t20 is an Impact players game Dravid and Laxman doesnt fit in to thatThats the main reason why they are so unimpressive and another factor is that they are Loners who are individual performers that is why with good teams they just cant lead .
I had respect and faith in Dravid ever since he entered international cricket. I fought for him althrough the intial eriod when everybody was branding him in as many ways. He proved me right when he held solid as ever.... But then it happened...He back stabed Sourav Ganguly conniving with Greg Chappel to sideline him and grabed the captaincy. Then on his greed has let him down and he fell in front of my eyes. He may be a great batsman, but a poor player pulling the collegues feet. While Ganguly gracefully showed what he is, Dravid fell in many ways...I had already done the buriel of the old Dravid... Now he is a shadow full of greed and ego...pity that such a great player fell to such a low depth...
RE:The wall that fell!
by murli krishan chimta on May 18, 2008 09:43 PM
Venu,
Dravid's scores talk about his capabilities as a player. He has over 10,000 runs in both popular forms of cricket. 20-20 is newly introduced. It is sheer bad luck on the part of Dravid and his team that they are losing. You may say the loses are something to do with bad captaincy. But Dravid as a player is better than Ganguly and only next best to Tendulkar among current players. Dravid is a legend.
RE:The wall that fell!
by Raj on May 18, 2008 08:49 PM
Venu,
You have misunderstood. It is easy to blame others without knowing the facts.
Ganguly falied for almost two years when he was removed as a captain. The only scores he made are against weak teams during those years.Kaif and Yuvaraj were doing well but they were not getting a chance to play. Ganguly was lucky because Dalmia supported him (Ganguly back stabbed Dalmia) for long. People were disgusted with Ganguly's performance but Ganguly wanted to be a captain because he knew that if he quit captaincy, he is as well out of the tournament.
Ganguly started playing well only after he returned one year later after loosing captaincy.
RE:RE:RE:RE:The wall that fell!
by sanjay on May 19, 2008 09:57 AM
This is typical Bengali Argument came from blow pipes of Ranji class Ganguly in those days.
RE:RE:The wall that fell!
by sanjay on May 19, 2008 09:56 AM
This is typical Bengali Argument came from blow pipes of Ranji class Ganguly in those days.
RE:The wall that fell!
by Raman on May 20, 2008 10:32 AM
From where did u cook up the story of Dravid back stabbing Ganguly?Ganguly did that to himself by bringing in Chappel and tried to be a slacker hiding behind a GORA coach like he did under John Wright,Chappel was no Yes man and wanted to change indian cricket for the better,he had the guts to ask Sachin to play for the team and not his personal milestones,Dravid never back stabbed Dada,infact Dravid resigned when Dada and Sachin were playing under him,so are u telling us that they both stabbed Dravid to kick him out?
Rahul, Its aint your game dude better u retire before mallya asks u to clean his bar counter. You are a spentforce and a free loader for Royal Challengers. The biggest mistake u and that gayHo charu sharma did was selecting a test team not even one day players. You wont be sold for a penny next year thats the truth.
RE:Mr.Spentforce Dravid
by Rams on May 18, 2008 06:49 PM
If money only matters, Vija Mallya can not kick Rahul Dravid from the team for two more years because of the agreement. If he still wants, he can pay Rahul 2 years fees and let him go! Yes, Wasim Jaffer is a horrible onedayer, leave alone T20. Rahul is still much better than Jaffer in every aspect. The team selection has gone awfully wrong. They just did not think about the need to win matches while buying the bakaras. They should have played Misba from match one itself. Not buying Uthappa is a big mistake.
RE:Vijay has lot of money
by Rams on May 18, 2008 06:52 PM
don't be too harsh to donkeys. better call them bakaras instead of donkeys?:) donkey is definitely cleverer than bakara.
RE:RE:Vijay has lot of money
by Raj on May 18, 2008 09:50 PM
For donkey like you guys everybody in the world look donkeys. Have you achieved atleast 1% of what the cricketers have acheived ?
