Re: Eden Garden grounds man want India to lose
by drax on Feb 18, 2010 07:37 AM
Yes these Eden guys have always been causing one problem or the other. Should be blacklisted by BCCI.
Re: Re: Eden Garden grounds man want India to lose
by xyz brain on Feb 18, 2010 08:40 AM
i think this story goes long back. it between jagmohan dalmiya and shashank manohar. wen jaggu was the bcci boss. shashank manohar was incharge of nagpur. he provided a green track and as u guys know aus wont he test and gangu sat out tat test. and courtesy these bloddyidiots aus won test series in india after 34 years. now its the turn of jaggu to take revenge. all theseassholes putting thr personal egos infront of our country.shame on them
Re: Eden Garden grounds man want India to lose
by INDEPENDENT on Feb 18, 2010 10:08 AM
Ahhhh....well said.... you mean 2 say that a pitch which has rewarded us with 4 centuries in an innings is'nt quite enough..or is it?
Gary Kirsten is cribbing like a cry baby now! Actually these fluke no.1 Test team, wanted a kotla pitch in Eden which was not provided. Without penetrative bowling this wicket will not do anything silly even in the 5th day, and with the bowling Mr. Kirsten has nurtured he is not confident of taking 7 wickets on the last day. So Kirsten shud be more concerned abt his team's performance and not Eden facilities!
Re: Shame on u Kirsten!
by Pathan on Feb 18, 2010 07:11 AM
How can it be fluke team when India has won outside against. West indies, New Zeal land England Bangladesh Sri Lanka
What has affected was no Rahul Dravid, Kumble.
useless Harbhajan singh, Badrinath and Murali Vijay favorite Tamil players of Shrikanth selector.
We try to project Eden Gardens as one of the finest cricket grounds in the world and its a shame that light or moderate rain can ruin more than half a day of cricket. I places like Australia, play starts within a couple of hours no matter how much it has rained. In Kolkata they struggled inspite of having the super soaker since the staff was not trained to use it properly! Unprofessional approach by CAB!
If the Eden Test ends in a draw, innumerable postmortems will be done as to what the infrastructure should have been, if something had been done ealier and so on. No further actions will be taken and the discussions will again start when we have a repeat of what happened on 17/02/2010. Hindus have lot of faith in God so we will blame everything as our fate. Even when India reached the Finals under Saurav Ganguly in 2003, we were more busy in organising Yagna than focussing on the match ahead. Hence, Make God our 12th Man for all matches.
Re: EDEN GARDENS
by Bodh Ramdeo on Feb 18, 2010 06:45 AM
Chalta hai is the national virtue, and doing things slip-shod and half-arsed is the national norm. Need any further proof? Construction of the C'wealth games venue was so far behind and in such terrible state, yet no one cared to bother. In frustration and exasperation, the head of the CWG body had to complain directly to the PM of the terrible state of affairs, that some actions were finally taken to help put things on the right footing. Otherwise, it would have been just more of the same chalta hai and more such fiasco like Eden, and Vancouver and....
As much as a proud Indian I am, I have to be honest in my thoughts about Indian grounds and their facilities. The Eden Gardens is an iconic venue BUT sadly the same can't be said about its facilities. The ground's drainage system or lack of it is appalling. I can't believe that the BCCI with it's crores of rupees still can't install proper drainage in all of the grounds across India. What a shame ! I feel ashamed to call myself an Indian from that viewpoint. If they had a good drainage system we could have an early start and at least something to better our chances to win this test match.
With one day to go, I don't see any result other than a draw. We don't have the quality in our bowling to topple 7 more wickets in 3 sessions. Hell ! SA couldn't do it then how can we ?
Re: Gary you have reason to be angry
by Ashwin on Feb 18, 2010 04:00 AM
Is lack of good drainage at the ground enough reason for you to be ashamed to call yourself an Indian? Try to be more balanced in your outlook.
Bengalis are only good for striking...in eden either the flood light goes off or the groundsman cannot prepare the ground on time....but if it was striking he would have come no. 1
DLF raised crores of money through IPO route with a promise to India that the proceeds will be used to build realty and infrastructure. But ,it seems it was to be used to fund IPL matches as no amount of money is being invested for construction activity. Most of the proposed projects of DLF are cooling in cold storages . Projects remained on drawing board. DLF is the biggest theif who plundered India public money .
DLF raised crores of money through IPO route with a promise to India that the proceeds will be used to build realty and infrastructure. But ,it seems it was to be used to fund IPL matches as no amount of money is being invested for construction activity. Most of the proposed projects of DLF are cooling in cold storages . Projects remained on drawing board. DLF is the biggest theif who plundered India public money .
