- The BCCI review meeting turned out to be a bit of an anti-climax. Greg Chappell was supposed to have spilled the beans on the internal politics, attitude problems and discontent within the team. Instead his presentation concentrated on what needs to be done to strengthen and improve Indian cricket. He has now been offered a consultant’s role at NCA. In an interview, he has asked the board not to run its cricket like Zimbabwe. The stress of all this was too much for Chappell, who later had to be taken to a hospital.
- Kris Srikkanth in a column had written that he was in favour of an Indian coach and that proved to be the case, when Shastri was offered the role of Cricket Manager, while Dravid was asked to continue as captain. Is Cricket Manager just an euphemism for Coach? Whatever it is, Shastri believes that he has the experience to contribute. It is very likely that we may end up having a batting, bowling and fielding coach. Venkatesh Prasad has been touted as the bowling coach, while Robin Singh (the current India A coach) may be appointed as the fielding coach.
- The former captains present in the review meeting have proposed a few changes. There is likely to be more when the meeting comes to a conclusion today.
- In other news, Essel Group’s proposal for an Indian Cricket League is likely to be rejected by BCCI, according to Times Of India.
-Mahesh-
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gnbmdr // 8 April 2007 at 12:57 am |
It was wrong for Sachin – the great and Yuvarj ( a Bachha in my view) to air their views public. They should be reprimanded.
Some folks like Ganguly, Harbhajan, Sehwag have the same attitude, that a place in the team is their birth right – ( if they were to belong to OBC, that would be acceptable in India
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Some snippets from Greg’s interview, I like.
What went wrong with the seniors?
I don’t want to get into senior-junior issue again. Look, as a player, you have to keep challenging yourself. When that stops, it’s time to do a quick reality check and take a few hard decisions. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite happen that way in many countries. So, in Australia we now have a system in place which will reject you the moment you slip below the mark.
Would you put it down to bad attitude?
Bad attitude is like bad habit, hard to get rid of. Greg Blewett started off with two successive Test centuries, Matthew Eliott had more talent than Matthew Hayden or Justin Langer and Stuart MacGill should have played more often for Australia. If they didn’t it’s because they failed to fit into the team fabric. They were rejected by the system.