i think mr sunil gavaskar is rite...mr greg chappel is the only person who is responsible for indiaz defeat infact defeats in the world cup. the way he experimented with the batsmen and bowlers was just too much...there are other reasons also but i feel that he should have been removed before the worldcup after we lost 2 series in a row.
RE:YES ABSOLUTELY CORRECT
by Mat on Apr 22, 2007 08:29 PM Permalink
The truth is ....we are not good.The wins before our Test series tour to windies were because of pathan,dhoni and yuvaraj in sublime form.Then all of a sudden,yuvaraj got injured,pathans bowling deteriorated even further than normal though his batting was good and dhoni's batting flaws were exposed. Thats that.The other players like sehwag,sachin were anyway not doing much.So we were losing since then.Just dont put the blame on Chappell alone though I agree he experimented too much .May he wanted to know his player's ability to adapt and also his bench strength b4 the world cup. I am sure he was dissapointed to find the true ability of our players b4 the World cup.And I am sure thats the reason why he played Ganguly.Mind you ,Ganguly didnt perform well in South africa.He was average and all others were pathetic ,so his performance was only relatively good and that was all we ,the media and his backers needed to get him back to the team.Had our other batsmen put up a performance like the one we put up in australia,he wouldnt have got such a support after the series.He was great but now he should bow out gracefully.
