1.He backstabbed Ganguly and was responsible for Ganguly thrown out of the team inspite of fact he made couple of 30's better then any other batsman and looked good.
2.Dravid was a Yes man to Chappel and his own personal agenda to keep Ganguly out was to safe gaurd his captaincy.
3.Yuvraj lost his vice captaincy again not on cricketing grounds...our great captain did nothing about it. I am sure BCCI did consult him before the decision.Why? Yuvraj is next in line to be captain.
4.We got humiliated at home during championstrophy...it was total shame.
5.We got humiliated at the world cup with first round exit. Moreover Dravid tried to blame Sachin and Ganguly for world cup debacle.When chappel alleged senior players were mafia...what was dravid's stand.How did he manage to keep his captaincy.
6.We lost pathan,bhajji,sehwag all three match winners under his leadership.
Karma will eventualy come back to haunt dravid.i wont be suprised if he is the first one retire or sacked from the BIG 3. He will be remembered as the captain who single handedly took india out of the world cup in the first round.
Sachin Ganguly Zaheer Yuvraj are on one side. Dravid had chappel and now has BCCI.
BCCI is noone's friend...cant wait to see Dravid going down.
RE:Sack Dravid
by Manoj Joseph on Aug 02, 2007 09:40 AM
For me, it looks like Ricky Thukral is writingthe screenplay for a bollywood action thriller. Nothing more than that. It is evident that there were not much problems between the players as the media and some others projecting. All these things are happening just because of the sensationalised news by the media, mostly yellow journalists who is only interested in increasing their circulation / readership through such sensational news.
When Ganguly was sacked, he was not at all playing well, especially during his last one year as captain, India was playing asa 10 players plus one captain. Now that he has come back to the team and playing much better.
Yuvraj Singh is no way a threat to Dravid and his captaincy. And, a captain is not just a good player, he should be a good person with a good image off the field also.
In the world cup, the loss against Bangladesh caused India's early exit and it was the team decision to bat first (to have batting practice) if India won the toss. Then why to blame Dravid alone? Team India didn't played well at all, so the blame should also be shared by everyone in the team. Everyone knows why Pathan, Sehwag and Harbhajan was dropped. Also, remember that it was on Dravid's demand, Sehwag was included in the team for the world cup.
It's funny that you are talking with emotions than brain.... Check the past "authentic" reports and comment!
RE:Sack Dravid
by Mat on Aug 06, 2007 08:47 AM
Was Dravid's captaincy not good when we had a consecutive run of 16 ODI wins when chasing?
"Dravid single handedly took India out WC" It seems only he batted and bowled in WC for India. What were the contributions of Bhaji, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Ganguly in WC, especially against Bangladesh? A captain is only as good as his team members and their form. Everybody were out of form, and the only one in some sort of 'form' decided to play his slowest innings against Bangladesh, to keep one end up. Period. We lost and got kicked out. In previous World Cups, Dravid contributed very well to the team%u2019s cause, and hence Ganguly captaincy record looks good. Ganguly lost his captaincy because he,himself was not performing. You know that, and I hope you will check the stats before reacting. As captain in the last 25 test matches ,he has scored only 1040 runs, at an average of 37,with 3 centuries. One century came against Zimbabwe. Imagine his average if you take out that century and two fifties he scored against Bangladesh! As captain of ODI, he scored at an average of 32 in his last fifty matches with one century against Kenya! His average comes down to 27 in his last 25 matches with no century and in the last ten matches, his average drops down further to 16. And against the best team in the world, when he is expected be at his best and leading from front, his average is 19! He deserved to be dropped as captain ,and as hoped he has come back stronger. I am sure its all
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