I believe Srikanth had the capabilities of becoming a good captain. Unfortunately he was axed due to political reasons. But Srikanth did very well as a captain during that short time frame. But I am furious why Srikanth is failing as a selector especially after playing india for a long time. He might not have forgotten the politics which removed his captaincy. But that doesnot mean that he needs to play the same type of politics again. He needs to show whole india that he is a capable selector. For that, first of all he needs to stop selecting the Tamil nadu B Grade players like Murali Vijay, Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik and Badrinath. Might he is getting too much pressure from other tamils. But he has to tell them that he is indian selector and not tamil nadu selector. He needs to show the true spirit. Then only he will go down as one of the best selector. Otherwise he is going to go down as one of the worst selector in indian histroy. Everyone will say there won;t be another Srikanth in this country. he needs to stop these smelly smelly tamil ideas.
Re: Srikanth - Show your true spirit
by sunder on Jul 16, 2010 08:43 PM
Reddy ur again spreading hatred..u may be right by calling Vijay a b grade..but the rest of them are better and have performed..u r more interested in bashing tamils as a whole rather than improving Indian cricket..any ur attitude is sick as ur mind..
Re: Re: Srikanth - Show your true spirit
by sreenivasulu reddy on Jul 16, 2010 09:21 PM
Sunder - How can you say that Dinesh Karthik is a good batsman. There are players like Pujara, Rahane, Rayudu who are better than Dinesh Karthik. My belief is that Srikanth has the capabilities of becoming a very good selector. But unforuntely he is going south
in good olden days , we had bats with cricketing heros written on the bat.many had Gavaskar written on it and a few had Vishwanath.I made it a point and I searched the whole of Bangalore to get the bat written Kapil Dev.I was so proud having the bat..I was a proud fan of him and will be for long..For his sincerity ,devotion and fantastic fitness.Remember we never had a fitter bowler like Kapil..Hats of to u sir..
Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by sandeep dive on Jul 16, 2010 08:01 PM
Kapil Dev missed only 1 test (Calcutta test) during his entire career. that too because of some rift between him and gavaskar. he never missed a test because of fitness. he played 131 tests in all. he was such a fittest player India has ever produced.
Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by JAKE on Jul 16, 2010 07:58 PM
Kapil Dev is a legend, the greatest all rounder we have produced. In his prime, he was a marvellous player to watch, a natural who played with carefree freedom and refreshing exuberance that was a joy to watch.
A thrilling and exciting batsman, superb and crafty bowler, brilliant and sound fielder, and above all, a spontaneous captain who enjoyed his mates and opponents respect, he was in every sense a complete all rounder.
Mind it,he bowled ag some of the true batting greats like Sir Vivian Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Des Haynes, Clive Lloyd, Gower, Gooch, Border, Greg Chappell, Miandad, Zaheer Abbas, Mohsin Khan, Martin Crowe, etc. And batted ag Holding, Marshall, Hadlee, Imran, Wasim, Botham, etc.
He was a rare breed, who comes along once in a while.
Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by sunder on Jul 16, 2010 07:52 PM
he was very dedicated..Sandeep Patil and Ravi were good bt behind...b.bes..Madanlal had a fnatastic action and used to bowl fast.Sandhu most talented swing bowling...
Re: Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by Suraangani on Jul 17, 2010 12:03 PM
Mydear, that one ball which clean bowled Greenidge swung bcos of the UK weather... Sandhu is not a great swing bowler..
Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by sunder on Jul 16, 2010 07:58 PM
the problem with Kapil was he had no good English knowledge..so he could not become acommentator or interviewer..Thats why he is really out of the picture..
Re: Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by LG on Jul 16, 2010 08:26 PM
But he resides in hearts of every Indian cricketers, that is far better than being in media
Re: Re: Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by Suraangani on Jul 16, 2010 11:02 PM
You ought to be in media when you have achivements like Dhoni (in your poor hinglish it's Dhobi) ha ha ha ha
Re: Kapil Dev a legend...
by Mohammed Islamul on Jul 16, 2010 07:51 PM
kapil also had an injury free career... for a medium pace bowler in our useless pitches... he is a legend
He has not got the due respect as in the case of others the main reason for this is he is not a Mumbaikar and he play sincere cricket and not bloody politics as the case of Mumbaikars. All the present players who are reaping the benefits of IPL should thank Kapildev as it is his idea of having a league in 20-20 but due to financial muscle power of BCCI his league supported by ZEE has not succeeded. He was not given the due respect at 25yrs celebration of World cup winning.
