IF Chanderpaul & Sarwan could play for Windies, If Kamran and Younis can play for Pakistan, if Ponting and Hussay can play for Aussies, If Kallis and Smith can play for SA, why Dravid, Sachin, Laxman shd not be included for 20-20 or ODIs? Shrikkant should answer this.
Re: Seniors
by Krishnamoorthy on Jul 03, 2009 11:23 AM
All these guys are over the hill. India should build a new young team. Ofcourse, there will be defeats initially,which must prevail as lesson to our players.
Re: Seniors
by Solar Explosives on Jul 03, 2009 10:51 AM
Politics in Indian cricket, sachin is one of the best in World but more politics in BCCI & captain also.
I would not blame IPL or World Cup T20 20 . Blame the players and the management.. The Greed of the Players to earn extra dollars and making film adds and attending television events are the main cause. I think the players are not playing for the country but for the Money.. Greed is what has made the players under perform. Wake up Team India before it is too late
It is neither IPL nor the amount of cricket. As for me these are the following reasons:
(1) Indian team with out Sachin and Shewag in ODI and Sachin, Sehwag and Laxman is nothing but full of ordinary players.
(2)Other teams--which were weak--have started playing better and have quality bowling attack.
It was foolish to even think that Indian has become #1 in the world just because they have defeated weakest NZ team and depleted AUS on flat Indian pitches.
He switched over from Star to Sony to make more bucks. He naturally has to defend IPL which gave him his bread and butter. No one should doubt that IPL killed cricket talent in this Country. It gave an impression that players like Jadeja and Yusuf Pathan deserve interenational exposure thus fooled all of us including BCCI! Gavaskar might have been paid for giving this statement by Modi.
Re: Gavaskar
by Harsha Vardhan on Jul 03, 2009 10:20 AM
you can,t shower aspersion on the integrity of Gavasker.He was the fellow who refused carry packer long time ago.IPL was not the reason of Failure of indian team becuase all the players from all the teams were part of IPL than why India fails,The reason of Indain failure was 1)Absence of Virender Sehwag & Zahher khan 2)So stable batting order.
Re: Re: Gavaskar
by Sanjay Sharma on Jul 03, 2009 11:03 AM
I agree IPL was not the reason, but Zaheer / Sehwag were total failures in the recent IPL also. Sehwag's inclusion would have made no difference, while Zaheer was expensive and no wicket taker.
I would agree with Bedi's observation that the team was tired playing for almost an year, while the Pakis were fully fit and fresh and had the hunger to peak at the reight time and give their best. All these neccessary ingredients were severly missing from the Indians and the WC was yet another match for their tired bodies and minds.
Re: Re: Gavaskar
by john pereira on Jul 03, 2009 11:08 AM
Dont talk integrity of Gavaskar. everybody knows how he played and whom he played.How can you forget that 36 runs out of 60 overs world cup match? For money he can give any statements.Pakistan players didn't play in the IPL and they won the twenty 20 world cup.What you say?
Exhaustion & tiredness from IPL was true cause for loss... no body will say it because of legal contract is binding them (in BCCI)... Gavaskar should better be in politics...
