hi all, Dravid no doubt is a gr8 player but to lead a team u need to b more than just being a gr8 player.. i don't think Dravid deserves to lead team India.. He has been given ample opportunites but 0 output frm his side... I too feel Gangulay should lead b'se he has proved himself time and again.. There is a vast difference between the 2 captians then there was unity, aggression, team huddles and spirit when team India performed they really lukd like tigers on field but now none of those things r to b seen they luk mere shadows of their past.. which is very sad... Leading team India is not easy so we need some1 like saurav to lead from front... without him there is no spice no josh to our team today....
RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:29 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:52 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by chand a on May 30, 2007 10:45 AM
he might have struggled against a short ball but then he is no god... i hve not seen a cricketer who has played cricket without any struggle ever even LAra or ponting hve struggled and even gr8 bowlers like mcgrath or Lee have been thrashed by the minnows that doesn't mean that they hve lost it.. ganguly has it all to make a gr8 captian even today if he gets that support... and abt his batting his records says it all... need we say more..
RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by shariq anwer on May 28, 2007 10:34 PM
Saurav and Sachin are past. India should look towards future. Dhoni should be made the captain. He is the only surety in the team and has never been involved in team factionalism or board politics unlike Sehwag and Yuvraj.
RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by vikash sharma on May 30, 2007 04:56 PM
Dhoni????? are you kidding me ... let the team as it is ... remember this team holds the world record of largest consecutive wins chasing... that time every one said .. what a team.... what a captain.... what a coach... the problem is that Indian audience has a very short memory...
lets pray that their should be no politics in and out of the team and there should always be the team spirit and mutual trust b/w the team members...
if that happenes.. the team will always do good...
RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:22 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:not any good player can b a good captian
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:51 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
SAURABH DADA IS A GREAT POLITICIAN. TILL THE TIME HE IS THE PART OF AN INDIAN TEAM, TEAM INDIA WILL NEVER GROW. REMOVE THIS MAN AND SEE THE RESULT. DADA IS POLITICIAN.
RE:Revenge not on Dravid's mind
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:23 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:Revenge not on Dravid's mind
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:52 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
RE:Revenge not on Dravid's mind
by vikash sharma on May 30, 2007 05:12 PM
i agree.... it has been reported that inspite of continuous orders for speeding up the run rate in the match against Bangladesh in world cup.. he continued in the slow rate just to show up runs against his name... surly this was "one of the reasons" for Indian loss.. i think his removal from the one day team was because of this fact only..
Can't we not at least unite on our voice to support Indian team without this captaincy debacle !!! Rahul ,Sachin & Saurav can demolish any team ,if they are united in true sense .It does not matter who is the captain and Rahul can take SS in his emotional partnership and rule the world. Partha
RE:Bring Back Sourav
by shariq anwer on May 28, 2007 10:37 PM
It is ridiculous. It is like going backwards. India should look towards the youngsters not someone who has past his "best use" date. Same goes for Sachin too.
RE:Bring Back Sourav
by ratan ray on May 23, 2007 12:08 PM
rahul has no aggressiveness...and his way of playing is not appropriate for one day team....he has problem to interact with his teammate.....but respect to rahul, sourav is the best choice for indian captain....how he returned back , during his turbullence day no one with him....but his determination helped him to come back......still now he has lot play to give our country....
RE:RE:Bring Back Sourav
by mahmood alam on May 25, 2007 06:21 PM
REMOVE SOURAV & SEE THE RESULT. DADA IS A POLITICIAN AND SPOILED THE IMAGE OF INDIAN CRICKET.
RE:Bring Back Sourav
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:53 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
RE:Bring Back Sourav
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:24 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:RE:Bring Back Sourav
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:53 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
RE:Bring Back Sourav
by R on May 26, 2007 05:18 PM
india can survive without your DADA. there should be no DADAgiri. we need india to win. period. dont make anyone larger than cricket, larger than indian cricket. stars have thier place. but to tell dada is one and only is stupidity. i'd agree with you if he was in form. he's no longer the player he was before. dada is good, but he's NOT THE ONLY solution.
RE:Bring Back Sourav
by vikash sharma on May 30, 2007 05:21 PM
yaar... why don't we just support the Indian team as it is ... there are lot of great players in our team and we are proud of them. remember this very team won world record number of matches chasing... that time there was no ganguly.. and every one was saying ... wow great captainship,,, great coaching... where are those every one...
use you head my dear friends... this team can do it but in one condition ... there should be no politics in and around the team...
and one more thing... players doing politics should see the bench for some time....
RE:Rahul is the best
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:30 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:Rahul is the best
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 11:07 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
RE:Rahul is the best
by stanly rose on May 22, 2007 06:57 PM
Sachin is "All Time Best for Captaincy" for handling all kinds for situations. He is GEM of all.
RE:Rahul is the best
by sumangali pukku on May 21, 2007 04:26 PM
Sorry about rahul but he is not suitable for captainship post. either Dada should takeover or sachin then only the wall can concentrate on his batting and remove that idiot Robin uthappa from team then only india can do well. Wt do u mean people of bangalore are suppposed to lead the way..others are wearing bangles or what...he is the worst captain india had till date.. Dada is the best...