Re: Kapildev the Great
by syed hussaini on Jul 16, 2010 07:54 PM
Dear Krishna u r 100% true,These Mumbaikers and BCCI are not at all giving respect to Kapil paaji and nobody is rising the voice for this.He should be given full respect.During cricketing days whoo are all zeroes like Ravi Shastry and Sidhu,now they are heroes
Re: Kapildev the Great
by Rajesh Sankaran on Jul 17, 2010 12:44 PM
I think we should call him as "Sir Kapil Dev". Forget about our nation and BCCI. They wont give him this much honour, but as an Indian Citizen we can give him. Anybody oppose me?
I have very little respect for Srikanth as a batsman, for I think he was very ordinary. He was an average captain too. But I have a lot of respect for him, for his comments on Kapil.
Kapil is the last true all-rounder India has produced. The Best captain, if you compare from a world cup prespective. No body plays cricket the way he did. He is the only player I have seen that Gavaskar has accepted as his cricketing idol. True legend. My only cricketing idol.
Re: Kapil
by Mohammed Islamul on Jul 16, 2010 07:54 PM
why would srikanth be a useless cricketer...atleast in ODIs??? in ODIs gavaskar made me faint with his lottu lottu cricket.
Re: Kapil
by Unmai Vilambi on Jul 16, 2010 07:30 PM
got to add....
I very much agree with some comments here that Kapil was not treated the way he should have been. For all his acheivements, we let a cheap bugger like Manoj Prabhakar to make match fixing allegations against Kapil. And nobody came to his side with any effective defence, and was left to defend himself. I feel sad for him. But whatever is thrown at gold, gold is still gold. Kapil is gold standard.
Re: Kapil
by JAKE on Jul 16, 2010 08:03 PM
I disagree with your estimate abt Krish Srikanth. HE was a exciting and thrilling batter to watch, though not technically sound. Fearless and courageous, he took on the quick's head on and tore them apart many a time. Many quick in his time feared his rapier like blade. If only had strong technique and determination of Gavaskar, he would have been a cricket legend
Re: What use.
by Unmai Vilambi on Jul 16, 2010 07:35 PM
you are 100% correct. A kid like Anil Kumble has a road junction named after him in Bangalore. We should have atleast named a few stadiums after Kapil.
One of the number 1 legend of INDIAN Cricket is KAPIL DEV NIKANJ..Hats up to him. under his captaincy India one most of the one day matches. He is the gentleman who upgraded Indian one day team. After KAPIL gentlemen like AJAY JADEJA / SAURAV GANGULY / RAHUL DRAVID maintained the one day wictory records for INDIAN Cricket team. SACHIN contributed a lot to INDIAN cricket. But we can't compare KAPIL to any one mentioned above. KAPIL is KAPIL.
Srikanth was one of the very good captains who got rough deal. He was considered to be a captain who thinks inovatively. Pinch Hitter, Utilizing First 15 overs ... were his discoveries . Unforunately he lost captency after winning in PAK . I still remember matches around 1985 . As a kid once Srikanth gets out, used to wait for Kapil eagaly . Gavaskar,Shastry,Amarnath,Vengy ... Oh it was very boring to watch them at that time :-)
Re: Srikanth
by Sunil Vaidya on Jul 16, 2010 06:48 PM
Mr Raj, it seems that your memory is deserting you. under his captaincy we did not win in Pak. the test series was drawn.
Re: Re: Srikanth
by Kalyanasundaram Venkatesh on Jul 16, 2010 07:02 PM
in 1989, 'Draw' a series in Pak itself could be seen as a Victory bocz at that time only Windies hv won the series in Pak and all other teams lost the series in Pak. Srikkanth was the only captain who had DRAW the series in Pak until Sourav Ganguly won the series there.
india under ganguly faltered in finals in 2000 Champions trophy n 2003 WCs were joint winners in 2002 champions trophy then in 2006 CT it was a 1st rund exit in 2007 WC as well in 2011 god knows wht dhoni n co ll do
Re: odis n WC
by Sunil Vaidya on Jul 16, 2010 06:50 PM
abhi, i know under dhoni what result in the 2011 WC you will enjoy. If we win the WC under dhoni you will be greatly depressed.
Kris Srikkanth's praising of Kapil Dev cannot be mistaken as demotivating the present or earlier captains. In 1983, India was nowhere in the ODI scene leave alone a contender for the quarter final spot.
Whereas in the late 90's onwards we have had fantastic batsmen like Tendulkar, Sehwag, Ganguly, Yuvraj, Dhoni, etc. and inspiring fast and spin bowlers.
Despite this, it is a pity that we have not been able to win a World Cup since 1983. That speaks volumes of the captaincy of Kapil Dev and the motivated team he had to win the first ever World Cup for us.
