Is Chappell right for Indian cricket
I have read so much in the past few days about the Indian cricket, its present and its future from so many different sources with different biases and varied backgrounds that I thought it could be good if I could scribble my thoughts too.
Keeping the Ganguly Chappell events in mind I feel that despite whatever ganguly did, he deserved a much better farewell than what was given to him by Chappell and the Indian Board. Ganguly might be arrogant, lazy, sloppy, but on the field he was still the best Indian captain so far. There are so many articles where Chappell has mentioned about why Ganguly was a BAD example to the younger members of the team but even now we have young members speaking for him.
I am not saying that Ganguly is an excellent team player or an excellent batsman, but he deserved better from a group of ... who keep making surprisingly new and contradictory statements everyday.
Keeping the Ganguly Chappell events in mind I feel that despite whatever ganguly did, he deserved a much better farewell than what was given to him by Chappell and the Indian Board. Ganguly might be arrogant, lazy, sloppy, but on the field he was still the best Indian captain so far. There are so many articles where Chappell has mentioned about why Ganguly was a BAD example to the younger members of the team but even now we have young members speaking for him.
I am not saying that Ganguly is an excellent team player or an excellent batsman, but he deserved better from a group of ... who keep making surprisingly new and contradictory statements everyday.
posted by Third Umpire at 8:12 PM
5 Comments:
I dont know if Chappell has done wonders with the Indian team or not. Ganguly was best captain based on numbers and numbers are just what they are.. numbers! Ganguly was just lucky to be captaining a really good team.
I think Indian team has entered an era where we have young talent coming from the most unlikely of places and not just big cities.
Ganguly was definitely one of the best captians Indian team has ever had.He had a very exceptional quality of extracting the best out of his team and according to me this is what a captian is supposed to do.Therefore,according to my point of view Ganguly deserved a much better farewell than what he actually got.Chappel should have remembered his glorious captainship days....
I don't know why Chappell did this....does a senior player(and a good captian too)deserves this kind of treatment while retiring??Chappell certainly did not make good decisions ,neither for Ganguly nor for our team.Ganguly was not a brilliant player,not a master blaster,but was a good captain and did a great job for the team! He deserved a better farewell and Chappell should have acted wisely.
Thats the problem with us and cricket - its hard to keep the emotions off. Its high time that indian cricket gets the clinical treatment that Chappell is giving it. It helps establishing faith in meritocracy and getting over the 'lets be sensitive to indian culture and way of doing things'. A recent article in a well known indian newspaper talked about chappell's approach and said that tihs is 'not the way things are done in india'. wtf! indians need to get over their political and emtional mess and come up with a clean system of selection where talent is above relationships or the number of times you called jagmohan dalmiya in a day. As far as the farewell to ganguli goes it fits someone who's not willing to accept it in the first place ;-)
Shake.. how many times did you use INDIAN as an adjective? So when you too accept the fact that everything is Indian why not treat it with the Indianness?
I agree that Saurav was out of form but so is Sachin. But we still are hoping he will come to form. In every match we hope he will magically spring back to his old self.
Why only India, I think every country has its emotions and every one has his heroes. Look at Adam Gilchrist. He has not been in form lately but he is still there.
I am not saying that Saurav should still have been playing. I am saying that we Indians are very quick in making heroes and then forgetting them. It is not only true about cricket but also about other things like the Jesssica Lal case or the Gujarat riots or Saurav Ganguly.
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