This is what happens when cricket crazy nation allowed the interest of national team being hizacked to reward an individual who was dragging his position in team for three years & wanted an easy farewell.the team was left with no time to prepare for a tough series & fans missed out on an extended contest to satisfy the wish of an individual who was made bigger than the game unfortunately by shameless BCCI
Re: India cricket has paid the price to idolize an individual
by stockstalks on Jan 03, 2014 06:53 PM
Sachin Played ODIs too? BCCI was very cunning to cut short the SA Tour in the name of sachin. As usual the responsibility of all the debacles on sachin even when he is not in laying XI.
Re: India cricket has paid the price to idolize an individual
by sivanandam lakshmanan on Jan 05, 2014 04:31 PM
all this is not because of SRT but for the machinations of bcci,dee gang & to save its dhobi's face
where again the pitches were easy!! Always everybody seems to have problems when India plays. Incidentally next time India tours anywhere, they must request seaming pitches, bcos ironically, it seems to help their cause better.
He seems to talk something against India always. Remember Dale Steyn commented that it was not Mumbai pitch that India were going to play. The pitches were bouncy and some weak players like Dhawan and Rohit and Murali Vijay had not performed well. Geffry needs something to munch about. Age has not matured him.
Re: Boycott loose talks
by desi twist on Jan 03, 2014 06:25 PM
I still feel that if the Wanderers had continued to be nasty all throughout, India may have won the first match. A bouncy or seaming pitch ironically suits Indian bowlers better, as they do not have much pace to perform on flat pitches!!
Its not that I am a fan of Boycott. But he seem to be right. BCCI / Srinivasan are so powerful in the world with their money power and doing a lot of manipulations. I only pity our great stars of the past legendary Bedi, Pras, Chandra, GRV who really strived well abroad with quality cricket while these young guys are enjoying courtesy BCCI than their own merits. This is really setting a bad taste about us worldwide.
Re: He seem to be right
by desi twist on Jan 03, 2014 06:23 PM
I am a little confused here. If they are so powerful, they should be able to fix results too, isnt it? 2-0 and 1-0 defeats hardly seem to suggest that!!
Re: Re: He seem to be right
by pradeep agarwal on Jan 03, 2014 06:28 PM
What else explains SA going for draw when all they needed was singles on every ball in first test.
Re: Let us
by Shikari Shambu on Jan 03, 2014 05:12 PM
Definitely....! Pak attacks us, we stop cricket.. Boycott speaks something, we ignore him.. And call ourselves tigers.. Oops, forgot about being "tigers at home"
the secret behind is to play test miches full 5 days instead of 3 days SA need earning at least for 10 days game, so according they prepare pitches, G.boycott have dumm in his view....
