His omission is evident of the fact that in Aus. the teams are selected after lot of brain storming. No preference is given to the players belonging to the President of cricket Board its members. I think India should also emmulate this and drop Sachin Tendulkar from the squad, we can not win World Cups with players like Vintage cars who perform very little or have stopped performing. Same goes with Sachin Tendulkar. The country should bank on his antique value..... Sehwag!!! are you listening???
RE:Clarks omission
by avelino mendonca on Feb 14, 2007 10:27 PM
You are right Tendulkar is antique value so also Saurav Ganguly. India for sure will never win this World Cup. Imagine player like Karthik in India eleven where he will not get a change in Australi's 50. I think India will be sixth or seventh. So don't pray. Just enjoy.
RE:RE:RE:Clarks omission
by SR on Feb 15, 2007 04:31 AM
If you think Ganguly is performing, then why belittle Tendulkar's performance. Hasn't he scored runs lately? If Ganguly's 48 in the 3rd ODI is good, then isn't Tendulkar's recent 100 of 70 balls good?
You people don't know the game... and so obviously don't know value of such talent. You must have been in the front row when Tendulkar got booed in Mumbai. All you want is boundaries... as you have no idea what it takes to be a good batsman at that level.
May be you should stick to the Cricket video games... when you can hit fours and sixers yourself.
RE:RE:RE:Clarks omission
by Ganesh Anand on Feb 15, 2007 09:48 AM
we'll see in the CUP... Who's playing. Its not an UNITED Indian Team, but individuals. I am Neither for Gang or Tend... but for the Team. Stand for the team!!
RE:Clarks omission
by sriram balu on Feb 15, 2007 06:36 AM
i havent seen a more stupid statement all my life. Sachin is antique. Man of the series in the previous ODI. Dont disgrace yourself, you dont know cricket so go and do something useful
RE:Performance not a matter!!!!
by prasobh kattambil on Feb 14, 2007 07:18 PM
I dont think Stuart Clark is a very good one-day bowler,.....also all his success in Tests have come on the helpful pitches in South Africa and Australia....let him come and perform on slow pitches, then we will see!!! also Shaun Tait provides that extra pace option...he bowled 160 kmph in one of the CB series matches last week!!!
RE:RE:Performance not a matter!!!!
by Anshuman Mishra on Feb 14, 2007 09:38 PM
there are other technical reasons... Clark can bowl very good on the dead and impotent pitches of Westindies.... where the bowler like Tait is not required.. it is a risk taken.. Also Clark can play very well with lot of temperament...
Even though Clark was "desperately unlucky" not to be included in the worldcup team. We should appreciate his magnanimity by saying - "It just means I am going to have to work on my game in the next six months so that I place myself in the best possible position to be selected in the future and wish the boys the very best in defending and bringing home the World Cup for Australia.
HAs any of our boys; who had a world cup dream after being left out has such things to say.
This shows TEAM AUSTRALIA and why they keep winning ......... TEAM INDIA! what ya gotta say!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RE:TEAM SPIRIT
by Ashok Trivedi on Feb 14, 2007 07:07 PM
Don't just compare the teams, compare the people also. People there don't burn effigies of selectors if someone's favourite is dropped. Here we burn effigies on the drop of a hat.
RE:RE:TEAM SPIRIT
by Debo Mcnair on Feb 14, 2007 08:54 PM
Here are some of the top people of a state who were dropped at some pint in their career
Laxman - Hyderabad - No effigies burnt Dravid/Anil kumble - Karnataka - No effigies burnt Sidhu - Punjab - No effigies burnt Agarkar - Bombay - No effigies burnt Sewhag/Chopra/Gambhir - Delhi - No effigies burnt Sreesanth - Kerala - No effigies burnt Robin Singh - Tamil Nadu - No effigies burnt Kaif - UP - Effigies of chappel burnt in UP Ganguly - Bengal - Anti India riots
RE:RE:RE:RE:TEAM SPIRIT
by Debo Mcnair on Feb 14, 2007 09:29 PM
"protest something that was wrong" - what is wrong to drop an out-of-form player even though he had a few successes a long time ago.
Plus if every state did like this, what would happen? The current 15 for thw world cup represent less than 10 states. What happens if the other states rioted?
RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:TEAM SPIRIT
by Samarth Prakash on Feb 14, 2007 10:48 PM
Then, Why did they include Sehwag now? Is he in FORM? If yes, then god save India. A Batsmen scoring 10-20 runs is in form!! If not then why double standards? Thats why people protested. They knew Ganguly was not dropped for the right reasons -- In 2005 when he was selected intets team, he played only 2 tests and was 2nd highest scorer in team in each of the 2 tests - it would have been different if he had been not selected for these tests). So, I think everyone should think about the way [and reasons] Ganguly was dropped before comparing with others.
RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:TEAM SPIRIT
by SR on Feb 15, 2007 04:40 AM
Ganguly was dropped becasue he was dancing against low skilled medium pacers on Indian pitches. He did the same in SA... got hit couple of times... but to his credit showed some fight there. The same attitude was missing when he was the captain. So he deserved to be dropped.
Stop eulogising your favourite players even when they suck. Be realistic.
It is easy to appreciate Australia and their attitude. To practice it is an entirely different ball game.
So... stop burning effigies or booing the team when Ganguly gets dropped. May then you earn the right to think that you are a cricket fan!