RE:Rahul is the best
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:24 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:Rahul is the best
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:54 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
RE:Rahul is the best
by ratan ray on May 23, 2007 12:14 PM
rahul has no capability to accept challenge.....and has no managing power.....he has no capability to take self-decision......his remote control was on the hand of chappel at the time of WORLD CUP... and as a result we have seen poor performance in world cup...more over he unable to keep all the player under one umbrella.....
"India failed to defeat Afghanistan in the WC qualifier in the Asia-Pacific zone
"Coach Sehwag said that he was not worried because he has the backing of selectors, captain and board....and that they had won a close match against Papua New Guinea just two years ago.
"Rahul Dravid, the coach of the New Zealand team said that Sachin should now consider retiring gracefully and letting his son take over the captaincy.
"MS Dhoni broke Ajit Agarkars record of the most number of conecutive ducks in twenty 20.
"Saurav Ganguly, the coach of England, feels that the boys need to control their emotions on the field.
"The current leading man from Bollywood, Bret Lee advises MS Dhoni to take up acting as well.
"Minnows Pakistan beat Ireland in a close match...and thus avenged their defeat in the 2007 WC against the then minnows Ireland.
"Inzamam ul Haq, who was the captain of the losing team and now the coach said in a press interview that "Boys plays well...they try hard...insallah we wins the world cup."
"The police arrested eight persons for violence after England-New Zealand match... Investigations revealed that these were members of Dravid and Ganguly fan communities on Orkut which have 623241516 and 126542 members respectively.
"The Indian cricket board led by president Rahul Gandhi has called for an emergency meeting to discuss future course of action... Former players like Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Kaif, VVS Laxman and Anil Kumble have been invited... Coach Sehwag and captain Tendulkar will present a report...
"VVS Laxman today created a new controversy by saying that he expected a written apology from Rahul Gandhi for including him in the category of former players... He said that he has improved his fielding and fitness and wants to play 2023 WC in Brazil."
RE:Year 2019: Cricket World Cup News
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:32 AM
So england want to train fearing Mortaza class bowler? and yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:Year 2019: Cricket World Cup News
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 12:08 PM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
Initially I thought it is only our mean minded introvert Rahul Dravid is playing politics and trying to get rid of Ganguly at any cost. So that there is no one to claim the captaincy back from him for the next two year even he does poor performance. He understand himself that he doesn%u2019t deserve to be the captain and has no captaincy material. He knows from his heart what a fantastic Captain Ganguly is and he is never able to touch Ganguly%u2019s feet as a Captain.
Now it is clear all the South India and Rahul supporters understand that very well and they want to keep their %u2018LAD%u2019 Rahul Dravid as captain and started %u2018Anti %u2013Ganguly%u2019 campaign whatever way they can. They know under Dravid India%u2019s cricket future is doomed, India has gone down in ICC ranking from 2 to 7, out in 1st round of WC, out in 1st round of ICC championship held in India. But they don%u2019t care about India, all they care about their own interest %u2018Rahul Dravid%u2019.
It is a same and shows how narrow someone%u2019s mind is when they can%u2019t even see a person%u2019s (Ganguly) success and they are stupid enough to express that in a open forum like rediff. They are first to take a piece of Ganguly%u2019s meat when he fails and they can%u2019t bear the fact Ganguly is playing like god from the last SA tour making India proud and performing better. Dravid is of same age of Ganguly but they try to project Dravid as if he is below 30.
It is of this type of people and their regionalist mentality Dinesh Karthik is in team instead of Yuvraj. Ishant Sharma played only 6 Ranji matches with 29 wickets get change in the squad while the highest wicket taker in the domestic cricket for the last two consecutive years and the player of the year %u2018Ranadev Basu%u2019 doesn%u2019t get chance in the squad.
How you pick a young team without picking India%u2019s most successful bowler for the last two consecutive years in domestic cricket? Fast bowler Ranadev Basu has taken double number of wickets( 58 wickets in 8 matches in Indian pitches !!!) than VRV Sing ( another proven failure) an others who got picked for team. 9 wickets in our biggest domestic match %u2018Ranji Final%u2019 against Sachin, Jafar, Ramesh Power, Agarkar, Zahir, Amal Mazumdar, Piyush Chaula, Rohit etc? He also got the player of the year award. What else someone had to do to get a place ? Is it because he is form Bengal and don%u2019t have a non Bengali surname like %u2018Raina%u2019 or %u2018Mongia%u2019 or %u2018Sing%u2019? or is it because he is from Sourav%u2019s State ? Or should we not pick a player when he is in prime form and eager to give 200%? Make him mentally devastated and depressed and then bring into international cricket so that he can not perform?
