gave him as out.. (now go read the first para again)
Not Really dude. I am not any slave of white skin. I talk to foriegners with my head-high.
Many foriegners consider me brunt and rude, fyi. I understand their culture and way of life and I know the Indian way too. I have seen shameless Indians who just cheat and cant even be proud of themselves. They r found wanting of so many good qualities - the most important is of being "honest and sincere". Thats why I talk about the mistakes of my fellow Indians. India needs a change, India needs perspective to clear out the cobwebs that have engulfed the national psyche.
RE:Gavaskar's Comments
by Abhijeet Nandy on Apr 23, 2007 09:25 AM Permalink
Are you Australian? If not, then why is it that you would believe people like Pointing but Gavaskar himself?
RE:Gavaskar's Comments
by Suman Bhat on Apr 23, 2007 10:05 AM Permalink
sachin and ganguly are main culprits for wc debacle. and there were huge public opinion against sachin. But strong mumbai lobby will never let down theirlocal hero. and vengasrakar wanted him to captain. resting ganguly and sachin is eyewashing exercise. And many ex cricketers, media cricket experts had not guts to spaeak against these 2 super starts. the lack of commiment , passion , poor body languge or groupism or petty politics played against captain and coach.. both ex captain are fighting for captaincy behind scens. so they have to prove dravid is not good captain . but dravid started well wining 18 odis in chasing and won test series in WI , histoirci test match win SA, and odi sereis in WI.Chappell report was right in pointingout these dressing room politics and some players undermine dravd's captaincy and not to led by skipper . As per some news report tendulkar and ganguly had last laugh that they got rid of chappell and next terget is dravid Indina express poll 75% favoured dropping sachin and ganguly for odi series against BL But this did not bring any laurales to ex captains.they are looser b'cuz there is no guarantee that sachin ganguly will play next WC and in many public polls more than65% voted in favouring the bcci decision to rest superstars while dravid's supports to retain him as captain increased even after ongoing dravid bashing articles.. 80% of cricket associanton (survey in ndtv) supporte dravid. 50% voted for dravid in IE express,. IBN CNN survey 86% ppl voted for dravid..48% voters is voted dravid to be captain by big margin. .cricketvotes.com Sachin may be living legend but he is no more bigger than team or game SL is playing superb cricket None of senior player /ex captain m envied mahila%u2019s his promotion as captain From the outset they gave unstinting support. they remained hungry to perform and did not rely on reputation or popular support to protect their places. Ganguly and sachin are considered better odi players than dravid but had advantage of opening and play more balls tandulkar calibre players should be able to play in any position and dravid played from No1 to 7 as per team requirement dravid is still ahead in ICC odi ranking, also finised 10krnsn, highest no of fifties, highes catch holder, also nominated for icc odi team for last 2 yrs
RE:Gavaskar's Comments
by smskal yug on Apr 23, 2007 09:43 AM Permalink
Kannan is the same person as Rahadhakrishna meneon...its a shame he is manufacturing these stories just to save Dravid's skin,because he comes from the same region,this is so low!
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by Suman Bhat on Apr 23, 2007 10:09 AM Permalink
Lack of commitment, fighting spirit, negative body language, playing for self recores, to cement place for next matches, sponsers, poor fielding, trying to expose each on the field, promoting groupism etc.. Has coach told instructed for all these?? chappell's big mistake was he treated all players alike, equally and push the players from comfort zone. many superstars were taken their placed for granted.... winning and defeat depends on performance of XI players on the field irrepective of coach, captain, pitch and conditions. SL is playing superb cricket None of senior player /ex captain m envied mahila%u2019s his promotion as captain From the outset they gave unstinting support. they remained hungry to perform and did not rely on reputation or popular support to protect theanguly and sachin should have fought battle on ground rahter in dressing room both may successful to get rid of chappell but both players may not play WC2011 tee taht t Three former BCCI Presidents today The former Presidents, http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200704031320.htm It was all about attitude, feels BCCI Indian cricket needs Chappell: Tiger Pautidi he was trying to bring in Indian cricked was kind of shift to the emphasis from individual flair and brilliance to a kind of teamwork - which Australia are so good at - which is why he was actually invited to this country. http://www.cricketnext.com/news/indian-cricket-needs-chappell-pataudi/24441-14.html Cricketers remain unbeaten in advertising field Most celebrities, who have bet anything between Rs 250- 300 crore on old warhorses Sachin Tendulkar, Dravid and Ganguly, for http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=462779
Chappell held up a mirror to Indian cricket'-Manjrekar http://content-gulf.cricinfo.com/talk/content/current/multimedia/288811.html was what John Wright couldn't do for four years, he showed the nation what the team was all about, what problems it had'
Player-agent nexus ruining Indian cricket: former BCCI chiefs Three former BCCI Presidents today The former Presidents, http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200704031320.htm It was all about attitude, feels BCCI
that contributed to our losses against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka." http://worldcup.indiatimes.com/It_was_all_about_attitude_feels_BCCI/articleshow/1839620.cms
