I believe Ford has taken a sensible decision of not coaching India.Two things could have led to the decision - 1.It is better to be a big fish in a small pond(kent) rather than a small fish in a big pond(india).2.However qualified and capable you are you will have to succumb to the politics of BCCI.
Overall it is back to square one for Indian cricket on the coach issue.
Congratulations Mr.Ford.You have done a lot of good for the game and the nation persay. The game of cricket will be buried in India unless the politicians leave the cricket board and the semi-god seniors leave the team. It is the mumbai lobby with Pawar at the helm in action now. No one will be interested to watch cricket if players like Agarkar and Waseem Jaffer are playing for India. These folks are not even fit to play for a district team. They are in the team just because they are from Mumbai. All these people and the senior players should be thrown away from the team. May be we can invite the guruvayoor thanthri also to do a 'purification' once they leave.
It is interesting that Ford refused the job. BCCI is back to square one. Perhaps Gavaskar should be coach!! I must say we stand at a critical juncture in cricket. The game is moving on to becoming one where apart from talent technical excellence is important :- especially fitness, positive mental frame work, ..etc. I currently live in Australia and there is a culture of fitness in the country that we would find to emulate. My colleages at work at the age of 50 ride a bike 30km each day with a club before turning up for work. They are not even part of the club's professional team. I play 5th grade cricket in Perth and the facilities available are amazing. Cricket is no longer a sport where some talented amateurs turn up and perform. I pray that we are not headed the route hockey took in the late 70's.
RE:Cricket trend
by on Jun 12, 2007 12:53 PM
I agree with Abu. WHile the players want to be paid as professionals, there attitude is very amaturish. who would want to work with an organisation where everyone tries to play someone else's role (eg cricketers trying to be administrators by telling who they want as coach, selectors trying to influence the national team so that they can face their own state/regional board, adminstrators judging what decisions should have made on the field by the team/captain etc. while BCCI was active in providing support ot the neighbouring countries to bring them upto skretch, look where they are now? the impression that BCCI (inclusive of the cricketers) gives is that they are less interested in the results of the game and more on the commercial and political apsects. BCCI may be the richest and most influential cricket club in the world, but to me its the poorest in performance (both, onfield and off-field. i mean it don't even have its own website!!!!
goodluck witht the search for the coach. Hopefully they will do the right thing by selecting the RIGHT one rather than THE one.
When it comes to Indian cricket, though, you should never believe what you see or read.
This is a huge right blow-off by Ford on BCCI and the way it functions. There are plenty resons why ford declined.
1) The Term was given only one year. anybody who knows the Indian cricket knows that it takes full one year to understand the player's sentiments, press, a lot of cricketing knowledge people and finally and importantly a bunch of joker polititcians who heads BCCI. one year is not enough. So by the time he gets used, his tenure will be over and he will become jobless. His contract with kent is until Sep 2008 and they can even extend the contract because KCC is professional and knows the value of Ford. So instead of accpeting the offer and become jobless, Ford is smart and continueing with KCC and will get an extension in 2008. He will get a permanant job.
2) Ford is declined to take his personal support people. Everybody has their style of coaching and it needs an understanding and his choice of personal support peolle would have helped him a lot. Instead BCCI said you cant bring any personal staff and would have to be satisfied with whatever we give. so now Ford have to adjust with an assistant coach whom he never know, a bowling and Fielding coach he never talked and support staff he never worked with. Its difficult.
3) He has to face the egoist so called semi-gods (Read Indian Senior players) and the way they handled Greg and John wright must have make Ford to d
RE:Good Decision By Ford
by Upadrasta PardhaSaradhi on Jun 12, 2007 11:27 AM
Conitnue; 3) He has to face the egoist so called semi-gods (Read Indian Senior players) and the way they handled Greg and John wright must have make Ford to decide that I dont want to get into this mud. Ganguly played polititcs with Greg when he said please concentrate on the batting or get out of the team and give chance to Youngsters. Sehwag slapped on the face of John Wright (Gavaskar told this in ESPN and he is the Ey witness for it) when John said dont get out in 40s and make a good score because we need you.
I told in this REDIFF Board so many times. If the players and BCCI is not willing to listen and improve, even god cannot help them. Forget about the Coach.
RE:Good Decision By Ford
by Ifear paceman on Jun 12, 2007 11:45 AM
Make Ganguly Captain cum Coach
Ganguly first ever series against SA in 2000-2001 he fixed Donald Pollock, Clusner in such a way that they did not bowl their bowling quota.
Some less known bowlers did that job. Great captaincy....
Really great that makes opponent not using best of their resources when they are loosing.
Captain Ganguly India South Africa
1st IND v SAF 09/03/2000 Nehru Stad. (Kochi),India won by 3 wickets
Now you can see Donald who was there in tests opted out,Clusner did not bowl but he was there in the squad.
Pollock,Kallis,N Boje did not finish their quota. Cronje,Hayward, Williams,Crookes finishing rest of the overs.
What was cooking up. Did South Africa wanted themselves to loose?
2nd IND v SAF 12/03/2000 Keenan Stadium India won by 6 wickets What they are up against? same bowling despite earlier defeat. Same bowling pattern.
4th IND v SAF 17/03/2000 IPCL Sports Complex India won by 4 wickets.
What is going on same bowling pattern. inspite of being two one down in five match series. This should be do or die match for SA. Same bowling pattern.
Real great captaincy by Ganguly and match management by Dalmia combine.
He not only motivated Indian players but South African Players for India win
BCCI has got what it deserves. given their track record any professional will think 100 times before decidind to render itsb seviced to BCCI the most unprofessional cricketing body in the world. the past few weks have shown that they are not interested in selecting the right man for the job who will benefit Indian cricket but it has become a battle to establish the supremacy of some petty officials,senior players and former cricketers who just want their candidates to win irrespective of their credentials and capabilities.
these bunch of idiots running the BCCI will ruin our cricket, we have such a good INDIAN coaches who are capable of doing fantastic job, like Sandip Patil (who got Kenya to Semin Finals in the WC at South Africa), Ajit Wadekar, Balwindaer Sandhu, Mohinder Amarnath, Chandrakant Pandit etc the list goes on, but these so called moron Senior cricketere who do not perform dont want them, Chapell was right, these are Mafia in real sense, drop these so called senoirs and overhaul the BCCI completely to save Indian cricket,
