Has Greg Chapell successfully transformed the Indian Cricket Team?
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CHAPPELL PREPARED THE TEAM AS BETTER AS HE CAN.\n\nINDIANS HAVE TO PERFORM WELL.\n\nTHE ACID TEST NEARING BOTH CHAPPELL AND TEAM INDIA.
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Ganguly hits bigger sixes than me or Dhoni: Yuvraj\nSunit Kaul (HindustanTimes.com)\nNew Delhi, April 24, 2006\n\nOne look at Yuvraj Singh and you know he's naturally destined to be a swashbuckler. \n\nTall and lanky and so full of exuberance, the 18-year old was blooded into international arena as a maverick teenager who would first leap before looking.\n\nEven though he soon etched his space with his astonishing ability to wield the willow, a spate of inconsistent performances saw him being embarrassingly dropped from the ODI team.\n\nBut that was not the end of the story.\nHe came back with vengeance and consequently showed the world that he could strike the ball with finesse and power - invariably with a straight bat - and at the same time can take on the mantle of a senior player.\n\nHe has now repeatedly achieved what is termed by mediocres and average players beyond the bounds of possibility. At 24, his coming of age typifies India's assuredness.\n\nIn a candid chat with HindustanTimes.com in the backdrop of him being presented a Ford Fiesta for being the Man-of-the-series against South Africa, the gifted left-hander from Chandigarh gave his views on his recent performance and the road ahead.\n\nYuvraj, your performance in this season has been terrific. What has been the key difference this time?\nI've been in good touch for the past one year. Earlier, I used to think too much while batting out there in the middle. I think, I read situations better now.\n\nYou are really stealing all the prizes. 3 Man-of-the-series in 4 tournaments…\nObviously, as a senior player, you tend to take up more responsibility and if you're in-form, it helps the team as a whole.\n\nWhat has been the defining moment of your career up till now? When you would have said to yourself - 'This is it, I belong here'\nI think, playing in those two matches against Sri Lanka last year gave me the confidence that I belong to international level.\n\nDhoni in a recent interview said that sportsmen other than cricketers are not getting their due. What's your take?\nI agree with Dhoni. Maybe he's saying it because he has just come in the team. But, that's how it is here in India.\n\nDo you see yourself as the captain of Team India in the future?\nEvery player who spends a reasonable amount of time at international level dreams of making it big. Same is the case with me.\n\nMaybe 5 years down the line, we'll see you as the skipper?\n(Laughs) I would be old in 5 years time!\n\nWho has been a better coach - Greg Chappell or John Wright?\nThey both have different styles of functioning; Both have been equally good.\n\nSo how come the team has been performing better in Chappell's tenure?\nThe difference has been the increased level of fitness. Greg has brought in more innovative ideas towards fitness.\n\nThere has been quite a controversy regarding the tight cricketing calendar? What's your take?\nI think we're out there to play in the sun and we have to enjoy every moment we play for the team.\n\nWhat are your plans towards the upcoming Windies tour?\nRight now, we've got a bit of a break. And we're keen to enjoy our time-out… But we will be fully focused when we reach there. West Indies would a proper training ground before the World Cup. We will have to prepare ourselves for more bouncy tracks.\n\nFinally, who hits bigger sixes - you or Dhoni?\n(Grins) I think Ganguly hits bigger sixes than me and Dhoni!
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kapil dev coz he brought a world cup to india after \nthat i would say ganguly has done really well
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Mark Mascarenhas - this is an update:\n\nNEW DELHI, India -- Mark Mascarenhas, a cricket television baron who secured India's Sachin Tendulkar the highest salary ever paid to a cricket player, died Sunday in a road accident, news reports said. \n\nMascarenhas' car rammed head-on into another car and overturned when he was returning from the famous Velankanni Church near Nagpur in western Maharashtra state, Press Trust of India reported. He died of head injuries, the news agency quoted family sources as saying. \n\nTendulkar wasn't involved in the accident. He is in the north Indian city of Kanpur for Monday's fourth one-day international against England. \n\nMascarenhas headed the Connecticut-based sports management company WorldTel, which displayed Tendulkar's place as cricket's best selling brand after signing a multimillion dollar deal with him last year and making him the best paid cricket player ever. \n\nIn Kanpur, Tendulkar said it was a shattering news and a personal loss to him. \n\n"Though he was my agent, our relations were of friends. This is an irreparable loss," he said.
