The BCCI is real bugger! neither Ganguly nor Dravid. Why BCCI allowed one player to play dirty game of politics.... In fact the credentials of BCCI is itself under scan. Previously it was Dalmia now Sharad.
RE:Some predictions for Kolkata Test
by ajay gupta on Nov 28, 2007 06:37 PM
Are BHO Tere GAN Me Dimag Hey Kya INDIA WILL WIN KARTIK BHAR YUVI AANDER >>>>>>>>>>>>SAMJA BANDER
Jo bhi ho he is grt yaar..the way he transforms a throw into a bowling Action is grt yaar... In coming years He'll open his training institute to teach the art of Throwing..i mean Bowling at >150 kmph.. heh heh
aisa desh hai mera...yahan pe mehmanoh ko bhagwan kaha jaat hai(song of veer zara)....now reading the forum below where many of my friends are feeling happy for shoaibs viral infection hospitalised i think the song was only the song but its vry vry far off from the actual fact.....jai hind
What's wrong if someone is Ganguly's fan...what's wrong if someone says Ganguly has been victim of Dirty politics. Well that's true. That's 100% true that ganguly has been thrown out of the team. At the same time look at the record book Ganguly's record shows he has been the most successful captain in india. As an individual player he has most no of man of the match after Sachin. so Naturally Ganguly is better than Dravid. So question arries why Ganguly fans are nt happy with Dravid. forget Greg Chappel.. it's Dravid's responsiblity to support Sourabh at this bad days.. which Dravid has never done. Rather he was instumental to throw him out. I am nt saying .. the team members (sehwag, yuvi and harbhajan said in publicly that Ganguly should be in team)..so things prety clear that Dravid is the villian. Well lets forget Dravid and ganuly.. i say to both the fans group.. let one be happy with ganguly and other be happy with dravid..why so much fuss
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by gaurav manchanda on Nov 28, 2007 02:01 PM
if u r comparing ganguly with a player like dravid, then u r insulting dravid. ganguly is not a victim of dirty politics but he is a victim of his dirty attitudes and selfishness. dravid is a victim of dirty politics. if u place dravid out of the team just on the basis of 5 matches performance then there should be no place for sachin, gambhir, ganguly, sreesanth, r p singh, uttapha, bhajji and specially sehwag. indian team has suffered from poor form for around 60 matches. i think in that case india can have only three players kumble, dhoni and yuvraj. tel me any inning of ganguly in which he has single handedly won the match for india. in each match ganguly plays only for himself,he make 40 runs from 65 or 70 balls and put pressure on the other team members. these days when each country is scoring around 300 runs in a ODI, then a batsman, who is playing with the field restrictions should have strike rate of atleast 80. dravid comes to the crease and scores at a strike rate of around 85 even in a pressure situations, on the other hand, in pressure situations ganguly scors at a strike rate of around 50. at that time he thinks that he is playing a test match
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by Lotiya Pathan on Nov 28, 2007 02:06 PM
see the strike rate of both players in cricinfo.com, you will realise what you are saying.
I can still recall the 3rd test between india and england, and dravid did not give them follow-on. India as 11/3 in 2nd inning, ganguly came and agressively played and rescued india with 57 with 61 ball, where dravid scored 12 of 96 balls.
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by hindublogger on Nov 28, 2007 02:18 PM
There in not much scopr for strike rate in Tests :).Saurav has been a master politician ..let me not blck yuvi for long.
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by Lotiya Pathan on Nov 28, 2007 01:54 PM
Sohaan, ur surname says that you are a marathi. These people are so dirty, they will now abuse tendulkar with ganguly becasue you dared to support some fact of ganguly. me too is a victim of such dirty, ugly racism. they can call you terrosist too..god save this country. I urge all the sports lover, to support team india. whether ganguly/dravid/sachin plays or not. but very few would agree with me.
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by Cyber Cafe on Nov 28, 2007 04:01 PM
I agree with u Lotiya Pathan. no matter whoever is in the team or not TEAM INDIA should win each and every match and we must give our support. the fact is Tendulkar, Dravid or Saurav can not play alone & win matches. all players should play as a team and win.
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by Spiderman on Nov 28, 2007 02:46 PM
sorav is victim of dirty poltics???..go and check his stats in year 2004...he had runs only against kenya bdesh and zimbabwe...
sorav was dropped becoz he isnt playing well and also he is taking his captincy for granted by not attending pratice session in nets...
he is the only player in indian cricket who fake injuries...
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by parul on Nov 28, 2007 05:36 PM
Dravid got same treatment as Sourav got 2 years back. Dravid is a gr8 player but Sourav is not a poor! As far as leadership is concern, Ganguli is far far better than Dravid....
