It will be good for a player like Gibbs to retire before actually his mgmt kicks him out as what happened with Rahul Dravid in Inida.Now it doesnt depend on Dravids performance in the national level cricket, whatever number of centuries he will make in domestic cricket, I am sure he is not gonna come back in ODI's.So it will be good to take retirement before ur services to ur country are forgotten.
RE:Good decision
by heroraja on Jun 10, 2008 01:30 PM
our players like sachin,anil,dravid,dada shd learn from Gibbs and announce retirement without forcing selectors to drop them
RE:Good decision
by Subhadeep Tripathy on Jun 11, 2008 12:44 PM
i think you learn from gibb's and take retirement from the job of writing your comments in rediff discussion pole. make gibb's your pop and s*c* his a*s
some people always have something or the other against our players. i remember when people were calling sachin a selfish player and saying that he didn't produce match winning innings. now that he has done so in australia, they want to kick him out because of his age. where does this end. no one is being given a preferential treatment in selection. dravid and ganguly have been dropped for not performing. so will sachin when he doesn't. but as long as he has cricket in him and he can get the results, why should his age bother us. he is battling through enough with injuries and fitness problems. let him be.
Thanks Gibbs for the wonderful cricket moments you have written in the pages of history. Its an ideal time for you to retire, please tell Kirsten to convey the same message to our silly heavyweights (Dravid, Dada, Sachin)
All great veterans (Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, McGrath, Shane Warne) have retired gracefully. Its time for our great players to follow the same path. Dravid, Ganguly, Sachin...koi to suno please...The Indian team doesnt need you anymore. Please retire gracefully or you'll be thrown out with disgrace and insult.
RE:Graceful retirement
by bal yana on Jun 10, 2008 09:37 AM
The current players in Indian team are not able to play whole 50 overs or even 25-30 overs.Then where is the matter of test cricket playing whole day?
RE:RE:Graceful retirement
by nickmad on Jun 09, 2008 11:19 PM
u people wat to know abt cricket. its not a kids game who plays one season gud. lets make up ur mind who are sachin, dada and Dravid
I think the world today is not as best as it was 5-10 yrs ago. With the retirement of Mcgrath, Warne, Gilchrist, Pollock and now Gibbs and ageing great cricketers like Tendulkar, Dravid, Ponting, and Murlitharan, I hardly find any one with their ideal replacements. So the world cricket today is not as competitive as it was few yrs ago. There is serious search of some good talent.
RE:detriorating quality of cricket
by Ritwik Bhuyan on Jun 09, 2008 06:14 PM
Well said, but you seem to forget the dramatic performances of youngsters like Shaun Marsh, Goswami, Siddharth Trivedi, Asnodkar...
It is dependent on the respective Teams to use these players effectively for the safety and endurance of Cricket Arena.
RE:detriorating quality of cricket
by aseem gupta on Jun 10, 2008 04:53 AM
true have got talent but they need to prove a bit more than they did. Remember Sachin, when he was teenager, he made debut centuries at all levels except international level and proved his mastery in the game.
RE:detriorating quality of cricket
by nickmad on Jun 09, 2008 11:21 PM
well said. these dont use their common sense. 50overs or test are not a cup of tea for this yungsters U need players like Sachin, dravid and kallis
I am a big fan the way gibbs carries himself on and off the ground. He has been a batsmen who plays with his natural style which is a treat for all the followers of the game. I just got one word for him gibbsy carry on mate you got lots to offer yet.
RE:gibbsy carry on mate you surely got more to offer........
by Yogendra Harchilkar on Jun 09, 2008 03:33 PM
On the ground ... helped fix matches with Hansie Cronje, was banned for the same.
Off the ground was banned for smoking marijuana when on tour to the West Indies.
As for his batting, sometimes breathtakingly awesome(his 175 vs Australia in the World-record chase was a spectacle), sometimes freakishly poor. His fieling extraordinary at times, sometimes overly flamboyant(his drop catch off Steve Waugh - "mate you just dropped the World Cup).
