There are 5 players who have spat venom at Greg Chappell (before, in and after SRT's book) - Sachin, Ganguly, VVS, Zaheer & Harbhajan. What's the common thread between them ? All of them would have ranked very poor, from an athleticism/ agility/ mobility perspective in the outfield. Isn't it therefore possible that Chappell wanted a stronger fielding ethic (remember 7 - 8 years back, India was not a great fielding side) and this set of players could not or did not want to adapt to this ethic ? And hence found other reasons to criticise Chappell ?
Sachin has also found fault with Adam Gilchrist for appealing against Dravid in the 2008 Sydney test, when he would have known that Dravid was not out. Really ? How naive, Sachin ? Have you not appealed, even when you knew that an opponent batsman was not out ? Or did you walk when you were out ? I vaguely remember an occasion when you were caught behind, but were given not out and continued. If you expect integrity from your opponents, you must also display this quality.
Re: Hypocritical
by Varadarajan Ravindran on Nov 12, 2014 05:42 AM
All the five players are high achievers and have carved a place for themselves in cricket history by extra-ordinary plays and incredible wins. Greg Chappell wanted mediocre performance for all of them, provided they were completely under his control. What a policy! What a cricket board! What a press and media! And, what a nation!
There are 5 players who have spat venom at Greg Chappell (before, in and after SRT's book) - Sachin, Ganguly, VVS, Zaheer & Harbhajan. What's the common thread between them ? All of them would have ranked very poor, from an athleticism/ agility/ mobility perspective in the outfield. Isn't it therefore possible that Chappell wanted a stronger fielding ethic (remember 7 - 8 years back, India was not a great fielding side) and this set of players could not or did not want to adapt to this ethic ? And hence found other reasons to criticise Chappell ?
Sachin has also found fault with Adam Gilchrist for appealing against Dravid in the 2008 Sydney test, when he would have known that Dravid was not out. Really ? How naive, Sachin ? Have you not appealed, even when you knew that an opponent batsman was not out ? Or did you walk when you were out ? I vaguely remember an occasion when you were caught behind, but were given not out and continued. If you expect integrity from your opponents, you must also display this quality.
