India's premature exit from the World cup is a shame not only for the players but the country as a whole. While accepting the fact that most of the teams in this tournament are well prepared and seemingly superior to Indians, the blame lies on two people, the captain and the coach. If the coach was adamant, the captain was his extoller. Dravid, never ever paid heed to the former players advice and thinking and followed what the coach has said. He always forgot one thing that he is an Indian and he is leading a national team. Chappel is a foreign coach and if he fails in his assignment he will return to his country, but it is not the case as far as Dravid is concerned. He is an Indian and he should have kept in mind India's pride rather than anything. While he insisted for Shewag in the team even after his continuous failures why he hever asked for Ganguly's inclusion when he was ousted from the team. Here again he followed what Mr. Chappal desired and asked. Now he got what he deserved for playing politics rather than cricket. Chappel is a shameless fellow and he only wanted to teach a lesson to the players who shows disregard to his policies. He can easily be picked as the worst coach of the world cricket and I wonder if any nation would like him to be coached its team.
Having said all these, I would like to mention here that none of the Indian players wheter it is batsmen or bowlers have done anything good for the country. They are good for acting and not for playing cricket. As Hon'ble Laloo Yadav said we should retire all the players and selet a all new team. Then we cna at least solace that ours is an inexperienced team. This applies to both batsment and bowlers. Our bowlers are equally responsible for this debacle. They lack intensity and ideas. One cannot blame the captain if the bolwers fail to deliver even in conducive atmospheres. Except the inexperienced Munaf none of the bowlers deserve a place in the Indian team. We need to nurture Pathan as an all rounder, Srishanth and Munaft as strike bowlers along with some quality spinners who can bat also. We don't need world class spinners who can never produce results on trying conditions. Try some good alrounders and see the changes. After all one day cricket is a game of mentally tough players and not technically correct and timid players.
RE:WORLD CUP DEBACLE
by K Reddy on Mar 26, 2007 05:18 PM Permalink
See Mr Murali your desire will not be fulfilled by BCCI , again they will prefer old Donkies. All the talks are goings that who will be next Captain, is it is Sachin or Saurav even after such a debacle has happened.This System will not change. Mark my words
