Now that Dravid has resigned as captain most of the people are telling that this is a dirty politics etc etc. But do you people remember a certain Sourav Ganguly was dropped from the team and stripped as captain after winning a series in Zumbabwe and scoring a hundred in the test match? Do you people remember the politics played by Dravid (alongith Mr Greg Chappel) to keep Mr Ganguly out of team and making the team an unsecured lot?? The duo even raised question on a certain Mr Tendulkar's ability. What has they given as a duo. Nothing. Take the examples of Irfan Pathan, virendra Shewag whom they kept on playing till they were dropped from the team. And it is known to everybody now that Dravid was just a mere puppet in the hands of Mr Chappel. Then why didn't u people pointed fingers on them for making India a losersfrom winers.
Yes we know this all to get back Sachin and please the Mumbai lobby. Very sure Sachin bahoot achee see Indian cricket ko Danda karne wala hi wo bhi aggressivly and demonstratively.
Once again rediff has shown itself to attact readers to a piece of news by taking an innocuous phrase uttered by the interviee and making it sound like that was the main gist of the interview.
I came to this page expecting from the headline that Chandu Border was talking about the bad of Dravid, but it seems that the controversy-hungry Rediff editors take out a negative phrase and headline it making it sound Borde was speaking ill of Dravid. I've been seeing this tactic for quite sometime and I really wonder if Rediff will ever change, I mean the headline DOES NOT IN ANY WAY REFLECT WHAT THE INTERVIEW IS ABOUT. It's just a means to get more clicks.
Dravid was not a good captain. Just by winning the test series we cannot award him the tag of good captain. What was the Dravid's contribution as a captain in the victory? He took some terrible decisions and India won despite those decisions because it was a superior team. Had there been any other captain would the result have been different? Yes. We would have won by 2-0 margin in tests and by 4-3 margin in ODIs. He not only lost the opportunity to win the series convincingly but he also gave England the confidence (which was looking as down and out till then) which was reflected in the ODIs. Just remember the terrible decisions (other than not enforcing follow on) he took (like giving last over to Yuvraj. There is apparent contradiction in Borde's answers. If not enforcing follow on was the collective decision of the team and captain should not be blamed then the next logical question comes (which the interviewer failed to ask) that how can the captain be praised for the series victory? Whole of the team should be praised as they take all important collective decisions. Captaincy skills cannot be measured by number of victories. If you have a superior team you will win most of the times. The question should be asked whether the team's performance exceeded (or at least reached) its potential. Then only we can judge the real captaincy skills. In this case, we had a better team than England (as many of their main players were not playing) and we were expected to win both
Your captioning in the home page "Dravid was not flamboyant" is thoroughly misleading and unfair. What Mr.Borde says is actually a compliment to Dravid. You make it sound like a disqualification.
It is said that inzamam don't understand english. Once a commentrator asked,"hey inzi your wife had a baby last week, is this true"? Inzi said "Bismillah Hirrehman Nira Raheem first of all i thank to Allah and then credit goes to all boys, they really worked hard especially Afridi do very well if they continue we can have another chance..
RE:Agarkar is treated as Damad(son in law) in Indian Cricket team !!!
by rajesh s on Sep 17, 2007 02:53 PM
He is such an poor playr and doesn`t hav it 2 be in indian team anymore...He performs only in 2 r 3 out of 100 matchs but still manages 2 stick with d team coz he`s frm mumbai........
RE:RE:Agarkar is treated as Damad(son in law) in Indian Cricket team !!!
by Ramesh Mure on Sep 17, 2007 02:57 PM
agree completely. There have been so many good player who came, did well and showed promise but were dropped after a few bad performances. However Agarkar has been able to survive for last ten years and his selection always has been a big surprise. He definitely has very strong well wishers lobby working for him. No doubt at all....
RE:Agarkar is treated as Damad(son in law) in Indian Cricket team !!!
by prasad on Sep 17, 2007 03:13 PM
Pl do not mentiond Agarkar name i will get high BP
RE:Agarkar is treated as Damad(son in law) in Indian Cricket team !!!
by Crick fan on Sep 17, 2007 03:42 PM
Any one for Agarkar VRV Singh - R Das - Ishant - Gagandeep Singh- Nehra- Balaji- Nabi- Zaheer - Actaully this is friendly tournament our real bowlers are rested.
RE:Agarkar is treated as Damad(son in law) in Indian Cricket team !!!
by abhijit yadav on Sep 17, 2007 05:25 PM
When VENKATESH PRASAD is coach what else you can expect??
My be he has done the right thing . he is too gentle for the dirty politics of indian cricket where a lot of money is at stake for the crooks sitting in the selction committee and Board.You dont give a good team to him and expect wonders from mediocre player.I am surprised no body is talking about Yuvraj as captain why? becuase he is from north. Tragic ofcourse. May ICL blooms so that these buggers get a lesson
RE:Dravid's Resignation as captain
by Mandira Ghosh on Sep 17, 2007 03:04 PM
I dont think Dravid is too gentle and all theory. He was very active when Sachin/Sourav were sidelined through politics by Dravid/Chappell partnership. Now he got his own medicine back. He was a backboneless captain and dont the capacity to withdraw pressure from media/public unlike other captains in the world or his predecessor. Dravid is not a captaincy material at any given day.
RE:RE:Dravid's Resignation as captain
by Anju Rawat on Sep 17, 2007 03:29 PM
pls dont mantion that kind kind of commints abought Dravid,he was not involve in politics them, we he was not captain of india them he was a brilian batsman...........was u say?
RE:Dravid's Resignation as captain
by paul on Sep 17, 2007 07:56 PM
He has a better record than your politician cum coward DADA. The most selfish cricketer to have played for India ever. You bong's are all the same.
RE:RE:Dravid's Resignation as captain
by deepak rao on Sep 17, 2007 03:00 PM
I like this statement sudesh mahajan 'My be he has done the right thing . he is too gentle for the dirty politics of Indian cricket where a lot of money is at stake for the crooks sitting in the selection committee and Board.' You just read my mind. I was about to right the same. Unfortunately you have blogged it already.
RE:Dravid's Resignation as captain
by Neeraj Kumar on Sep 17, 2007 03:20 PM
Is he too gentle for dirty politics? He is extremely articulate. No doubt about it. That perhaps conveys the feeling that he is not involved in politics. Have we all forgotton the Saurav Ganguly's episod? He teamed with Chappell and More to kick out Saurav from the team. He, with Chappell, used to argue that Saurav's inclusion will divide the team. Is the team now divided because of saurav? Who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Isn't it?