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by sun bangalore on Nov 28, 2007 01:47 PM
Sohaan, Dravid might villan for your dirty eyes. He is still a hero for billions and will remain so. Dont give your own judgement of ganguly and praise him. Even the team members have suffered his dictatorship during his captaincy. Now what was saurav doing when dravid was in his bad days. Blame politics but never bring record books to compare players. Both of them have done extremely well. Ganguly dug his own grave by behaving rudely with the players. It was not dravids fault at all. Dravid was offered captaincy he accepted. He resigned as captaincy and mind it he was not thrown out. They offered captaincy to tendulkar, buthe rejected it. They offered it to dhoni, he did not accept it. Why didnt they offer to Ganguly, the answer is left to the readers and decide.
RE:RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by Lotiya Pathan on Nov 28, 2007 01:58 PM
they never offered captaincy to dhoni, and rejection was not in the scene. ofcourse, ganguly denied to take captaincy infront of media (NDTV) before tendulkar. so board had no option left, gave it to kumble. So it shows, you are having some wrong facts. anyway, kumble was right choise.
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by sun bangalore on Nov 28, 2007 02:32 PM
Pathan, i agree with you, I know you are a stonch fan of saurav, he is your hero. What has dravid done to bangali baboos, they are loosing their faith in indian cricket. They only need their state members representation. They misbehaved during last test match. People abuse tendulkar for not playing, but never accuse him for making any politics in team. Why always dravid and ganguly come into limelight. If basic question is un answered the argument continues for ever. Everytime someone is posting facts on ganguly they deleberately bring dravid on wrong end. Why is always its dravid V/s Dada. If dada fans want to write message on dada let them write, why do they have to make mokery of dravid. This shows the silly mentality. Anyways I agree with you tosupport team india. I hope Kolkatha match ends piecefully. Even if bangalore pitch doesnt support india, we have strong indian supporters to cheer for india.
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by vox populi on Nov 28, 2007 02:44 PM
nobody asked ganguly to take captaincy--that was his way of getting back at dravid--even if sachin had become captain he still would have tried all his dirty tricks--so please stop fooling yourself and others--yes let him continue as a player---
RE:RE:RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by vox populi on Nov 28, 2007 02:46 PM
nobody asked him plus no more political support-CPI(M) has better things to do tahn bat for ganguly--also no lallu support coz he wants his son in!!
RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by Sweet Mango on Nov 28, 2007 02:05 PM
If selector give captancy to dhoni it would to much budenn for a young captain who play only 20 test only & also not even play 100 ODI
I Think kumble will be right choice. If selector give captaincy to Ganguly & sachin means that we go to 5 year back
RE:RE:Taking Gourd for Sourabh Ganguly
by sanjeev ramdas on Nov 28, 2007 02:45 PM
wtf ... the debate is neverending..they all are india.. support team india..after all these player will play good against aussie...dont brag
Guys when India is playing so well without a coach, appointing a coach at this juncture, will it help the team or create problems in the team?? what do you think?
RE:Coach
by jarved06 on Nov 28, 2007 01:14 PM
It depends up on whom they select as a Coach. Selecting GK won't help. It will take a year for him to understand indian mentality and further two years that he is not able to do anything about it! Better to go for indian coach - such as Sandip Patil who took Kenya to SF during WC 03.
Look up today's Australian newspapers. Reports suggest that the Australian selectors are seriously thinking of a four paceman attack. Brett Lee - leader of the attack. Focus on speed Shaun Tait - Focus on raw speed. Mitchell Johnson - Variety Stuart Clark - Seam and accuracy like Mc Grath
The reason - Melbourne cricket ground is reported to have a lot bounce and a combination of pace and bounce is what they feel the Indians are very weak against.
It is true that Indian batting manages pace as such. But pace with accuracy can be deadly and our record against Mc Grath has not been impressive. Now we have 4 pacemen bowling 150 kms per hour in the first Test.
Perhaps the team should seriously pray for Akhtar to be fit and bowl the whole series so that we may have some practice in facing pace!!!
RE:WE HAVE ANOTHER CHALLENGE COMING
by vox populi on Nov 28, 2007 02:48 PM
we are in for a mauling--make no mistake and imagine if we have the likes of munaf etc bowling to them
RE:WE HAVE ANOTHER CHALLENGE COMING
by YOUSUF ANAS on Nov 28, 2007 02:06 PM
Playing in Kotla pitch is a waste of time. Before a trip to Australia our team have to play in sportive wickets such as Mohali. Then it will help to play in Australia. Dear Curators Please prepare Fast and Bouncy pitches to beat australia in Australia. Best Rgds Team India.
RE:RE:WE HAVE ANOTHER CHALLENGE COMING
by baranikumar mahadevan on Nov 28, 2007 03:26 PM
Dear all
NOBODY LIKES GETTING OUR TEAM BEATEN!!
More than beating Pakistan we should look at beating the No. 1 team - AUSTRALIA. SHOULD THE INDIAN PUBLIC DEMAND THAT BCCI SHOULD MAKE INDIAN PITCHES FAST AND BOUNCY AS A LONG TERM MEASURE. NEVER MIND LOW SCORING MATCHES.
