Continuing with my earlier observation on this subject, it strikes me that the central message of the Mahabharata is the "Gita Upadesh" by Krishna to Arjuna where Arjuna is exhorted by Sri Krishna to follow his assigned Dharma and not vacillate on the battlefield. The primary Dharma of team India is to go out and Win the game. Any decision that works at variance with this objective is wrong. It would appear that the lesson of the Gita has not been imbibed by our cricketers. Further more, Duncan Fletcher is only Coach of the Indian team as far as playing the game is concerned. He has no business to participate in the discussion as he did. If he had to play a role the more befitting one would have been to play one similar to what Lord Krishna played in Kurukshetra.
My considered view is that when the team is playing the country, it should always be country first. These players are selected to uphold the pride of the nation and the measure is only "victory" or "defeat". that is the clear mandate given by the BCCI on behalf of the nation. If it was a private match Dhoni and team could have abrogated the right of recall with a clear conscience. In a parallel situation, just imagine the "soldier" at the border failing to "kill" the aggressor's Jawan saying that the "Lord" made everyone to live a full life and that he had no right to take away the life of a soldier belonging to an enemy country !! When the law stipulates that Bell is out, in the first place Strauss Co. have no business to plead his case and Dhoni and team have no business to reverse the umpire's decision. In my view, Ravi Shastry was absolutely right. It is time DHONI is removed as Capt. of the the Team. He has not given due respect and weightage to the invitation of the Indian High Commission for the felicitation function and also in the past has failed to attend the award function at Rashtrapati havan. Where did the Spirit of the Nation and respect for it go then?
While he has done exceptionaly done well as captain, the team is only as good as the Captain plays. Dhoni should improve his oversees Test & batting record.
At 6 or 7 down, we would expect someone to hang on and score 60 odd runs especially when the top order fails and he has not done that in both West indies and in England.
No need to praise Dhoni. The decision was taken just because of fear of British media/spectators backlash.Knowing very well that the Indian team was going to stay in England for nearly a month,Dhoni and the Indian team was not ready to take any chances. They knew it very well that they are not going to win this match.and if they called back IAN BELL then they would certainly be praised for that.That means they were aware that hey had nothing to loose in calling Bell back instead they would get some sympathy for the lost match.
What fair play man?
Look back into the history,we have been ruled by the Mughals,the british and many more because of all these.
The world "LION" and "TIGER" for the Indian team suits only in writing.Have you ever seen Indian team smashing any other team who play cricket?Even with Kenya they fight to survive. When it comes to prove something we get yourself a pigeon to fly and say "PEACE".
american got out of british clutches to develop baseball, etc indians stayed trapped. americans developed baseball and left crickets, developed American football for rugby, developed basketball, etc. americans developed PRESIDENTIAL FORM of government TO MOVE AWAY from parliamentary system of ANGREZ which HAS given cricket selection politics in India. angrez made kickback brokers of sonia-gandhi dynasty from nehru onwards and same for jinnah and many more brokers in bjp-congress cartel..
Re: sTAND UP INDIA, develop your own baseball style cricket INDIA
by D S on Aug 02, 2011 05:58 AM
there were no LBW out for england, surprise.
Videshi need this kidnapped child tendulkar to play.
tendulkar is no god, he is a kidnapped person. kidnapped child tendulkar got out but our mind trapped into icons such as tendulkar, etc. . these are sort of icons are used to blackmail india into this Angrezi sports. india need to act QUITE LIKE HOW AMERICANS did to GeT RID OF INDIAN HOCKEY and canadian developed ICE HOCKEY AMERICANS GOT RID OF CRICKET AND made baseball popular.
good luck india, work to get freedom ...just get that freedom some day we will be free from angrez clutches and network. and their brokers of politics and business within india. i meant desi brokers of videshis and those videshi clutches.
Indian will have population in control so we dont need to work in videsh and we counter all videshi tactics
Indian team are simply tired of playing cricket continuously!!Their stomach and bank balance are full and they are having tired bodies!!So who cares about India's prestige as #1 Test team?!!!!!!
Re: Simply tired!!
by trader on Aug 01, 2011 04:38 PM
On the other hand,poor English men are having poor bank balance and with their ordinary stuff,they are seeing chances of beating mighty India!!
england batting was using INDIAN PACE IN THEIR FAVOR. OFCOURSE lbws were not allowed. Umpire had to prove he is Ghora supremist.
england was playing T20 by using indian pace TO HIT STOKES. INFACT, if india were all BEST spin OF KUMBLE ORDER, england would have not hit more than 300.
England will declare with a target of 450 . I am shocked that we have conceded 420 runs on 1 day. Why the hell Dhoni did not employ a defensive field is hard to fathom. We will be bowled out for less than 200. Dont expect Dravid & VVS to stick a partnership again. Are they only supposed to save us ? Sachin as usual will not bat under pressure, Dhoni has no technique, Raina & Yuvraj are aar yaa paar, others have forgotten batting. So it is curtains for India. No need to even sell tickets for tomorrow. Sachin & Dhoni can rehearse for another advertisement tomorrow using the rest day. Now that Dhoni gifted a faboulous life to Bell, a new ad with Dhoni capitalising on the "Spirit of the game" will come up shortly. Who cares if we lose, we anyhow did not deserve to be No.1. We are only bothered about 100th century of Sachin even if we lose..We just dont deserve to win or draw this test.
Re: Re: It is all over...
by Surya Prakash on Aug 01, 2011 03:51 PM
Mr.Subash Dudeja, I would like you to be the captain in Dhoni's place.Good suggestion ??? I wa so pissed off yesterday with our Indian performance and wanted to vent out my frustration !!! You can do it free on Rediff.. Right ??? Coming to suggestions, we have plenty on rediff who can give free advice..
like congress claiming moral ground for sending raja, kalmadi and others to jail; infact it was because of public and judiciary pressure such people are behind bar.
Indian public has been fooled for long, but I can see that there is a change coming up
Only Lions like Indians can take a strong decision, irrespective of the fact, that this may cause the defeat. But Indian have shown that lion is always a lion