RE:RE:Is it the same the Rahul Dravid we used to knwo? or Power makes everyone corrupt?
by vikash sharma on May 30, 2007 05:37 PM
isint this true that all bangallis are supporting saurabh initially....
it has been reported that saurabh ganguly disobayed the constatns orders of speeding the run rate in india bangladesh match in world cup and is one of the reason on india loss.
so india is out of the world cup... ganguly is also has to be blamed... the problem with Rahul Roy is that he has a short memory and perhps he is also a bangali..
RE:Is it the same the Rahul Dravid we used to knwo? or Power makes everyone corrupt?
by ashoka lakshmanareddy on May 23, 2007 04:09 PM
Mr. rahul roy, you r an idiot man,
Just remember why ur gangoooly had been dropped from the team. when he was a captain he doesn't know how to play a match winning innings.he never played.he was a successful captain all because of the players like rahul, sachin, sehwag, yuvraj contributed to the team in the cituations. he had not became a successful captain by his own performance.mind it.
Now u r talking about rahul's captaincy where the players like ur ganguly are not playing in the crucial matches and throwing their wickets like small babies. if we make ganguly as captain again the team will spoil further more man.............
First throw ganguly out and every body will play well.
RE:Is it the same the Rahul Dravid we used to knwo? or Power makes everyone corrupt?
by Sumit De on May 24, 2007 08:26 AM
Boss do u want the individual to play like wall and India leave in first round of all the tournaments. If u see Ganguly's record as captain he has most number of century as a captain only.........about Dravid, please understand every body cant lead the team........when Dada left captaincy India was in number 2 in world ranking, if Dravid was atleast at par, he should have kept that position firm, with Ganguly out of the squard the most of the period under Dravids captaincy..........even without Sourav in the team and with Sehwag (most favorite of our captain) in the team dravid did nothing at all
RE:Is it the same the Rahul Dravid we used to knwo? or Power makes everyone corrupt?
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:25 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:Is it the same the Rahul Dravid we used to knwo? or Power makes everyone corrupt?
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:59 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
VVS Laxman is a champion player and time and again he proved that His ommission from ODI was sad but now being ommitted from tests which is a blunder and entirely demoralising.Sachin has a halo because he scored heavily but is he champion player .No not the least ,he always failed when it mattered the most.Look at Australians they have more than one champion player in the team all the time.Let Gavaskar say any thing we are not bothered nor I read his column as laced with arrogance.Less said the better about Ganguly his body language often betrays conceited mind.Does he deserve place in the team .He is street smart ppolitician disowned publicly Dalmiya but for his support he would long ceased to be member of indian team.You call it survival instincts or plainly a crook.Give thier due to talented people like Laxman but for his superlaive innings we would not have beaten the mighty australians .we should stand up for such players and for those indulge in petty politics
RE:RE:Omission of VVS Laxman defies logic
by Rahul Roy on May 20, 2007 02:01 AM
Don't ever dare to try put Ganguly down and talk about logic. Tell me in what logic you drop a captain after a series win and afte scoring a 100 in the last innigs???????
Have you seen Gaguly's performecne from the last SA tour? highest scorer there, man of the series against WI in India, highest scorer in WC, highest scorer in last Inda-pak test match where all you Dravid, Sachin, Laxman were bundled against Shoib Aktar...
So please stop your bullshit ...and don't try to bring logic where the Total Ganguly dropping and making Dravid captain for 2 years has no logic .
RE:Omission of VVS Laxman defies logic
by Ifear paceman on May 28, 2007 10:25 AM
yes Ganguly was struggling to face short stuff from Mortaza. What will happen against genuine pace?
RE:Omission of VVS Laxman defies logic
by Arun Mehra on May 29, 2007 10:58 AM
Yes, he scored a hundred struggling. He also scored the highest runs in the last South Africa tour where every other star and potential star was struggling to bat to ball. He is a struggler with pace bowlers who has scored 37 hundreds and more than 15000 runs in international cricket.
iam not happy to know that some of non criketer is blamming on dravid, infact some of other senior players of india who are not interested that dravid shouldnot lead india actually they want to become a captain of india again
RE:rahul dravid
by Vinod Kumar on May 19, 2007 12:38 PM
yes infact he is not worth a captain of any team he is a good player, we should remain him a player only. he lacs the leadership qualities. Gangoli or Yuvraj should be made captain.
RE:RE:rahul dravid
by rahul baghla on May 21, 2007 12:44 PM
you are talking abt yuvraj ?????????????????? No doubt he is a good player ... but he is not capable of being captain.. i wanna see him play without tension... & without politics
RE:rahul dravid
by ashok passy on May 17, 2007 09:26 PM
rahul dravid a great indian wall is now leading india,but some of other players who are interested to become themselve captain of india blamming through some one that rahul is not fit to lead india but infact rahul such a great player always played for india not for himself
RE:rahul dravid
by ranjita sahoo on May 21, 2007 10:30 AM
rehul is a hopeless player as well as captain. I think he is the only player in Indian Cricket who came to the team with a silver spoon. In his early days his failures were ignored like anything. He is the only player who got adequate chances to prove himself. Similarly now he is getting adequate chances for captainship. Please see his record.