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I HOPE I DID ALMOST......PERHAPS...!\n\nBUT ITS A MYSTERY SOME NIGHT WATCHMEN HITTING TWIN TON,\nAGARKAR BOWLING ECONOMICALLY,\nDRAVID IS IN ODI SQUAD, \nAND INDIAN TEAM STILL RATED AS FORMIDABLE BATTING LINE-UP.
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MORE THAN SATISFACTORY.\n\nSTARTED HIS ASSIGNMENT WITH SHOCK TREATMENT..\n\nWHEN OTHERS ARGUE ABOUT HIS LEGEND KILLING ACTION, HE COMMENCED HIS DUTY NOISELESSLY.\n\nHE IS GIVING GOOD TRAINING TO OUR TEAM.TEACHES HOW ONE CAN IMPROVE HIS SKILLS.FIRST OF ALL HE DEMOLISHED THE ATTITUDE OF SINGLE HERO SYSTEM.\n\nHE MADE TEAM INDIA TO FEEL ITS NOT DEPENDING ONE OR TWO PLAYERS..\n\nSOME MAY BLAME HIM HE IS ONE-SIDED..NURTURING SOME CRICKETTERS..BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE.\n\nHE THREW OUT WHO DESERVED TO BE.RETAINED SOMEONE WHO CAN BE USEFUL TO TEAM.\n\nHIS MISSION IS WC'O7.IF HE COMPLETE THAT, HE WILL BE A SAVIOUR OF INDIAN CRICKET.\n\nSO FAR...HIS JOB IS MORE THAN SATISFACTORY.
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Yeah he has definitely done something mentally to that team to change their play. There's no other AL manager that has done anything this incredible this season thusfar.
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i think new young talent is not the problem..of'course u wont want to hv many 30+ players in the team...prob. arises of the fact that what position these young players hv in d team...and 'coz of the fact that our team is doin' just about PERFECT in the ODI's it would be fair to say that dravid and chappell are doin a gr8 job..\n\nchappell promised of producin or rather developing all-rounders in our team last year....and u hv the results of his work in the form of irfan pathan and Dhoni'....batting positions are so very flexible in the team now and u can easily find players fittin into diff. postns. as the match demands...and until we keep on playin the same way as we r rite now i dun think thr shud be any need to question them..\n\nbut i BET to say these positive experiments would NEVER hv taken place if v had ganguly as d skipper...he hated experimenting and u wud nvr hv imagined 'Pathan' as an all rounder during his times...
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HE REPEATEDLY FAILED.\nWHEN A CAPTAIN,WHO BATS IN OPENING SLOT SHOULD NOT BE IN POOR FORM.\nSO HE WAS REMOVED.\nBUT I CANT DENY ANY POLITICS INVOLVED IN IT.
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MADE THE CRICKET POPULAR IN INDIA.\n\nA BLESSING TO INDIA.\n\nINDIAN BROADMAN.
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yes i like it\nwell done my friend\nnot only will they win the ashes they are only 1 win away in India as well
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No Indian cricket team has one of the best talents in the world but they are wasting it by not playing to their potential. So we need not change the players but have to change their mind set by making them more professional and competitive. Indians should have the urge to win and win only they should have that spirit glowing int hem. Then only they can win. And if u wanna remove a player i suggest Suresh Raina as he is a kid and has to go the training at the lower level and have to upgrade him. He must be groomed and that should be done by making him play at the lower level. He has to be given confidence. All others must know their responsibilities and must know their role and play. They should not tell just like that "i can play at any position". Also the team management must know who can play where and must experiment on that basis. We cannot see Pathan or Dhoni at number 3. Number 3 is for an sheet anchor like Dravid or Ganguly. Kaif is also best suited for that job and Sachin and Shewag must always open. Ganguly must be inducted into the team and without him it is very difficult for India the win the World Cup.
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Greg Chappel has signed a contract with BCCI and it will be reviewed after world cup 07.\nHe is trying to promote Indian team with Australian methods, sometime we feel not upto the mark (especially when we loss any match), when we are winning we say he is doing good or ok job. \nNow this is time Greg has to prove his metal. After failure in Champions trophy, he got sleepless nights and now he has to do lot of home work to bring back Indian team to its top level form. Lets hope , he can do better job for India !!!!!
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here's a joke:\nChappel  and Co. asked a jyotisi how to improve the performance of team india. he replied that the only solution is to make chappel the coach.\n"But he is already our coach" everyone shouted.\nJyotisi: Not ur coach. But of the team ur playing against.\n\nI guess u know my answer.
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Mr. Greg Chappell, after becoming the coach of the Indian Cricket Team, has brought about three distinct problems, namely, RIFT between team members, DISTRUST in the ability of Captain Saurav Ganguly and CHAOS in the BCCI.Chappel is a high-handed egoistic menace and his intentions are becoming clear day by day.. He means no good to Indian cricket but save his pocket. he cannot stand difference in opinion and likes to have a puppet as his captain ( poor chap). He has created an air of mistrust and has taken advantage of the Indian mentality of serving the white skin.\nMaking news and conspiracy is hi basic motive.........\n\n\nHere is his History.\n1. Used younger brother to bowl underarm to win a match against NZ.\n\nAn infamous incident involving an underarm delivery occurred on February 1, 1981 when Australia were playing New Zealand in a One-day International, the third of five matches in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. New Zealand required a six to tie the match from the final ball, with eight wickets down. The Australian captain (Greg Chappell) ordered the bowler (his brother, Trevor Chappell) to bowl underarm to avoid the possibility that the No. 10 New Zealand batsman (Brian McKechnie) would score a six from the last ball to tie the match.\n\nAustralia won the game but the New Zealand batsmen marched off in disgust and since that day the underarm bowling incident has been a source of discussion, both heated and jocular, between Australians and New Zealanders.\n\nIt was described as "the most disgusting incident I can recall in the history of cricket" by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rob Muldoon,\n\n2. Post-retirement\nHe takes up assignment as coach for local team (South Australia)---- is a gigantic disaster. Even the Ausssies did not choose him as a coach for the national sideand had no previous international coaching experience before taking up Indian assignment.During his tenure of South Australia as a coach, he failed miserably.\n\nComes to coach India on Sourav Ganguly's recommendation.\nWithin a month and a half calls Ganguly, " mentally and physically unfit" in a documented e-mail.\n\nWrites e-mails to " friendly" journalists calling Sourav, " cancerous".\n\nAt the BCCI Review Meeting, he retraces steps and backs out of the allegations, almost in cowardly haste.\nHe is established as a complete liar and vindictive when it is proven that Ganguly did suffer from an elbow injury.\n\nSlams door roughly on a TV journalist, injuring her.\n\nKeeps Zaheer Khan out of the team.His folly ? Ganguly used to back Zaheer\n\nEnsures VVS Laxman's ODI hopes are permanently dashed.\n\nTries to create rift between Dravid and Harbhajan Singh and also in between VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly.\n\nSays Sachin Tendulkar's glory will never be the same again. Suddenly changes tracks and says he can always become great like he used to be.\n\nRudely gestures an " up yours" sign to the Kolkota crowd with his middle finger; says he was relaxing his finger because of an injury.\n\nLast incident he made unwanted comments on Ganguly in an interview to a British paper this week, when every body was stopping the discussion of thier spat...\n\nReal Guru of Conspiracy... \n\nIf u feel like me check and join this group...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/wehategreigchappell
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Yes Chappel did a very good job by throwing Ganguly out of the team.\nNo Ganguly does not deserves a spot in the team.
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well if u look at the team of the late or shud we say mid 90's  i thought it was a deadly team with Aravinda Desilva nad ranatunga in the middle and sanath and romes and avishka in the top. Bowlers were lethal in murali and vaas. Well now the team has found some great talent. A player for the future should be Sangakara. A fantastic batsman who has excelled even in his wicketkeeping abilities.More like an ADAM GILCHRIST for Sri Lanka.And now that jayasuria i feel is ageing he and murali will both be the key for Sri Lanka.